skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So these guys apparently get hacked versions of software from Eastern Europe (according to the film). It was also reported that some in rural American areas developed sympathy for Russia and Eastern Europe (though that is probably very much over-reported). Can these things in some way be related? (Note: I am not claiming they are; just wondering out loud.)
Drive-By Key-Extraction Cache Attacks from Portable Code
Wasn't that an april 1st joke, though?
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WAI-ARIA has its limitations. When it comes to tables (which is the example I provided) there are no roles for demarcating headers (<thead>), body (<tbody>) and footers (<tfoot>). Instead there is a generic "rowgroup" role which doesn't indicate to the person using a screen reader if the row belongs to a header or body or footer. Also, without a header demarcation, it becomes the responsibility of the disabled user to keep a count of the table cells to be able to associate content with headers (which the blind user will have to assume is the first rowgroup). Complex tables (which have multiple header rows with some cells merged) are simply inaccessible to the user.

WAI-ARIA complements semantic tags. It doesn't contain replacement for all semantic tags. It doesn't stop at the table tags. How would you represent <main>, <aside>, <header>, <footer> using WAI-ARIA such that the screen reader picks up the intent? Also imagine trying to replace the <input> or <textarea> elements with <div> tags. You would have to use _contenteditable_ and then implement all the semantic features yourself. It's just not worth the effort and the end result will be buggy.
DRH's /Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language/ is a remarkable book about translation of literature (all of his books are must reads, btw). Still, it seems to me that shallowness is a feature, not a bug, of automatic translation.
They haven't. It's a marketing ploy: throw some crap as PR and see where it sticks

Keeps them on the news as the "thinking of how to make stuff cheaper". Note how this has toned down in the past year or so, because the "as cheap as possible" thing was backfiring on them
What are you missing with Jest in TypeScript? For me, ts-jest is completely seamless.
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Majority of car accidents are minor. You might end with some bruises or some damage to the car, but nothing too bad

Plane accidents are much more likely to result in fatalities
Show me the code (of the bootstraping system). This project is no more "beyond open source" than a History channel documentary about aliens. This is no more than a tax haven and toy for the wealthy and privileged. Put up or shut up (about claims of being open source or for everyone).

I'm only angry because it's a good project.
A quick summary of what's new:

* Asnyc Iteration: Looping over async lists, e.g, reading lines from file or an async generator.

Allows code like:

for await (const x of asyncIterable) { foo(x) }

* Spread/Rest (`...`): Makes FP easier.

const a = { foo: 1 }
const b = { bar: false, ...a }
// b is { bar: false, foo: 1 }

Works on arrays (spread operator for literals) or objects (rest operator for destructuring)

* RegEx features like named capture groups

* `Promise.prototype.finally()` - Callback function is always executed, regardless of what promise returns.
And here's an opportunity for smaller companies.

I have a small company, and I can't offer my employees the prestige or high salary that larger companies offer.

But I can offer to accommodate whatever other special wishes people have. Want to work just 4 days a week? Fine. Want to work from 12pm to 8pm? Fine. Want to take a day off on short notice? Fine with me.

Larger companies have all kinds of rules and policies in place. In a small company, you can design the policies together with the employees.
I too have considered communal living as a solution to feeling less enamoured with Facebook than I used to be.
Oh yea, there are over a billion Chinese people in China alone and because not a single Chinese person you know has told you they think that, it must not be true!
Yet its the same problem today that prompted the Opium Wars as back then: The West buys more from China than China buys from The West.

Hopefully that colours the decisions made to rebalance the trade system.
As questionable as some of the design decisions on it are, that website is stunningly beautiful.
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy when making an argument. The term has nothing to do with how we humans source information.

As a matter of fact, most of the information we consider true comes from sources we trust.

Have you ever run the measurements and calculations yourself to prove yourself that the planets and the sun aren't rotating around the earth?

I've studied Physics and I sure haven't.

Unless you're studying math I'm pretty sure you're trusting some sources.
I don't see how it can be true that "In terms of transport efficiency, buses and light rail carry more people than cars.", particularly for the light rail.

The first problem, shared by both, is that in many locations they run nearly empty. Smaller vehicles would be far less wasteful.

Light rail is a horrifically inefficient use of land. Use (passengersdistance)/(timeland) to score it. Another way to look at this: on average, what percent of the time is there a person above a physical location that is dedicated to transportation?

