skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a liquid mirror, maybe?
And haven't invaded anybody in the last 60-70

Except Tibet (https://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/chinese-invad...), Vietnam (https://thediplomat.com/2017/02/the-bitter-legacy-of-the-197...), India (https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs...), islands in the South China Sea claimed by other countries (https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/08/27/neighbor...), and unsuccessful attempts to seize islands controlled by Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis).
After centuries of a system people integrate their role in it. After a while you really feel that you are the superior or the inferior. It's really hard to get out of it.
"open markets, limited government"

I feel like the latter is used a lot to destroy the former.
> Just because there’s a semi-uniform political bend doesn’t mean they’re biased in product

Surely. But that seems to be a basic assumptions in these quarters - if you hold certain views, they can't but influence who you are and how you do all things, including work. Isn't that the premise Damore and others were fired under? Isn't that the premise people get disinvited from tech conferences under - even if their politics has nothing to do with technology, their presence and others knowing about it can't but influence the interactions with them and the products they create, consciously or unconsciously.

But it can not work only in some cases - if we recognize that these things are unseparable, then it becomes impossible to claim Google being biased hard to the left has no influence on their decisions, including product decisions.

Example: if somebody who is working on search rankings writes an ML model to define what "reputable source" looks like, and by nature of their views they read only left-leaning publications, then the model will be trained in majority on such publications as "reputable", and would likely treat non-left-leaning ones as less reputable. Even without explicit intention of bias, the bias would be there. Moreover, since most of the people in Google would hold the same views, nobody would notice that bias as the output of the model would look exactly like they expect it to look.
I also think that the long run future of humanity is speaking a single language. The trend has not been to fragment languages but consolidate them because of the metcalf law effects you pointed out.

But even if that language is almost certain to be English, because english changes and has so many loan words, it would probably be unrecognizable to the english we speak today.
Using money by giving it to the right people or groups of people is a certainly a way to gain or maintain power.
This Is What It’s Like to Be a Teacher in America
They sell 7 different phones though. I have a hard time believing that if one of them were small to cater to folks like me, 6 remaining large phones would not be enough to cover the "mainstream" market? Most of their phone models are barely differentiated from one another. What's the compelling use case for buying an iPhone 7 Plus right now?
Remote Code Execution in Alpine Linux
I am glad the information was not presented in a sensational way. I find Fast Radio Bursts really interesting. They have been discussed on HN many times. For those interested see: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=fast%20radio%20burst&sort=byPo...
Brin spoke a bit about it to employees recently, and thinks it has "certain trade-offs": https://theintercept.com/2018/08/17/internal-meeting-reveals...

He stopped talking shortly thereafter because a Google employee was leaking his statements to a reporter in realtime.

(My guess is the trade-off between the moral issues and the ability to like plate his yacht in platinum.)
The parent-most comment I replied to is commenting specifically on workplace tolerance, which I take to mean among employees and their own views.

Trump does not work at Google, Trump supporters at Google may support his policies, or not, and for his reasons or for their own reasons. Conservatives more generally have claimed Google is intolerant of their views, which is the reason this video is making the rounds in the first place.

So I disagree, I do not think this is very specifically about Trump. I think this is about workplace discussion of political issues, and for that matter is an issue in SV that pre-dates Trump. For example from 2015: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/closete...
How Kofi Annan Forgets About His Roots
Ha! Drive in for a show, a couple of rounds at the casinos, a nice stay at a hotel and a trip to the buffet, then drive back home. It's a great option to have in one's bourgeois boredom toolbox.
Rust does disallow you from doing some kinds of unsafe operations between threads, unless you explicitly opt in.

That said, unsafe is not generally more convenient than safe and so people empirically don’t do this in the first place.
>Honestly I just don't understand the short-term thinking by the West in general and companies in particular when it comes to China.

Let's make some money if we can?
Not just practically, I would say 3 billion miles away puts it firmly on top of us.
I am thoroughly satisfied with my LG Zone 4. It cost me $120 and I've never met an app it can't run.

Truly an amazing off the shelf Walmart phone, a breath of fresh air from my throttled iphone5
> I can examplify with Sweden, which I know, where 43% of people aged 25-64 has "some" amount of higher education, and 27% has at least 3 years of higher education.

Just for contrast, that's much lower than the US, where 44% of the population has completed an undergraduate degree equivalent.

And as pointed out by others in this thread, Sweden (like other European countries) does not have a great track record when it comes to ensuring equality for people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Yes, in theory, these programs might be available to everyone, but when stratification occurs in the education system from a very young age, it makes for much larger differences down the line.
What a mainframe can do is have ANY single part fail, keep running at full speed and inform you of the part that failed so you can get it replaced. It is not unusual for any part to go all the way back to the substations!

