skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s not that simple.

I agree, which is why I think it's pointless to try to conjecture on what other people want, and jump straight to how I would want to be treated. And of course, even that is tricky, but it's by far a more reliable set of information than guessing the myriad of preferences any given person may have at any given moment.
Again, there's still the possibility of getting it wrong, but if I don't know myself as well as anyone possibly could, how can I think that guessing at what others want is going to somehow be more reliable?

So yes, it's not that simple, but the Golden rule is about as simple as you can reliably go on. Anything else seems to me to be bordering on the presumption of omniscience.
I think cars should be banned from most densely populated city centers in general. There is a word describing it "Pedestrianization"

Reasoning:
Cars pollute the air which makes the people living and walking in the city centers sick.
Cars pollute with noise.
Cars cause pedestrian and bicycle accidents.

Its nice for peoples health to be able to walk and run in open areas.

Streets which previously was used by cars can be converted to public green areas and you can also plant trees there. It would open up new green areas for cafes and restaurants.

Public transport should replace cars in such dense environments. You will thus ride to the outer part of the city park your car there and take public / electric bike transport from there.

Here is story about Spanish city Pontevedra which banned cars
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/18/paradise-life...

Wikipedia article about Pontevedra, "Pedestrianization" section
"As a result, 65% of trips in the city centre are made on foot. Pontevedra was recognized in 2016 as one of the 15 best cycling cities in the world"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontevedra
I link to websites when I copy someone else's code, for attribution. How do these "build pipes" expecting me to do it instead if the code is from stack exchange ?
Check out deck.gl, which is packaged with streamlit [0]. There is a PointCloudLayer [1] and deck can read gltf.

Also take a look at Streetscape.gl [2] which is designed for visualizing AV data

Disclaimer: I work on Uber's data vis team but not on AVs.

[0] https://streamlit.io/docs/api.html#streamlit.deck_gl_chart
[1] https://deck.gl/#/documentation/deckgl-api-reference/layers/...
[2] https://avs.auto/
That sounds a bit like they are solving rich people's problems
I'm currently on my first break after 6 years with no job lined up and I'm not sure I want to go back to software.

Unfortunately I don't have any answers but as the other responses point out software is a gilded cage because it would be very hard to get anywhere near an equivalent salary doing anything else.

I had become increasingly disillusioned with software, mainly the maddening bureaucracy, problematic management and lack of teamwork over my previous two jobs. But I also had something of an existential crisis when I realised I think that so much of what we do is just rewriting or updating apps to use the new hot tech in order to have something to do. I feel like so much of what's exciting people at the moment are solutions in search of problems, if StackOverflow can run on a few servers to serve an incredibly high traffic site why do we need k8s and serverless and firebase and microservices and kafka and whatever else (granted I have no idea what most of these things are or do)? Why in the name of God do I need an entire build pipeline and SPA framework to deliver some static HTML to users? I feel like Rust is interesting and potentially worthwhile but I don't have much interest in the domain of problems Rust excels at. Granted all this is coloured by the burnout I'm recovering from.

I think I will probably end up going back to software, maybe as a contractor, but I'm tempted to try something new. My belief is that it would be easier to do something socially meaningful in another field but even in scientific research most work is pointless and the reward/funding system is entirely dysfunctional.
Also, you had to go back 5 years to find some of those results.

Last I checked this is 2019 which means I went back 1 year to 2018 and barely scratched the surface. In fact that one wreck with the taxi happened this week. Everyone died.

In that same time BART had thousands of thefts, around a thousand robberies, hundreds of violent assaults, and around a half dozen homicides.

And how many fender benders, DUIs, random Tesla mishaps, overturned big rigs, etc. have there been in that time? How many pedestrians have been injured or killed? How many cars have been broken into or vandalized (I know property crime isn't much of an issue in San Francisco)?

Considering how much lower the ridership of BART is compared to all commuters in the bay area, those aren't great odds.

BART is the second most used transit system behind Muni. Somewhere around 500,000 daily riders versus 750,000 for Muni. That's not a particularly small proportion of commuters.

Meanwhile the Bay Area has just about the worst traffic in the nation, and somehow you want me to believe that being stuck in traffic isn't stressful? Okay then.

https://abc7news.com/traffic/bay-area-leads-nation-in-commut...

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/08/22/bay-area-commut...

Edit: Oh gosh I forgot about this

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/07/24/daly-city-police-sear...

