skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of multiple proposals to make DOM read/writes more performant. More are listed here: https://github.com/chrishtr/async-dom
It depends. Like in USA i would agree because there is a lot of mentally ill people on street.
In other cases like teaching is better. They spend all day on street. Going somewhere learn it is just much better environment for them.

I don't drink but If was homeless in cold country I would drink and take drugs to forget about cold. It requires so much strong will to live in this environment.
> killed thousands of its own citizens in peaceful pro-democracy protests (Tiannemen Square)

I watched hours of documentations about the entire event, but seriously, the government is not the only side to blame. If it happened in the US, the policy probably would have started sending protesters to jail much earlier.
After all, how can officials from the Federal Reserve to the Bank of Japan even pretend to know how to reverse what they’ve done over the past decade?

As I understand the US Fed plan, treasuries bought under QE would be allowed to mature without buying replacements. These assets were purchased with a variety of maturity dates. In other words, the bonds simply disappear on their own - not all at once but gradually.

The problem in Japan is much worse because the central bank has bought ETFs directly and is now a major holder.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/BOJ-is-top-10-shareholder-in...

Any unwinding of the BOJ position would lead to major disruptions.
I see this argument all the time and I don't understand how people don't see the flaw. The government can't just print dollars to service their debt without devaluing the dollar. If they devalue the dollar they'll make a lot of people upset and get their butts voted out of office. There is obviously some lee-way, but there is a tight upper limit on printing their way out of debt.
> That sounds like a business model

Does it? You have one potential customer, and you have to create product on spec, offer it to them at a price you don't control, and destroy the unsold material whether or not the one customer pays for a copy.

Building a viable business model around that without corrupt influence over the single buyer seems impractical.
I don’t need it, but the extra size is nice and my budget allows for it, so why not.
Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time
Any civilization advanced enough to travel the distances in question has better things to do than pick on puny Terrans. It's like driving from California to Florida to shoot a squirrel.
The minimum price point is also now $750 for current hardware.

I don't think that's quite true. The minimum price point on Apple.com right now is $449: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-7

I know a lot of people are saying the SE is dead, and I believed that, too, but it's still there on Apple's web site. Just go to iPhone > Compare, and either click the "See all models" link, or select it (or anything back to the 6) from the drop-down.

The SE is listed as "Available at authorized retailers," but you can still buy the 7, 7 Plus, 8, and 8Plus from Apple.

The 7 is $449.
> He's talking about Los Angeles specifically, not California generally.

And I meant not just California as a whole, but California's metro areas and cities too. Los Angeles isn't that dense.

> But that needs to happen first

This is wrong. Transportation and land use are complementary, and
development in each should happen (and has to happen) in parallel. If anything, since LA has been building rail the last couple decades, it's really zoning that needs to catch up: more people would actually use transit if they lived within easy walking distance of it.

> I also think its important to acknowledge the reality of the tradeoffs.

LA tried building out of traffic by doubling down on freeways and sprawl enablement for decades, and it only succeeded in making the problem worse. The only logical response is to try something new, perhaps something that's already proven successful in many other cities around the globe.
That's a criticism of a bunch of heuristics we've had for selecting promising theories. No popular theory has been proven wrong. It's just that we've been stuck for a really long time. And we need some kind of heuristics, otherwise we're just going to overfit to our data.
> It was designed for binocular vision

Does binocular vision even matter at such distances (i.e. beyond a few meters)? I thought it was only effective for relatively close objects.
Aliens == God

As humans, we wish something greater exists. It minimizes the noise in our otherwise meaningless lives. It gives reason.

And so we make up stories and find stories in signals and get excited at the prospect that _this_ just might be it.

But it never happens. And we go on searching and believing, and then we die.
I'm usually the first to step up to the plate and insist on HTTPS, but it's not actually necesary here. The packages are PGP signed, and the public keys are established securely at install. This is actually more secure than SSL imo because it uses web-of-trust for key exchange rather than easily compromised certificate authorities.
J2CL is much much faster than average react js code. Even testing converted port of bouncy castle's RSA and AES was faster than google's crypto.js
I'm not sure that's accurate, I think there has been considerable political and therefore bureaucratic opposition to Amazon in Sweden
And by China's definition, that's just a civil war if it happens
Are there examples of these "data thugs" causing quality scientific work to be unduly criticized?

For example, good faith research that cannot be replicated is part of science. Are there researchers who have done such good faith research (no p-hacking, no egregious statistical errors) who now have to endure harassment and low-quality criticism because of the work of the "data thugs?"
Agreed. I’m a little envious.
Depending on who you read, life could be quantum wave functions flying around the universe, or even dark-matter "birds" slowly tearing suns apart.