Is this more or less useful than bunch of cheap PCs in a rack. Depends on what you want to do. The bunch of PCs model generally just accepts that there will be a few blips when (not if) something goes wrong and ensure nobody will notice. The mainframe model is even the smallest blip would be noticed so you can't have any.
I did read the article, thanks. HN comments do not, and have never been, solely limited to the exact topic highlighted in the article. Indeed, some of the best comments in the history of this site were tangentially-related to the link.
Why not just double-buffering the DOM? That'd be much simpler. Mutate your DOM all you want, then swap it in when it's ready.
Google to Kill Its Inbox App in Favor of Gmail in March 2019
Title changed from "RCE ProtonVPN and NordVPN VPN". This is not an RCE (remote code execution).
Even if he gives this amount every year it's still lower than Picketty's tax rate.
Was visiting LA a couple years ago, originally from Prague. Absolutely fantastic city to visit if you do your homework first and know where you wanna go. Wander about like in a European city - not going to work.

I was set on relocating there but real estate prices, taxes and distance from relatives forced me to backpedal. I think LA has a fantastic fuutre, especially once efficient public transit system will fully emerge. Recently I was shocked to learn that LA has better air quality than Prague. Can you believe that? Everybody drives fucking diesel on a stick here while you guys are migrating to hybrids. Go LA.
>"people being wildly wildly wrong in good faith"

There is really no excuse for them not trying to replicate each others studies this whole time to the point it was allowed to build into a crisis. That is a very old and well known part of the scientific method. So maybe they were somehow so ignorant of science that it was "good faith", which doesn't sound any better than doing it on purpose to me.

And psychology is hardly the only area of research, or even the worst, when it comes to this. Eg, medical research seems to be worse.
About as close as Pluto. No wonder it can't be a planet.
I guess, just annoyed it's always thrown as the defacto complaint about the "Plus-sized" phones when it's really not true across the board.
> How do you know people don't become mentally ill or homeless after losing their home

Because a substantial portion already have a history of mental problems before they became homeless, and typically they find themselves homeless because they reach adulthood and thus their primary caretaker either can't or won't be able to keep them off the streets. I personally know a couple of homeless individials that suffered from schizophrenia who found thenselves on the streets after their patents passed away.
I forgot about the Vietnam thing. My bad, 40.

Still a very peaceful record compared to ourselves over the time period.

Why's everybody so invested up and loaded for bear with factoids about how China is so bad?

Have we terminally entered the Thucydides trap?
I wish cities would create zones specifically designed around facilitating autonomous car operation. For example, there's zero reason to allow random private cars in Manhattan south of 96th street. In a small, dense area like this, it should be possible to optimize around the limits of current autonomous car software.
Three billion miles is roughly the distance to Neptune. So, yeah.
BTW, Waymo already agreed with you[0]. They are partnering with Phoenix transit authority to drop people off at bus and train stops.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/31/waymo-partners-with-phoeni...
No blurring on Bing Maps (I know, the horror)
Share of U.S. Population Born Abroad Hits a 108-Year Peak: WRAL.com
Driverless cars might be a bad idea.

City driving is a hard problem space, and all we'd achieve is cooler taxis.

The real game changer is instead driverless trucks.

Shipping is both a trillion dollar industry, and the problem space of "highway driving when it is sunny out" is much much easier than the consumer usecase, while still being extremely valuable.
The photo in that article is not of the Sunspot Observatory, but of the Apache Point Observatory next door. I wonder if it is just Sunspot or both? I haven’t been up there since spring but I usually visit several times a year, so I’m very curious what’s going on. I may head up to APO this weekend and see if I can get on premesis.
Also detaining tens to hundreds of thousands of Muslims in "re-education" camps, too. Can't forget that.
DST Systems and the gutting of a hometown Kansas City company
$1k cars are just $2k cars with dirty interiors and $2k cars are just $4k cars with one or two current problems. ¯\_ツ_/¯

I work for BigCo make almost six figures (real dollars in a moderate cost of living area, not SV funny money dollars) so it's not like I couldn't afford better if I wanted. I do all my own work so maintenance is basically free. I have other things I'd rather spend my money on.

I'm probably gonna buy a small pickup this January (when everyone else is short on cash from all the traveling and gift buying they did in November/December) because I want a middle ground between the wagons and the full-size truck. I might buy a minivan if I can find an Aerostar with a manual transmission.
Civil Engineering under Hollywood management
"The Great American Health Hoax" by Raymond Francis made me understand that health is not gained with medicines but by avoiding toxins and eating nutricious foods.

http://raymondfrancisauthor.com/
There is a link between homelessness and addiction, but it's not the primary one.