Or if you want to go all the way back to 2017 (5 carjackings in 2 days):

https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/5-carjackings-2-d...

And this one:

https://sfist.com/2019/09/19/carjacking-suspect-caught-richm...

But if YOU'VE never encountered this it must not happen, right?
If you mean the geographical region corresponding to what is today the US, we can be confident that regulating sex was a priority for the last many thousands of years.

If you mean the cultural entity from which the US descends, we can be absolutely certain that regulating sex was a priority for the last many thousands of years. (We are generally happy to trace US regulations back to pre-colonial England; I don't see why we wouldn't do the same here.)
> I imagine the government isn't in the business of operating charging stations

Why not? Governments take care of a lot of public infrastructure, either directly through public workers or by paying private companies to do the work for them
There are several decades of sociological research on similar topic.s If you are interested, the following book is a good introduction with extensive references: https://www.theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-bo...

One of the most startling relevations (to me) was that you don't need to be a "bad" person in order to do things one could consider immoral. All it takes is an immoral leader who is able to exploit certain personality traits and convictions that can be found in many of us.

Even though this text was written in 2005, it provides an explanatory framework for things that are more relevant today than ever. It's worth a read.
You are paranoid.

Apple has started multiple keynotes by talking about Android security issues. Pointing fingers and ridiculing Google, Samsung and others.

Then a few weeks later, a Google keynote would demo something on an iPad and praise its beautiful hi-def screen.

I have _never_ heard Google officially talk crap about Apple.
Anecdotally, around 40% of the electricity in Germany was generated from coal in 2018, but in january 2019, a group of federal and state leaders as well as industry representatives, environmentalists, and scientists made an agreement to close all 84 coal plants in the country by 2038.[1]

Just as in many other parts of the world, expanding electrical consumption through electric vehicles does not make sense if we also don't actively decrease our dependency on fossil fuel.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#Coal_power
As an African I really want an electric car that just has a speedometer, airbags, range meter and nothing else. I can do without air condition, outside temperature sensor ... We already struggling to fix the modern petrol and diesel cars full of electronics.
Paris is an interesting example. Car trips have a < 15% share. You can often hear this saying "Parisian drivers drive by need". This "need" can be :

- listening to the radio

- smoke freely

- don't share a ride with "the poors" in the bus or metro

This need, this "have to" must be defined. It hides serious things and ridiculous ones.
My mother is in her 70s. She won't willingly knowingly recognize a trans person to be of the "gender" they claim, because she honestly believes deep in her mind that doing so is a sin against God and man, and she would be forfeiting her place in heaven. She wouldn't hurt a fly but she's between a rock and a hard place. The only emotion she ever expresses is guilt. I think she is delusional (mentally ill) and I blame religion. If some website decided to kick her off because of a silly pronoun, even though she was behaving entirely sincerely, because IMHO they are intolerant of her viewpoint (and she is not an isolated case), then I would be inclined to leave said website as well.

I will not reply to anymore of your comments as you have expressed your view that I shouldn't be allowed to, and I don't want to offend you any further.
The car notifies you if an update is available, when you can postpone it, and IIRC you also receive a notification on your phone before it starts at which point you can also postpone it. Also, it tells you the estimated duration of the update in minutes and specifically notes that you will likely not be able to use the car during this time.

Also, braking and steering should be dependent on software. This is the case in most modern cars, though those don't always have OTA updates. It means these can be changed and improved over time.

I can definitely see someone who had auto-update not realizing their car will start the update before they need it, but I think they've chosen a decent balance between keeping users up-to-date and making sure your car is available when you need it.
> I recently saw a post on social media where someone couldn't go to the dentist because the car was updating software.

Nice. I wish the only cost of getting a free upgrade to my vehicle was that I'd have to take a taxi every now and then.
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Why would an education level be required?
“No street would need to be completely cut off from vehicular traffic; emergency services could get through and transport for the disabled, just as they do in places like Ghent, Belgium, where the city center has been car-free since 2017.”

Every street is still accessible by car. You simply wouldn’t want to go on the pedestrian streets until you absolutely have to because like in car free European cities today, you’d be intermingling with pedestrians with a speed limit of like 5mph.

You’d simply drive the vast majority of the way on the car streets, and then the last 20-30m on the 5mph street so you can take your stuff up to your doorstep.
Quantum computing is a typical example of taking a model (QM), further than it was ever intended to.

Instead of recognizing the fallacy, they blindly accept its promises : cramming an infinite computational power using very little mass.

