skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Culture might be the reason the Netherlands started down the path they're on today of building more bicycle infrastructure and we haven't, but...

The thing is, culture influences infrastructure, but the reverse is also true. Bikes in the Netherlands are a way of life partly because it's very safe to bike to your destination there! You don't need Dutch culture to get to that point, look at Vancouver: https://youtu.be/N9JHfFutvik

You're right that at the moment, bikes in the US are mostly considered to be recreational, and as a result they're not treated seriously as transportation. But I think people will get to where they're going however is most convenient, and as a result we can get more people cycling by making it more convenient.

(You can count me as one of those people; I have little interest in cycling for recreation, but I would absolutely bike around the city if it were safer. Given the limited reach of our public transit, it would honestly be the quickest way to get where I need to go most of the time.)
This is a great line:

>With great foresight, NASA equipped the astronauts with some of the best cameras ever made — specially modified Hasselblads, with Zeiss lenses, and 70mm Kodak Ektachrome film.
This is only a limitation of the demo version of Hopper. The full version can disassemble itself, and it's not even prohibited by the EULA, unlike most software EULAs which have boilerplate no-reverse-engineering clauses.

This behavior, both the technical and legal aspects, originated with IDA. In fact, IDA's EULA has a clause explicitly permitting you to reverse engineer it (whereas Hopper's just doesn't mention reverse engineering).
I think logic builds a stronger moral foundation than religion ever could.

Almost all of the worst atrocities in history have be committed due to faith/some other non-logical idealism.
In this way relgion does very little to create a "hard line that can't be crossed" in fact it's often used as the justification.

Empathy can be derived from logic and is sufficient for deriving modern morality.

I'm not saying all religion is bad, just that it doesn't have utility over and beyond logic. Logic is more than sufficient to establish all of the perceived benefits of religion with none of the inherent risks/downsides of organised religions.
> If you're concerned that a script's root password prompt may be a forgery, you can run "sudo -v" before executing the script.

The bigger problem is that even without sudo or your root password, malicious scripts can do a lot of damage. ie. they can add a fake sudo to your .profile, so you next time you try to do "sudo -v" your password still gets stolen.
Speed and efficiency are often lost to gain flexibility, and this tradeoff is often ignored when you see articles extolling non-human intelligence of birds, insects, etc. Insects, through evolution have created highly efficient and FAST neural circuits that lead to fit behaviors, but the fitness of these circuits and behaviors often mask their inflexibility to a change of context. Change the context and the lightning fast reflexes of a fly can be made to make it unfit.
I was going to make a snarky comment about finally legalizing electric bikes before messing with scooters, but I see that this happened last year.

https://dmv.ny.gov/registration/electric-scooters-and-bicycl...
This may be the unseen hand of the moderator. See the 'second chance pool': https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
I did the same with 51/8 back when that was owned by the UK Department of Work and Pensions but not publicly routable.
Lawsuit against Apple on digital ownership
Yeah, that's why the stated explanation sounds weird.

Suddenly advertise this never-used block, and you're just going to get a massive torrent of previously-internal traffic from bazillions of organizations all over the planet that used it for something internal and were slightly lazy and didn't set up their routing quite right. Probably 99.9% of it is of no use whatsoever to anyone outside that org. It's tough to imagine that anyone thought they'd get any useful information on any hostile CCP activity by doing this.

I would also expect that any department doing hostile things on the net would be at least smart enough to not let any of their internal traffic leak out like that, no matter who they actually worked for.
Awesome work.

I don't do astrophotography, my interests are more terrestrial, namely street photography :D

There are lots of street photographers I follow, such as Shin Noguchi [0]. But I absolutely hate how Instagram is the go-to platform for photographers nowadays. I can't imagine a worse viewing experience for street photography, which tends to be ~35mm and landscape, than my phone's narrow, vertical screen. It's awful. But it's the most popular platform today, so there's really no getting around it.

