skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no reason you can't have buses outside major cities - most EU countries do this fine. Self driving, self-recharging buses, that you can track and hail on-demand would be much more efficient than self driving cars. It means you may have to walk the last mile, but I can only see that as a benefit in a country where obesity is one of the biggest problems.

People with disabilities or those living in extremely remote areas are the only ones that should have their own cars.
> The second reason is you may want the data you are creating to be still accessible in the future

I wish developers in the front-end ecosystem would hold longevity in higher regard when innovating. When identifying a shortcoming in the web platform, help improve it rather than inventing another framework silo - while throwing out so much hard work that has gone into things like accessibility, separation of logic from content, and more.
Yes, the headline was a bit over the top ;) The HackerNews Part (assembling useful information on the DevOps topic) is WIP and currently on the end of the site. I guess this will go into the direction of a resource-board for DevOps-stuff (be it projects, tools, repos, links, ...) that works with user contributions and curation in the spirit of HackerNews to produce quality content people can act on. WIP :) Thanks for the feedback!
Why Does Your Coaching Institute Need Attendance Management System?
Those would be really interesting statistics to know, anyone know where we could get actual numbers?

Also be interesting to know his much is due yu concentration of professions and how much to local network effects.
I worked for a startup roughly when docker started gaining proper momentum but at the time I felt it's still not mature enough to use it in production. We was using (I believe) less secure chroot jails to package our app and, well, it was a bit of a nightmare. I was in need for containers technology and once we decided to move to docker I never regreted this move. Now I use podman for I'd prefer not to have to run containers as very privileged user and I don't see better alternative.

There was good press around docker but I also heard lots of stories about problems from my colleagues who decided to use it earlier than me, but I'd not call this propaganda. Docker solves real problem and that's why it got so much attention.
I don’t think people necessarily have the idea that they can keep things the same forever, but I do think it’s quite reasonable for local voters having a say, via the social and democratic processes established in their town, on potential changes to their town. It would seem unreasonable to me for that to not be the case.

That’s true on matters of zoning, schools, libraries, fire stations, or whatever other decisions the town faces. There’s a process for amending zoning rules; there’s usually a process for getting a variance from zoning rules that are unduly burdensome in regards to an individual parcel. What about this democratic process is dysfunctional, other than some people not liking the outcome?
No problem. So it is actually become easier over time, as the IT field concentrates around Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Basically look for the new announcements in each major conference, and specifically for new beta services, or open-source projects.

Also, it takes around a year to become proficient in new tech, so you must allocate some of your time (at work or free time) to such experimental bets.
You're using an incomplete, out context quote from a comedy programme that has the aim of seeing how far people can push the boundaries of free speech to make a comment about a completely different programme?
> The wikipedia article isn't really wrong. Only 60% of the cases go before a jury. The conviction rate for cases that get to the jury around the 95% rate.

You'd have a point if the stat about Japan was about the conviction rate of people who go before a jury, but unless I'm mistaken, the conviction rate we're talking about is that of people _charged_ overall.

That 60% figure in Canada is precisely referring to people who were charged, and whose charges were later dropped. Over 99.4% of people charged in Japan are eventually convicted.

Consider what it means to be charged. This allows for example the police to gather more information by doing what would otherwise infringe on someone's rights. So when you basically never drop charges, that means that either you infringe on people's privacy before they're charged, or you routinely disregard whatever exculpatory evidence you find. Either way, it's obviously bad.
In New York state, recent criminal justice reforms have swung the pendulum too far in the other direction. An illustrative story:

https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/bail-reform-bank-robber-surren...
Accused six-time bank robber freed by state bail reforms is finally jailed — by the feds
India, on the other hand, has a low conviction rate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate#India

"The national conviction rate in India for offences of the Indian Penal Code is around 46%. This tends to vary state by state. The state with the highest conviction rate is Kerala, at about 84%, while the one with the lowest rate is Bihar, at around 10%."
When you actually think about it, “humans” is plural, and "self-serving" sure seems singular.

Past that superficiality, a programming language is a mechanism.

I am sincerely curious in what larger context one would evaluate this mechanism at all, and furthermore, deem it "an incredibly self-serving sentiment".
Strange takeaway in the title.

Mine are:

- He regrets introducing threads. He now prefers other parallelism/concurrency paradigms and is possibly looking into introducing them in Ruby 3 (that part wasn't clear in the interview).

- He regrets adding global variables.

- He regrets not focusing on immutability primitives earlier.

- He and the maintainers team look at Python, JavaScript and Elixir for inspiration.

