skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7553127/Even-death-...

Compare that with American documentaries about American atrocities.

Sure, people are mean and cruel. Under totalitarianism, they are also mean and cruel, they even get forced to be, but there's a whole lot more going on. Just like murder and compassion are not the same just because they both contain "non-zero amounts of suffering", and both end with the heat death of the universe.

https://www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/

> Many young people, it is true, do not seem to value freedom. But some of us still believe that, with­out freedom, human beings cannot become fully hu­man and that freedom is therefore supremely valuable. Perhaps the forces that now menace freedom are too strong to be resisted for very long. It is still our duty to do whatever we can to resist them.

Physical suffering and murder are older than history. Even animals can be dicks to each other, on a much smaller scale of course. But the industrial mass extermination of people, as well as the totalitarian attempt to control reality by rewriting history, the bid to control the whole planet, that is new.

> We don't know a perfected totalitarian power structure, because it would require the control of the whole planet. But we know enough about the the still preliminary experiments of total organization to realize that the very well possible perfection of this apparatus would get rid of human agency in the sense as we know it. To act would turn out to be superfluous for people living together, when all people have become an example of their species, when all doing has become an acceleration of the movement mechanism of history or nature following a set pattern, and all deeds have become the execution of death sentences which history and nature have given anyway.

-- Hannah Arendt

Even though very few people seem to grok it, this is another category. This is about more than "just" millions of people murdered or in prison.

> The frightening coincidence of the modern population explosion with the discovery of technical devices that, through automation, will make large sections of the population 'superfluous' even in terms of labor, and that, through nuclear energy, make it possible to deal with this twofold threat by the use of instruments beside which Hitler's gassing installations look like an evil child's fumbling toys, should be enough to make us tremble.

-- Hannah Arendt

So saying "the US is evil" is about as useful as saying "China is evil". What matters is what deeds are evil, what thoughts are idiotic, what roads lead to hell -- and the responsibility of individuals to both judge these things and act and organize according to their judgements. Insofar our governments and the companies they enable are corrupt and evil, with us basically paying for both, one way or another, it's up to us to rectify that.
God I hope she has to deal with having an underpaid and overworked public defender.
Honestly, I think if someone has an innovative idea regarding some part of an electric vehicle, in most cases they should just manufacture that component and push for standardization so that the component can be easily integrated into other designs. Building a whole car is something that few companies have the experience and engineering budget to pull off.

I'm hoping that over time electric car parts become more standardized. There's only so many ways to make an electric motor, and there's no particular reason why every motor should have a different bolt pattern on its faceplate or a shaft with a different number of splines.
Third party? No, but Amazon used to be a client so I got to see them firsthand.
AN honest Theranos would never have existed as a company.

People still laud Uber for illegal behaviour.
Agree. Limiting access to G+ was lethally counterproductive. And why? Afraid of the traffic?
I would say ram-air inflation of parafoil wings is very different – it's dynamic, not static like a bladder pre-inflated with a pump.

This Inflatoplane is more of a precursor to modern "tensairity" designs (e.g. some of Prospective Concepts designs). While certainly interesting, pressurized bladders in aircraft have so far been a dead end due to practical limitations (catastrophic modes of failure, wear, altitude pressure differences IIRC). The only flying wings where inflatable bladders are successfully used are kitesurfing kites. But those don't normally carry people up high.

Parafoil based designs on the other hand are now everywhere. Paragliders, parachutes, parafoil kitesurfing kites, even parafoil sails (SkySails).
Upvoted, not because I may agree or not with your post (I lack the necessary knowledge to comment on it) but because it encourages further discussion and merely downvoting it without giving any sound reason is plain stupid.

May I ask to those who know more to share their knowledge instead of acting as trigger happy cowboys? Thanks.
Is this the only thing they eat between breakfast and dinner? I think I would be hungry again in 2-3 hours.
Yet another PR story from Lambda School spun as news on HN.

Fake news.
I would like to challenge anyone who's immediate response to this is "China are always stealing our intellectual property" to stop, and really consider whether IP laws are providing a net benefit here.

Sure they provide an incentive to innovate, but they also actively prevent others from innovating. This technology will now be available to many more people, and can now be built on and developed.

It's a very capitalistic view to think that the only motivation to innovate is the profit motive. And it surprises me little that an economy which functions on very different principles also takes a very different attitude to knowledge sharing. Even if we don't wish to emulate this way of doing things entirely, perhaps we all have something to learn from this difference in perspective.
Mature languages don’t introduce random new ugly syntax. I miss Guido already.
Coming up with a fast charger is step one. Operating a charger network introduces its own real-world complexities that Tesla has had to face, but those other companies did not.

