skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't think that's dismissable as being a flight of fancy"

What else would a flight of fancy be other than imagining something that we currently have absolutely zero evidence for?

I have no problems with flights of fancy. I like sci-fi quite a bit. I do have a problem with people not realizing they're taking flights of fancy. At the moment, as I said, I am not aware of anything even on the fringes of science that would permit a superior communication technology over EM, and I'm as informed as you can expect a layman to be about the holographic universe idea, violations of the standard model, various dark matter theories, hypotheses about various possible spatial deformations permitted in general relativity that may have started at the big bang, and everything else. There's not a lot of reason to expect something to pop up that's going to be better than light. At best, you could hope to tie it, because it's frankly already nearly perfect, and I wouldn't even hold out a lot of hope for that.
Looking at a map of the Pacific Electric suburban system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Electric), I'd say that LA sprawled quite a bit by the 1920s. So it seems unreasonable to say that the car caused the sprawl.
Not good times for wage growth.
Was I the only one that clicked on 'better' every time because it was actually the word requested on the statement?
Yes, the top-line emphasis on MapBox when all the actually useful work was done by other tools to get around MapBox API limitations. A little funny.
The headline there is basically the entire content of this article. Just a statement of the positive indicators and a question "how long can this last?" No critical analysis or discussion of the contradicting indicators. Not really worth a post. What are we supposed to be discussing?
Google defends Trump election reaction
Because once the particles are entangled, one has to be moved by conventional means to the destination while the other stays behind.
This seems like the inevitable conclusion: autonomous cars bring you from your house to your destination, unless you are traveling through a thoroughfare. In which case they will drop you at a tram (ideally drop you at the platform), the tram gets you through the bottleneck, and another private car will take you from the tram stop to your actual destination.

There’s no efficient way for busses to get people close to their door. It makes no sense. Mass transit should relieve congestion on major routes, it’s not an efficient solution to the last mile problem.
Excellent breakdown. People are quick to hate on LA. You cannot think of it as a traditional city. If you do your homework LA is an amazing place to visit with a ton to do and lots of friendly people to engage with under sunny skies most of the year.
I think the car manufacturers will, in the end, win out with the continued, steady progress of smarter and more capable driver assistance systems. Cruise control gave way to super cruise with lane keeping, warnings when your back bumper was approaching something gave way to features that stop the car for you before you hit something.

Eventually, the car will be less dependent on the human's attention, as the safety features will make the human's attention less important (while not telling the human their attention is less important), until it's good enough to take over for the human.

I think a lot of the issue is that dream and expectation that "hey, I can just watch a movie, I don't really need to pay attention" is crazy, and will continue to be for many years to come. We need to stop marketing that future.
Amazon has (conservatively) over 500,000 employees. This $2B would cover a pre-tax salary increase of $4000 for one year, which wouldn't come close to doubling take-home pay.
And being completely flat and never getting very hot/cold. Bikes aren't really workable in most cities as a primary form of transit.
From Sterling Anderson, former director of Autopilot who oversaw the implementation of HW2:

>Perception is a game of statistics.Crudely speaking, if we have three independent modalities with epsilon miss-detection-rates and we combine them we can achieve an epsilon³ rate in perception. In practice, relatively orthogonal failure modes won’t achieve that level of benefit, however, an error every million miles can get boosted to an error every billion miles. It is extremely difficult to achieve this level of accuracy with a single modality alone.

>Different sensor modalities have different strengths and weaknesses; thus, incorporating multiple modalities drives orders of magnitude improvements in the reliability of the system. Cameras suffer from difficulty in low-light and high dynamic range scenarios; radars suffer from limited resolution and artifacts due to multi-path and doppler ambiguity; lidars “see” obscurants.

https://medium.com/aurora-blog/auroras-approach-to-developme...
But why would you spend effort on quality content, the same public getting manipulated into consuming crap in exchange for their time would just as happily waste their “micro money” on the same crap
Here's my favorite: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2553549/all-the-tcp...

article about it: https://blog.ctm-it.com/it-support/blogs/matt-cannon/2013/49...

edit: If you want to be especially cynical, you can note that this wasn't discovered for a while because everyone running Windows reboots it regularly because of its notorious instability issues (the bug was found in 2013 and dates back to at least Vista, which was last updated in 2009).
Something Doctorow said in a blog post (not one of his books surprisingly) has had the most impact on my life (paraphrased): “You shouldn’t have a bug out bag, you should have a bug in bag. You’ll live longer as a group than on your own, so prepare with supplies and tools to help others.”

https://boingboing.net/2015/12/21/a-survivalist-on-why-you-s...
this made me chuckle.
Sometimes one might like to hold lots of power in reserve

Sure, my big powerful desktop PC spends 90% of its life surfing the web or doing light stuff, but for that remaining 10%... if I need the power, it rises to the challenge, every time. Plus, its paid for and I don't need to answer to anybody to make use of it.
People really have to stop thinking they can write package managers.
I always liked the theory that if you go stand above an ant hill and scream all day at the little creatures, they'll still have no concept of your attempts at communication.

