skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m in the UK - We have a 2 year old and a 4.5 year old both in rear facing Swedish car seats. It was cramped in the front of my old Kia Ceed, so we replaced it with a Honda CRV, which is on the the large end of mid sized SUVs. We carted the car seats into several other cars until we found one we liked where the car seats fit. Andcdotally I have seen middle income parents almost exclusively go for SUV’s or MPVs rather than hatchbacks or estates.
> Why hasn't US achieved the level of digital payment smoothness that China has been able to?

Because it already achieved that "level of digital payment smoothness" with credit cards?

> I think we need to be careful about attributing all of the China's success and splurge of VC funding to IP theft, hostile domestic market for foreign players, etc. China is succeeding because it really wants to.

> It's important to recognize China's technological prowess. They have similarly taken a lead in bioengineering.

I attribute it to having an authoritarian government that's not afraid to direct the economy. The US, on the other hand, has more-or-less adopted an ideology that specifically rejects that kind of government economic direction.
I'm starting to get tired of the cookie-cutter Bootstrap and Squarespace templates taking over the web. This is a refreshing read, I like the comparisons it makes to brutalism in architecture.
Wait, what?

All I'm saying is that we would be better off if we asked ourselves how to use each new technology in a way that allows up to reap the benefits while avoiding the pitfalls. In no way am I suggesting that we not create or use new technologies at all.
Every year someone shares the fact its my birthday on Facebook. Combined with my physical address from peoples contacts I’m pretty sure there must be complete profiles on many non-users.
Slackoverflower, would call duration come the app on Facebook users phones, and knowing who call were to and from?
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I once suggested that W3C base its HTML snapshots on the web developer edition of HTML. In retrospect the full version was probably not a good fit as a W3C standard in the first place.
> Wouldn’t it have been easier if all tags were either ending in /> or followed by a closing tag?

Not really.

> Wouldn’t it have been easier if the syntax was formally defined as ABNF, and could be translated into code in a matter of days?

No, working from an spec written as an algorithm is easier than working from ABNF plus some inconvenient prose constraints.

(With the exception of template element support, I wrote the HTML parser used in Firefox and Validator.nu.)
So you're saying that the key to success is to get in at the ground floor, and exit after a few years?
As I posted before, you don't even have to go to the point of conviction. If you are looking at several people, as tenants, employees, whatever- and one comes up as having been accused of some terrible misconduct, but was acquitted, why would you take the chance?

That's the real injustice. And it happens. It's a career-ender.
The key phrase is "as of yet". There are ML algorithms called generative models that try to understand the underlying probability distribution that is producing the data. All we need a better generative model that matches the internal state of humans and produces "Art" after interacting with the randomness of the outside world.

I think there is nothing magical about being a human. We are complex machines with lot of processes, but nothing that can't be replicated.
I was impressed with the brutalist architecture, those plain concrete buildings have something about them that I can't place. Maybe like the old concrete tower hovering over the backdrop of a new, colorful, city? Something about it peeks your senses. As for the web design, it was also interesting. I liked some of the designs, others not so much. The website for zku:

http://www.zku-berlin.org

Something about that just feels comforting, if not nostalgic, like what you'd expect to see from an early 2000s webpage before things got fancy. I think what makes these sites pop for me is the contrast of colors, too much white ruins the effect. Having out of place, darker colors thrown in feels like its breaking the rules, in a good way.
There’s no need for a government to enforce standards on the web – there’s already an oligopoly that can do it on their own.

In fact, there’s a single company that can just outright dictate web standards, because they hold almost 70% of the browser market: Google.
Do you have references to numbers your are quoting? I searched for 60-80% number quoted by GP but found nothing even close.
Most web design trends since the 90s have been progressive. Brutalism feels like a step backwards for the sake of being different. Feels like one of those trends that will be very short-lived.
> Leave the business of documenting what browsers actually conform to to the W3C.

Documenting the prevailing conditions is very much not the purpose of a standard.
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I don't really care whether or not the FBI bought this device or another. What I want to know is what's Apple's response to all of this?

iOS11 seems to have almost purposeful security weakenesses. I'm willing to give Apple the benefit of the doubt here, but only if they fix whatever flaws these guys and Cellebrite are using to break into iOS11 iPhones.

Both those decryption devices seem to rely on iOS11 so it must a new change, which means it shouldn't be too hard for Apple to figure out which one of its recent changes caused this weakness in security.
Maybe Ethereum is stupid for encouraging "tokens" in the first place, and maybe their name should be dragged through the mud.
> Yeah, right. This has absolutely nothing to do with being 'diverse' and progressive. I don't know what you had in mind (SV?), but this all is caused by stuff that already happened decades ago. This is pretty well documented history.

