skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If what was "unethical" was inscribed on stone tablets by God, then that would be a decent position. But I don't want companies deciding for themselves what is unethical; they are not unbiased actors and are incentivized to define "ethical" as whatever makes them the most profit. Do you want companies deciding for themselves that labor/environmental/financial regulations are unethical?
If Tesla does not abide by the terms of the copyright license governing the code they have chosen to use, they are in breach of that license and can be sued for damages for every instance of copyright violation--i.e., for every car sold--and can also be barred from using that code without a license going forward, meaning that they would be barred from selling cars until they either license the code or reprogram every car using the unlicensed code.
Fifty Years Ago – the first packet flowed
Nice service! Neat and quick way to get things to and from my S3 bucket
Even in those parts of the US where we live at similar or higher density versus the Netherlands, biking is far less common because the motoring community has seized most of our streets for car storage, crowding out the kind of bike infrastructure that's required for most people to feel comfortable cycling short trips.

(Banning cars would also be a solution, as 'bike infrastructure' is really infrastructure to protect bikes from cars, but it's not necessary when there's large amounts of street space that could be repurposed from car storage)

US rail stations also generally have less, and less secure, bike parking versus equivalent stations in the Netherlands, reducing their catchment areas to a mile-wide 'walkshed' rather than a few-mile-wide 'bikeshed'.
> You still do it within the context of existing laws.

Existing laws may be undemocratic and unjust. If your bar for secession is legality, I will have to point out that the United States should still be part of the British Empire (The revolution was illegal), Hong Kong should pipe down, and stop protesting (They are bound by CPC laws, which have ruled the protests illegal), and most of Africa should still be governed from London and Paris (Most of it did not leave in the context of existing laws.)

> what would be the limit to what you can justify

There really isn't one, but six people seceeding their house is not going to be a minimally viable country for very obvious reasons. When you secede, you lose a lot of benefits, including economic, military, etc, protection from neighboring states.
It sounds like a good idea. Utilities are natural monopolies, and government is better at factoring in the societal cost of externalities than private owners are (who, at a minimum, may be inclined to gamble for more profit with the costs of legal liability given their limited liability).
The argument that it is simply too dangerous to provide electricity when it is hot and windy is just so bizarre. What was the point of building all that infrastructure if you built it so poorly it keeps killing people?
I remember learning about and being fascinated by Sparta after learning about it in a history class, long before 300 was made.

There's more to it than your snarky analysis would suggest.
Maybe they used Amazon's Mechanical Turd offering!
The Eads bridge[1] is also an example of a very early (opened in 1874) use of steel. I don't know about how over engineered it is, but it is still used for automobile and light rail today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eads_Bridge
Your last sentence is incorrect. Police should not be dealing out punishment. Police are not allowed to assign guilt or innocence. That falls under the courts.
I hear you and feel the same way. I am also a drone enthusiast. I dread flying within earshot of anyone.
Unfortunately, most people spend the first 18 years of their life learning not-so-useful things, at least in the US. They might go on to college, spend lots of money, and waste several more years learning not-so-useful things.

Then they work retail jobs for little money. It's their own doing.
A jailbreak is definitely available for Teslas. The people who can do it are hard to find though.
I think it's pretty obviously wrong to say that a language is unpopular (for a task) because it isn't good (at that task). Otherwise no one would be using java, javascript, or c++; and lisp and haskell would be a lot better used.

