skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading your 1st sentence made me think "But that's engineering, it's application. Basic science is getting knowledge just for the sake of it."

And you basically followed with it. Basic science is the foundation engineering builds on. I believe 1st semiconductors were a science experiment. Em waves were. Gigantomagnetoresistance was. The internet was an academic curiosity.

It think it's important to blow some of human work on the free thinkers. It moves the popluation forward. Any other comparable scientific and engineering progress I can think was fueled by war.

Imho allocating resources only for acute goals lead to local technological optima. Seemingly puporseless research helps to break out.
Manhattan is unique in having everyone at a trivial walk from their nearest subway stop. Most people are going to need a 1-5 mile trip to their train station. Very good local bus service might be on par with walking (after factoring in average wait time), but not even close to competitive with cycling.
Unless you're doing a biking marathon, the only equipment you really need are a bike lock and helmet. Even the bike lock can be dispensed with if you have another means of securing your bike.

Special clothes are entirely unnecessary unless you're racing.
7 months of "woke" leftist opinion hit pieces from medium, including this one. Pretty clear what your objective is and why, Neither have anything to do with HN topics of interest.
This comparison is apples to oranges. Intra-EU immigration is mostly high-skilled labor, and the outside low-skilled migration situation is different from America's. In America, most illegal immigrants work in huge numbers in the service and agricultural industries. In Europe, the most comparable group of people being migrants from Africa and the Middle East, are overwhelmingly unemployed. There's less of a supply shock to labor, but certainly very large costs to the state and its healthcare programs. Many European healthcare systems are more strained than ever.
This was already stated well before this article by multiples pathologists. While most agreed that they are rare...the rarity decreases with the age of the person.
The first graph has a peak at 2010 and is much lower in 2011. I found a post (https://www.bike-eu.com/sales-trends/artikel/2012/04/netherl...) which says the weather was particularly bad in 2011.

Statista's graph (https://www.statista.com/statistics/620169/average-biking-di...) doesn't show any dip from 2010 to 2011 at all though.

The sources for these graphs are all in Dutch so it's hard to say where the discrepancy lies.
Thanks for the insightful contribution to the conversation
Even free users. It's the corporate email domain.
Public mail is exemple@gmail.com
Fujitsu bought most of the remains of Amdahl. I don't think much of the Amdahl mainframe business is left. I haven't heard of anyone running an Amdahl system in years, they'd be ancient by now and never supported 64-bit.

Amdahl UTS however ended up being supported by another company "UTS Global" (not sure exactly what their relationship with Fujitsu was, possibly Fujitsu may have kept the underlying IP and UTS Global just sub-licensed it.) It appears UTS Global has gone out of business some years back. I think their main customer were certain US telephone companies using certain legacy apps maintained by Telcordia; I think once those companies migrated off those apps their business was gone and they just disappeared.

Fujitsu's mainframe business is still going. Their Japanese mainframe business (which pre-existed the Amdahl purchase) is still alive (although I don't think it is sold outside Japan any more, back in the 80s thru 90s Fujitsu's FACOM mainframes were common in Australia but I'd be surprised if any remain here). In Europe, they own non-IBM-compatible[1] mainframe lines – they bought ICL whose mainframes are still used by UK government, and they bought Siemens' BS2000 mainframe business which is still used in some European countries (especially Germany).

No idea what Fujitsu's attitude to hobbyist use is. I've never heard anything positive about it. (On the other hand, unlike IBM, I've never heard anything negative about it either.)

[1] To be strictly correct, BS2000 is partially IBM compatible – the original instruction set is based on S/360 but not 100% compatible with it; that original instruction set ended up being emulated on SPARC and later x86; the OS is very different from any IBM operating system.
Given an everyday woman self diagnosed cancer from a simple infra red camera at a fun fair, we really need to smash the medical monopoly apart.

It's an archaic club for exclusive members that's killing us.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/health/thermal-imaging-breast...
What is your favorite historical Czech movie? Which one do you think was the best executed?
What about a ground effect Starship :)
You can be sneaky sure, but that what background checks are for - to see if you are a trustworthy individual.
> What was the point of building all that infrastructure if you built it so poorly it keeps killing people?

The decision makers may not have fully understood the danger when they built it, or they did and judged that someone else would end up taking the blame and cleaning up the mess.
It's a very tough question and not one that's ever really answered formally. The US Constitution has a vague definition but the line has been redrawn and erased so many times.
That pristine suburban lawn isn't C02 negative.
Should we tell him that Russia has been outpacing us in launches per year for pretty much the entire existence of space travel?

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Number-of-launches-per-y...
You should be able to walk 4.5 miles in 45 minutes.
> I think a language should help keeping the code consistent in the long term - and having this strange case insensitivity doesn't help there in my opinion.