The bus, if operating in mixed traffic, is somewhat efficient for land use. (more so if full) The train wastes most of the land most of the time. At best it might share with freight service, but that degrades passenger service.
Turkey indicted 30k people and ruined lots of lives, just because someone hacked their wifi and added a link to some gullen (made up state enemy) website app, and just visiting that app website would put you in jail, but their didn't even do that. Philipines is worse with drugs regular killings, you must be quite an idiot to say this.
>I am curious if you're a pilot and if so have your CPL or ATP.

I got nothin. I'm just a slightly knowledgeable person.

Flying is on my bucket list. I've researched the topic a bit more than the average lay person. That's about it.
Because people in general are idiots.

Or, to express it more charitably - we're all used to it. Car-related fatalities no longer register as unusual. You don't hear much about them in the news. They're treated as "something that unavoidably happens to people". Like cancer or heart attack, and unlike murder, which is unusual. I'm willing to bet that you're friends or acquaintances with people who crashed their cars (with or without health consequences), and you're at most two hops in your social graph from people who died in a car accident.
The magic “Just do it” type class
It was the mistakes of a highly centralized government that helped thrust those same people into poverty in the first place. Why should centralism be credited for helping pull them out but not for putting them there in the first place?

Meanwhile the West long ago eradicated the kind of poverty that still persists in China. Is that to be credited to our system of government too?
Some players will be forced to retire due to injury, so I'm not sure of the actual statistics, but it's not abnormal to find players well into their 30s.

If it helps, here's the current squads for a few of the northern hemisphere teams with their ages listed. Lots in their 20s but a few current players have passed 30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_national_rugby_union_tea...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_national_rugby_union_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_national_rugby_union_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_rugby_union_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_rugby_union_te...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy_national_rugby_union_tea...
Communism, like libertarian capitalism, simplifies the human condition too much to win in a pure form. Both have important lessons, neither is sufficient.

At least, neither is sufficient for now; I can image fully automated luxury space communism working, once AI is good enough.
Photoreceptivity isn't consciousness. "View from the inside" wasn't a mere reference to vision. And I would hope that the structural differences between DNA and brains are clear enough that they wouldn't have to be debated in a serious conversation.
Insurance is a for-profit business. It's normal for them to exclude high-risk activities from being covered by a policy that's priced for low-risk life. You can get a special GA-covering policy if you pay extra, there or elsewhere.
I've had an automatic lawn mower for years, not sure what your point is there.
Which is exactly why a racing series is needed. Where would ICE cars be if it wasn't for the billions poured into rally/race teams over the years driving R&D and steering people towards the most capable touring car.
Yes. I think that has been a complaint about recent F1 seasons. Even non electric cars make much less real engine noise than the past which is why modern road cars synthesize and augment the engine sound.

I don't know if this would be more ridiculous on a pure electric.
How about you instead engage with that individual if you disagree? I don't find his comment unwelcoming to discussion. Now, whether he is correct or wrong is entirely separate, but from my point of view all I'm seeing is discussion being shutdown in the name of feelings and prevailing opinion.
First someone states that the way web sites work now sucks. Then the next person states, ‘Well we used to build sites this way and then it doesn’t suck’. And then the next person comes in saying ‘well that just isn’t the way we build sites now’.

If that isn’t the way we build sites now, either change the way we build sites or accept that it sucks. But this is Hacker News so we’re supposed to think about different ways to build sites than what we do now.
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Excuse me but... How can messaging apps have more users than humans on Earth? What part of that data am I missing?
Yea, that is why I dislike anti-discrimination laws for anything other than manual labor. It is often difficult to objectively determine why someone was fired.
Maybe by people coming into the industry. The established industry in general is far too risk averse to use smart contracts in their current state
Cars are safe too - most of the traffic deaths happen because of the drivers, not because of the hardware.

I think when GP wrote "commercial airliners are safe... small private craft, not as much", they meant it from the POV of a passenger.
I couldn’t immediately see any proposals for list/set/object comprehensions at https://github.com/tc39/proposals, are there any?
Wow. With this material we could create satellites to orbit the sun and not burn.

Also cool that it’s 90% organic material!
>> Westerners as sources of the Opium Wars and therefore as enemies

The article is not wrong. Opium war, in the official narrative of recent Chinese history, is phrased as "the start of a hundred years of humiliation of China". It is heavily focused event in middle school history class. It definitely still shapes China in a lot of way, like the strictest drug prohibition may be in the whole world.