So then similarly, it seems possible that advanced intelligence could be screaming at us but we're too "simple" to be able to understand them or even be aware of their presence.
As @aidos and @abraham_lincoln pointed out, an "Hello World" example is simply putting that string in a file named hello.cfm on the root of the web application and calling it with your browser, e.g. http://localhost:8080/hello.cfm

Before you can do that though, you need to install the CFML engine. I recently published a tutorial that shows how to install Lucee in Tomcat very easily:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuugoG5c-7M

http://blog.rasia.io/blog/how-to-easily-setup-lucee-in-tomca...

To make your Hello World example a bit more interesting, you can add the tag `<cfoutput>` with some dynamic content, e.g.

<cfoutput>
Hello World on #dateTimeFormat(now(), "mm/dd/yyyy 'at' HH:nn:ss")#
</cfoutput>

See example at https://trycf.com/gist/226c10cbe74d4083743a617b25398224/luce...
It was at almost exactly the halfway point (~page 548 of 1080) of Infinite Jest that the plot coalesced into something coherent that really made me want to keep going to find out what happens. Prior to that point, it was only the strength of the prose itself that kept me reading.
I appreciate you editing to acknowledge that Gates does, in fact, know a _lot_ about these topics (the main point I was trying to address with the parent post).

I was thinking of your example (and others in the WHO) as exceptions when I said "most". I more had in mind people who run organizations like the Red Cross.

Anyways, did not mean to denigrate the non-political / non-figurehead appointments.
If we go by these sources[1][2], homelessness is overwhelmingly an economic issue.

That's not to say mental illness isn't a contributing factor, just that the lynchpin into homelessness stems from economic factors, like insufficient income or lack of affordable housing.

[1] http://homelessresourcenetwork.org/?page_id=1086

[2] https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Homeless_Stats_Fact_Sheet
Maybe democracy isn't the ideal we should be looking towards
And we largely defer it to https://www.iana.org/time-zones ;)
There was a massive outpouring of support in the U.S. and worldwide for the victims of the 2004 Tsunami.
The length of the minute and second are arbitrary.
They too encourage emissions.
There is a hack to it: abolish zoning altogether. Replace it with sanitary codes
Serving large amounts of content over HTTPS is expensive. When the data is signed anyways you gain nothing by using TLS other than privacy.
This is pretty dismissive. The Obama admin was very cognizant of keeping ACA deficit neutral, for example. Far cry from the current spend and don't tax policies.
Comparisons to the older times would be more apt if people weren't today dying for example from diabetes not from lack of medical knowledge, but of price of the insulin. It is also relevant that insulin is not fundamentally expensive to produce, and that in other first world nations, this kind of death by healthcare driven financial cuts simply do not occur.
Doesn't Reason leverage syntax abstraction in a similar way?

https://reasonml.github.io/
> Multifamily sprawl is just as bad if not worse than single family home sprawl, as it only feeds into traffic.

I agree. Constantly intensifying car traffic is at the heart of LA's (and Southern California's) problems.

LA (and Southern California) will not improve its car traffic density problem for at least another generation (and probably multiple generations).
I'll just leave a mention of the current state of theoretical physics here: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05374-9
You still need to transfer a message using a classical channel to actually communicate anything. Remember, there is no known way to communicate faster-than-light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
You left out organ theft of political/cultural prisoners:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
But isn't there a certain probability we missed those radio waves back when we didn't know radio and now the earth is receiving more sophisticated signals humans can't yet analyze?
I think in actuality they go for what is known as "five-nines" reliability. Up 99.999% of the time. Or down about 5 minutes/year.

When I worked on "big iron" (Not sure if the old hp superdomes counts mainframes..), the solution proposed for redundancy was to have two and be able to switch from one to the other..

Our development machines had to be rebooted from time to time as we turned off interrupts for some processes (quasi-realtime) and when under development some bugs could cause the processes to fail and be uninterruptible. Things stabilized quickly though.

(edit: apparently there is 4 nines, 6 nines....)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability
I gave up on it at around the 1/3 point for 10+ years. Trying to read the paperback was a frustrating exercise when I was too OCD to ever skip a footnote.

I went back to it on my Kindle and finally finished it a few years ago and am very glad I did, I really enjoyed it.
approximately flat, a big hole in the heavenous sphere, not sure if flat or curved makes sense for a hole
I know I'd use lots of drugs.
When someone asks what happens if national debt, state debt, city debt keeps increasing?

This.