OSes aren't written in lisp because lisp isn't terribly popular, and subset of lisp programmers who are interested in OSes is pretty small--this is a much more interesting factor to look at than subset of OS programmers who are interested in lisp.
dog goes bark

cat goes meow

neighbor isn’t happy

always raising eyebrow
They are saying that if he were about to testify against John Gotti no one in this thread would doubt that it was a hit.
I used Fish for years and eventually switched back to Bash and then to Zsh because I couldn't really deal with all the differences in the two, and the lack of customization in Fish. I'm interested in giving it another shot, but I'd really like to know what you like about it in the first place.
I'd consider it walking distance. Unless I was planning on carrying enough stuff to warrant the use of a bike trailer, I wouldn't bother getting my bike out for a trip that short.
any sources on that?
All the players involved kind of add a cover for any nefarious actors. There's so many people involved and so many people that would have motivation to order a hitjob that trying to determine who would be behind such a thing would be at best a wild guessing-game.
Pretty sure that the engineers involved in the project were all working for top tier firms in their respective domains. How is your comment at all relevant?
Northern Sweden is interesting because there's a ton of space, but really nothing outside of the cities. I've just finished up a job in Luleå and effectively everyone seems to live either in the city or in suburbs that are about 10 minutes drive away.

If you gave that sort of space over to the Americans you'd have little towns _everywhere_.
That's not what due process is.
They mention it one time on that page. It's a government owned company[0], one of the largest in Finland by revenue but not particularly large. Tried finding the oil refining revenue in Finland but seems miniscule enough to not be easily searchable, and going from a quarterly report this spring most of their profit generating operations are outside of Finland. [1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neste

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-neste-results/renewables-...
I think he means the Dutch bike style that encloses the chain and single-speed drivetrain inside a case. Great for durability and enduring harsh weather, bad for hills where you need gearing.
I agree, 2.5km is great considering not everyone needs a bike to commute without a car, not everyone rides every day, only able bodied people can ride, and not all people who do ride have far to go.
Interesting how Oswald was murdered. And then the murderer conveniently died of cancer soon after. Also interesting how that plot has been made out to be this big mystery with every which way being considered, except for an internal job. The patterns are getting pretty clear now
Ask HN: Have You Upgraded to macOS Catalina Yet?
Have you noticed any bugs, or features that weren't on the Apple announcement page?
Is anyone using Digital Ocean's managed Kubernetes service?
Taxes are unjust, let's try not paying taxes and see how it goes.
Still the titles conveys quite a different idea. I don't think anybody confused dutch biking with hard mountain bikers.
Man I am incredibly curious what your bounds are for “great poetry”
Coined, no; the term dates back to at least 1870 in a non-political context,[0] and I believe there's a documented use in a political context by 1890. Spread, yes, especially in via the document "Countering Criticisms of the Warren Report"[1] which used the term "conspiracy theory" and "conspiracy theorist" whilst instructing agents "To employ propaganda assets to [negate] and refute the attacks of the critics" (though that document did not directly instruct agents to use the term).

[0]: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VsRMAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22consp...

[1]: http://www.jfklancer.com/CIA.html
Sure. You could even do a STUXNET type attack where the pathogen is highly transmissible and perfectly benign to everyone but your target. Release it in a train station in Budapest and wait.
Once you have that lifting capacity, Orion drives are probably a bad idea.

Orion drives are great if you just consider performance, but not cost. It gets it's great ISP and thrust at the cost of being very inefficient in it's use of fissiles. If you can lift propellant into orbit at the cost SpaceX is projecting, for any in-system work it is more economical to use much less flashy nuclear thermal rockets with much worse ISP, because the propellant is cheaper than the fissiles.
string.length() still doesn't make sense in Python 3

There's nothing "simple" about "list of characters" in Unicode.
Discussed at length at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18154667

Here's how a Unicode export with 20 years of experience in Unicode explained it:
https://blog.golang.org/strings

> Some people think Go strings are always UTF-8, but they are not: only string literals are UTF-8. As we showed in the previous section, string values can contain arbitrary bytes; as we showed in this one, string literals always contain UTF-8 text as long as they have no byte-level escapes.

> In fact, the definition of "character" is ambiguous and it would be a mistake to try to resolve the ambiguity by defining that strings are made of characters.

> [Exercise: Put an invalid UTF-8 byte sequence into the string. (How?) What happens to the iterations of the loop?]