Not at all. Style insensitivity encourages good variable naming and there are both formatters and also the simple text completion in editors to guarantee consistency.
> They do not think about which hypotheses are promising because their education has not taught them to do so. Such self-reflection would require knowledge of the philosophy and sociology of science, and those are subjects physicists merely make dismissive jokes about.

Accusing working scientists of being insufficiently reflective on any topic, let alone themselves or the field they work in, seems without merit on its face, and frankly so bizarre as to be silly or even dim-witted. Further, the assertion that only the humanities will save science, or indeed the accusation that scientists are ignorant of the history of science, is a weighty charge that I see no reason to even consider believing.

> They believe they are too intelligent to have to think about what they are doing.

Come on.
So why not a sidewalk connecting them?
I liked that era too, and I agree that mobile-unfriendliness is most of what killed it.

I do also think that the incentive of a designer is not to create those kinds of designs. Familiarity is often more usable, but if your designs are familiar, why hire you at all? Why not just copy a competitor?
Trump Thanks GM, Fiat Chrysler and Toyota on California Emissions Fight
Fiat Chrysler Agrees to Merger with PSA Groupe
I assumed before reading the piece that the entire point was that miles traveled by bike were low on a per person basis.

The point of the title is PR. It's an attempt to rebut the assumption that this is hard, so fat, out of shape Americans have no hope of aspiring to create a bicycle culture like the vaunted Dutch, who must all be super athletic as one of their many godlike virtues.

There's nothing all that special about the Dutch people. They aren't all Olympic athletes. They aren't all brainwashed hyper virtuous types making hyper virtuous choices at enormous personal expense and suffering.

They just have a built environment that helps make it easy for little old grandmas to take their bike somewhere.

If you want to argue that it's a bad title for HN, sure. I totally agree.

But the title wasn't written for HN and it's a perfectly fine title for it's intended purpose for most audiences.
Angular in the JAMstack
I live in Baltimore and for many of the trips in my daily life a bike is faster than a car because I don't get stuck in traffic and I don't have to look for parking, but biking has other disadvantages. Most seriously, the safety of biking is highly questionable, since there are very few bike lanes, so you end up weaving among cars that do not give one crap about your safety. In addition, since Baltimore is harbor town, there's a pretty good slope and going up hill is no fun. That said, I see a fair number of rent-a-scooters every day. It seems like they could become popular enough to force the creation of more protected lanes.
I think the inherent constraint that exists in the poem structure can lead to the stimulation of your creativity, breaking down that "i´m stuck" feeling. i love to write Haikus (even if I suck at it) because that constraint is even more tight. i feel more relaxed and creative after several minutes of strugling to come with a decent haiku that fits the syllable count than after a session of free writing.
Well yes but also they forgot about gmail. It requires @google.com not @gmail.com
For those like me who are unfamiliar with the word `pedelec` : "electric bicycle where the rider's pedalling is assisted by a small electric motor"
The eye of my mind saw a pick made knitted out of wool, which was even funnier.
Cleverness at the expense of clarity is pretty much the essence of clickbait.
Just because the work has not yet produced experiments that can validate them do not mean they are not progress.

The argument I've seen expressed about this, is that these advances should more properly be considered advances in mathematics not physics. Or to put it another way "the math works, but we have no idea if it applies to the real world or not."

It's a question for the episemologists, I suppose, whether or not we should consider an advance "real new knowledge" if there's no experimental validation.
Sure but doesn't address the article mentions of vfork, wait, waitpid, kill, etc. Or other unmentioned stuff, like variations of kill/killpid().
Show HN: Pixle.cc
I was briefly involved in Single Molecule Biophysics, where microscopes push the limits of what you can do with visible light in order to understand protein behaviour, where I heard the often repeated warning: "the microscope is an experiment itself".
This was born out of the incredibly fancy and poorly understood microscope, which was experimental, and it was no guarantee that you were measuring the protein and not some weird light physics effect!
The South has the same problems on a smaller scale. For example housing prices in metro Atlanta are rising way faster than inflation.
FreePascal is language/compiler and Lazarus is an IDE. Lazarus IDE runs on all major platforms and produces native code. Suitable for anything starting from system code and up to complex GUI apps.
Thanks for an amazing TSConf 2019!
That used to be my pet hate on trips to the US - it definitely felt like active discouragement - finding the pavement would just stop with no warning, or being able to see and almost touch the place I wanted to get to next block or lot, but getting there was a major hike. All that lovely California sun, why on earth would I want to be in the rental car for only a mile or two? :)

Cul-de-sacs are fairly popular in current UK estate designs, but usually - not always - include footpaths to link the obvious places. Mostly goes with shopping areas too - if you have walked, you can usually shortcut most of the road routing. That said, UK cycle friendly is mostly tokenism - a few efforts, a few half hearted painted lanes, but it's inconsistent. Pedestrian friendliness is usually pretty good.
I am shocked as well how many people in this thread seem to argue that this was not murder. It is ridiculously obvious. Occams razor cleanly shaves off the option that this was in fact a very convenient suicide
It seems you're right, but he had tried to run over a cop, according to their affidavit: https://www.greenwoodvillage.com/DocumentCenter/View/13916/A...
That still doesn't give you a 3 mile daily average. You have to discount weekends, holidays and bad weather days.