[0] https://shinnoguchiphotography.com/photo/something_here/
The ID4 "First" edition with RWD only, 201hp 250mi range and 7.1s 0-60 had a $45,190 base price in the US vs a $49,490 AWD Model Y with 326mi range and 4.8s 0-60. (I had to go back and look up all the numbers I was looking at a month or two ago when I was following ID4 reviews. Apologies if you don't feel like this was represented properly in my initial comment).

Credits depend on what state you're in, and whether you're eligible, which is why I don't factor those in for the VW. When we bought our Tesla I think we got $7500 fed and $2500 state, so it took a clean 10k off the effective price.

As you mention, the base RWD Model Y, if you can get one, would be more similar in specs. It doesn't seem to be available anymore. Range was similar, it was sub-$40k, and massively faster I'm sure, than the comparatively glacial ID4 (we have a RWD 3 which is something like low 5s 0-60).

I agree with you 100% on the "without credit" part. Which is precisely why I stated it up front in my original comment. Right down to how VW may cut prices as the credit dries up just like Tesla did.
I don't know if/when I'll personally use any of these, but the formatting and number is commendable.
Premiums over spot are between 2% and 5%. Nowhere close to 20%
Is Domain-driven Design overrated?
>Those are all very different words.

Not really. You are arguing that misinformation needs to have a place on this platform, and have a chance to be heard. Again an outright misinformed post, that couldn't even back itself up, needs to be here. You are defending and legitimizing it with this point of view. Much evil has been done in the world because people "tolerated" things and just let injustice slide.

>you don't believe Soros is a liberal propagandist

Yes, but practically everyone is a propagandist, and has bias. Though he has more sway because money speaks.

>I've seen ethnic conflict up close and see every sign that the US is heading in that direction.

Where have you been for the last 250 years? The US was founded on genocide and slavery. Ethnic conflict has been here forever.
>Your case to freely be racist with no repercussions is unconvincing.

Stop strawmaning and shifting the goal posts because you've been proven wrong. We're not talking about racism in our thread here.

>4chan’s cover story doesn’t matter

It's not a "cover story", it's logically what's happening.

>You’re literally arguing to use slurs.

Wrong, they're not slurs. Just checked the dictionary, and "Archfag" is not listed as a slur. Neither is "oldfag" or "summerfag".

Now you're literally arguing delusions that you've created that are nonsensical.
You can certain take any path into compiler writing. I dont know anything about AST or front end compilers but ended up writing register allocators and constant folding for nvidia GPU JIT
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome also really works well on the desktop. Unfortunately I haven't found a way to get it working on Firefox on mobile (the chrome repo also contains the FF one now ;) ). Thanks for the archive link.

PS I understand that websites need to monetise.. But getting a subscription to read one linked article per month or so is just not going to happen. The sites I use a lot I do pay a membership for.
Has Tether ever proven that the coin is backed by $? It's fine to claim that, but I'm pretty convinced the $ doesn't exist and would like to see some proof otherwise.

"Indeed, a Tether lawyer said in 2019 each USDT was only about 74% backed by fiat equivalents."

What's a fiat equivalent, because it sure doesn't sound like a $?
William Gibson Predicts in 1997 How the Internet Will Change Our World (2019)
Elaborate what? The car had six monthly service cycle and it was not cheap. The clutches and gearbox were down to careless driving technique. Electric motors don't get deployed with clutches and are mostly electronic continuously variable gearing and the service costs are significantly cheaper on average than for an ICE. It's that simple.
I think the excitement is that it would give us another data point for what life can possibly be like. So far (AFAIK) the best evidence is that life evolved once on earth, and so everything we see comes from that basic blue print. But does it have to be that way? Would alien life also be carbon based, or something else? Is DNA/RNA (or a close equivalent) a universal feature of life? If not what do they use instead? If so, that's also very interesting. There's just so many questions we can't answer when the sample size is one. I guess my belief (hope?) is that that curiosity would spur further exploration, not kill it.

