skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If instances of corruption like this are so public, why can't anything be done about them? If something can be done about them why isn't anything being done? If something is being done why is it so ineffective? If it's effective why are instances of corruption like this so public?
I really like Nautilus. I have been subscriber in the past, I got my magazines and they were awesome. I am worried they might lose quality once they need to produce profit, however "fan" those investors are.

But that is life and if they do, there will be something else.
Reaction time requirements are probably much more forgiving for drones -- don't need to suddenly brake or change course due to the movements of other tightly packed drones around you during the daily commute
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Was also taught in Computer Science 178 at Stellenbosch University in 1997.
>Ethics stands above the law

This is pretty naive

Who decides what is ethical? I might think it's unethical to finance my government given its record of military adventures around the world. Does that mean that I'm off the hook on income tax?
Still have overly complicated animations on his blog :hover.
Not necessarily. Java currently ships two date libraries, for example: java.util.Date and java.time.*. There are some duplicating classes like Vector from the old times and ArrayList from new times. There are two I/O frameworks: old I/O (File, FileInputStream, etc) and nio (Path, FileSystem, etc). While I don't like the particular way Java did that, basically you just have to ship all old versions and keep them working and ship new versions with some adapters to ease migration.
You should copy and paste more from the article.
Computing pi with bc
A part missing in your analysis is that time is involved in the decisions, and that time is continuous, and that time is very important
I think sun synchronous orbits are retrograde

P2P sub orbital hops are either direction, 30-40 minutes, maybe 25 for shorter trips like London to New York.
I personally hate these very polluting moped abominations on the Dutch bicycle paths. They should’ve been banned (or heavily taxed) a decade ago when the Greens asked questions in parliament due to appalling emissions findings of a Dutch research institute. But, the coward politicians pointed to the EU and implicitly said the health of our bicyclists need to be decided in Brussels.
Just one data point: north Sweden, three schools and 4 daycare, 2km radius.
The compiler doesn't care about comments, so in my experience comments quickly go out of date as others change the code and ignore comments.

There's nothing to say code can't be performant and legible. In fact I'm a bit confused what "clever" means here. Writing performant but illegible code does not take more cleverness than performant while legible.
The fact that it's not is a feature not a bug.

If it were easy to rewrite the code, we would create winged babies for shits and grins.
Sure. But like talked about above, sports teams are also usually bought by fans. It would be weird to state those purchases that way though.
A. You forgot to capitalize the first word in the sentence.

B. Your dangling whitespace characters are all wrong.

This tells me that the steps you took to craft the serialized version of the data were totally disconnected from the intent of the transmission.

You were more focused on syntax (decorative array brackets, and curly brace closures), than the human-readable aspects of the text.

More often than not, this is expressed as unclosed tags in XML mark up, which would express as run-on underlined link activation and bold face. Yet this is often cleaner, when formatting gets stripped out, preserving whitespace delimiters such that text us ungarbled.

In the source, this sometimes leads to excessive whitespace bloat, but luxuriously so.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...
Healthcare has become a huge portion of our economy, in fact the largest at 18%. Doctors account for about 750k jobs in the US, compared to 16 million in the segment total: they account for only 4.5% of healthcare jobs.

Healthcare is also the fastest growing employment sector.

There are huge inefficiencies in the US healthcare system. We pay more to provide equivalent service as other first world countries.

However, switching to a single-payer system with a snap of one's fingers will not solve those inefficiencies, and will create massive upheaval in just about every Americans life, and our economy in general.

The article is pointing out that if the government sets prices at which all companies decide they cannot profitably render services, 20% of our economy and 16 million jobs just vanished. No candidate has addressed this issue.
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Why, are the claims controversial? They're backed by 2+ millenia of historiography.

Just off of the easiest sources available on the web:

Given its military pre-eminence, Sparta was recognized as the leading force of the unified Greek military during the Greco-Persian Wars, in rivalry with the rising naval power of Athens. Sparta was the principal enemy of Athens during the Peloponnesian War (between 431 and 404 BC), from which it emerged victorious. (...) Sparta was the subject of fascination in its own day, as well as in Western culture following the revival of classical learning. (...) In ancient times "Many of the noblest and best of the Athenians always considered the Spartan state nearly as an ideal theory realised in practice." Many Greek philosophers, especially Platonists, would often describe Sparta as an ideal state, strong, brave, and free from the corruptions of commerce and money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta

Sparta was one of the most important Greek city-states throughout the Archaic and Classical periods and was famous for its military prowess. The professional and well-trained Spartan hoplites with their distinctive red cloaks, long hair, and lambda-emblazoned shields were probably the best and most feared fighters in Greece, fighting with distinction at such key battles as Thermopylae and Plataea in the early 5th century BCE.
https://www.ancient.eu/sparta/