Several years ago I quit a stressful job, left a stressful living situation and ended up staying with a friend. I went to social services in SF to get health insurance benefits to make sure I could continue getting medication I'd been on for years. When I applied they classified me as "homeless". If you saw me on the street or on the bus next to you, you probably wouldn't have called me homeless.

It's helpful for most social programs to have a broad definition of "homeless". It allows granting assistance before an individual actually ends up living on the street. When most people think of "homeless" they envision a person passed out on the street under a dingy blanket who's probably high or mentally ill. That definition is a harmful one and it prevents the community from getting involved in solving the problem. They don't want "those people" living in shelters that might be built in their neighborhood.

For every mentally ill/addicted homeless person you see living on the street there are probably 2 or 3 living in temporary housing because they can no longer afford a place of their own.
So, aren't we sending out radio signals in a spiral as the planet rotates that would be massively spread out over a distance of 3 billion light years? If I were broadcasting something into space constantly some alien civilization would only be exposed to perhaps a very short portion of the signal until Earth had fully rotated again and my signal lined up perfectly to their planet again.
If what you say is true, how come it is not supported by cloud providers?
I love this, I've used it for years any time I need to rank things, since having to pick my preference between different options is much more accurate than giving them arbitrary numbers.
Just in this topic there is several commenters that take exactly that position. There are many more. Of course, not every person who opposes immigration restrictions is for open borders, and not every politician that is ultimately for open borders would think it is a good tactics to proclaim it right now. But proponents of unlimited (and essentially unlimited - i.e. guarded by checks that anyone with two brain cells can pass or limited by mechanism that lacks enforcement in practice) immigration obviously and prominently exist. You can see people with slogans proclaiming that on any pro-immigration protest. Surely, not everybody thinks so. But denying that there are many people saying so is denying the obvious.
That’s actually a pretty good idea and something I had not realized was possible.
Could this be used to create a macro system for python?
I think you might have misunderstood: About 30% of people are able to do the work, but it isn't limiting free college to 30% of the population. Instead, it is about 30% of the population that applies themselves to take advantage of it. If it comes up that 50% of the population qualifies for the education and follows through with it, the number would change to 50%. For many, all that is needed is to be upfront about what is required and make sure lower level schooling can provide what is needed.

I'll add that you could take care of a lot of the rest of the things by having a strong support system.

Only about 30% of americans have college degrees as it is. Not as much would change.

If you take some other countries examples as well and include things like trade schools and things that would be an associates degree elsewhere, your number would be much higher. These sorts of programs are tracked seperately.
I agree, the RGB subpixel layout really gives better sharpness over PenTile at the same nominal PPI. I'm sticking with LCD phones as I really don't want to have to worry about burn-in, especially with several years of use.
Sure, the number is pulled out of the air in a way, but that's not what is important. People in the field know what is holding things back, and even if they don't don't see all the way to the end, they know enough about the journey to recognize that newcomers don't completely appreciate what they're up against, and rosy predictions about the proliferation of driverless cars is a reflection of that naivete.
There seem to be a lot of things like that in the USA, where if it happens even once or briefly, it screws up your life long term. Homelessness, poverty, seeking mental health help, arrest, prison, bankruptcy, a medical emergency. Every application form with a checkbox that says “Have you ever...” perpetuates this “gotcha” long-term punishment. Why does society insist on setting these traps for people?
> If I could make a genie wish, it would be that there was a bunch of luxury condo&apt construction for the new residents so that none of the old residents would have any pressure to move.

Seattle has had the most cranes in the country for 3 years now [0] and so much new housing has been built prices recently went down [1].

[0]: https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/Seattle-three-...

[1]: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/smallest-s...
Cats 1.4.0 (Scala)
Possibly interesting/relevant, Fei-Fei Li is returning to her job at Stanford, primarily, and someone else is taking over as the head of Google Cloud AI: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/goo...
Kotlin 1.2.70 is Out
"in most of America we need to get back to the point where cars are no longer a necessity" - ...because why? I am assuming in good faith you might say:

because a world in which a greater proportion of people travel via multi-passenger vehicles like the buses and trains of public transport networks is a better world because these transportation solutions are 1) more efficient per passenger (does this help w/ reducing carbon emissions?); 2) economically more accessible because passengers pay per trip instead of purchasing vehicle outright; 3) potentially less expensive to operate due to economies of scale (purchasing & maintaining a large fleet of vehicle vs a single vehicle) and higher equipment utilizationl; 4) perahaps encourage more social connection amongst passengers; 5) passengers do not have to focus on driving and can "recover" the time that would have been spent driving a car doing something else.

