skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that vehicle designs have evolved in a couple ways over the last 15 years in negative ways:

1. More Vertical space on the front of the vehicle - making it harder to see pedestrians right in front of you, this is particularly the case for large trucks and SUV's.

2. Reduced greenhouses in modern cars (all the windows are smaller, meaning its harder to see anything around you)

3. Vehicles in general are taller, higher and wider in the front and rear.

There are also other human factors in play, like more distracted driving from smart phones, and more complex infotainment systems in the vehicle.
Did you read the article? The claim is that focusing on driver and pedestrian distraction is beside the point:

“All this talk about pedestrian distraction, driver distraction? It’s such a distraction,” says Ben Welle of the World Resource Institute for Sustainable Cities. “It puts all the responsibility on individuals, and none on the environment they operate in.”
The lengths some people will go to to put a positive spin on something negative is amazing.
Bicycles would be a good replacement if infrastructure would be there.
It wasnt Pixar, but this exact thing happened to me as well. Founder blew tons of cash and needed to raise more so he cleared out the debt with 'new co'. Apparently his money was worth more to him than my 4 years of service.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19624164
Why are you specifically mentioning north west of Europe? No one I ever met in south east of Europe ever had automatic (where I live).
What makes you ask sure that punishment would actually serve as an effective deterrent?
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There is plenty of questioning moderator decisions on the stackoverflow meta, in civil ways where both sides can explain their actions and perspectives. Mistakes are sometimes made and subsequently corrected given the background and opportunity to recognize them.
The Spamhaus page mentioned in the article you linked: https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries/ now shows China as the top malicious country. TFA was written in 2016. In the last 3 years China has overtaken the USA.

So it's not a false narrative. Most attacks and spams do come from China, not the US.
Even if the guy jumps in front of your car? What kina bs is this? Perhaps peds need to mind their surroundings as well? Because cars can't stop instantly you know.
GeoDjango is really awesome. I’ve used it for a few things geospatial and I had no big troubles with it.
Actually, according to quantum physics, the world is functional. The Universe can be described by completely by a function (the universal wave function) and is completely time-reversible; you can run it forwards or backwards because it has no side-effects.
Many streets in Japanese cities fit this. There is only one loosely defined car lane and no sidewalks. So it's a pain to drive because if someone is driving the opposite way, someone has to pull over and yield.

The lack of sidewalks makes it so that the road's primary users are pedestrians, so cars are forced to drive carefully (slow) at all times, making these roads even less desirable for drivers.

The "soft pressure" leads to cars mostly using car-friendly roads unless they absolutely have to use the pedestrian ones.
Thank you. That makes sense (and why I asked about the intended audience and purpose of the document); however as they put the blue sky goals in the abstract, I would have expected something more specific as well.
Why are manufacturers increasing income for the repairmen instead of lowering the cost of maintenance so that they can increase their own prices? Is this because they couldn't increase prices even if they lowered maintenance cost so they leech of repair shops?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car-free_places
Strange. I spend the vast majority of my time writing code that does something interesting/useful. In fact, it puts food on the table and a roof over the heads of several families.

The reason why I’ve given up my own time to write some blog posts (apart from it just being an occasional pastime), is that everyone complains that Haskell doesn’t have enough documentation or tutorials.

Damned if we do; damned if we don’t.
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Jackson-databind – remote code execution vulnerability
Wouldn't this approach fail if there becomes a mainstream cryptocurrency, let's say Libra for lack of a better example. Where you can keep converting and switching wallets (laundering) or just buy something that has no ties to you and it would be hard to track?

Like you rightly pointed out, the govt control over fiat, but that control is continually being threatened every day
If you had to slam on your brakes or make an emergency stop you were probably going too fast for the environment.
In many cases it’s the driver’s fault due to inattention or recklessness, other-times the ped is taking liberties with their safety (on phone, not looking, running to beat traffic). So, while drivers do have the responsibility to look out for pedestrians there are cases where there is nothing they can do about a particular circumstance.
I'm ignorant of Dutch law, so I may be off base, but I find taxes usually apply as of the date of the contract, not the date of the delivery. So, if you have a firm order, you are probably fine.
> I was helped enormously by the burrito concept.

OK fair enough, I can only speak for myself and the way I learn concepts. The way I learn a new language or platform is always to try to write a real program that does something. I am only able to lean concepts when I can see their usefulness. But I should recognize that other people learn in different ways.
I create this list of "right things to do" to clarify my own thinking. Most are very obvious. All the same I find it useful to have a check-list to go by when building a new service.

This is the first version of the list. Feel free to provide comments and thoughts so it can improve further.

