skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I come from, big city etc. there seems to be not much time advantage of taking a car vs. taking a bike. After all a bike is very easy to park close to your destination and it's not affected as much by traffic jam (due to rudimentary cycling infrastructure and the ability to use side streets that are too narrow for rush hour drivers to consider).

WRT child transport: child transport bikes are seeing a rising adoption here, so it is feasible to bike to work and drop of your kid on the way. Kids will stay dry below the bike's rain cover, though of course the parent who cycles will need some upgrade to his clothing compared to what's needed when going by car (finding cloth that is both rain-tight but doesn't cause sweating takes some experimentation).

If you want to look at the spectrum of possibilities, have a look at e.g.

https://www.babboe.com/

https://www.bakfiets.nl/

https://www.urbanarrow.com/

http://www.nihola.com/home.html

https://yubabikes.com/

(just enumerating what bikes I see on a regular basis, this list would go on and on)

PS: you may also want to factor in the time spent on maintenance and bureaucracy (dealing with car insurance etc) and the extra monetary effort involved with owning a car vs owning a bike.
Exams don’t give the whole picture.
Tell the horde OSS != FOSS and also get off their entitlement horse.

By opening your source you’re already in the minority contributing to common good, openly sharing your understanding of how to solve problems with code (aka IP). Making IP free is a big deal — you’re making it free to learn, understand, and advance shared knowledge. You don’t owe anyone making it free to run a business on.

To head off an AWS vs. Elastic situation, where someone else offers your code as a paid service w/o compensating you and w/o releasing their in-house patches (https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/22/aws_elastic_fork/), consider AGPLv3: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0/

See top comment on that here on HN about 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25834523

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I'm curious about several things:

- does this process require expensive equipment ?

- I assume you can apply this process to other cells/substances - cocoa ? coca ? tobacco ? oranges ? potatoes ?

- if equipment became cheaper, could we envision people having a device for cellular agriculture at home?
The different philosophies of "explicitly annotate async functions" vs "implicit async" vs "create os threads with polling" etc will always continue because they all have tradeoffs.

So, the "simplification" or a "unification" of a concurrency model always comes at a cost that some programmers don't want to pay. Whenever you see, "Language <X> has solved the color problem so it's not an issue." -- the reflexive skepticism should be, "At what price, and do I want to pay it?"

I think it's instructive that Rust had a clean-sheet start to design a new language and so far, they've rejected Go style "channels" as Rust core syntax and instead, adopted the async/await paradigm. You don't have to program in Rust to get the gist of the following previous comments about their thought process:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21475154

https://lobste.rs/s/bfsxsl/ocaml_4_03_will_if_all_goes_well_...

https://lobste.rs/s/y3fsrm/what_is_zig_s_colorblind_async_aw...
I don't think the scientific method is actually that easy for most people to grasp.

For a layperson, simply talking about experiments and repeatability doesn't really convey the reality of how science works.

The way I describe the scientific method to regular people is its purpose: It is simply the growing and improving collection of methods we have found for separating fact, from fiction, illusion, bias, wishful thinking, tradition, coincidence, and every other form of misconception or non-predictive source.

It is the only system of knowledge, that is based on relentlessly weeding out any false or unproven conjectures we have about reality.

This conforms to actual practice: actual scientific activity includes falsifiable predictions, experiments, reviews and repeatability, but also math (a biggie obviously), statistics, revealed conflicts of interest, regular meta-studies of active areas, tests for data bias, simulations for exploring implications, discussion groups vetting and encouraging each other's ideas, cataloging of fruitful concepts for guiding inquiry such as symmetry, ... and on and on and on.

And as new tests, methods or ideas are found useful, the scientific method accumulates them.

What all these activities have in common is they decrease the chance that something incorrect will be accepted.

And given all that testing and vetting and care, science holds itself to a higher standard than any other search for knowledge except pure math.

And given that science is an inherently decentralized activity, carried out with experts in numerous overlapping fields, organizations, and areas of research, and the fact that nature itself contains no contradictions, it is very difficult for errors to stick around unnoticed in any area attracting much attention.

Another practical part of science many people don't get, is most scientists are actively working at the intersection of the known and unknown, so are very aware of sciences limitations, and also the destructive danger to their own progress and credibility if they unwittingly or strategically choose to accept false premises, for political, economic or other reasons.