You also cannot compare average biking distance for a whole population with the average biking distance of the biking subset of another population. That is like comparing life expectancy of musical conductors with the life expectancy of the general population.

> I guess at worst you can say it's a click-baity title

That is being extremely generous.
This will probably get downvoted, but this kind of thing is why companies avoid the GPL. There will be people inside the company saying they would not be having these issues if they'd have used a BSD based OS (like Sony, Apple, etc) or a completely closed source OS.
http://spacenews.com/blue-origin-on-track-for-human-suborbit...

I'm not sure they have quite the history you're implying.
It seems like the gun was present for but not used during (even to threaten) the crime, which doesn't change the fact that he was armed while shoplifting or that he was probably a dangerous dude to be around, but does make it a bit different from a guy waving a gun around in a store while robbing it.

I mean, does getting away with one belt and one shirt sound like something someone drew a gun to do? That's some comically bad armed robbery if so.
Because managing battery life is pretty much the biggest challenge. Hotrodding will kill the batteries faster.
"Mondegreen" is a word I've needed but didn't know existed. Thanks for sharing.

All intensive purposes.
Get down to brass tax. There's a lot of these that I've uttered or heard and they last a long time because they sound kind of sensible.
I can't wait to actually use all of these samples in Renoise.
Funny that you mentioned it, because there's such tool and one of it orginates from Dropbox - PyAnnotate[1]
There's also MonekyType[2] from instagram, but it only works on Python 3. I will also drop PyType[3] from Google, although this one tries to statically determine the types and when I used it felt a bit buggy.

[1] https://github.com/dropbox/pyannotate
[2] https://github.com/instagram/MonkeyType
[3] https://github.com/google/pytype
For many people that have followed fundamental physics it has become more and apparent that string theory, with its variations, is a dead end.

The problem isn’t that no ones has managed to experimentally validate the theory. The problem is that string theory has failed to even make predictions that even in theory could be experimentally tested.

Edit: since I’m getting downvoted, is there anything factually wrong with what I have written?
I feel the nostalgia kicks in. I found many of my old samples and mods here, many forgotten. And had no idea that the samples was used by so many. Guess floppy swapping was more efficient than it appeared to be :)
One of the things some of us learn with experience is that “clever code only the author can understand” is often a lie, too. I may be able to figure it out on the fly but code I haven’t touched in six months is less familiar than other people’s code that I touched a month ago.

When I leave hints in the code it’s enlightened self interest. It’s often as much for my own benefit as for others.
Pixle.cc is a free image/audio/video converter which converts JPG/PNG/GIF/WEBP and some Audio/Video files.
> This seems to discount the explosion of work in the foundations of theoretical physics. Most notably the many variations of String Theory.

Hossenfelder is well aware of string theory, as she says right in the article:

"All these wrong predictions should have taught physicists that just because they can write down equations for something does not mean this math is a scientifically promising hypothesis. String theory, supersymmetry, multiverses. There’s math for it, alright. Pretty math, even. But that doesn’t mean this math describes reality."

> Just because the work has not yet produced experiments that can validate them do not mean they are not progress.

But it's not just that string theory hasn't yet produced experiments that can validate it. It's that (a) direct experiments to validate it are something like twenty orders of magnitude away in terms of energy scale, so not doable now or for the foreseeable future, and (b) every prediction it's made so far that can be tested at energy scales we can probe (such as the prediction that supersymmetry would show up at the LHC) has been wrong.
Clone is a great system call, it allows the programmer to specify which resources are shared with the new task. The problem with clone is the C standard library maintains global and thread-local state. For example, using clone is not supported by glibc:

> If you use clone() you're on your own.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10311

Sometimes it feels like the standard library is holding C back. I wonder how many great Linux-specific features go unused because of it.
Yes, that's what I'm suggesting. I know a big python2 codebase (SageMath) that has been "close" to python3 adaption for several times within the last 5 years but had to call it off every time because something came in the way. By the time the next serious attempt was started, lots of the changes had rotten. Anything that could be done incrementally (python 2.7.5, from-future imports, prints with parentheses) has been done long ago.
People react to what they wish the law was, rather than what it is.
> seems to me like [...] minutiae

Or alternately, perhaps it's like students struggling with high-school stoichiometry, with atom conservation, because they've managed to remain unclear on the simple core concept that atoms are real objects, are real, physical, little balls.