My hope is that it can be of help to others too. If it leads to more services that honor the user and treats them with respect, then I have achieved my goal.
Directly from the stackoverflow.com homepage: https://i.imgur.com/XB1ORxW.png

Very ironic.
Can you explain why this is a violation, please?
I sure wish all social media had self destructing posts.
Ok, but that doesn't make the translation any better. It's still wrong.
It's probably both fashion and crash safety, but car design really has gone astray with the heavy-handed "aggressive" styling and tiny windows everywhere. Where's the elegance?
FWIW, Haskell/Yesod has replaced all my Ruby on Rails websites.
Probably not much impact yet because there are so few EVs relative to ICEs. But, I've almost stepped in front of a few Teslas that "snuck up" on me in parking lots (typical US open parking lot with no pedestrian access - you just walk through a sea of cars and hope they're all paying attention).
Let's fill our cities with taller, wooden buildings
I am responding to what the modded title is because it is wrong.

the article's actual title is wrong in other ways.

1. because someone might not be smart enough to write Haskell (is that different than program in Haskell?)

2. Because someone might be better suited to other language types than Haskell.

language types I prefer - small instruction sets, functional or declarative (that however is my preference) someone might just find object orientation a more natural way of thinking.
Where is the commercial gain from these articles? What product is being sold?
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Programming and general computing, it's still possible to write and run any code in your PC, but big companies will be trying to control it.

For example the DRM shenanigans in the GPU, or, when you can't write code for your smartphone unless you have permission from its parent company, and even with permission, you still can't write "any" arbitrary code - only some parts of the system are available to you. I'm aware of the exploits and jailbreaks, but those will not be always available.
Do you want to spend a year in prison for running over a pedestrian? Does anyone else?
Ask HN: Anyone tired of “fast paced” jobs?
YES. Ebikes in tunnels.
* "Haskellers write to much code but don't explain the
language. They should write tutorials."

* "Haskellers just write tutorials but there's no good practical code."

* "Haskell will never catch on because it's too hard. They think it's easy but that's just because they're geniuses."

* "Haskellers are obnoxious and condescending. The language is easy but they want to pretend it makes them special and clever."

* "The Haskell type checker only checks really simple properties that are easy to prove by hand"

* "Haskell doesn't come with tooling that automate refactorings that are easy to make by hand"

The list of contradictory complaints goes on ...
This sort of false equivalence is depressingly common and is a big part of the denial that let's us ignore the actual issue... I mean the design of roads/cities to maximize traffic flow (for those that have not read the article).
Yep like something out of Succession she was driving on the wrong side of the road, left the kid where he was to die and then fled the country with the US Embassy's help.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/harry-dunn-death-us-di...

Harry Dunn's mother will be flying to the US to try to appeal for justice for him.
Writing state is the definition of mutation.

It's what all data storage systems do.

An immutable data store sounds pretty useless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_%28computer_scienc...
This is really useful! :-)
This is a contrived situation that never actually happens (even here in Manhattan, arguably the craziest place on Earth), but I’ll address it anyway. Where pedestrians are present, there’s never a sound reason for any vehicle operator to accelerate to speeds at which “stopping instantly” becomes the only logical (and physically impossible) option for avoiding a car-on-ped collision. Drive slowly, and suddenly a whole host of problems go away. NYC lowered its default speed limit from 30mph to 25mph a few years ago. This helped traffic move more smoothly and reduced the number of collisions involving pedestrians.
> I keep asking if people do this on purpose as a job security gambit.

People are just trying to get stuff done. Come on.
Are you using that? Doing Haskell on vscode has been a painful experience for me.
And bikes. The reason London built its two major Cycle Superhighways (East-West and North-South) is because their modelling showed more people were going to need to cross the city, but a new tube line was unaffordable in comparison.
I can see how (certain interpretations of) it could be considered wrong. I'm failing to see condescension.
1. The word is "classist," not "classicist," someone who studies the classics. (I wouldn't comment except you've used it twice in this thread.)

2. The proposal has neither classist subtext nor text. It isn't "The rich need to stop driving because the rich suck," it's "The rich need to stop driving because they have perfectly reasonable alternatives, people who live and work in less affluent areas underserved by transit often don't have a perfectly reasonable alternative." Nobody would care if the rich want to drive their cars in Staten Island all day, as long they're not causing congestion. Nobody is trying to hurt the rich. They're trying to solve congestion without hurting people, and those who drive private vehicles in Manhattan are, it is believed, least hurt by this proposal.

And your own argument demonstrates this: obviously congestion pricing is more affordable to the rich, but people still think it's a good idea. If three billionaires want to drive Hummers around midtown all day but in exchange there are protected bike and bus lanes, I am all for that.