As for the great filter, yeah, it's a bit scary if we rule out bio-genesis as an option, but that still leaves the single to multi cell jump behind us (and arguably development of human level cooperation/problem solving, but I'm less sold on that one).
> I wonder if PF4 is similar to spike protein somehow?

it may be not only PF4:

..of 2,688 human proteins. In some of his own covid patients he found antibodies targeting 30 other important signaling agents besides interferon,

Antibodies which: can somehow be created by covid itself , have the potential to last a lifetime.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26915143

I guess that the spike another function could be a trap for the immune system and antibodies - resulting in production of autoantibodies - and that's very wise choice, which parts of that trap/virus are used in vaccines.
Privately owned escooters in London are everywhere, and mostly ridden by local teenagers and young adults. I don't think they suffer from being uncool. Possibly because they're technically illegal - so owning one is a rebellious act.
There were 287 homicides in Newark in 2020, up from 234 in 2019. That's 53 more lives lost, a shocking 23% increase.

How related are these two facts? I don't know, but if you're going to come at this with "completely unrelated" I question your honesty.

Source: https://www.nj.com/crime/2020/12/homicides-in-nj-soared-22-i...

Edit: apologies for not reading the source carefully, I was mislead by the search I used to retrieve it. That was for all of New Jersey, not Newark, where homicides have been flat (and that is unusual for the United States in general).

I'm pretty distracted today. Sorry about that.
The total available energy in such a system is defined by

m * g * z

where m is the mass and z is the elevation difference. It doesn't depend on the speed at which it goes down
Nice. It sounds like the time sink there is writing drivers for a range of peripherals. The silver lining is next time you use that periph, it's easier.
I've not figured out a way to effectively debug a distributed system except via printf. Debuggers are basically a nonstarter, because stopping one component to inspect it almost always triggers knock-on effects in other components that change the overall state of the system.
There Is a Lot of Fungus Among Us: Investors Are Paying Attention
Ok? I'm saying the VW is too expensive for what it is, in the market it competes in, in the US and I believe in Europe as well.

If you show me how the VW is a great bargain in your country vs the Tesla, that's an interesting argument.

Complaining that cars are cheap in countries other than your own doesn't really relate to the VW's relative place in the market.
how old is this quote? It’s 50 billion https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/.

It’s an incredibly shady coin. No doubt it was a lot of work by Coinbase to onboard it.
In our case, we were setting up VPN tunnels to a partner, who for some reason required that the addresses on our side should (appear to be) public IP addresses. So we couldn't use 10/8 or 192.168/16 in (that part of) our network.

They didn't actually need the addresses to be routable from the public internet (that was the whole point of the VPN). I think the requirement was really a way of making sure they were unique. I'm sure they had several partners who used 10/8 internally.
There has been a lot of recent foreign criticism leveled at the Indian government regarding COVID, which seems like political opportunism. Only a month or two ago, India was in a great position with respect to COVID and was regarded as having successfully managed the pandemic. Another article recently discussed on HN made clear that India enacted much more stringent mandates and containment procedures than the US ever did, for example forcing entire apartment buildings to stay indoors if even one resident tested positive.

Their current situation is not caused by outright negligence but complex factors no one understands yet. India also willingly exported more than half their vaccines to other nations, and even charged nothing for them in many cases. They could’ve certainly been more selfish and had an easier situation for themselves. It seems very premature to criticize India or its government. When they’re facing this tough situation, I don’t think it’s appropriate for poorly informed outsiders to assail a nation blindly - it feels gross to me.

Another way to look at this is that just as people here in America (activists, journalists, politicians) allege Russian interference in elections and the threat of foreign actors in social media, the Indian government and much of its citizenry are wary of interference and propaganda emerging largely from the West. It’s already been quite apparent when you look at the cringeworthy segments people like John Oliver run about India and its government, as well as one sided coverage of the farmers protests, and activist commentary from everyone ranging from celebrities like Rihanna to activists like Greta Thunberg.