I may read too much sci fi.
Gasp! You aren't suggesting we adhere to the rule of law and personal freedoms protected for us by the constitution?
What worked for me:
read Norvig's tutorials (How to write lisp). It gives basic understanding.

Then continue enhancing that tiny language, add more features.

Start with an interpreter, they are easier to grasp. You can always add a compiler later.

I grabbed Scheme R5RS standard and started implementing it in Kotlin: https://github.com/kovrik/scheme-in-kotlin

Then added more Clojure-like and Racket-like features, plus some Kotlin features.
For me it was Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World.

I was not especially religious, or especially anything until that book convinced me that skepticism was a useful default setting.
Is it if the tax cut spurs the economy faster than the debt growth, which appears to be happening right now?
Docker ships with support for image signing, execution authorization (based on trusted signatures), and distribution endpoint authentication (TLS / PKI). Most image registries offer deep package inspection, OSS package manifests, and CVE visibility.

If all that isn't enough, individual image layers can be accessed and inspected by hand (they're just tar files).

If you're looking for "end-to-end chain of custody" you're going to need to specify the ends. Image signatures get you point-in-stack authorship assertions. I'm not sure what else anyone could ask for here.
Play a drawbar synth organ in your browser with a MIDI controller
If there's one single life-encompassing economic event this decade, it will be the emerging market financial crisis. The chart in the article clearly shows emerging market ex China going from 16 trillion to 29 trillion in 10 years. And China has incredibly gone from 7 trillion to 40 trillion debt in 10 years - 300% debt to GDP (not even counting another 20 trillion shadow debt, which would make it incredibly 450% debt to GDP!!) ((and if you take into account fake GDP that Chinese provinces have reported, and that authoritarian governments typically fake their economic growth, and reduce the reported GDP by 20%, it's a jaw dropping 600% debt to GDP !!!))

The emerging market crisis will accelerate pretty quickly, as soon as one or two more fed rate hike occurs, or as soon as more tariffs get levied on China from US, or any of the other black swan event that may occur (hyperinflation in other emerging markets, internal politics struggle or death of Xi Jing Ping in China, etc) . Interesting times we live in. Stay safe.
The funding mirage: How to secure international investment from emerging markets
Well, chemistry has some pretty good evidence on which elements do and can exist. I don't think we'll be seeing unknown elements (sorry Mass Effect) any time soon.

And if they exist beyond what physics can currently detect, then the point is sorta moot.
Below is a discussion of Burakumin and ethnic Koreans in Japan, which doesn't appear to be racially predicated, unless you're operating under an unusual definition of race. You've specifically claimed that "Japan" is "intensely racist". Are you going to claim that Koreans and/or Burakumin are racially distinct from Japanese?
Godel, Escher, Bach

One doesn’t read it so much as study and marvel it
Note that the "programmable synth" part of this still works even without Web MIDI, but having a MIDI controller with built in sequencer drive the whole thing is way more fun =)

It's also more practical because the in-browser arranger is constrained by whether or not JS gets enough time to run the BMP ticker "smoothly", which your MIDI controller is unlikely to have a problem with: if you can sequence/arp with it, it has one built into the hardware and all it needs to do is send midi control codes to the browser to act on.
Well, the parent is illustrating a basic point of freshman economics. We ration scarcity with cost (money) or time. In this case Canada chose to be "fair" and ration scarcity of medical care with lines.

Your comment belies a belief that peoples time or comfort are worth nothing. Should my children wait a year or more to have a specialist examine a chronic skin condition that thus far cannot be treated and causes severe itching? In Canada the answer is yes. Ever dealt with a toddler that can't sleep and you can't help?

Acute care here is the same. People die waiting at emergency. 24 hour waits for patients not bleeding out on the floor happen (but usually we can keep it down to 12).
Very advanced civilizations could learn how to create targeted worm hole like structures to send information through it using real world physic rules that we don't know yet
My OP was very negative, sorry.

Absolutely! Solving what you are set out to do is a great result and I am super happy for them and their end result!

But this state of documentation (as you call it, I would also/rather consider all the needed background knowledge and lingo to be a hurdle) is all the more reason to just document their goal, their data(s), their abilities and capabilities and ask an expert for 15 minutes of their time for input and pointers. That is so much more efficient!
I've been trying to get some feedback on a related idea for making 'view-independent program models', which could be rendered with alternate syntaxes (or even richer visual augmentation than strictly text).

The main idea is to represent languages as a graph of 'language constructs' and individual programs as paths through some language graph. That path is the 'model' which an editor or compiler/interpreter would operate on—but in the case of the editor, since the program model has no connection to syntax, you can configure how it's rendered on a per-user basis (or use it to experiment with new language UI concepts, etc.).