If you think the rich are actually being hurt by this proposal, it would be worth arguing that claim. But it is not an injury in my opinion that the rich could previously do something from their richness and now have to do what everyone else does.

Meanwhile, taxing the rich simply because we don't like them (as opposed to because we think that they disproportionately benefit from government resources, or that setting this tax policy has particular benefits to the economy, or whatever) would in fact be a gratuitous injury to them, so I'm not sure why you think that's a kinder alternative.

(Disclosure: I work for a hedge fund, I take the subway, and I think taxes at my bracket and above are too low.)
This looks excellent. I'm an avid RShiny user and can't wait to try this and Dash. Is there an example for how to host (e.g. on aws or google cloud) and make an app available online?
The point I am making is that when push comes to shove, NASA doesn't rate nuclear propulsion work highly. It's not what's keeping us out of space. The value to the nation of nuclear rockets is reflected in what $$ are budgeted to them.
Keeping the debate even moderately civil requires constant vigilance from the moderators and community managers. There is a constant stream of nasty comments - you don't see them because they are removed quickly. There were times where no one was present to moderate, so the post was temporarily locked. It has since crossed into the four digits of downvotes.
If that's what you're proposing, there's no need to use clickbait words like "ban cars from Manhattan". You're just shifting the incentive structure so that people will be less inclined to use a car.
Conjecture: the obsession with "safety" cams has led to a massive decrease in road policing by officers and a corresponding decline in the correction of poor and unsafe driving.
>Free Software doesn't have to be licensed under the GPL.

Yes, I understand that but using RMS's criteria in his 2007 essay (subsection "Practical Differences between Free Software and Open Source"), my 1992 software (without strong copyleft protection) would be "open source" and not "free software". My point is that I called it "free software" even though it violates RMS's definition because the alternative label of "open source" didn't gain currency yet.

Also, the "free as in libre vs free as in beer" wasn't a well-known meme in 1992 either: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=free+as+in+bee...
Drivers are the ones subject to licensing and insurance requirements. Drivers are the ones operating heavy machinery. Drivers are thus the responsible party, even when pedestrians are clearly not looking out for their own safety. There’s never any downside to being the bigger person and watching out for the well being of fellow humans, even those who should really know better.
> it can be said not everyone learns equally well every language, and not every language is equally as learnable.

I think that’s reasonable, but the question is then at what point does a language become sufficiently difficult that it no longer provides a good return on investment? And to what degree of proficiency must one achieve in a language in order to productively use it?

It doesn’t take a long time to learn all of Elm, and you can be productive in it quickly.

It takes a very long time to learn all of Haskell, but it does not take a very long time to be productive with it.
I don't think those are valid arguments. Just because current urban design is built around a specific transport mode does not mean it could not be rebuilt to facilitate another.

Not remodeling. Redesigning. It's very straightforward to move and redesign urban centers. Lot of countries do it all the time. The proble.s are not related to human nature or engineering, but to purely finances.
Isn't the other alternative for those families to own a car? That's surely more expensive than renting one to go camping.
Thanks. It was an attempt at parody but apparently I didn't lay it on thick enough. I'll try to up my false-statements-per-paragraph count next time.
Almost every one of those is a tiny part of a city on order if a few streets or part of a tiny city.

Do you have anything substantial, say affecting on order of a million people? Or even an area of 100k people?
The point of the article was _not_ to place blame on either drivers or pedestrians/cyclists.
The article speaks about how the environments created in the US and Western Europe make for the right conditions to
"trip" all humans, who naturally do get distracted (even despite their best efforts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
>>In social psychology, fundamental attribution error (FAE), also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to under-emphasize situational explanations for an individual's observed behavior while over-emphasizing dispositional and personality-based explanations for their behavior. This effect has been described as "the tendency to believe that what people do reflects who they are
Who cares? You don't have to use the crypto part of it at all.
For me, Get Programming with Haskell by Will Kurt was much better than the 1300 page Haskell book. I loved it.

https://www.amazon.com/Get-Programming-Haskell-Will-Kurt/dp/...
Another item is the crazy amount of compiler pragmas you have to use literally modify the meaning of syntax to get to a minimally viable state to work on a real project.
> The US Embassy confirmed the incident involved "a vehicle driven by the spouse of a US diplomat assigned to the United Kingdom" and that the family has left the UK.

No one is denying she did it. They had her in custody. She was released on the previso that she would not leave the country.

Turns out that the sort of person that flees the scene of an accident is also the sort of person that doesn't stick around for the full investigation.
So even a homegrown controller should be quite feasible . . .