During the 5th century BC Sparta was very powerful. This was due to her army, which was feared by other Greeks. Sparta focused on producing good soldiers and all Spartan male citizens were part of the army. The Spartan army played an important role in the Greek victory over the Persians, in 480-479 BC.
http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/sparta/home_set.html

The Athenian view of Sparta oscillated between admiration and fear, according to whether their warlike neighbors were allies or enemies. Without Spartan participation in the war against Persia at the beginning of the fifth century B.C.— especially their heroic stand at the critical Battle of Thermopylae in 480—the Persians may well have conquered Greece.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2016/11-...
This is mostly a problem with GOP adherents. The people that actually control and are served by the party are too few to win elections on their own. They have constructed a rhetoric that is meant to appeal to rural working class voters for the sole purpose of winning elections. Hence the phony demonstrations of Christian faith and donning of the trucker cap. The genius is that their failure to execute on promised benefits for all is blamed on the other guys so there is a built in feedback cycle bringing more sheep to the flock every two years.
I don't understand why you think people value safety less than convenience. I think infrastructure that increases safety will encourage cycling.
Thanks - I'd only seem the health one at the top of their blog when I went earlier
That is one reason.

The other reason is that you'd be hard pressed to find a 3/5 or 2/3 support in parliament for amending the constitution so that the state is no longer indivisible.
My 16 mile commute is quickest on my ebike.

Car = 35-40 minutes on average, sometimes more.

eBike = 30-35 minutes consistently.

The reason - bikes can 'filter' up to a set of lights, whereas a car in heavy traffic might take 2 or 3 rotations of the light to make it through a junction.
Moving half of California into Seattle really doesn't sound like "winning out" to me ...
Regarding string, the breaking change was necessary because it was a double-duty type, sometimes acting as a byte-array and other times acting as a string. Meaning some of its functions, like string.length(), gave a value that only made sense for string-as-byte-array, but not as string-as-simple-list-of-characters. More detail on Stackoverflow if you want (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5471158/typeerror-str-do...). Anyhow the double-duty type needed to be disambiguated into two separate types, a breaking change.
Not quite. I Norway you log in and check the numbers. In UK you do literally nothing at all.
Read "trust me, I'm lying" by Ryan Holiday.
Yes, during construction, a combination of the recommendation of one of his most trusted collaborators, William Paine (also a civil war brother in arms of Washington Roebling), and the fact that the sponsors were contemplating running Pullman train cars across the bridge led to the unprecedented decision to go 100% steel.

As an aside, Washington Roebling's father was remembered as a great engineer, but he was also an incredibly abusive and cruel husband and father, leaving Washington with significant psychiatric sequelae that affected him throughout his life:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/books/review/erica-wagner...
According to the article, it did cover.
I have Ezoic on my site and make about $70/mo. Overall goal is to get rid of ads altogether, but before that I'm looking at MediaVine and/or AdThrive
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Absolutely. When I was biking in college, I could reliably beat my driving friends to any destination within a mile or so. Which, given that we all lived in the middle of a college town, covered most of the places we wanted to go.

I currently live about 1.5 miles from work, and I'd love to bike it, but this suburb has no bike lanes, sidewalks, or shoulders, and intersections that are terrifying even in a car. :(
Of course, we're talking about the Netherlands here... the country is mostly flat.

Sure, there are some places with hills, but the majority lives in the flatter-than-pancake flat part.

Where e-bikes can really shine, is increased speed. If you can do 40 an hour (km's), biking becomes a viable alternative to traffic jams. And that's happening already in NL.
Yup, that's fine. Those doctors have nowhere else to go, every other country has public healthcare, where their salaries are much less inflated. The over-payment of doctors in the US has caused huge healthcare brain drains in other developed countries. Attacking doctor salary is a huge step forward.
You could use this argument for the South (US) in 1800s
I don't know much about sunshades, but it looks like the wikipedia article assumes the sunshade would block/filter light across the entire planet.
Couldn't we have a significant effect by blocking a small percentage of light during the summer months toward the poles?

If we can keep the poles cooler, we could increase the ice cap, reduce melt, and affect only a small number of living creatures.

My initial searches have turned up nothing related to this, and I'm a total novice, so just asking the question.
How is being dependent on fuel/motorised transport more independent than being able to transport yourself using your own body?
(Note also not familiar with the author)

I think that I mostly agree with the theme of your post. An important thing to keep in mind is that physics is inherently an experimental science, so the critique of formulating untestable theories is valid. I have heard that cosmology is particularly bad about this, however I am not in that field...so who knows.
I'm not so convinced about using phages anymore, at least not on the same large scale that antibiotics are used (which is an economical necessity).
Bacteria co-evolve with phages, especially using CRISPR (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1662-9) and can adapt much faster to a given phage strain than to antibiotics.
Just to add a law of nature:

The carbon based system can drive metal based systems, but no the other way around.