- He seems a bit disappointed that Ruby is mostly used for web development only and would be happy if it was used in research and AI.

- He regrets not investing even a little effort in static typing earlier but is now working on an optional typing system where you choose to describe types in a separate file. (Reminds me of C/C++ and OCaml header files.)

I hope I’m not subconsciously emulating a sensationalistic journalist here but it doesn’t seem he’s very pleased with the current state of affairs. A lot of changes, indeed inspired from other languages, seem to be on their way to Ruby 3.

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I’m pretty indifferent to Ruby these days. I’ve worked 6 years with Rails to a moderate financial success back then but the problems were obvious almost from the start: too much magic and implied behaviour, too much global stuff changing below your feet, way too slow DB layer (it’s known that your DB will respond in 2ms and ActiveRecord will proceed to waste 100+ ms on serialisation before and after), managing bigger projects becomes huge pain, and a number of others.

People just keep buying the promise of “but you get to make an MVP really quickly!”. Yeah well, but I want to maintain it past that stage too.

Where I was doing with this is: Ruby is a very okay language and is very nice for sketching. It's readable, has libraries for a ton of stuff, and performs alright (especially without Rails). But I never found good use of it outside of small projects. Any serious business work becomes very painful to maintain and stay on top of for bigger projects. I’m aware there are practices that make it possible (Basecamp is a huge inspiration!) but I personally found them only half-working.

YMMV, of course.
Actually the spacecraft being so far away was the reason to put some Lisp system on it. That was one goal of that mission. The software controlled the spacecraft and did not need detailed programs what to do. It would figure out what to do from higher-level task descriptions and what it sensed. Basically a spacecraft as a semi-autonomous robot. Since it was running on top of Lisp, actually LispWorks, it could also be debugged/reprogrammed at a lower level.
They don't really have to focus at a point. Mounting them out on the wings and pointing them directly forwards would leave the streams separated by little more than the diameter of the propeller, which is surely at least as accurate as the pilot can aim the plane.
> 99% could mean a terrible system, or one where only solid cases are pursued

A system that only pursues "solid" cases is a terrible system because it leaves many people without justice.
Nice concept. I'm thinking in a possible nebulous improvement. A potential problem here is that it can scale with problems as hundreds of notes are added. We organize knowledge in a hierarchical way, just as we do files in folders, or places in continents, countries, states, cities, neighborhoods and streets. Maybe a tree model of exploitable nodes, and order of magnitude slider, or something to do with what Prezi does. But yes, conceptual proximity as topographical is a great metaphor.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/10/were-staying-us...

just days ago...
PS: if you have suggestions for additional sites to scrape for projects, let me know. Currently I'm focussing on german sites since I only scout for projects in this area, but I'll happily advance the range of inputs.
> where it was described that perverting the course of justice is an instrument of public policy

Do you have a reliable cite for this please?
No, I don't think so. JKM's definition of "prototype" is that it's internally-facing and similar to a demo, to answer questions about feasibility. That's fine, and I agree with that.

An MVP is about answering questions about end-user value. "I can make a thing, but is it valuable in the way I think it will be?". Absolutely that needs to be working software being used by customers, but crucially it needs to be the smallest increment you can get away with to confirm that the bigger "version" is worth developing.

This is where I disagree with the post: months, or years, to develop an MVP is just too long. That's an actual product cycle. If you factor in the cost of a couple of engineers or something, that means an MVP is a minimum 6-figure dollar investment.

Where I do agree is that an MVP should probably be morphed into the full product, rather than things be thrown away. But the whole idea of "MVP" as a singular rather than plural concept I think is wrong too; that's a lot longer argument though.
The 99% is not reports, only the percentage of cases brought to trial which the state won.

The common explanation is that without plee bargains the American system would have a similar conviction rate and thus one should not be too surprised. Unless one wishes their government prosecuted more people without hard evidence. TV shows may pull exonorating evidence ou of a hat but that is not real life.
Oxbridge are centuries older and the idea of legacy admissions would be abhorrent to most people there.
"All right stop,

Collaborate and listen,

Ice is back with a brand new invention..."