If you aren't in Unicode, then "character" is the same as "byte" so splitting the types gets you nothing of vlaue.

Assuming you are not implementing a low-level Unicode library, what's your use case for "list of Unicode characters" ?
The thing is - I have more than one finger on each hand.
It should print `after fork` two times, they just wrote it wrong. They clearly wrote the whole thing manually, since they used `vim` and not `cat` to display the contents of the file, and they show it printing `After fork` and not `after fork`. I think they just forgot to put the line twice. The fact that they have `Int` and not `int` means their example doesn't actually compile, so I don't think they tested this one.
Sadly I think #3 is true of many activists. Actual climate scientists are another matter; I've seen many of them advocate both geoengineering and nuclear power.
> There are immigrants in Europe. If you look at European countries individually there is massive immigration between them, as well as immigration from outside. And yet.

And yet in almost no country has the original population almost become a minority, unlike the US. So clearly the cumulative net immigration is greater in the US. And Bernie Sanders (someone who has certainly applied the "least amount of reflection" to this) seems to share the GPs view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0
DragonFly 5.6.2 Released
All poetry was written in the past.
There's also some weird, non-determinism in the beginning where the 'c' after a long chain of failed 'b's overwrites the previous 'a', which he is later unable to replicate. Not to mention preventing arrow-key navigation of the password field is the most annoying UI decision they could make. What an absolute mess.
Worked for me on Firefox. I'm not sure why.
I actually do think that to some extent, studying physics is studying the mind — specifically studying exactly how ‘reality’ differs from our intuition about it. A new discovery in physics is often also a discovery about psychology — for example — relativity exposed our intuition about time and space as incorrect.
There are languages and languages here, and your mileage will actually vary by orders of magnitude.

As people already pointed, code isn't inherently declarative or non-verbose. Some of the most popular languages for creating GUIs (Java, JS, C#) aren't either.

> It does not lend itself well to reuse

There isn't any inherent feature for code that will enable the kind of reuse you need when declaring a GUI either. You'll get it naturally in Lisp, you may be able to hack something in Haskell, and you can create a hacky DSP in in Python or Ruby, but if your GUI is in Java, CS, or JS you are out of luck.

> silly typos that won't be caught at compile time

That's a tooling issue. At Python, Ruby or JS you it is inherently more an issue than on XML, at Lisp it will vary with the actual idiom.

> At some point you will need to access your user interface from your application code

> You essentially have to learn two different sets of APIs

Well, that's bad design. There's nothing (except well, a lot of work) stopping a library from making the entire interface manipulation by actions made over XML. Granted, that is much easier and more natural in a DSL or in declarative reflexive code, so you do have a point, but it can be fixed by a lot of polishing over the worse fundamentals.
It's surprising because the number of bicycles in the Netherlands is easily larger than the number of citizens, and the country is famous for being bicycle crazy with really great infrastructure for cycling. Given that, 0.75-1.5 mile per day doesn't sound like a lot.

Of course the US cycles far less, but it's reputation is of being the most car centric country in the world.
Unfortunately, Xi's policies are highly NPD (narcissistic), so I don't have high hopes.
Regarding the music synchronization, OK, this is ancient stuff.

However, in terms of graphics, this strikes me as different from anything that was possible before the recent advances in GANs. During the era you're talking about, the art of shader-based music visualizers was being pushed by projects like Milkdrop 2, and nowadays a lot of similar research still happens on Shadertoy, and the demoscene, of course, hasn't stopped blowing people's minds.

But this is on another level entirely. It's as is the content and seemingly human concepts themselves are being smoothly animated.
> I think the Starship will become obsolete

yes, SpaceX will make it obsolete with Starship Ultra-Heavy, just as they are attempting to make Falcon 9/Heavy obsolete with Starship...
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I think wind would suffer because of less energy overall going into the system. I'm not an expert enough to know the answer.
True for me, and like many posters I'm also in the Bay area. Even though my commute is tiny (3 miles each way), the time it takes is a wash. By bike there's a trail I can take which is nonstop. By car the variance is much higher, depending on traffic, which stop signs are red, etc.