Not that bad science is never done, but it is very risky for the scientists own credibility and ability to make any meaningful discovery. Coalitions to intentionally push false narratives would know they were severely handicapping themselves from further discovery, and sabotaging their own relevance to downstream scientific discovery and technological applications.

Those of us familiar with science tend to take all this context for how and why science works for granted.
> There's literally no point coding without it.

Except maybe that it is still not generally available.
> “Believe in science” is just a new religion for the intellectual class.

What does that even mean? If I believe the earth is round, then science is my religion? If I believe it is flat, then I am an atheist?
Even if the US was perfectly saintly, that wouldn't change the nature of the totalitarianism of the CCP, and the ambitions that are inherent in it by necessity (since you cannot control and rewrite history without controlling the globe in some way or another).

It's also not a binary choice. The same values that require resisting oppression and violence perpetrated by US administrations, would also lead a person resist the CCP, and doing either helps with doing the other. If you have two types of cancer, you don't treat the bigger one and completely ignore the other... if there is good reason to do A, having "even more reason" to do B doesn't mean you shouldn't still do A.

> cold warrior type's fantasies of war with china

That's a straw man. My fantasy would be the Chinese people successfully fighting for change, like they tried once before they got brutally slaughtered for it. Like the people in Hong Kong are fighting. If you're going to get personal in this manner, also consider the cowardice and spinelessness of those who would rather prolong their life a little (or even just increase their bank account) by not speaking out and standing up.
having biked to/from school for many years, a bigger issue is that kids don't have a fixed amount of things they need to transport every day and the upper bound (instruments + art/science project + sports gear) quickly limits the distance you can realistically travel. injuries are also a factor, all it takes is a sprained ankle to take biking off the table for several weeks.

also as an aside there's a lot more potential for variance in travel time on a bike and if a school has punitive tardiness systems, this will get taken out on the student a lot.
Comparing Tesla to Theranos is laughable. Tesla FSD/Autopilot are already saving lives. There are countless examples of recorded drives on YouTube where you can see completely safe long drives in crowded city streets with no driver intervention. It's enough to look at FSD 1.0 (Less than A year ago) vs current FSD 10 to see the crazy rate of improvement.

There have been 2K testers for a year w/o any accidents, I would much rather my life be "at risk" by Autopilot than a drunk/tired/distracted human driver.
A Crypto-Trading Hamster Performs Better Than Warren Buffett and the S&P 500
Brooks wrote "No Silver Bullet" in 01987. The examples of high-level languages he mentions in his paper are Ada, Modula (not sure whether the 01975 version or Modula-2), Simula-67, APL, Pascal, Smalltalk, Fortran, COBOL, PL/I, and Algol, and of these he thinks Ada is the most promising. Does his thesis hold up in the face of modern programming language advances?

I am not confident that there are programs I can write in Python, JS, or OCaml in one hour that nobody can write in Ada in ten hours, and programs in those languages in ten hours that nobody can write in Ada in 100 hours. I'm even less confident that they beat Smalltalk by as much. The exception is for very small programs: you can write things in Python in 5 minutes that nobody can write in Ada in an hour.

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/rpneact.py is maybe one example, which I wrote over the course of about 12 hours on January 2. It's a simple interactive calculator app that includes a general-purpose numerical equation solver; from the Python standard library it gets floating-point and complex arithmetic, regular expressions, and command-line editing. I don't think it would take me even as long as 120 hours to write it in C, which is roughly the same level as Ada but more painful to debug.

Similarly, http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/lmu.py is a very limited MUD, where multiple users can connect, interact, and collaboratively build a textual world by creating rooms and other objects and setting their descriptions: sort of like a Wiki for interactive fiction, though without much richness of interaction. I wrote this between July 18 and July 24 last year, probably taking more than 20 hours in total. Writing it in C would have been slower but surely would not have taken 200 hours.

The main thing that's happened since 01987 is that computers have gotten a lot faster and bigger, so we can get by without as much attention to efficiency, and software libraries are also enormously more powerful. It's not that much easier now to write a SQL database than it was in 01987, but it's a hell of a lot easier to link in SQLite. It's not that much easier to write a regular expression matcher, but every modern language has one in the standard library already. Rendering Telugu text properly still involves a lot of hairy cases, but whether you're in a terminal or a browser, generally all you need to do is emit some UTF-8 bytes and you're golden.
I love that the Empire manual has a section that suggests readers "Wire up an interconnecting cable as shown..." Long gone are the days when computer games came with manuals, let alone manuals that are so detailed they actually tell you how to wire up the cables you might need.
That's clearly part of our competitive advantage here.