You might be interested in:
http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=gevcu6

Source code:
https://github.com/collin80/GEVCU
Unfortunately you get to a point where no-one _does_ have to drive in a city, yet still people do. Oxford (UK) is a case in point. There are park-and-rides at every entrance to the city, good bus and train services, and conversely, awful congestion and exorbitant car parking costs. Yet I still know people from my town (15 miles outside) who choose to drive into Oxford even though there's an express train that takes under half the time.

Eventually you can't offer any more carrots and you have to start using a stick.
Idk – with something as crucial as a browser I want the people who give it to me to have a clear and obvious incentive structure.
I'd say rally driving is the best analogy. Not only do you have to drive the car at peak performance, you also have to perform ad hoc repairs halfway through a stage
Personally, I've experienced a mix of extremes in both privilege and oppression.

While some people are really good, and some really evil, most of humanity has thos duality. They love you when you're successful, or for your popularity. But it's amazing how easily they can really turn their backs on you, even for no good reason.

There is an idea that: 'Nazis were regular people.' By some accounts the most common method of those millions who were murdered in the Killing Fields was by pick axe, to save bullets and money. The immediate reaction of that for me was the callousness, torture. But if you stop to think about it, how personal of a method is that? This was not just mass genocide, and it was not industrialized. It was carried out by masses of people with their own hands in a personalized way.

After my traumatic experiences with psychopathic cheating, abuse as an adult, now every time I hear or read of psychopathy happening today -- what is essentially just one group of people abusing, exploiting power over others for personal gain at the expense of others' liberties -- I think "Oh my God, we all need to wake up and do something." It feels like every day there is some new form of tyranny I learn about which is happening today, which is considered so ordinary that it is allowed to persist. Sometimes they are obvious evils, such as The Insulin Racket, Abu Ghraib or the Collateral Murder leaks, for example. But other times I see some of these group tyrannies have propaganda machine behind them which are not different from other forms of facism or tyrannical power structures, such as I think is the case with Big Pharma or Wall Street.

I think there is a crazy duality with humanity where we have abuse, tyranny always so close, and tolerated. We all know what it is -- that it is evil. We all hate it, and are ashamed of it. We always criticize it when it is at a distance, but then nobody is doing anything about it just as past generations did as well.
As a CTO of a startup trying to build a product on the web, though, CF is awesome. It solves a whole bunch of problems for free, and I don't have to worry about stuff that I would otherwise have to worry about (and I don't have time to worry about those things on top of all the other things I have to worry about).

In a few years, when I have a team of engineers and can spare the resources/expertise, we'll come off CF and do it properly. Until then, CF is a great service.

Sorry that your experience from SEA is not great, but tbh we're not selling in SEA, so any traffic from there is just a resource drain on our servers. Anything to discourage traffic from areas we're not serving is a positive for us.

Anything to discourage bot traffic is a huge positive. CF won't stop the bots, but costing them some minor amount of money per visit is still positive.
i've learned rust in a month of coding sparsely. in fact, i'm as comfortable today at writing rust as i am at writing go.
i've been struggling to learn haskell for over half a year.
i think it's an amazing language, don't get me wrong.
but the fact that haskell is not harder to learn than any other programming languages is false.
after taking a few online course, tutorials and so on, i still believe it's one of the most interesting (if not the most interesting) programming language in existence and also the hardest.
Throw in taxis, Uber, lyft and you have all your cars again.

A city like Manhattan would not make it without taxis
Innovate @Open is my relatively new one.
Maybe I’m missing something, but wouldn’t that just make it easier to literally burn down a city? Concrete, glass, and steel might be ugly and carbon-intense but despite having fires they done burn down and spread to whole sections of a city.
That doesn't excuse doing nothing in the cities.
It’s fine for you to think that. That’s not going to stop other people from finding these concepts useful though.

Once again, you are free to ignore the things you don’t understand. Your trolling is mostly harmless.
totally agreed, and I suppose in Paul Graham's concept of a Blub programming language there might be a language that is difficult to become proficient in but allows you to achieve things that would not be reasonably achievable in other languages.
In russian this is called "General's effect", where general is an army general. Basically, something is working as long as a higher rank official is present and not working otherwise.
Just to guess possible answers to your question:

Electric, self-driving cars? Reduction of parking lots to make room for something more lucrative? Generating support for getting cities to pay for new mass transit systems? New taxes on vehicle ownership?
Interesting, looking over the docs I couldn't find anything beyond simple radius queries.

It seems that all redis handles is points.

How would you query from shapes with redis?
Some of these practices are forbidden by religious law, so unless you're not in touch with anyone religious it will be socially (passive-aggressively) regulated.