I suspect that the bike would win for my old commute (5x longer), where I'd hit congested highways every single day. Slow and steady beats stop and go.
Install Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi 4
On Firefox I just had to clear the *.wsj.com cookies and then refresh.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen this
Not to mention that the environmental impact of manufacturing them is substantially higher than that of manufacturing a bike.
My email is in my profile if you are inclined. I would be interested to know if you have come across ideas I have not. It's usually somewhere from nothing to useless on the advice scale. Then you have to not only deal with disappointment, but people's "offense" at their advice not working as well. I tend to cycle from waking with some desperate hope something will present itself...to becoming despondent and resigned to flip the switch by night, especially the days some new pain or problem presents, but try to get by thinking "just try one more day and hope"...but an artificial limit of days has recently been placed by others so even "one day at a time" indefinitely doesn't work. People can only take so much.
Same with me in Calgary, AB, a big, spread-out city by Canadian standards. My daily commute is ~5km each way and it takes 12-20 minutes depending on weather, type of bike and how energetic you're feeling. Visiting my family is 25km each way and takes about 60-70 minutes. Driving time would be 15-40 minutes for work (depending on time of day) and 30 minutes to family with no traffic. My takeaways:

* for shorter urban distances the bike is way faster almost all the time

* for longer suburban distances it marginally slower but not as much as you'd think

* The quality of the time on a bike is much greater up to ~20 minutes, then tapers off rapidly in poor conditions; even riding in the rain or cold snow is preferable to sitting in traffic if you're not out for too long.

* My trip is typically short enough that it takes longer to get ready to ride than to actually complete the ride

I ride a bike for very selfish reasons; the shared benefits are just a nice bonus.
> And I assume part of their argument was precisely that this was reasonable.

No, the homeowner said the destruction of his home was a Taking per the Fifth Amendment, like in a case of eminent domain. The court disagreed, and said the destruction was based on the powers the state has for enforcing the law. Reasonableness of the action didn't enter into it.
You aren't paranoid if your paranoias are true
> He unintentionally garrotted his sister in the middle of the night?

Yes, for a kid with autism it would have felt like "playing" without realizing the consequences of the "game" he was in.

Such a person can be mentally unable to think two steps upfront, or even to have real feelings about his actions.

> Then left a basement window open?

Everything what happened later could have been done by the parents in an effort to protect their son.

I personally wouldn't have released this documentary and believe that the family should be left alone, but have little doubt in its findings.
Does the car have any GPLv3 software or only GPLv2? The article mentions busybox and linux which are both GPLv2 only.
Or, plant some trees.
At this point I'm pretty sure 300 has created both the most obnoxious and uninformed fan boys, as well as these terrific circlejerks on how lame Sparta aCtUaLly was.

Somehow the circlejerk, with its rampant negativity, still seems to be the worse of the two.
Strava launches gorgeous new outdoor maps
The article doesn't say "only now".

It says "He has already put into motion the conversion of the Dropbox server code from Python 2 to Python 3. "

"already" refers to "sometime in the past 6 years".
That's a weak argument. One conspiracy theory was proven false so they must all be false? Does that apply to scientific studies, too?
> posix_spawn or clone which are much preferable and more extensible ways to launch processes.

My understanding is that `fork()` is a nice wrapper around `posix_spawn` and, in particular, `clone()`. And in some ways you're right: as an experienced developer I can really appreciate the extensibility of using `clone()` instead of `fork()`.