Here's a write-up with illustrations: http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-make-view-indepe...

I've had this on the back burner for a while now, waiting for the write moment to try building out a proof-of-concept version—but if someone could point out some kind of critical flaw in it and prevent me from wasting so much time, that'd be awesome :)
FTL would break a lot of other evidence-based findings in a way that lunar travel did not.
Cars could communicate together though
Yeah it's a tough space for sure.

Given that this is a research project i'd hold off on making assumptions that the software has been adequately verified as well. Forgive the loose usage of Rumsfeld-like terminology here, verification implementation errors (Unknown Unknowns) and omissions (Unknown Unknowns) in the verification translate to exploitable software security holes. If the model is sound, it would address all Known Unknowns and to get a verified, working codebase the developers would have to address Known Knows. And there may be some security tech-debt as well which isn't mentioned publicly (Unknown Knowns).
You also need to account for the regions where Teslas are most popular, the demographic of people who are purchasing Teslas, cars with similar safety features, and many other factors. Comparing the very tiny slice of the market which drives Teslas against every other car+driver on the road is almost meaningless.
I completely agree. It's all we know so we don't think about it as humans but we have very limited sensory organs. We can only see like 0.0035% of the light spectrum, out sense of smell is nothing compared to what a dog can smell, and we can't even sense magnetism!

I imagine watching humans do technology from an aliens perspective is like us watching a chimpanzee use an iphone.
Shut off federal funding to cities that don’t meet fed zoning guidelines; discount state funding from the fed for state’s that don’t enforce reasonable zoning.
>The national debt can wait

Until it can't. It's an interesting gambit because while carrying high levels of debt is easier to do during periods of low interest, the second-order effect of taking on that debt is the pain it'll bring you to service it when interest rates rise.

Unless you have certainty on future economic conditions (which nobody does), it's prudent to cap your debt level such that can be paid down within a relatively short time frame. That way when tough times inevitably arrive, you have an escape plan. But even then, enacting that escape plan (paying off the debt) causes a shockingly sudden lack of available funds to go anything else (i.e. austerity).

This doesn't mean debt, well-applied, isn't a hugely valuable tool. Provided it's used for investment in suitable force multipliers (infrastructure) that help ensure your future ability to service the debt, and profit beyond. But infrastructure isn't well funded and there doesn't seem to be suitable proposals to make it happen, so if debt's not being increased towards that end....
Reads like it was written by machine elves...
I think there is a sort of millenial grudge that prevents otherwise intelligent people from realizing that unrestricted population growth in a desirable area can lead to bad outcomes.

I usually use an extreme example to make my point: if 100 million people want to live in Hawaii, should current Hawaiians be forced/guilted/compelled to accommodate them? Is there any point at which you say to people 'no, you have to live somewhere less desirable'?

I'm not saying LA is free of problems, but I'm pretty sure there aren't too many problems that can be solved by cramming more people into LA. I would like to see the density increase, sure, but then return areas to open space(as if that will ever happen, but a boy can dream).
Perhaps someone with a very strong conviction that they are already the most advanced, resource-hungry, and expansive species out there ;)
But how do we know our concept of an easily detected signal isn't merely a product of how our technology evolved?

I think it's worth investigating and looking for signals because it does find interesting phenomenon, I'm just very skeptical we'll ever find intelligent life doing so.
Like roentgenium and basalt might be aliens?
Rethinking What Gifted Education Means, and Whom It Should Serve
> There is a chance that a powered non-permanent traffic light is found somewhere, a dude walking along the side of the street with a stoplight on his back

Temporary traffic lights are extremely common, at least here in Australia. They are used in the case of roadworks or other short-term disruptions that requires traffic flowing in both directions to share a single lane, in conditions not suited to manual traffic control (i.e. overnight, weekends, long-term works on rural roads).

http://www.datasigns.com.au/Products/Portable-Traffic-Lights
wozniak I hope
"The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror" by Thomas Ligotti. I was also expecting my first child at the time and it made me question my values and is it appropriate or fair to bring a child into this world.
Wages are growing at 2.9% right now.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/07/us-nonfarm-payrolls-aug-2018...
'Could not' is probably a fairer and more accurate description of the disease of addiction.
"The European Union fined the company $5.1 billion this summer in an antitrust case over the dominance of Google’s Android mobile operating system."

Damn, that's sloppy reporting. The EU didn't fine Google because of its dominance, rather it was accused of using that dominance in an abusive manner to advance the search/ad business [1].

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-be-fined-5-billion-by...
How do aliens “minimize the noise in our lives” and “give us reason”?
Globally more people actually have crappy connections than not.
I would suggest "I Am A Strange Loop". Same author.
And they're planning on permanently giving them space in one of the new office buildings.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-creating...