They then uses the excuse that it's extremely complicated to build to cover for the lack of results demonstrating the model is holding its promises.

After a few decades, they will achieve at tremendous cost a "success" where quantum computer are typically faster by a factor 10^6 than a classical computer, and with better energy efficiency,
and recognize then that the model had indeed its limits, and that quantum supremacy was never about delivering an exponential speed-up (who would be stupid enough to believe such fallacies, of course all models have their limits) but just a better way of computing.
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Yes, but that is not a fundamental problem of electric cars, but of politics and regulations. These regulations can be changed quickly. One way would be to apply pressure to the local politics to change regulations. Of course, it could end anyway when the first judge rules that an electric outlet is reasonable to be expected at a rented parking lot.
why do you like to own a car in berlin? is there a use case for having a car?
Solving EV problems is a hard equal to solving rich people problems as long as EV:s aren't affordable, but hopefully they will be in a near future, and hopefully our consumer patterns in general will also change by that point to ease the transition into an economy less dependent on fossil fuel.
Well, why not? As many point out it has interesting engineering challenges, and gives particle physicists something to do..
However, maybe there is nothing to do after all. One wonders if this is a last hail mary for those clinging to super symmetric particle theories or maybe for multiple higgs ideas. Or just for a job. There doesnt seem any sound reason to me to think the particle desert isnt real and wont stretch all the way to GUT energy. Though i suppose 13.4 - 100 may yield extra discoveries of some nature.
I used to read this blog http://resonaances.blogspot.com, though im not a particle physicist, it was interesting. The posts dried up and it was hard not to detect pessimism after a null result via supersymmetry. Indeed i seem to remember hearing no one would want to go into particles as a career now and many will pivot into condensed matter physics etc.
So what are they gonna do for 25 years? I guess the youngsters 25 years hence will have to dust off the particle books.
Meta materials, gravity waves and plasma physics are so much more intetesting now..
I seem to remember reading about plasma wave accelerators the size of a table top many years ago with giant theoretical energies.
Interesting to note the ssc had 40 Tev energy which would have fairly concretely answered the ss question without the need of another machine
Closing coal plaints only helps in part, as long as Germany keeps importing coal-generated electricity (from Poland or Czechia, for instance).
Even the old 3rd world favourite, the Toyota Hilux, has gone over to the dark side and become much harder to repair with all the fancy shit they stick in them now.
How about: how many companies actively contribute to the project?

I think this is pretty interesting metric and should show the difference between true community efforts (maybe Linux, GCC?) and those where opening the source is just a way of selling more.
Climate change is primarily hitting the poorest of the world.
Search issues and PRs - that’s where the real knowledge is now.

When I Google a question, an SE link is still the most common thing

Yep because SE gained critical mass, and in its earlier incarnation was often linked to from outside. But in its present form recent question are unanswered and old answers are obsolete. Because all the people who actually did the work were told by SE that they had served their purpose and were no longer welcome.
Reducing their oil dependency is something that doesn't benefit only "the rich", or any other political strawan.

In addition, perhaps it's time to shed that miopic view on life that leads you to wrongly interpret anything that you believe benefits someone else as an attack on your personal interests.
What does someone do if they twist their ankle badly and are on crutches for a month?
However, it is up to you which utility to use. There are plenty which will not just do the basic green washing of buying certificates but also build their own green capacity in line with demand.
Which international waters? Because what we ve seen is governments will interfere beyond their UN 12 miles territorial waters and into their 200mil economic zones, disallowing any experimentation.
That giant screen idea is the future. Sure people with ICE vehicles need tactile controls rather than touchscreens but the Tesla Model 3 is different.

The giant screen could be taken further, e.g. a generic USB3 tablet that just runs the Tesla app. You could then take the screen out of the car with you or, if you lose it, just get any old tablet and shove it in there.
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The problem is that this is a rarity. Most "modern" web-apps are worse than their traditional desktop app replacements. It is not as if developers are worse today. It is because traditional desktop applications can build upon better frameworks, leverage better tested accessibility, compose and extend native and rich UI controls offered by the OS and all of which leads to better developer productivity and comfortable user experience.

Yes, you can do all that with JSS and CSS also. However you have to fight extreme CSS and JS bloat in order to achieve the same thing.