Because initial bioreactor coffee is probably worse than naturally grown varieties, you need a market that will accept that before you can get the kind of scale that will drive future improvement.

Or something.
I was going to say this.

IIRC, the MIT license does not require attribution (EDIT: it does)

Most people do not understand the philosophy of Open Source. It's not "hey look at me, I made this, look at me".

They should not give liberties to other people if they don't want them to use it.

EDIT: Seeing the comments to this one, this should be seen as a proof of Cunningham's Law[1]

[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
Clever. Nice work.

Would you also add the average score per season ?
I don't understand why this is so hard to accept.

I used to love watching horrors. I watched them a lot and that made me less sensitive to them - I needed more scarier and badly looking to feel scared. And it is 100% legitimate for someone else to dislike horrors. To be sensitive to pain on the screen, to not be used to the tensions and anticipation of bad these movies create.

It has nothing to do with whether that horror has redeeming qualities. It does not matter whether it has deep philosophical meaning. The experience of watching it is deeply uncomfortable for some people and that is fine. It does not says anything bad about them.
Sure it does: things coming from the direction of the sun are occluded by our dear planet at night! So we have to see them at day.
> I wish it didn't go the "case as you want road" though.

That's almost inevitable given its desire for close interop with C (as in, the Zig compiler includes a C compiler and can directly #include C headers).

The standard library has a relatively consistent case style though, which the Zig guide recommends.
> requires you to verify each single session instead of just a the people

What do you mean by that? When no new devices are introduced you only have to verify the fingerprint of each contact once (via QR code).

> Afaik it does not have any audit either

https://conversations.im/omemo/audit.pdf
That's correct. Biycle paths are very well kept. Winters in the Netherlands are pretty mild though, temperature hovers around 2-6c the whole time, and it only snows once or twice a year. The hard parts are the wind and rain.
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With respect, this author misunderstands Edward Tufte's use of the term "Chart junk." Chart junk isn't just pointless decoration on charts. It's also misleading or missing scales, deceptive or inept ways of representing data, and so forth.
'Beneficial'.

Therein lies the rub.
I was a practicing Mahayana Buddhist for many years and I can assure you it is a religion. There is an entire pantheon with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, ancestors are worshipped. There are temples, rituals, idols, altars, prostration, chanting, incense lighting, religious texts, etc. There is an afterlife via rebirth which you are trying to end via merit making (virtuous acts). Most of the religious practices are there. There is even a religious rite similar to the Christian sacrament of confirmation called taking the precepts where you make certain religious commitments, and you are given a Buddhist name after time of religious study.

I think it is pure fantasy that people believe Buddhism is not a religion. I think some people want to convert Buddhism into just philosophy because they want to take out the interesting content and drop the baggage (rituals, worship, etc.). Many are leaving Christianity with the hope of finding a spiritual community without all of the negatives of religion. However without the baggage there is no meaning or purpose and people will fill in the blanks with their own culture and religious upbringing.
I would guess that it depends on the final product. This works for coffee because it gets grinded to a fine powder. Cocoa might work as well, tobacco for e-smokig, etc.
I did this for a few months when my house construction was delayed. Living out of a suitcase, even in relatively nice Airbnbs, was soul-sucking. No choice of mattress, a limited wardrobe, same-y IKEA decor everywhere. Not having a true "home base" was no fun. Wouldn't recommend it unless you really have the personality for it.
I didn't mean to contrast the two with each other, but both with "disingenuous", of which they're synonyms.
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Yes - quite. I don't like gore and I think superhero movies are dumb. So if someone lived for both, there would be a problem.

But it's not just about "taste", it's about values. I strongly suspect I won't have many shared values with someone who loves gore. And conflicting values are more likely to break a relationship than incompatible movie tastes.
You should really read the MIT license text again. It's 3 paragraphs...

They're also not saying that they weren't allowed to fork it. Just that it was an asshole move, and in community efforts that matters too. The exact same thing could happen with a GPL project, no difference license-wise.
>> I know I am being simplistic, and I understand that no statistical model will ever make up for the loss of a family member, the generally accepted foundation for the morality of self-driving car technologies hinges on whether they can beat the human-driven statistical equivalent.