You can believe that it's not due to diversity, but you cannot make the argument that SV's current success is based stuff that happened decades ago. That's like saying the US was founded by white people, ensuring its current success. That would basically claim that everything that followed, all policies, events, progress, had no effect? That would be ludicrous.
The article didn't seem to answer the one question I really had -- is this legal???

"If you assumed that artificial intelligence itself couldn't run for mayor, you're absolutely not wrong; that just happens to be where things get truly interesting."

And then the author doesn't actually answer whether the AI can or can't run for mayor. I'm wondering if they're taking advantage of some weird loophole in the law that doesn't require the mayor to be a citizen/human there.
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It’s relatively poor. The pinafore.social mastodon app doesn’t work as a PWA in iOS at all because redirecting to a mastodon insance for authentication switches back to the browser, and cookies aren’t shared between the Safari app and PWAs.
Spot on.

Some programming languages can be, and are, better than other programming languages. They've all been evolving along a single historical timeline, and many mistakes were made in the past that we acknowledge and wouldn't make again. To take a well-known example: eminently abusable Turing complete templates in C++ versus the more modern generics as seen in C#, Java, Rust, etc.

We should all have a shared goal of building of tooling that maximizes our leverage by providing powerful primitives, and minimizes the number of mistakes we make by providing dependable safety rails. Some more recent programming languages are really doing an exceptional job of this.

This critique of Go quite correct. It's a pretty good language with a lot of pretty good ideas, but it's also not without a healthy dose of very sizable flaws as well (which the author has enumerated nicely), and they're made more concerning because most of the Go team refuses to acknowledge many of them.

Without even going near the third rails of package management or generics, other niceties like real enums, ways to build typed non-slice non-map data structures, safety measures to protect against Goroutine leaks, or explicit interfaces would all be big improvements. I personally find that once it comes to large projects, Go feels obviously less brittle than Ruby/Python/JS, but much closer to their end of the spectrum compared to languages that offer stronger guarantees (e.g. Rust, Haskell, but also even languages like C#). I don't think that's what its creators were going for.
Sounds as useful as collecting RSA public keys. If you want them all...
It should be noted that apart from alcohol aspects, Swedish road safety thinking systematically treats the human behavior as something that can not be changed with training, propaganda etc. The only thing that works is to change the environment to fit the human, and to make the human behave safely.
What I'm struck by is how many people don't see value in this. If you work with sensitive data, this is valuable. A business may already trust google, but they want to send emails (even internally) that expire. I'd like it if it just expired the attachments - that's normally where sensitive data lives.

I don't even need to prevent printing etc.

I'd also love a setting, email over 1 year old, you have to jump through some extra hoops to access it.
Ponzi not Pyramid. Pyramid means that each participant makes their money directly from their downline, in a self-similar way. And a Pyramid scheme can be totally honest, relying eyes-wide-open on the sigmoid curve for its initial success and eventually failure. A Ponzi scheme lies about the source of financial returns.
Why is Apple HomePod worth so much more than Amazon Echo? Is the technology fundamentally more advanced? Or is this just a marketing position to elevate the price point so that it can be seen as a luxury good?
> However, flu vaccine isn't useful to the general population.

CDC makes no such distinctions in USA.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/flu.html

Any references to your claims?
Is it time to start advocating against social media?
Right now I wouldn't consider any salaries listed there to be reliable, people are probably just testing the site out. My honest opinion would be to load initial data yourself using some legitimate sources (glassdoor could be one, but you can google it) instead of relying completely on crowd to build your database from ground up.

You should show some really good data to begin with.

But overall site looks slick!

good luck
> It backpage wasn’t limiting itself to consensual sex work. They were literally working with pimps that were selling kidnapped children to be raped.

As I already said, it's a lot easier to find victims of sex trafficking, rescue them, and prosecute the traffickers when sites like Backpage exist. That's literally why prosecutors opposed SESTA/FOSTA in the first place, along with former victims of sex trafficking.
I appreciate the attempt to include compatibility tables, but they're nowhere near detailed enough for serious usage. Take the canvas element as an example. The WHATWG spec has one "CanIUse" sidebar for basically each section, if that. But compatibility issues exist at the level of individual methods. E.g. .filter and .resetTransform() both have very low cross-platform support ([1] and [2]), which I can tell at a glance from MDN, both in the sidebar listing them, and the compatibility tables on each page. Whereas the WHATWG spec doesn't even mention that these are experimental ([3] and [4]), and the CanIUse sidebar is totally absent for them.