I ask because I think the endgame for self-driving car companies is not so much to sell cars (self-driving in this case) to individual consumers, but rather to to win the zero-sum-game of becoming the largest on-demand "elastic" self-driving vehicle transportation platform; i.e. 80% of the cars Ford makes in 2030 it reserves for its automated fleet, which it dispatches on a per-ride bases to subscribers/customers for a single trip, a day, a month, etc. The ultimate technological opportunity here is effectively "packet switching" for physical transport via the highway network.

While it's possible (and desirable, in my opinion) the fleet of vehicles enabling this automated transport network could be a composition of myriad different vehicles, from many different vendors, contributed dynamically by everyone from families (or groups of families) that own a single vehicle and rent it out when its not in use to the fleets of large companies like ups, hertz, ford, etc...
it seems more realistic that a few giant companies (Waymo, Uber) will be the ones that can scale up a working network fastest and cheapest by building, owning, and operating huge fleets of vehicles made up of just a few vehicle variants.

Anyway, imagine 60% of the cars on the roads today were capable of participating in an automated-vehicle-on-demand transportation network. This scenario seems like it has the same benefits I attributed to public transportation. What do you think - is it an equally desirable solution, or are there other particular benefits to a world with significantly more (conventional) public transportation / less cars that I failed to articulate?
Fair enough, I figured that might be the case. I didn't mean to criticize, I was just curious if there was actually some macro thing going on that I wasn't seeing.
I am not asking for not having these articles, as the rules state we can post articles of general matter that could be of interest to the HN audience. Just merely a way for each individual to optimize his noise to signal ratio by his own definition.
I remember running SETI @ Home on my 300 MHz Gateway and watching the pretty graphs as if I was a real life alien spaceship pilot. It's funny to hear that it's actually a real thing (I knew it was real, but when I saw the size of the radio dish in the image, it's REALLY real)
Tbh I think it's a gender phenomenon. Men tend to like violence, war and movement in their stories and movies.

From media produced in other countries from now and before it is clear that it is not a national phenomenon. It's more than likely your experiences are purely anecdotal and dont even represent the norm.
You admit that globally 4/5 people don't use iphones which means that most people don't have any need for itunes.

Which services don't work on linux other than itunes?
>Not to mention a multibillion dollar, unnecessary tunnel linking O'Hare with downtown which will almost certainly cost multiples higher than Elon Musk and Rahm Emanuel claim. We'd rather spend money on vaporware than build something that would actually help.

That project is privately funded. The Block 37 station was the expensive vaporware.
so 5 % 6 = 5?
Driverless cars are coming along just fine. Waymo is making steady progress. The sensors are getting better. The problem comes from all those "fake it til you make it" startups, Uber and Tesla being the worst. Both have killed people.

This is mostly about sensors and geometry. Machine learning has a role, but only in target identification. That's how Waymo does it. The fake it til you make it crowd had the fantasy that you just hook up some cameras to a machine learning system, train it, and you have self driving. Doesn't work. Machine learning is way too dumb.

You can maybe identify "traffic light", "car", "pedestrian", and "deer" with machine learning. That's just used to guess what they're going to do next. It's not used to decide if they're an obstacle. Obstacle detection and avoidance is all sensors and geometry.

Also, "self driving car", "electric car", and "transportation as a service" are all independent. All will be available, but not from the same companies.
> Limiting free college to 30% of the population would never work in the U.S. By 2025, more than half of high school graduates will be minorities, mostly socioeconomically disadvantaged minorities. Without getting into the "why," these groups score substantially lower on the metrics (test scores, sometimes straight-up IQ tests) that Germany uses to select the 30% of students who have access to college. To ensure that enough disadvantaged minorities would have access to free college, the U.S. would need the large majority of high school graduates to go to free college. That would make the program much more expensive than in Germany.

It's a shame you're being downvoted, because you're right. To put it another way: the reason Germany, France, Spain, etc. are able to provide free education is twofold:

1) They provide education to a much smaller portion of the population than the US does (~25% in Germany compared to >45% the US).

2) They're content with having a system which reinforces racial inequalities from a very young age.

The US education system, for all its faults, is actually quite good at providing opportunities for minorities in higher education, and the rates of degrees awarded bear this out. It's unpopular to point this out, but that's something that the German/French/etc. models don't do at all. Yes, the opportunities are available to people from any racial background in theory, but in practice, they mask significant racial disparities under the guise of being "colorblind".
Afaik, highways in non-severe weather are already pretty much solved, so I’m not sure that special lanes would make much difference, except perhaps during snow storms.

The edge cases seem to be mostly around city driving, rural back roads, and bad weather.
You can hide articles you don't like.

Some 3rd partu HN "readers" may work for you.
To tag a type – tagged types vs. case-classes (Scala)
If you have supported hardware which logically includes hardware that the OEM sells with linux it actually honestly is that easy.