I understand why India would take these steps to protect the integrity of their nation’s dialog. Why wouldn’t these countries be concerned about outside interference in this day and age? Surely Americans don’t have exclusive claim to fears of foreign interference. If anything this move is probably regarded as too late by people in India.
“Fag” is most definitely a slur. A slur you’re arguing it’s ok to use.
Can you cite that specifically? I'm reading through the judgment but its slow going.
You can do it with a Worker, it'll do completely independent requests to the backend and you can then rewrite them (e.g. change headers, content) and relay them to the client.
This is rather like the utterly-irritating-until-you-start-using-it-yourself voice note feature of many popular messaging clients.
The BBC is free. There's no charge to use the BBC.

There's a TV licence, but that's payable if you watch any live tv as it's broadcast.
US government fining alternative currencies!? Of course they do any loss by US dollar is a loss for the fed.
> I'm a highly educated individual, commonly read dense scientific works, philosophy, political science etc.

For a second, I thought you were going to mention MENSA. So do many of HN old guard. Appeal to authority isn't evidence; it's an opinion, and not even an expert opinion.

> threatens the law and order of a civilized nation

The US has the highest incarceration per capita on the planet (sans Seychelles), disproportionately imprisoning minorities. Consider the works and interviews by Chris Hedges, who teaches classes in prison. Many of his students are in for petty drug crimes. Furthermore, there are numerous aging inmates who were snared by the War on Drugs and in prison for no good reason. Remember, the WoD was explicitly used to target Nixon's perceived enemies: hippies and minorities. Then, (Nancy) Reagan decided it would be a good idea to go after drugs while simultaneously arming the Contras using cocaine, leading to the crack epidemic.
Tax credit depends on the state, of course. And I suspect your "$17k cheaper" is currently vaporware:

> The ID.4 will eschew Volkswagen's traditional S, SE, and SEL trim hierarchy and instead will be offered in base, Pro, and 1st Edition trims. A base model priced around $35,000 will satisfy value-minded consumers with EV aspirations, but that entry-level ID.4 won't launch until sometime in 2022. In the meantime, the ID.4 Pro and loaded 1st Edition models serve as the ID.4's launch trims.[1]

1. https://www.caranddriver.com/volkswagen/id4
Utter bullshit. Some are trying to move on, but most have not.
Ask HN: Help on SAR/deconvolution for an ultrasonic phased array radar
This is as much a Ask HN as a Show HN of my first results:

For the past three years, I've been on-and-off building an ultrasonic 3D scanner using an active phased array emitter. Just had the first successful results.

It images its surroundings by sending an ultrasonic wave train in a specific direction and listening for the echos. Linked to some photos in a first comment.

Currently, I'm just plotting in 3D all the points for which the intensity of the received signal is above a threshold. The problem with that is that my beam is large (a dozen centimeters at two meters, see my comment below) so one small detail of the scene gets a larger 3d representation because the beam is large. The scan looks like a blurred image.

I know this problem has already been solved. If I understand correctly, SAR radars create very long and blurry images of the ground from a satellite and then use an algorithm to "unblur" them. I guess that the blurred image my sonar generates is a sort of convolution of the scene that could be represented by a matrix, and that I just have to find the right inverse matrix, convolve it on my results to get a good image back.

I can't find any good and intuitive explanations on devoncolutions/sar algorithms. The only ressources I found are research papers of which I have trouble reading the maths and fail to apply to my own use case (I'm a 19yo in a French preparatory school, so I've only been doing real maths for 2 years).

How could I solve that problem? Am I completely misled to think that it's possible? (maybe the "blurring" transformation is irreversiblei.e. losing too much information)
Referenced in article, Suzanne Ciani on the early (daytime) Letterman show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZscRHkLMt0

It's funny because here Dave is just learning about synths, and it predates Paul Schaffer joining him with his own wall of synths.
It's not just 'post Soviet' it's also 'current Rest of World'.