StackOverflow is not a reference, and the answers for even popular queries are sometimes a decade out of date.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRende...

[3] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/canvas.html#dom-context-2d-...

[4] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/canvas.html#transformations
> Is it interesting how little of consequence is written in Rust, or in that example Haskell, and how much is written in Go, C, and even derelict dregs like PHP.

Exactly this. It always amazes me when people respond with "You can't judge a language by the things that are built with it because you can build anything in any Turing complete language". They're pretty much arguing that haskell/rust etc are better than go because all languages are equal.
It's not actually sad. Social media and advertising involve incredibly complex and vast search spaces. The problem domains are massive and solving the issues in those fields, like scaling software and hardware, enables us to build tooling and infrastructure that every field can use. So those businesses are the bootstrapper for other businesses. Example: SpaceX wouldn't exist if Paypal didn't exist first.
Someone Stole My Book (and My Job) and Is Selling It on Amazon
Your objection is funny. Other methods of communication could be faked. Here you have Github as an authority to check membership and the organisation's repositories as an official place of discussion (perhaps equivalent to the website).

You do have to trust that the org is legitimate, but you could also fake a website or a whole organisaion.
Looks like they have, yes.
No one is saying high quality random numbers are not important for cryptography. We are saying true randomness is unimportant and undesirable, given the comparatively enormous complexity required to achieve it. The modern conception of cryptography is explicitly that you do not need "true" anything - randomness, security, indistinguishability, unforgeability, etc. Everything is modeled in game semantics with a computational cost:benefit analysis for attackers.

Cryptographic failures with respect to entropy sources occur not because they aren't random enough, but because they're implemented incorrectly. When they're implemented correctly, they're fine, because this is a well studied problem for which we have a variety of useful solutions. This is why proposing a replacement source of entropy using quantum computers is ridiculous, because you would commensurately increase the complexity of the system into completely unknown territory.

This isn't exactly a controversial perspective. I don't know of a single reputable cryptographer who takes quantum cryptography seriously. I would be happy to learn of a few, but if you look at the research landscape you'll quickly see that proposals for quantum cryptography are disconnected from the academic cryptography community.
> The longer you live the more years you pay premiums. The more premiums the higher your profits.

The longer you live, the more that the cost of your medical care exceeds the premiums that you pay, because the body naturally starts to fail, most acutely and expensively, toward the end of life. This is a big reason why the ACA individual mandate existed, because there is little incentive to pay for care for those who are expensive to care for if healthier people aren't part of the system.

It also demonstrates to why for-profit incentives don't work very well for health insurance at a national scale.
It would be very hard to view them as a monopoly in any case if you consider all the other media sources they compete with.

I can’t think of the last time I saw broadcast local news.
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Disregarding the fact that Facebook is blocked by the Great Firewall, and virtually unused in China, serving internet ads on a national or township basis is easy to do with IP address based selection. This can be done without tracking users (recording information about them) or otherwise impacting their privacy. It isn't necessary to build a database tying individual identities to nationalities or addresses, to geographically target ads.
"Young people are all too conscious of the social and economic burdens they will have to shoulder. Over-65s already account for 28% of the population, almost double the proportion of 15- to 29-year-olds. By 2065 they are projected to rise to nearly 40%. The welfare system is struggling to keep up."

I don't get this. What is supposed to be this so called burden nowadays? What will elderly people require? Food and medicine? First can be considered cheap, relative to the amount of employed people. Actually, I'm not sure there will be needed much more workers than now, if things will continue to improve, we may expect to need less. Healthcare maybe will require a small increase to cope with the growing numbers of patients. (But maybe not necessarily so, considering that the system already serves the current numbers of people and the population is declining?) The Japanese government already pays for 70% of healthcare services for working people, how much of a difference will it make to cover it a little bit more for the old? So what remains there to struggle with? Some food-stamps and a small increase (relative to already existing levels) in healthcare subvention? On the other hand, after giving them food and healthcare, you're pretty much free to cut in pensions as much as you must. It isn't like there are leases or mortgages to be paid. Not from pensions, mind you.
Im honestly not sure how they prevent people from trolling. There might be a cancelation fee for repeat offenders. One uber driver told me that he estimates that uber takes half of the fare. I wish there was a platform for drivers to pay a low monthly sub, but get to keep 100% of ride fares.
At this point we should soon see recommendations to insert our hands in sterilized Ziploc bags after having washed them.