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Also `systemctl edit` is a thing. No need to fiddle with 'what directory is this thing in?'
If you aren't looking for Mandelbrot specifically, Romanesco broccoli is the most fractal-y plant I know.
The Nordstream II project is curious, because it is just a project to double capacity of the existing Nordstream pipelines. It comes in addition to other pipelines which already supply Europe from Russia. If this pipeline has any political relevance it is making Germany less dependent on Poland's and Ukraine's relationship with Russia. The Russian influence on Germany stays the same.
It seems for the US it's not, there's groupthink that some citizens are the enemy and they're hungry for police blood. That's why they say "thin blue line" or "cops lives matter", and they aren't even being ironic.
People who are very good at things are the ones you want mentoring you, regardless of the subset who are bad teachers.
I once met a 93 (maybe 96) old woman working in a lab. I don’t know under which status she is employed, but her dedication to the project is amazing and her contribution unmatched by any other members (nor the total sum of every other contributors).
Seems superficially similar to roam research, which has been good to me so far.
Some trivial mathematical facts. No matter what algorithm you use, you want to make a quasiisometrical embedding of a tree into a finite dimensional space. Or, for a tree the no of nodes at distance R from the root is like exp R, but in any space of dimension N you can cram about R^N points which are at distance R from the origin. Hence the problem.

But you can embedd any tree into the Hilbert space :)
Simple and inexpensive Schlieren optical system using a Fresnel lens
How to Become an Expert in Your Field
I've recently started using Roam, and I'm really enjoying it so far. Probably the easiest information capture and reference tool I've used to date--it makes it very simple to get things down without slowing you down. Only major downside so far is no mobile app, but I know they are working on one.
Just the opposite of GP's opinion, I think basing the statistics solely on Telsa will half the figure rather than doubling it. Suppose the average interval of accident is t and the average speed of car is v, as Telsa cars only represent a small portion of all vehicles, we have

- Only Telsa: distance_travelled / num_accidents = v t / 1
- Two cars involved, but counted as one accident : distance_travelled / num_accidents = 2 v t / 1
> these factories they build are not "manna raining from heaven."

He wasn't actually saying that though. Read it again - his argument was basically "some people always complain even if there's nothing to complain about, therefore you can't learn any information from the fact that some people are complaining"
US is a special place. Even Russia has better public transport.

I don't think lack of public parking at a train station is a good enough reason to develop self-driving cars. It's easier to build a car park.
Or it could just be that most people aren't in your sort of 'maximise house size' game.

I've done remote work, and you know what?

I'd rather live in a small flat in London than have a big old house in the North because everything is in London. It's _the_ city in the UK.

If that ever changes (I sincerely doubt it will primarily because essentially all of the wealth is there) it'll probably take multiple generations.
The 6510 is what’s in the C64 - PHX and PHY definitely aren’t supported there (source: I was programmer on multiple published games, back in the day).

The NES is similar family too, and doesn’t have those opcodes - but the Atari Lynx has them (being 65C02).
I had done a very similar product for lawyers and after some years I had to give up due to the too slow pace at which we were acquiring new customers. Small firms in my experience are very slow when it comes to acquire new services, even though they do need it.

Having said so, I whish you all the best because your project deserves it!

As a suggestion, try localizing the app in other languages. For example in Italy, where I'm from, you'd have a huge market. Most of the doctors work in the public health system, but they are allowed, under certain conditions, to also work privately. One of such conditions is essentially that they have to be a solo firm. So you have thousands of doctors managing their own schedules (of course they can have a secretary or other personnel).
Lol, imagine thinking that the undersupply of housing in US metro is due to the market having too much say.
Where's My Tribe?
SDL comes to mind.
You won't get banned for paying too much parking tickets.

Scooter bans were mostly because it was disruptive having a staple of scooters in the middle of the pedestrian road and they were consistently breaking the rules.

Ps.
We do similar stuff for cities at our company. So I don't need an externzl source for this currently.
France will never let the Germans have any say over the Nuclear deterrent. France will never accept the idea that the working language is English or that French troops might have to take orders from a Romanian. The Brits clearly don’t trust the French or German intelligence services enough to let them into the FIVEYES club. French, Brits and the Dutch are the only ones with veteran militaries. Nobody will be willing to give up veto power and nobody will accept anyone else having it anyway. Western European voters are never going to accept Johnny and Jean-Pierre dying to save Boris the Bulgarian Slav from Boris the Russian Slav. Europe is too internally racist, prideful, and Nationalistic in its current form for this to work.

Hope I’m wrong, but history is on my side with this
Would the Java APIs be something to copy? I believe they have had cross-platform graphics classes for a long time.
This is going to completely shatter the US' political power in the region while simultaneously doing absolutely nothing for Europe's real defense. Europeans throw violent protests if they have one less vacation day a year; there's no way they would tolerate giving up 15% of their taxes, i.e., 15% of their entitlements, to build and maintain a real military force capable of taking on the likes of Russia.
Last paragraph: https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-red-sox-warned-indians-astr...
Professional software development is very much a team sport, even when it comes down to the code. If you're not writing the code with the humans reading it in mind then in most cases I would say your priorities are off.
I thought I already could do that since the late 80's.
> Plant legumes along with your cereal crops and shift focus from extracting value from the soil to cultivating soil health/wealth.