* chargers can malfunction. Tesla has a 24/7 phone support and will send a mobile roadside assistance truck to help you out if you’re stuck due to a non-functioning charger. Will those other companies do the same?

* during peak hours popular chargers can get rather high demand. Tesla will send a valet to organize/maintain the line and allow owners to charge while absent (if they hand over the keys to the valet). Will ionity, etc. do the same?

The operating company also has to be willing and able to tow offenders if they’re blocking the spots, preventing others from access. All solutions so far are people-intensive and capital-intensive. Do those other charger companies have enough financial strength to incur such operating expense?
Prepared, packaged food in Britain, especially London, is much better than most of Europe.

In Germany or France, a sandwich from a supermarket isn't fresh, isn't good, and isn't interesting. In Britain, it's at least some of these things.

In France or Germany, you can go to a bakery and buy a sandwich, but that's slower and dearer.
I’d argue that written maths is worse with its overloading of the Greek alphabet. Although in the case of maths I’d argue that it’s a result of how slowly we write, with the programming equivalent usually being a variable name (autocompleteable).
Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle – Computerphile
I would hope a mod on SO/SE is better at detecting trolling than the average /r/TumblrInAction poster. People who do this are very obvious if you're not already poised to go off on a rage at the people they're pretending to be. Unchecked confirmation bias is a critical vulnerability.
>This reads like every forum post where someone has asked "how's X distro work on Y laptop"

This is exactly how I felt reading that response. Yes, I'll admit that I don't have experience with every distro that's out there so there may be situations that are as the parent comment described. However, I've been using Linux on servers for 10+ years and still find desktop Linux to be a pain in the ass with the exact caveats that you're describing, regardless of the flavor I've used.
I think you have misread my comment.
> Most Dutch people just eat sandwiches for lunch.

And so did I when I worked there, but I made my own. If I forgot to do so, I nicked one of my Dutch colleagues sandwiches - they couldn't stand the cafeteria ones either.

Chinese food was in Utrecht and Amsterdam - it bore no resemblance to the food you get in London, and you never saw ethnic Chinese eating there, unlike in London.

I'm not trying to be racist about the Dutch people - I enjoyed working in the Netherlands very much. Except for the food.
So, October 1, 2020? We use "years" here. That will be $2.
> push their predetermined left leaning narrative.

The NYT Op Ed department is largely despised by leftists.
While I have no idea if the original github comment is real, I have wondered what I would do if Google decided to shut down my Google Voice-then-Hangouts phone number. I mean, I've experienced the loss of Reader, and others have lost beloved services in the past, so it's not like it seems completely incomprehensible.

As an American living in Europe, the Google Voice number hugely makes my life easier (give GV# to bank, to friends, etc). Being able to call and text to the US for free on wifi or using a little bit of my own plan data is so very nice.

I suppose there are some alternatives?
Bazel is a ground-up rewrite. Its not related to Blaze apart from naming. There was a skylark project aiming to combine the two over time, not sure how the progress is going on for it.
Google has plenty of python.

Ruby even excluded from GSoC while python isn't.
I've been to three of these and would highly recommend attending. It's a great way to network with others and also get a taste of the YC mindset.
Ice swimming is an eventually nice experience if you have a sauna nearby.

If you like that kind of thing, try a cryotherapy chamber too.

The one I tried was a step-in kind of room/chamber and went down to -110 Celsius. Clothing: swimming trunks (with extremities protected by woolen socks, gloves and a skiing cap). One just stands in the chamber, without touching the metal walls for obvious reasons. Blinking often is advisable to avoid freezing the eyeballs (or so they said).

There are three chambers with decreasing temperature, one passes through these somewhat rapidly to acclimatize.

The time in the coldest chamber was 3 minutes. Before the first minute was up, I thought I was going to die there. I calmed down and just stood there blinking as if sending morse code with my eyelids, listening to the eery sounds the walls made.

I felt time dilation. It felt forever between the minutes which were spoken by the operator through the internal speaker.

Later, when taking a short swim, a swimming pool with the usually cold water felt very warm but made me start shivering eventually. I slept very well that night.

The experience felt overall very primal somehow, on many levels. I can't quite put those feelings to words.
I actually found an immense use for Walrus - used it to hack Python into doing pattern matching that is way more readable than without it:

https://github.com/eveem-org/panoramix

(source code for Eveem.org, which is arguably the best decompiler for Ethereum smart contracts out there. you can see a lot of pattern matching in pano/simplify.py , and I found no way to do it without extending the language/walrus while maintaining the readability)
Kroger is separate company unrelated to Safeway.
The difference between patent trolls and protecting capital intensive IP for a "head start" to get to market are so hugely different. It's not a difference in perspective. It's a harmful act of laziness.
How multitasking used to work on Atari :)

But this requires code pages to be writable. Which, from a security perspective is awful.
Doesn’t matter in my opinion. 40% after 5 weeks is a joke. If the student felt the need to drop out due to any reason so early and then ended up either completing another program or becoming self-taught and then finding a job it is silly that Lambda would still collect up to $12k from the student for very little value.