I really want the browser vendors to offer a large suite of standardised, modern web controls. UX Designers who love to do their own snarky, edgy stuff can keep doing so, but for us developers it would be a god-send for our sanity.
Putting up ads on your house or property is widely permitted, for the annoyance of everyone passing by.
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I understand that a government can do this. I'm saying that I assumed this isn't the case here based on what I know about the Netherlands, fossil fuel stations, etc. Do you have information claiming otherwise?
Try creating a free email account on ProtonMail. I think they have an interesting approach very similar to what you're describing.
This is my first Chrome Extension, which remind you to work when you spend too much time on the internet.
Open source, welcome to clone it and play around with it.
The Netherlands is famous for being below sea level. I'm sure they have a dog in the race regarding rising sea levels.
Even if you ban regular cars you're still gonna have to deal with commercial/emergency vehicles (ambulances, moving vans, delivery trucks for local businesses.
Can the title be amended to reflect that of the linked article? That is, please drop the nonsensical question mark.
No one has ever been able to explain to me why I should use Haskell instead of something else. I get answers about idempotence and list comprehension and strong typing which are great tactics but I never get the sense that they fit into an overarching strategy for how my life will be made easier by using Haskell.

I know Carmack has presented a case to code in a pure functional style here https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/169296/Indepth_Functiona... but that somewhat precludes the necessity of switching to another language from C++. Further, he advocates for a new keyword 'pure' to assist the compiler like const does, perhaps not knowing that const doesn't actually help the compiler out in practice.
Consider the possibility it's not supposed to convince you earth is flat, yet you are the target audiance.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21057230
It sounds like preparing for the near future where personal vehicles running on fossil fuels are being phased out. This is happening in many European cities (like Amsterdam) and is also being attempted by some European countries at the moment.
> Think of special pronouns as names.

That's exactly the problem: pronouns are not names for a reason.

Pronouns are meant to be a finite set of words that can group an infinite set of other words, names.

In many languages gender is the criteria to form those groups. It 's a natural choice if you think of gender as a binary category.

Once you introduce the concept of gender fluidity the most logical solution is to introduce a residual pronoun that includes everybody who doesn't fit in the male/female dichotomy.

To adopt instead a inifinite set of pronouns means to poorly re-engineer a language. It's an extremely important and complex common good, we shouldn't be tinkering with it so lightheartedly.
get the honda e:
https://www.honda.co.uk/cars/new/honda-e/overview.html

tested it and it's truly a marvel.
I know exactly what you mean. Now we forced to go the dealers who charge exorbitant prices for simple things like replacing a light. Sigh I miss the old days when you just pulled out the globe and asked for a replacement.
Of which there are orders of magnitude fewer, though.
reCAPTCHA takes time and effort. It includes intentional delays and a random number of iterations (1-3). It also randomly fails and requires reloading the page. Instead of 2 second page loads, you spend 15-20 seconds. This makes browsing over a VPN frustratingly slow.

I'm convinced that reCAPTCHA is now just one of Google's tools to keep us all trackable and stop us from protecting our privacy. And CloudFlare is bringing it to half of the Internet. Bad bad bad. And shame.
Of all countries, the Netherlands would have an especially large incentive to combat climate change, as large parts are already below the sea level. Also pollution and noise due to car usage, are everyones problems.
The government isn't giving electric cars away, but providing infrastructure seems like a good idea to me, as this is more difficult to provide as an individual. Also, electric cars are not limited to "the rich". They are well available in the price range most new cars are bought and even an used vehicle market is developing.
I suspect this is primarily because the tax for leasing an EV is going to double by January (from 4% to 8%, vs 22% for ICEs, but still, double). So people whose work perks includes a lease car and who have been considering electrical, are all getting one quickly now. And the Model 3 is one of the better EVs on the market, so there you go.

Model 3 sales in NL will drop tremendously in 2020.
Unfortunately the actual image doesn't seem to load for me.
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I agree RH isn’t a power tool like other but I know several people who got their feet wet with it and are now considering moving.

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The proposal in the linked article isn't a congestion charge, but to just pedestrianize many roads in Manhattan. I agree with you that congestion charges aren't an ideal solution for a bunch of reasons, one being that affluent people can just pay their $10 and drive through, as you note. Another problem with them is that congestion charges don't really make roads safe for non-automobile road users, in the way that pedestrianization does.

What annoys me personally about rich Manhattan types with cars is mostly their political influence. Fewer than a quarter of Manhattanites own cars, but the ones that do have historically been disproportionately well connected in local Democratic machine politics.