This is the factually correct answer, but unfortunately without government incentives / orders this will not happen due to the mechanisms of capitalism. The system rewards the farmer who exploits the soil much greater than the farmer who properly maintains the soil health - classic short term optimization.

"Modern" agro-capitalism will utterly wreck fertile soil over the next decades and I'm not sure if it will ever recover.

And it's not just the soil that suffers. In prior small-scale farm times, there were lots of "patches", especially at farm borders, that were left free for flowers, bushes and the likes - providing food for bees and birds and shelter for small animals. With land consolidation all of this went away.
It's definitely not just the parties that have changed.
I have no idea whether that law would've passed today; everyone hears "California" and thinks about SF/LA, forgetting about the large conservative areas. Look how long weed and gay marriage took.
I saw a lot of EU policy makers moving towards an "independence from USA" goal in the last 2-3 years.

The army is just one, but even in software some of the research projects in which part of my group is coordinating/participating with the EU are gonna receive an unbelievable amount of money in the next ten years to build a complete internet infrastructure independent from any us software and hardware. I'm talking about 10-50x more funding than usual until now, and it's gonna grow.

I cannot say a lot because most of the projects are tba and under a formal "keep it secret" clause right now, but one of the main ones related to eu cloud infrastructure is supposed to get around 100 billions euros in 5 years and involve around thirty big software companies and universities in eu.

It's really a good time to be a sw researcher here right now.
I swear I already heard a ton of music generated this way on my spotify Discovery playlist...

You might want to add licensing info. The output is good enough to use in video production as background
> "I see no point in studying any technology, tooling than the toolings my organization"

My personal take on this is that the opposite should be done -- study and understand the fundamental problems tech orgs have and know the tools that solve those problems. That's the way to cut through the media BS vs. valuable news.

Containers became popular because they bring value to tech orgs/teams -- removing the need for a LOT of communication/coordination between infra teams and dev teams where skills are generally different.
PBS interviews a truck driver who reads The Economist
I'm not sure why you'd choose webassembly over, say, MSIL for this?
> Once upon a time, a rising tide of economic progress would lift all boats in all communities all around the country.

I think this hasn't been true for centuries. Moving rural to the cities has been documented since the 1700's very clearly by economists.
Title is confusing refers to
Open worlds
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It's time for the EU to either become a real institution or go away. Building an army and taking responsibility for its own defense is a step towards realism.

Merkel is in favor because she's tied her county's future to fossil fuels coming from Eastern Europe. She knows the US has little incentive to strong arm Russia into keeping the pipeline open.

I see little downside to the improvement of global affairs with a stronger EU. Competition and self-sufficient agents are always good.
The terrible state of French prisons is well known, even though it's not a frequent topic of discussion. The terrible state for the rights of the accused is less well known, IMO. It's improved significantly over the past few decades thanks to numerous damning ECHR decisions, but very slowly and is still problematic. At least the accused now have access to a lawyer early in the process; this was not even common just 20 years ago despite it being a rather clear requirements to comply with a number of human rights supposedly enshrined in the constitution.

Having said that, said rights are less of an issue than in the US simply because we don't jail as many people, by far. It's shocking how easy it is to end up in jail for the average person in the US. Just failing to pay a ticket you didn't even know you ever got because it was ripped off from your car and the court summons was served to the wrong person can land you in jail in the US, but that doesn't happen in France.
> Why on earth would they do that? Fertilizer is expensive, dude

In Europe we have an utter abundance of fertilizer - we have so many cattle and pigs concentrated in megafarms that we cannot spread their manure any more and have to cart it through half of Europe.
> France will never let the Germans have any say over the Nuclear deterrent.

They already offered that, under Mitterand.

Sure, Germany would have been the junior partner, but the offer explicitly included Germany being at the table.
It's very neat.
And one cannot have a discussion with pretentious, profound-sounding, smartass one sentence replies.
Good arguments untill you pulled the racists card.
My guess is its to keep enough professional officers and enlisted staff to be able to mobilise and upgrade their capabilities quickly (with or without allies) in the even the risk evaluation changes.

Note that Costa Rica has no defence force at all.

> failing at this gamble

Yes, all adult decisions are based on uncertainty. Especially when resources are limited.
You can already screw with infrastructure to kill people. Sometimes we just have to hope that the combination of positives and negatives convince people not to go out and screw the world.