If Lambda were extremely confident in their program and who they select they would at least move it up to 25% of the curriculum complete, not 14%, or lower the 40% to something actually proportional to the time spent in the program.
>Anyone that's managing to install Linux on their computer has the knowledge necessary to make it " just work."

I disagree wholeheartedly. Linux is easy to install. It's not easy to write a driver for a piece of hardware. It's not even easy sometimes to install a driver that someone else wrote.

Case in point: the state of VR on Linux right now. It works for a lot of people that can dork around with setting things up. It's not, in any way, shape, or form, ready for use by people.

Edit: The Wacom example still supports my point anyways. The drivers that you say are included are from the project page. They are not official Wacom drivers and, as such, are missing functionality for some tablets.
With 4 years of tenure they should have vested much of their stock, but I'm not sure when Uber started doing grants rather than options. If they had options they may not have had the cash to exercise.
>They didn't select my preferred syntax

I don't write much python so there's probably something obvious I'm missing, but I don't see why they didn't use "=". Is there some significant difference between assignment expressions and assignment statements that makes it worth having distinct syntax?
There are huge advantages to the way Lambda School is structured compared to other American universities.

I've written about this in more depth [1], but while ability is evenly distributed, opportunity is not - and aligning the incentives of the students with the institution is a much better model.

If your choice is risking 100k up front for a college education that doesn't guarantee a good job (and has non-defaultable loans) or paying 30k only if you end up with a software job making more than 50k a year it'll be an easy choice for most people.

[1] http://zalberico.com/essay/2019/04/08/lambda-school.html
Here's one: https://gettogether.community/
Also worth noting that the 10x improvement is for tokio's own benchmarks, and even there only in one of the four. The hyper benchmark saw "only" a 34% improvement.
> I'm pretty sure the self-driving cars thing was bullshit the whole time. A great way to string along investors.

I somewhat agree that self-driving cars isn't an obvious solution for Uber when you think about it, because it basically makes the entire business of Uber a stepping stone towards a completely different company. That is to say the majority of everything Uber has built would no longer be relevant. Of course, I suspect Travis always knew this and really it was actually Uber itself that was always bullshit (or at least by the time the company became a unicorn, nobody really knew anything when they were still a glorified limo company) and self-driving cars always the real endgame. The problem was it didn't go according to plan.

Considering the relationship Travis and Anthony Levandowky established and the whole history there (Uber legitimately tried to defend Anthony from the Waymo lawsuit until it was blindingly obvious they could no longer do so), I think Travis was dead serious about self-driving cars for a long time. The problem is Travis is a great entrepreneur and businessman, but robotics is an unforgiving field.

It's easy to sell an idea. "Wouldn't self-driving cars be great?" And honestly 5 years ago I felt like it might be possible, and many other seasoned roboticists legitimately got on-board (so not just for the money, although some did and I don't blame them because holy shit I have seen some of those offers and they were insane). But at this point, and this is very much an open debate, I believe you need to solve general AI before you can have a meaningful self-driving car product.

Everything above applies for L4 autonomy, anything that requires driver attention (such as Tesla's Autopilot) or extremely limited use-cases (such as GM's SuperCruise, which is 100% independent from GM's self-driving car division called Cruise) is a completely different discussion.
Damn... this is rather confusing: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0572/

I really like the walrus operator, but I didn't realize how many "you shouldn't do this" and "this is too hard already" cases exist where they are discouraging using the walrus operator.
Great. Let them steal from themselves. Leave us out of it.
In my experience (went to a bootcamp 5 years ago, taught at a few since) bootcamps are amazing for people who have the drive and interest, and ideally some prior knowledge. They give you a place to meet like minded people, and really focus on learning/implementing your knowledge. The quality of the education is generally less important than the quality of the people. People who are just expecting to get a quick job and don't actually give a shit about the internet and programming should not be in bootcamps, but often are, and are probably the source of most negative feedback.
While I agree... I wouldn't be surprised to see etcd displaced with a lookalike written in Rust. Sometimes people make things because it's fun to reinvent wheels at times. How many distributed big-table-like solutions are there?
I you care about performance, maybe you should try pypy (the alternative python compiler)
Yeah - I think that's a fair criticism.
They maybe fail because they won't outright lie or "cheat".

Theranos is obviously an extreme example.
It was a bold statement because it was a situation I was unfamiliar with, and the salesman in the car with me wasn't explaining how to prevent it from making such a move. Since the system was alien to me, I wasn't prepared for what I needed to do to do so.
>if I ever turn into someone who gets a reputation for molesting young college students drag me all you want, hell rent a billboard for all I care and chuck my remains into the trashcan.