Teacher salaries will not rise. Counties and cities are already overburdened by existing liabilities and far too many bonds are junk. They just don't take in enough in taxes. When they start taking more in taxes, people leave.

This is how middle class erodes and social unrest begins.
83-foot waves. EIGHTY-THREE; That’s scary
"What if elements of the same collection need to have different structure?"

The answer is, they usually don't.
The tax-cuts are reverse Keynesian economics. They are "doing it wrong".

This is the big flaw i see against Keynes, that the political discipline and foresight it takes to pay forward is very hard. Instead it becomes another round of the too much debt cycle. Unfortunately I don't have any alternative. (many would put their pet economic hobby horse here)

Edit: I noticed a problem with my comment, I said pay forward but Keynes has a pay back what you borrowed earlier.
A lot of people think ... the car represents independence and freedom. Go where you want, when you want.

Well that's because it's actually true for a lot of people. Sure, there's no freedom in commuting between SF and south bay by car, or navigating the most dense downtown environments. But I definitely use my car on a daily basis for things that would be impossible or incredibly time consuming by transit. And yes, many of the transit patrons around here would probably prefer a car if they could afford it. Most places are not like NYC where the subway is often the most effective option regardless of wealth.

I don't think it's really feasible for more spread out suburban environments to implement effective mass transit. The anti-car idealists often seem to forget that there are a lot of people living outside of dense city centers.
I've started thinking about this. Although I'd want some way -- for a reasonable upcharge -- of assuring that the hardware, particularly the camera, was in excellent condition.

Pixel 1's are below $300, I understand, and I'd be reasonably happy with one, except I believe their support window is about done. (Last Google phone with a headphone jack, to boot, IIRC. On the other hand, lesser storage capacity and no microSD support; microSD support is very nice, with my G5+.)
I also love my SE (and loved my 5S and 5 before them), and I do quite a bit of "real app stuff" (but no games).

I don't mind being a little behind on the processor, and I don't care about Face ID. I really hope they keep it in the lineup and give it a little update to at least an A10, but I fear they won't.

The "Compare iPhone models" page[0] still lists the SE, but says "Available at authorized resellers" under it.

It sure looks like they're going to make us "supersize" to at least the 7/8 sizes, and eventually to the X size. Which will be a real disappointment to a lot of people I know.

I doubt I'd ever switch to Android but I wonder if there's a market niche open for a really good non-Apple 4" phone, for people who care about the form factor more than the price.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/lae/iphone/compare/
The US Fed is raising interest rates. Gradually, but arguably fairly aggressively considering inflation is so low.
Regardless of the shape of the beam pattern, the signal strength scales with distance equally as with a sphere, which is the inverse square law.

I don't think anything from Earth will be detectable beyond more than a few light years.
It's that they don't have a choice.
Quite probably. But that is irrelevant to the lawyers of the people that driverless cars did take. That is the real problem to me.
Sure, in some areas of physics they reproduce studies millions or billions of times by figuring out how to get it done cheaper and cheaper until students can do it:

https://hepweb.ucsd.edu/2dl/pasco/Millikans%20Oil%20Drop%20M...
How often are direct replications done in other sciences?
https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/

Windows has improved since then, but it's still a very brave person that would have a single business-critical Windows machine without a few scheduled maintenance and reboot periods every year.
I imagine if you asked most people who the CEO of Alphabet is, they'd ask "What's Alphabet?"
Are you able to operate the X with one hand? If not, was the transition difficult?
Have you ever heard about that thing called fog?
I'd be surprised if that law in Malaysia was applied in a way approaching equal treatment. But sure, let's talk in the abstract: Even if a thousand people have been hanged: If we can spare one, we must do so! One injustice must not beget another in the name of equality.

And yes selective enforcement is a problem. But I want the people in charge to not enforce that law at all: They must refuse to arrest, judge, or kill based on that law. Which is not selective enforcement. They don't choose whom to apply it to, they just don't apply it at all. Which means everybody is treated equally with regard to that law.

Our history is full of instances where a law was not enforced by those in charge. In some instances we say that not enforcing it was wrong (say, corruption) in others we say that they did right (say, race discrimination). This often set a precedent to changing the law.

Ideally it sure would have been nice if a bad law had never been enacted or if it had been abolished when it soured. But what if it didn't? I'm talking about that. Real societies where bad laws do real damage.
> long-term, can’t get water

The city is right next to the ocean. Desalination is expensive and not the most environmentally friendly thing, but it is an option if there is no other way to get enough water.

> is overpopulated in terms of what can be sustained in a sane manner over time

Citation needed. There are other cities that are larger and have higher population density.

> ideologically undesired outcomes like continued regulation

Aren't most people actually asking for less regulation, especially less strict zoning?
You can set the ending time at 19:00 or 24:00 or whenever you want, which you have to do even if you base the period on months rather than days.