In every day communication, it might not be significant, but it does have a greater effect on a subconscious level, serving as foundation for regular Chinese folk to perceive the relationship with West in general, which is centered with invasion, humiliation, lose of sovereignty and the shame of inferiority.
whether you are a robot or a person I appreciate your effort
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. An easily digestible summary of information and key figures in its history.

Turing's Cathedral (or as my brothers call it: Von Neumann's Cathedral). An awesome account of the history of computation, and the obstacles that had to be overcome.

Cryptonomicon. Hilarious

The Strangest Man, by Graham Farmelo. A biography of delightfully awkward Paul Dirac.

The Library of Babel, by Jorge Luis Borges. Thought provoking and profound.
> A strict training and licensing regime along with other rules and regulations similar to those that apply to pilots, especially commercial and military ones, is incompatible with that benefit.

The full set of regulations maybe, but I believe you could retain the "most adults can drive" level while making everyone go through much stricter training and licensing regime. Right now in Europe and US, the required training and examinations are ridiculously weak (amounts to basically explaining the UI of the car and going over the basic maneuvers until the point you no longer spectacularly fail at them). It only shows that as a society, we never grew the required respect for the driving. I think it's because back when the expectations set, there were much less cars on the road.
Reminds me when i was a kid and was writing some GUI shell like Windows 3.1 (it only looked like it, of course, it was really just DOS programs :-P). I used a 386 and WfW 3.11 and Windows took a long time to run. Mine launched instantly and it felt "cheap". So to make it look more serious i added a loop that created and deleted files with small random delays inbetween and a progress bar that filled :-P. This way i got both a progress bar and a slower startup with hard disk noises like the serious programs had :-) (FWIW I remember adding the random delays because if you had smartdrv with write caching it would just flyby but also because a smooth progress bar felt fake :-P).
People often use multiple different messaging apps.
I believe that at this point it's worth drawing a distinction between "consciousness" and "self-awareness"/"self-consciousness".
Sadly, if international pressure can’t get Norway, Iceland and Japan to stop hunting whales to extinction we probably have little hope of it pressurising Indian into not producing an antibiotic epidemic.
I wish I could live more by the insights of this book.

also given its content the real title should be
"How to win friends and manipulate people."
>Any idea why…

No idea. It's a bug that I haven't been able to straighten out.

>My only other complaint…

Sure. As noted in the article, this is unescapable. For the situation you describe it would be possible to segment the constrained squares into distinct "islands" and then consider these independently of each other, reducing the complexity of the solver in these situations.

But it is proven that it is always possible to get into degenerate situations which no solver can ever hope to figure out.

I think my implementation is sufficient to demonstrate the concept and illustrate the article :)
Yes and there often fixed overheads per employee (desk space, health insurance, payroll costs, management overhead) that don't necessarily go down when the employee chooses to work less.
Yup.

I find this to be a good litmus test. If someone takes pride in calling themselves "like Uber, AirBnB", then I personally will not do business with them. Both companies are primarily known for exploiting and breaking laws for a quick buck, and Uber in particular is also widely recognized as run by a bunch of antisocial assholes.

It's doubly stupid to call yourself that when you're responsible for the very lives of your customers, like in this case...
Is this the accepted wisdom or your opinion?

What i mean - is the dominant cause human error, or is it just normal, random failures paired with a low margin environment ?!
For those of you who want to play with transfer learning, Keras has a nice collection of models for computer vision available here: https://keras.io/applications

Shameless plug: And if you want to try them out in your browser, I made a website that allows you to try pre-trained models: http://pretrained.ml
Please stop with the "serious convesation" FUD.

Structural differences are no barrier to functional equivalence. Transcription factors are proteins that activate or inhibit the transcription rate of other genes, including those of other transcription factors.

They do form complex regulation networks that are isomorphic to neural circuitry.

Edit: re. ocelloid, I know you didn't literally mean vision.

The structure of the retinal body and adjacent organelles suggests that it is more than a focused, single pixel cam that would be used for simple phototropism, which implies that it is tied to a more complex processing apparatus.
That's a PR piece that has very little depth to it.
> What is it with Hacker News and unprovoked attacks on libertarians?

Probably because some libertarians always have the generic comment of taxation is theft. When I ask them who should pay for the military I don't get a reply back.
For those who might be interested to see the discussion by the HN on this article, it's been submitted and discussed before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16287171 (23 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267363 (12 comments)

There are other submissions without comments, showing that the article is of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16279656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265302

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16294491

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16296792
Change the font, write it sideways in a frame, viola - progress bar!
I solved this in a react app I’m working on by overriding XMLHttpRequest.prototype.open to listen for the request lifecycle events and update a global “percent loaded” used to render a progress bar at the top of the page.