>If I ever figured out that one of my family members engaged in behaviour like this I would not mind it one single bit if their accusers spoke about it the day they died, the only thing I'd be sad about is that I didn't know sooner.

He touched a woman's thigh and then died.
Too bad I'm losing good articles like this one because of those patronizing, click-baity newsletters that they started sending out a year or two ago.
Yes, "path dependence" is a good way to describe it. (And Python has been my favorite language for 16+ years now)

For https://www.oilshell.org/ , which has Python/JS-like functions, I chose to use Julia's function signature design, which is as expressive as Python's, but significantly simpler in both syntax and implementation:

Manual:

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/index.html...

Comparison:

https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/function-arguments-in-julia-an...

Basically they make positional vs. named and required vs. optional ORTHOGONAL dimensions. Python originally conflated the two things, and now they're teasing them apart with keyword-only and positional-only params.

A semicolon in the signature separates positional and named arguments. So you can have:

func f(p1, p2=0, ...args ; n1, n2=0, ...kwargs)

So p2 is an optional positional argument, while n1 is a required named argument.

And then you don't need * and star star -- you can just use ... for both kinds of "splats". At the call site you only need ; if you're using a named arg / kwargs splat.

----

Aside from all the numeric use cases, which look great, Julia has a bunch of good ideas in dynamic language design.

The multiline strings in Julia appear to strip leading space in a way that's better than both Python multiline strings and here docs in shell.

Also Julia has had shell-like "f-strings" since day one (or at least version 1 which was pretty recent). Python has had at least 4 versions of string interpolation before they realized that shell got it right 40 years ago :)
The first time I went to the US, the waitress brought over extra bread, "I know you Europeans like bread, so I brought you extra".

It was awful. Like ecological packaging pellets. I didn't want to offend her, so I hid the extra rolls in my bag.

(We had other meals that were excellent. The quality of meals was very erratic, and had little relation to the price.)
> She may have been a visionary

I fail to see any indication of that.
I was not aware that phones, tablets, and watches were on the PC...

But on that note: the Surface tablet is considered the best hybrid PC in its class, and that includes Apple devices. The XBox has sold several tens of millions of units in each generation.

Oh, and here's the kicker: Microsoft's hardware is universally superior to Apple hardware in the same class. You can still use Microsoft hardware from the turn-of-the-century. Even Zunes still work (though you need to connect them as MTP devices instead of using the Zune Store). I have an HP Windows Phone that still works, and still handles call better than an iPhone.

I don't know anyone who still has an Apple laptop, PC, or other hardware more than 10 years old. Apple products simply aren't built to last more than a handful of years before they fall apart because you're using them wrong.
Every meeting is a negotiation, and NDAs must be bidirectionally signed. You do have leverage: it's your IP.
Your college was teaching you skills too derivatives beyond mine. All of my classes were on CS and math. I didn't have a single class on "how to learn", or the very meta class "learning how to learn".
At first I agreed with you - imagining walmart coming into town and bankrupting the mom-and-pop stores.

But can't folks still create their own websites and upload their own content for cheap?

domain name, virtual server, upload?

(don't know about monetization)
Why should you care about net benefit when you're dealing with a geopolitical rival?

Sports teams aren't happy when scored on because the total score went up.
There's also Prometheus, which was older than Methusaleh but was cut down by people looking for the old trees. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(tree)
Our bread contains a lot of whole grain flour. Don't underestimate how that effects how full you feel.

When losing weight I found I could easily get away with skipping lunch entirely, just two or three slices of bread as a late breakfast. But only if the bread had sufficiently high amount of whole grain flour (>90%). The days I only got hold of 50-60% whole grain bread I had to top up with a small lunch.
What do you mean that ability is evenly distributed?
Bunk. I was not made aware that was even possible.

Source: I... was there? :D
Apple may be happy to differentiate on privacy but surely they don't care or might even prefer that android and others get worse in that regard.
What to Expect from Google's Pixel 4 Event
If you where a pharmacy benefits manager, and you where sitting across two different potential drug makers and one says "I'll let you have it at 30$!" and the others says "I'll let you have it at 120$ with a 50% rebate!" which one do you think you'd take?

The forces at play in the pharma/PBM negotiation leads to price increases instead of price competition because the PBM effectively sits on both sides of the table. They want high rebates and they don't care about list-prices as long as they can take back a bit cut of them. This is why you see rebates reaching levels close to 70%. Imagine if you sent a guy to negotiate a car purchase for you, and that guy was looking at taking 70% of the net you pay through rebates from the car dealership. Do you honestly think he would be looking for the cheapest deal?