Unfortunately if I were to use `clone()` _ever_ then I would be immediately chastized by the architecture lead. He's not a C dude. I don't think he even understands the concept of programs sharing an address space (he's also anti-thread). All of it stems from "make programs simple" in an effort to minimize maintenance costs down the road. And in many ways he's right too. `clone()` is anything but simple despite being more extensible and `posix_spawn()` is just a more complex `fork()` in that regard.
Also on firefox, right click "open in new private window" worked... but I don't think it always does. Maybe something to do with my ip address?
Inside a Secret Soviet Metro
The article spends a lot of words talking about zoning and city structure without any mention of how remarkably flat the country.
> During rush hour, the bike really wins.

Also consider that you no longer have to take extra time to exercise, it's now built-in to your commute. At least the cardio side.
> this article blatantly misrepresents how science is done and how actual scientists think

Her factual statements, that every high-energy physics experiment since the 1970s has only confirmed an existing theory (the Standard Model) and that every prediction made by physicists about possible extensions to that existing theory has turned out to be wrong, are correct.

If you think that the underlying cause for these facts is not what she says, what do you think it is?
I remember 2014 being a year full of these incredible claims of fully autonomous vehicles in the near future. One article in particular I remember, about some large car company expecting 80% of cars on the road to be autonomous by 2018.

I remember this vividly because I was house hunting at the time and became truly conflicted what location to buy. Should I choose a smaller more much more expensive house nearer to the city center, or a nicer drastically cheaper house further away? If I’ll be essentially chauffeured to work in a few years, why not go for the bigger cheaper house. I eventually chose the more expensive house nearby.

Since then, the small yet constant worry that Autonomous cars are going to show me what a mistake I’ve made has disappeared, in parallel with any noticeable progress of autonomous vehicles hitting the roads.

Thank god I didn’t choose that house in the boonies.
If anyone is interested in a revolutionary new type of medical records system where you can copy/paste your entire medical records in a safe way, we are working on a system here called Pau (https://github.com/treenotation/pau).

Imagine if you could just copy/paste your medical records in an email to change doctors. Or participate in a new medical study via a simple copy/paste. Or if you were in an acute care setting and your healthcare providers could instantly call up all your relevant medical history. We are going to enable those sort of things.
> Does this mean that the market is contracting? Is there less money in space launches?

The reason SpaceX launched so many last year was that they built a very large backlog of launches, and last year their "steamroller" finally came online and because of reuse they could launch at much higher rate. Early this year, the backlog ran out.
I hate the buses in NYC. They're tremendously slow.

I bought a One Wheel, comparable an ebike basically, and it's awesome for the 0.5-4.0 mile range. Plus, it's more fun than the subway or a bus so I'll even take it over the subway when practical.
We've found a good use for old open-cast mines!
The very fact that his article says he was on suicide watch (he wasn't) makes its entire claim wrong. That's the entire premise of the article...you get very thin sheets while on suicide watch (sometimes they even take them away.) Of course he wasn't on suicide watch and had normal sheets.
The empathetic humanities have much to teach our adversarial culture
Lawsuit: Juul sold tainted e-liquids to users “drunk and vaping like mo-fo’s”
Or it's just incentives: if they rule the case is a suicide, it's closed and they can move on with their lives, while if they rule it's a homicide, it opens up a whole criminal investigation and media circus, they'll have a lot of attention on them, they'll have to testify at the trial, there are potential career repercussions if they're wrong (i.e. no conviction), there are potential personal repercussions if they're right and various powerful people would like to see that fact buried, etc. If there's any ambiguity at all, better just lie low and go with the conclusion that means the least work and risk.

HN tends to attract people who believe in finding the Truth with a capital T, but the majority of the world does not function like that. Most people are more concerned about personal costs and benefits and how a given action will affect them. The abstract Truth out there is immaterial; they just don't care, and save their energy for things that matter more to them. Explains a lot about the media, politics, corporate scandals, and so on.
Yup, the ability to transform into a pedestrian is underrated.
Yes. No serious issues so far, and I like being able to use the Jira iPad app.