It’s far from perfect but is at least a good enough heuristic for the user to know when the page is loading a request.
For those who might be interested to see the discussion by the HN on this article, it's been submitted and discussed before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16287171 (23 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267363 (12 comments)

There are other submissions without comments, showing that the article is of interest:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16285196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16279656

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16265302

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16294491

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16296738
While it's correct, it hides peculiarities of humans' stimulus processing.
But yeah nice to see "Made in China first, for Chinese first" idea working out well for local investors/technologists.

Make China Great Again?
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> The Facebook app and websites have barely innovated

They even do the opposite. Maybe a half a year ago they removed one of the best features Facebook had - the event calendar. My guess is to promote a standalone events app that was released around that time.. but the app doesn't seem to be around any longer, and the events calendar is still gone. Replaced by a shitty list of upcoming events.
I understand JS was an experiment and that there was much to add to make it a proper language, but isn't it good enough now? Can we expect the pace of changes to slow down (specially in light of WebAssembly)? I'm not a JS developer and/or language developer, honestly just curious.
Jeffrey Shallit has a response - http://recursed.blogspot.com/2018/02/doug-hofstadter-flight-...
i think at least part of the problem is that when they were a social network, they pushed so hard for everything to be shared with as many people as possible that users stopped posting as much personal stuff.
Street View imagery is not that high quality though. I'd rather go with 360cities...
Unlikely. Mozilla had extensions which they submitted for ES6 IIRC (lists and generators) but it seems the tc39 preferred going with HoFs instead.
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I was delighted when DCCP appeared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_Congestion_Control_Pr...

It focuses narrowly on a congestion control protocol, and is intended to be combined which whichever datagram-based protocol you have lying around that might be suffering from congestion issues.
> Suffering societies need to learn from tragedies and take collective responsibility by reducing their population numbers

The good news is that the birth rate has been falling down for the last 30 years in India.
you'd have the same issue between a desktop and mobile user. i don't see it as an issue at all.
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This is one of those comments that will later be quoted in some Buzzfeed article about why HN is a soulless libertarian shit hole. And, quite frankly, I’d have to agree. The only redeemable counter argument is: it never got taken seriously, just downvoted, so it’s not representative of the tone of discussion.

Although it’s awfully close to some of the other threads here, I’m happy we collectively chose to draw the line at an argument honestly comparing computer repair to health care. (I can’t even believe I’m typing this; please don’t ever ask me to explain that again).
I've never gotten a chance to try out CloudKit but it has always looked pretty cool to me, especially after previous experiences with Parse. However, it seems like it'd reallllly tie the app developer in to iOS -- e.g., let's say I launch on iOS, how do I handle Android and/or web? I understand a lot of apps go iOS-first/focused, but to tie your entire backend to Apple is a bit much (unless you have no plans to expand beyond the CloudKit offerings). From a quick Google search, it seems like there is a JS implementation but I don't see an easy way on Android. This might work great for iOS-specific apps but seems like a bit too much risk vs. other, cross-platform solutions. I do appreciate how the free tier scales with number of users -- think that's a cool approach.

Having said the above, I've always wondered why Apple doesn't have an iOS SDK for user-auth (or if they do, why isn't it more prevalent outside of the Game Center stuff). I'd much prefer to one-touch sign up for an app using FaceId (if needed/user-approved, the app could access user info, like email), then have to signup with an email/username or use another 3rd party like Google. This is especially perplexing to me after the addition of the iOS password manager (https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-ios-11s-password-auto...) -- I think it'd be more compelling to offer password management behind the scenes in iOS (e.g, sign up with FaceId and have credentials generated/stored in password manager for off-device access; this could also encourage iOS generated passwords). There's a large chance I'm overlooking something here though, so who knows.
but that's kind of the beauty of css grid, the gracefull fallback is basically mobile view which you already put effort into.
Suppose it is hardcoded? what difference does that make?

edit: I know about hardware and software, but since we are all wetware, maybe we should think about it as its own class and/or function?
Or maybe they do, but we are unable to perceive it, because of our low emotIQ?
Cool story. I had a similar experience as a kid, when I designed the most elaborate splash screen only to notice it was shown only for a split second before the main window came up.