So you will never be able to make food/nuclear/mining with electricity, only dead trees can make both metal and organic stuff.

This means nuclear is completely retarded.
It feels from the outside, academic research is performed by an individual or small group that culminates into a paper at the end. When attacking large problems in physics or biology this seems short sighted. A potentially better way would be to attack the problem in an organized manner with teams researching various aspects of the problem and building off of each other. Remove the whole 'paper writing/journal article' from the equation and just keep moving forward. Does this exist? Are teams of researchers coordinated from a high level and moving through problem spaces with clear direction? Or is everyone working on their small piece, trying to get their bit of credit?
I recently made the leap to bing. Been on a combination of FF and TOR Browser for the last two years. I'm pretty much done with Google.

I think the breaking point for me was when I would visit non-google sites and get a pop-up asking if I wanted to use my google account by name to login. Probably a weird point to get stuck on, but that was mine.
Bulma is great. It just works! I’ve been using it for about three years :-)
Seems rather centralized to me, both from computing resource perspective - and those who were given founders stock / coins.
Let's take it the other way around and assume it was a murder.

> would he not arrange so it would be sent out in case of his death?

Not being able to do that while in high-security confinment.

> And what stops the victims of naming names now?

Not wanting to die.

> what would have stopped Epstein of just not talking and just denying?

The only way to be sure he would not talk is to definitely prevent him from talking.

Now I'm not saying the murder hypothesis is the correct one, but it still holds water IMHO.
Moving west and building up happened at the same time, and western city centers are just as dense as eastern ones.

The rarification of US cities happened in the 1940s and 1950s, when entire neighborhoods were bulldozed to make room for highways and parking lots that idealistic modernists and self-serving auto lobbyists believed were the future.
GR and QM are incompatible.

https://www.askamathematician.com/2009/12/q-howwhy-are-quant...
Unfortunately that's not as easy, because python is a dynamic language, and allows you to do some shenanigans.

For example in python 3 they actually made import statements more predictable they are now absolute by default, it was a bit ambiguous in python 2. Ignoring the ambiguity (which is a problem by itself) some people were creative and instead doing standard imports like god intended decided to do it dynamically using importlib, that can't be easily fixed if the file you're importing is a variable.

Another problem: unicode, actually most python 2 code is broken and it can crap out whenever you use characters outside of ascii. That's because it conflates bytes with text, python 3 makes the distinction strict, so you have to properly address it. Though for 99% of application user meant text, so perhaps this assumption could be made?

- division, in python 2 division worked similar to C, if both the parameters were integers you get integer as a result, python 3 changed it to be more what most people would expect, although python 3 also introduced // which had the prior behavior so I guess this could be automated

There are probably others too.
It is part of core Ruby. https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.6.5/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/H...

People develop other HTTP packages usually for ergonomic reasons, but the HTTP from core Ruby works fine.
Or you just do what every airport outside of America does and have a high speed rail service to the centre of town. 20 minutes woo get you 30-50km away.
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I currently have a Mavic Pro, and I don't plan to replace it until a Skydio, or something with equivalent AI and automation is available.

My dream for my Mavic was capturing new angles of family activities. However, the truth is that the effort required to capture those activities with a Mavic ruins the enjoyment of many of them.

Say I wanted to get video of my kids biking. I've got to make sure the drone is charged, have my kids wait around on the trail while I launch it, and then compose the shot and stand there looking at my phone, worrying about running into stuff while they bike.

The Skydio's pathfinding and sensors take a good chunk of that hassle away. I could theoretically hand the beacon to one of them, and say, "Ok, great, go ride." And for 20-minutes, the drone would do all the work of getting video, while I rode with my kids.

Assuming real-world reviews of the Skydio 2 come back positive, I think that'll be my Mavic's replacement.
I understand what you’re saying but “in much of America” really means California and maybe Seattle. There a lot of comments on HN about a national housing crisis but the South, North East, and Midwest don’t have the same problems.
Don't forget unfork()! https://github.com/whitequark/unfork
The reason candidates feel a need to propose anything related to health care is that the costs are too high. Anybody expecting lower costs without cutting, you know, costs isn't engaging reality.

So yes, any serious proposal to address the cost of health care in America will include cuts to the costs of health care in America, which includes hospitals, doctors, and so on. This seems blindingly obvious.

The linked blog post seems to want the current system to be preserved as-is, with no cuts to anything. Which is a viewpoint, but not a very popular one.
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The most frustrating part is how blatant and in-your-face the excuses have been and how many media outlets just seem to accept what they're told and run with it without question.

Just look at the responses we've been given to various questions (paraphrased, of course):

Q: "How could he have committed suicide, wasn't he on suicide watch?"