It's not about emotions; it's about statistics.

The problem that needs to be overcome is not the emotions of people losing loved ones, but the difficulty of accurately estimating safety by test-driving autonomous cars.

The following is from a Rand Corporation study titled: "Driving to Safety"; subtitle "How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability?"

Key Findings

Autonomous vehicles would have to be driven hundreds of millions of miles and sometimes hundreds of billions of miles to demonstrate their reliability in terms of fatalities and injuries.

Under even aggressive testing assumptions, existing fleets would take tens and sometimes hundreds of years to drive these miles — an impossible proposition if the aim is to demonstrate their performance prior to releasing them on the roads for consumer use.

Therefore, at least for fatalities and injuries, test-driving alone cannot provide sufficient evidence for demonstrating autonomous vehicle safety.

Developers of this technology and third-party testers will need to develop innovative methods of demonstrating safety and reliability.

Even with these methods, it may not be possible to establish with certainty the safety of autonomous vehicles. Uncertainty will remain.

In parallel to developing new testing methods, it is imperative to develop adaptive regulations that are designed from the outset to evolve with the technology so that society can better harness the benefits and manage the risks of these rapidly evolving and potentially transformative technologies.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1478.html

Bottom line, Tesla's (and everybody else's) "safety record" isn't and it will take a lot more time to know whether self-driving cars are as safe as human-driven cars. The stats you quote are not sufficiently informative.
I wonder how long it will be for CDs to have retro appeal like vinyl and to a much lesser extend casettes and reel-to-reel? I think this year LPs are outselling CDs in the UK and US for the first time since the early '90s.

I wonder if they even will achieve that kind of status, a CD represents a perfect digital copy which is just as easily available in the same quality on things like Tidal*. Vinyl at least isn't just retro appeal, some of it is down to being a tangible way to support artists when streaming is perceived as not being profitable for all but the largest acts and it does have a different subjective quality to digital music.

*Having said that, I've been building up a library of offline digital music for the first time in over a decade because of rights holders randomly deleting tracks off streaming services on a whim. In a pleasingly circular way some of these are rips of my record collection!
It's literally three lines of actual content. It would not take you long to read it.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright © 2021 <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

He was violating the license until 19 hours ago: https://github.com/ai/nanocolors/commit/1d86f02ca751ad8c113c...

The MIT license is a bad license but in this case the terms of it were clearly being violated by a hostile actor.
Hell yeah, caddys multi domain reverse proxy tls is godsent. Used it to replace haproxy on some projects.
gimp's time is over. No one liked it as their first choice for the past 20 years with more competitions, it's not going to get any more market share.

Mac has Pixelmator and Windows and Mac have Affinity Photo as Photoshop alternative for some.
It has no place being there.
That's great, but it seems to ignore the fact that lack of communication during difficult manoeuvres (like getting the website back online) is often seen as a critical failure by the client to not keep them updated on progress. Sometimes you have to fly solo, and then you have to provide the updates yourself. If you have the privilege of having a wingman, they can do the comms for you, but in many cases, you don't.
From the MIT license:

"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software."

It clearly requires attribution.
I think that the comment was talking about raw amount of hours full time job + school takes. Which means there is very little remaining time for household chores (including kids and pets) meaning partner has to do almost all of them.

It was not about educational attainment, but about assumed silent expectation that partner does all the housework.
The lack of lowercase and symbols on some terminals is why languages in the Pascal and Ada tradition are case insensitive and eschew some ASCII symbols, even today. You can even trace some of the weird syntax in COBOL like DIVIDE N INTO X to similar concerns.

> You got it all designed in your head (or on paper), worked out most of the details, and then at the terminal it was mostly more typing than programming.

Very true, and people would even use pre-formatted "coding form" paper back in the day, to ease that hand-coding process further. It was just hard to do real interactive development while working at a hardcopy terminal, so smart 'glass teletypes' with actual full-screen editing were a significant innovation.
Frankly I do not appreciate most of the comments in that thread by others, a lot of then border on or enter "victim blaming", and others are straight up gaslighting, either intentionally or through negligence. Totally unhelpful to "OpenSource" to take this kind of attitude toward people when the terms of their license are exploited.
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It's probably indicative of the fact that MIT is the de-facto default license in the JS ecosystem. It's not like other licenses require much more of forks than MIT does.
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