Daylight savings time switches happen in the middle of the night, IIRC at 2am or 3am.
Since you're looking for feedback:

1. Seeing a list of people associated with a product is kind of useful, but I specifically want to know what their role was / what they did, vs. just a generic quote.

2. I like the idea of having versions under a larger high-level product (like Mac → Apple Macintosh 128K) but this doesn't seem to be expressed in the navigation anywhere when you're on a specific version. There should be some form of breadcrumbing / indicating the parent.

3. I'd reconsider the tabs as distinct pages vs. a single page, Wikipedia style where the tabs just act as anchors. Possibly use an accordion pattern with a preview for each section. Right now I have to click through 8 different tabs to see if there's possibly content which is usually pretty sparse.

4. Product pages should look distinct from the homepage. The hero section with the tagline / search field is really prominent (and autofocused) when you're looking at a specific product / version. The main focus should be the product title, and the header should be secondary.

5. Not crazy about the quotes as the lead-in for the product pages. It feels like it should be a succinct summary of what the product was. Information like release date, size of team, etc... should be above the fold. I think Wikipedia is again instructive.

6. As a more meta comment, lack of data is definitely an issue and at the same it seems tough to encourage people to contribute data to a (sorry) unknown entity. I tried to edit an article to see how the data's being captured but didn't want to create an account — are you familiar with Wikidata, RDF, Linked Data, etc...? If you can't find this data already in a structured way, I've spent some time parsing wikitext somewhat successfully and if you look at e.g. the Credits section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Credits you might be able to bootstrap some data (or at least provide draft pages that someone can then vet / fill out).

7. From what I understand, scraping LinkedIn is pretty challenging, but could you gather data from there / cross-reference to infer who worked on what products? LinkedIn specifically has "Projects" and "Creators", but I don't know what its adoption is like. Basically vs. just expecting me (the general user) to crowdsource this for you, what initial work have you put in.
This sounds like being offended purely for the purpose of being offended. I doubt even the subject of the article himself would have caught that.
This is a bummer, clearly.
Otherwise, apk is pure joy to work with, as is indeed all of Alpine.
The Giant Hanger Built in Norway for an Arctic Airship
> What would unrestricted growth look like exactly? After all was said and done, would it still be such a desirable place to live?

The answer to the latter question seems to be contained within it.
The bug isn't that attacker can control apk package contents, but that you can trick apk into running a hook even if a package has a fingerprint mismatch. You want the simplest immediate fix for this vulnerability before you want to kick off the long discussion about moving all package management to TLS.
They didn't think particles could be proven as indistinguishable until they realize the laws of physics depend on it and therefore you could test for it.

I don't think it's a comparable flight of fancy to ask about whether there's a way you could detect unaccounted-for energy within some region that isn't one of the usual suspects.

Yes, there's always the "what if our understanding is completely broken", but your comments here feel way too uncharitable and dismissive, willing to equate the two kinds of questions.
Dream-killer. :P
What is the intent of these things? A form of transportation? Or for recreation? Noise and wind seems like obvious blockers for these to be used for actual transportation. I'm assuming they'd protect you from the 4 death blades.
We do not know what dark matter is, but we do know several things it is not. Among the things that it can not be is terribly strongly interacting with itself. We know this because dark matter appears to surround galaxies with spherical halos, rather than in discs. If it did strongly or even moderately self-interact, it would also be in the disc, because that's precisely why normal matter galaxies are in a disc.

So this excludes, for instance, the idea that there are dark matter civilizations using dark matter machines to send some sort of dark communication that we can't see.

It is not quite impossible to eliminate the possibility that there is some sort of dark radiation we could eventually create and detect. There's currently no particular reason to believe such a thing is possible, but it is not currently excluded necessarily. Whatever forces dark matter interacts with could have its own radiation. But it is difficult to imagine in what way this would be superior to EM-based communication, because, again, EM is just so perfect for communication that it's hard to beat.

It's the question people don't want to deal with because they're too busy being "gee whiz golly gosh" about the possibilities... in what way is this other communication method going to be better than EM? Dark matter communication would quite likely look in practice a lot like neutrino communication does today. It's already possible. We know that because we've built it. We don't call it a transmission method, though, because the bandwidth is soooo atrocious that it's reasonably approximated by "0 bits per second", so we just call it a "detector".
It's because Americans live in a very tightly controlled media bubble. There's nothing like it in the history of the world. I think to the rest of the world it really is bizarre. American bombs are being dropped on school buses right now in Yemen, the occupation of Afghanistan enters its second decade, and politicians go on TV to boast about what country they want to invade next.

...but China is the "expansionist" threat that must be avoided at all costs.
It's an amazing one.
Good answer. Thank you for a thoughtful discussion.