A: "Oh, well he was taken off suicide watch shortly before he committed suicide"

Q: "Didn't he have a cellmate though? Why didn't his cellmate do anything?"

A: "Oh, his cellmate was moved to a different location shortly before he committed suicide"

Q: "Well what about the guards, weren't they supposed to be checking up on him every 30 minutes?"

A: "Yeah, turns out they both fell asleep - sorry, we know how important a criminal Esptein was, but our guards were simply overworked"

Q: "What about the cameras? Wasn't there a camera inside his cell?"

A: "Yes, but unfortunately it malfunctioned"

Q: "Well what about the camera surveying the outside of his cell?"

A: "Oh...well...we've reviewed the footage on that one and unfortunately it's, erm, unusable"

Q: "Wasn't the room supposed to be 'suicide-proof'?"

A: "Uhh...it was but we overlooked the surprising tensile strength properties of the paper-thin bedsheets...our bad".

Q: "Well how about some photos of the body? Can we see them?"

A: "Sorry, he's been cremated and buried at his brother's request and we can't release any photos at this time"

And of course, nothing (that we know of) has happened to all the many people associated and possibly complicit with Epstein. The paparazzi is following Ghislaine Maxwell around burger joints while Bill Barr's justice department files lawsuits to prevent Edward Snowden from making a profit from his book sales.

It is legitimately more difficult to accept all of these circumstances than it is to believe it was covered-up, bought-and-paid-for hitjob. I truly do think Occam's Razor would dictate it is more likely that this is the case. Though, it is important to note, we do not yet have the evidence to say this is the case definitively.
> I'll open it in my regular editor, which will provide at most syntax highlight, and edit it as needed with a bit of swearing.

That sounds like a very passive-aggressive way to deal with a problem. Do you do the same thing when writing programs?
You mean the big cargo bikes with the huge basket up front? I can't imagine those being too popular in SF.
The same is certainly true in Portland, especially if your origin and destination are on or near greenways. At rush hour, a trip from, say, 52nd to the river will take forever in a car accounting for traffic and parking, but is like 10 mins on a bike.
Following is the c-programming example which explains how fork system call works.

shashi@linuxtechi ~}$ vim 1_fork.c
#include<stdio.h>
#include<unistd.h>
Int main(void)
{
printf("Before fork\n");
fork();
printf("after fork\n");
}
shashi@linuxtechi ~}$
shashi@linuxtechi ~}$ cc 1_fork.c
shashi@linuxtechi ~}$ ./a.out
Before fork
After fork
shashi@linuxtechi ~}$

How exactly is that demonstrating how fork() works? The article is completely missing any explanation - like why 'After fork' was only printed once and not twice as would be initially expected (It's unclear to me: while stdio buffering can cause strangeness if you don't flush buffers before a fork(), surely in this case both processes will exit cleanly and should flush their post-fork outputs?)
Certainly seems like the previous suicide attempt was really a failed hit.
Humans are running on hubris ever since we invented fire and other ways to manipulate environment. It is simply a question of scale.

Intentional projects would be an improvement over current state of unintentional changes.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21397274. TLDR; CodeFund sounds interesting. There's also AdThrive, MediaVine, Media.net
When two Saudi teenagers were found bound together in the Hudson had their deaths ruled a suicide, my confidence in the integrity NYC coroners office died.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-saudi-sisters-found-dead-i...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/03/us/saudi-sisters-hudson-river...
Yes, I remember hearing that they had to convince the public it was safe by having elephants cross it first.

I looked it up, and it turns out that there was an elephant march, but it was delayed until long after the (for-humans) opening, but still was a big spectacle:

https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2011/12/22/the-elepha...
"America" doesn't legally require houses to have yards. People have voted for laws locally in some municipalities that require yards, or minimum parcel sizes, or other standards, in order to preserve their neighbor character/culture/quality of life/environment.

In my opinion, those constituents have a right to do that (localized decision-making). I see a lot of comments on HN that deride arguments made for neighborhood character or quality of life, but it is a very real thing that is important to lots of people. Not everyone wants to live in a dense city. Most of the consternation against the less-dense areas are from people who want to live in those areas because they are attractive, but they also then demand it change to accommodate them on dimensions like zoning, which I don't think is fair.
I'm in Boston and even here my bike gets me places faster than my car, at least between 8-10am and 4-7pm. Traffic is such a killer to car speed.

Right now at 3pm, Google Maps tells me that my 6-mile commute home by car would be 32-39 minutes. By bike it's 39-41 minutes for a 7-mile ride. During rush hour, the bike really wins.

What makes biking uncomfortable here is that you really have to be alert. A lot of roads don't have good space for bikes and cars can be really aggressive, even if they're just racing toward the next light.

Cars just don't move through cities fast when there's traffic. Plus, parking here is just a nightmare.