I fail to see why so much concern is directed toward this instead of door-knobs, workplace keyboards, payment PIN entry pads, etc.
Is it because the NSA pays enough to rentabilize gmail?
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> by lucideer's quirky definition

Which also happens to be the definition the w3c xhtml 1.0 spec. You can choose to think that's quirky, please don't attribute it to me.

> definition that most of us are using, which is that XHTML is complaint XHTML that could be rendered without error in browser's XHTML modes

Which, again, is the definition used in the later w3c xhtml 1.1 & 2 specs, the former which wasn't widely used, the latter which was abandoned without being published at all.

If your issue with XHTML was that W3C were moving towards a direction you disagreed with, then you don't have an issue with the version of XHTML that was in popular use.

> XHTML-levels of precision in HTML requires an awful lot of API support and very careful usage

I'm not really sure where this view comes from. HTML validation is a lot more complex and difficult to achieve than XML well formedness, and HTML4/XHTML1 validation were both far simpler than modern HTML5 validation (the Nu validator is inordinately complex in comparison to the older DTD one). Furthermore, dev tools for ensuring XML well-formedness are far more readily available and integrated into most things even today, while HTML5 validation is such an obscure concept today I'm sure many devs don't even know it's a thing.
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Meh- the French Academy has power over prescriptive grammar sure, but it has almost no power over what descriptive linguistics finds. Lots of Arabic and Verlan has made its way into everyday parlance.

I'm not really sure that the French Academy is really that much more effective than Strunk & White is for English speakers. It primarily seems to be ceremonial / an expression of French pride.
Again we find that the current, unregulated, ICO market is the most interesting system for parting fools from their money in recent history.

Jokes apart, I think it's a good thing. It's 2018, if people are exposed to that kind of scam today, they will evolve quickly, especially the kids. They will develop critical thinking and bullshit detectors. They will stop believing in advertisement and, more importantly, propaganda.
Remember that Apple just implemented the Canvas tag. If you implement something good perhaps almost none of the W3C member organisations matter in pushing something.
People can live their sex lives however they want, nobody's dictating anything to anyone here. I'm no sex expert, but I'd bet that the majority of those 34 year old virgins - at least the men - would rather not be virgins.
Boots on the ground don't need to be accurate to within 1cm. If a normal human is within 10 meters they can nearly always figure things out. In fact if humans are that close it is because you don't actually know where the enemy is and you need the humans to find them - otherwise you would have a plane drop a bomb on them.

Where you need more accuracy is when you want something at a long distance to do something - drop a bomb or something.
How do we interpret this heartless-sounding statement? In the absence of original source material, whatever interpretation you apply will inevitably be a projection of your pre-existing views on the matter. If you want to knee-jerk your way to the standard "Goldman Sachs is Evil" view, help yourself to the rest of the top-level comments in this thread. If you're still reading, I think I have a worthwhile point to offer:

Let's not forget, Goldman Sachs and its biotech brethren are businesses. All business involves long-term strategic planning, often behind closed doors, to answer the question of "what application of our existing money will make us the most money in the future?" When viewed through this lens, Goldman's statement can be polished up to "of all the biotech investment options we're weighing, investment in outright cures for infectious diseases is less profitable in the long-term because curing people has a nonlinear effect on the patient population." It's a simple statement of fact.

OP's summary, and I strongly encourage you to actually read it if you haven't, goes on to say that Goldman's research suggests long-term research and product investment would be best applied to medical conditions like cancer and aging, for which a cure for an individual doesn't result in a diminishing market.

This isn't nearly as evil-sounding as the article aims to make it sound. At worst, it highlights something we already know: market-based solutions tend to be flawed, and if we want investment in treatments for infectious diseases we need to turn to forces that are exempt from market forces (i.e. government research funding). At best, it's an indication that we can expect more investment to go into things like cancer and age-related diseases.
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> Not at all the same thing. Actions have consequences, and we can't force companies to hire people they see as unsafe.

That doesn't mean we have to provide them with the means to do it. No public information, no option to see someone unsafe because of that information.
Apparently there is almost $800B (7% of China's gdp) in Chinese government money in "venture guidance funds", basically government LPs. Originally the govt wanted to do direct venture investments but that proved challenging and strewn with conflicts

The article mentions that the govt funding may not be as large as it seems and that the government LPs don't have that much control over investment strategy, but the intent is there

https://www.chinamoneynetwork.com/2017/10/31/chinas-798b-gov...