> think they would be corrected organically

Yeah, that's a widespread impression. That say high-school misconceptions will disappear as students become undergraduate majors, and then graduate students. It's not been well studied, at least the last time I checked. But at a minimum, there are notable exceptions. If your 5-year old wants to know which finger-paint color to use for the Sun, asking a first-tier astronomy graduate student is likely to get them the wrong answer. Misconceptions turn out to be highly resilient. Which is why creating and reinforcing them is not something to do lightly.
> motoring community has seized most of our streets for car storage

Streets are supposedly built from the taxes the car owner pay. How much taxes do bikers pay ?
In Baltimore, bikes routinely will pass cars driving inside the city because cars stop at all lights (well, they should anyway), get stuck in traffic, and have to circle for parking. That said, it feels unsafe and the number of bikes is still low.
I believe most of the major (and some of the minor) newspapers offer a SecureDrop instance to transfer confidential information.

So I would send the entirety of the information to every newsroom that could receive it, then pray that I: A) was not the only initial recipient of the Epstein drop and B) that the information I received doesn't contain any content that could be uniquely identified to me.

Afterwards I would sit down and have a long think about how my life got to the point where Epstein is communicating with me personally.
The argument of "I can secede from my home" is reductionist, simplistic and overall insulting to any group of people that want independence from the country they depend on or have fought for independence in the past.

Most countries today are independent even though it was illegal for them to become independent before they did. Poland or Estonia would still be part of the Russian empire. Austria and Hungary the same country, same with Czech Republic and Slovakia would still be Czechoslovakia. Malta and Cyprus would be part of the UK. And this is just a quick look to Europe of the 20th century.

We can go back and argue that the US couldn't/shouldn't be independent of the UK. And Cuba part of Spain. The question remains the same: why do people, outside of a territory, control the political status of this territory, going against international law?

"Article 1
1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."

What Spain is saying, and some Spanish people justifying, is that Catalonia doesn't have that right, and Catalans should never freely determine their political status and pursue their economic, social and cultural development. Then reinforce that lack of freedom with charges of sedition if you try and charges of terrorism if you protest.
ah, yes! point taken.
That’s the plot twist in the article, it’s just creative writing and sets the tone for the argument that comes next.

It only disappoints people who expect to gain knowlege by skimming over headlines.
Although I am only in physics by degree and not by practice, I think this is "physics as expected."

Old measurements do not change. Over bog standard Newtonian physics, special relativity provides additional decimals in the form of significant figures and mostly in particular circumstances. For plotting the trajectory of a large rock at comparably low speeds, Newton's equations work rather well on Earth, once you take air resistance into account. Even if another theory supplants special relativity for the extreme situations, old ballistic tables will still work.

Each advance will have smaller and smaller corrections to the experimental values, in narrower edge cases, even if the mathematics of the newer theory looks completely different. This in turn means that discarding an old theory in favor of a new one by experimental confirmation of what was unexpected in the old system must only come either in the more extreme values (more Telsa to a magnetic field, for example) or with greater precision and accuracy via more elaborate and finely-calibrated equipment. Both are expensive, requiring more time and more work.

I believe she is right in that we are certainly on course for some very time-consuming and expensive science. However, I do not see an easy way out of it, nor should we, I believe, expect one. Flip open a CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics; many of the basic values have been long-known. We have added a few more numbers to the right of the decimal in many cases, but that is it. Two hundred years ago, a single person with a modest budget could discover new physics and chemistry. A hundred years ago, a handful of collaborators with some backing could advance these most basic of sciences. By only fifty years back, we are looking at budgets in the millions and teams of scientists working in harness.

It may simply be out of reach to disassemble a galaxy to build a collider large enough to test some theories and at that juncture, one might well consider physics "close enough to done." A mote of dust is always going to fall on some surface no matter how often you polish and buff. At some point you have to stop fussing and enjoy your furniture.

Yes, it is handy to look for the cases where we can find a way to test our hypotheses for under a million dollars, in no more than a few years. We will run out of those, too.

This is "unsexy" to many. The ratcheting noose of entropy in a closed system, which we can only try to run away from at pedestrian sub-light speeds is, bluntly put, a drag.
I think it's more that a lot of the American mythos and our story about ourselves is centered around a combination of individualism and meritocracy, but in a backwards sense where success is kind of assumed to be a sign of merit be it skill, luck, or pluck. That twists the idea of fairness by removing all the collective work and often government work that went into enabling any given business to succeed and thrive.
With EV’s you can also light your battery on fire with incorrect software mods.
A good thing about their being on top is that they allow for a smaller laptop form-factor. Of course, back then that was probably not the intention.