Disclosure: i work at Amazon.
The only benefit is the TLS-by-default mindset. It's not exactly a huge benefit, though on the other hand setting up TLS is not that hard nowadays.
The problem being described is that becoming a clinical psychologist often requires doing social psychology research to get a graduate degree.

There are Doctor of Psychology (PsyD rather than PhD) programs that focus on clinical psychology training rather than doing research, but the majority of clinical psychologists still do a traditional research-oriented graduate program and there are far more schools offering them.
Yes, ask me anything and I will try to help you.

Can you try to categorize what you hate about it? If it are specific things and not the general hurdle of figuring where goes what and what means what.
I'll give you a much higher life-changing-amplitude if you relax the one-book constraint. One book and I can give you something that might impact your life a few months, but that you'll likely forget afterwards. Allow me to suggest ten books (which I promise will all be focused on one specific area, and you promise you'll study seriously), and I'll give you something that will make a much higher, and long lasting, impact.
Ask HN: As a developer, what are your biggest pain points?
As a developer, what are some of the most impactful problems you or your peers face? These could be technical or non-technical, work-related or not.
In this case `apk` does a ton of processing on the package before checking that the hash matches the signed manifest, and the maintainers don't want to/can't change that behavior at this time. As a result, https would be a real security improvement here, at least for now.
The difference is that there are falsifiable hypotheses about aliens, and there are valid scientific reasons to believe they might (and statistically probably should) exist.
Microsoft acquires Lobe, a drag-and-drop AI tool
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be, be one"

Always been a favorite.
I'd argue that both are political in nature. They're both cultural ideas (copyright and censorship have no physical manifestation) and cultural ideas are nothing but agreed upon ideas that unite us.

Copyright is a restriction upon sharing in order to prop up content creators, and censorship is a restriction on speech in order to prop up social harmony.

“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’. Hammurabi would have said the same about his principle of hierarchy, and Thomas Jefferson about human rights. Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But don’t tell that to our servants, lest they murder us at night.” - Sapiens
I'm just replying to "Serving large amounts of content over HTTPS is expensive".
Haha sounds like a movie preview.
Oh, that's not offensive.

FWIW those 62% live in "incorporated paces" or cites, which would include my town (as long as I'm understanding that correctly.) Down under "new incorporated places" it mentions Sandy Point, TX, population 200. It's crazy that even including little towns like that you're still only talking about 3.5% of the land.
The Toyota Way - one of the most important books I've read to help understand why companies are dysfunctional.

I knew corporate America (and even many startups) were so dysfunctional, but I didn't know what could replace it. The Toyota Way shows a bright path to the ideal. And makes me realize how far we are from that.
Not unknown periodic table elements, but new minerals, possibly formed in conditions not found in Earth, yeah
That looks pretty awesome. Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like it gets to a good amount of functionality too, with first class functions and closures and the like.
The iPhone SE is very popular with many women I know due to its size and ability to fit into women’s pockets.

And purses. My wife chose the XS over the Max simply because when she had a 6 Plus it didn't fit in any the the brands of purses she would buy.
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-us-cities-with-the-wo...

Of course, NYC is #2, so not much better. But at least there you have a viable option besides driving.
It's relatively common for road maintenance crews in rural areas to install temporary signal lights during major projects. For example when they close one lane on part of a two lane road so traffic can only move in one direction at a time while the drivers going the other direction have to wait a few minutes.
And, YouPorn (I think? I get all the porn tubes mixed up) was using Perl (at least they were a decade ago when I met some of the devs), though now that many of the big porn tubes are owned by the same entity, I would guess they've consolidated down to one platform.

But, sure, if you go to a PHP conference or web dev conference you could meet PHP devs working in almost any industry. It's interesting how insular some dev communities are that one could get the impression that PHP is just...like...gone. As much as we may turn our nose up at it as a language, as a platform it's been a huge success, especially for small developers and web designers that do a little development.
The age of the Sun is ~4.6 billion years, but it's rather young as most other stars in our galaxy are 10 billion years old or older.

That would mean most civilizations in our galaxy could be very much older than ours.

Radio only came about 100 years ago for us. Some new form of communication could be 100 or 1000 years out, which is no time at all on these scales.
I have trouble finding it, but I think Thoreau at some point says you can find out what an atheist thinks of god by what they think superhuman aliens would be like. Definitely worked for Stephen Hawking.
Given that Intel leads cpu performance, How can mainframes be that much better at single node performance than x86 servers ?
Thanks :) Is there a way for me to search this site? I don't see an option on the front page, and it looks like doing a Google Search with a site: option failed me here