Business outside of 'established rich places' may often include huge sums for bribery and that money comes back in many ways, including 'very expensive real estate in NY / London' etc. and Dubai is becoming a major centre of such activity. [1]

The question is, how long can Dubai balance it's claims to legitimacy and integrity, while at the same time looking the other way? Will nascent powers like India and China even care? It's going to be an interesting next 50 years.

[1] https://www.transparency.org/en/news/the-united-arab-emirate...
Well, the article sort of requires discussion on what might be happening here, not?
Depending on the number of people in the room, this could easily turn into insane waits between when you sent your message and when everyone hears it. This would probably work best in a conference call sort of situation where you have people mostly speaking one at a time rather than just a normal IRC room where there's a dozen conversations going on simultaneously.
How our startup grew 1,246.2% in one year?
No, not that either. Anyone can plant more Tulips. There's no way to dilute the supply of Bitcoin.
This is a pretty good tutorial that I know of: https://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/. The author went on to write a book too, though it's still in progress http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/
It’s very important that we never take a stand for the principles that make America a shining city on the hill for hundreds of millions of people, and instead cravenly cowtow to dictators and refuse to recognize genocide when it’s politically convenient.

If your first response to us doing something that is so clearly an ethical duty is “what’s in it for me?”, you should really think about what kind of a person you are.
If you care about security, yes. It operates identically to a phishing service, complete with a logos/imagery to suggest you're sending your credentials to your bank rather than a third party. What's worse is that as far as the user's concerned, they're inputting their credentials into the consumer site[1], as you can see in the demo: https://plaid.com/demo. This is as opposed to something like google oauth where you enter your credentials on accounts.google.com only.

[1] ie. you're on site A, which wants access to your account details on bank X. when you're entering your details, the address bar shows site A's domain, not plaid.com or bank X.
https://www.statista.com/chart/23905/change-in-homicides-in-...
There's also 172.16/12 :) But yeah I agree. If you're running a VPN for a large company it's kinda hard to avoid such conflicts.

In my work we use 10.0.0.0/8 but of course some people use the same at home even though 192.168/16 is way more common. In general I find 172.16/12 the least common in the field.
Your cited source literally says the opposite:

> While Trenton and Paterson saw spikes this year, other cities like Newark and Jersey City haven’t seen much of a change.
Does this mean that Dai (which does relies on market mechanisms rather than than reserves) is not compliant with regulations, but USDT is? Which regulations?
My very first thought. It would become almost immediately unusable, haha.
You sound almost exactly alike. Music. School. Friends. These are all quite superficial, but it points to very similar patterns of thought and interest. You’ll see what I mean if you ever find yourself dating full strangers again.
> As if some patriarchal conspiracy was forcing classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven down people’s throats...

No, but patriarchal and racial structures in society have historically suppressed artists who weren't white and male.

Adam Neely has a good video on how the term "music theory" here in the West is essentially just "the harmonic style of 18th century European musicians" [1]. It's worth a watch if you're interested in music.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA
IIRC, isn't the CDC forbidden by law from investigating all types of deaths by firearms?
2020 was by no means a typical year. A rise in domestic violence, perhaps? Still seems weird though.
Good points, gyms can vary a lot. My gym and most gyms I have visited focus on wrestling style takedowns, and maybe some Judo stuff too depending on what the instructors know.

Honestly, for the general self defense you only need a few well practiced takedowns. We drill single leg, double leg, and I drill a couple collar based judo trip/throw. It mostly comes down to spending time on the feet. No-Gi at my academy lets you do basically anything from standing. My gym does a lot of MMA and has a strong competitive nature (we train for comps a lot) so we get a lot more focus on the standing game I think.

FWIW I have done Judo some too and find it fun. Except when I get slammed lol.
It seems like it’s quite widely known that US police shoot everyone at a higher rather than any developed country. You can google those stats as well as anyone. That’s evidence for ‘brutality’, not excluding the possibility that they may also be brutalised by a difficult job with poor training.