skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is exciting because we can't explain it yet. That makes it interesting and worthy of study.

>> This could be huge!

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the humor and understand how the media tends to over hype any news that could potentially excite people interested in the discovery of little green men, but I never felt that this particular article was doing that.
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America’s economic bread and butter is innovation. We’re creating an entirely new market segment. That’s why new driverless cars are far more attractive than improving public transport infrastructure.
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This being HN, I'm operating under the assumption that most readers are developers.

I'd suggest that you read my colleague's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696184 to understand just how much friction the legacy addon ecosystem was creating. It just wasn't sustainable.
Part of the problem comes from using a popular package. That package could be importing 100’s of other things.

Typescript is one of the very few node modules that is very self contained. You install babel, webpack and eslint and that’s easily over 1k packages.

So yes, js ecosystem is a nightmare for security folks since anyone of those thousands of packages could access filesystem, network and create Backdoors.

Our express site got hacked because one of the sub dependencies was compromised.

Seriously stay away from using nodejs to serve production traffic for serious projects using glued packages. If you want to do it, use extremely thin, well vetted packages and be very mindful of upgrades.
2 weeks seems like an outlier. A recent thread [1] described someone getting cash from an ATM via bitcoin in 20 minutes.

One of the comments theorized that this was because the ATM service used only 2 verifications instead of 6, taking a slightly higher risk due to the small transaction amount (which implies a typical wait time for a large amount of an hour, not 2 weeks).

Of course, even 20 minutes is too long to wait for a vending machine transaction, so your point still stands. I also found an article [2] that incorporates the problem of delay in even determining what the fee would be.

What was also interesting is that it [2] detailed a transaction cost 8x what was quoted above, and seems to be backed up by https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees... . It brings a new concern, volatility, to someone like a vending machine operator whose transactions aren't "micro" but are always going to be on the small end of "every day".

Presumably, it's possible to have a cryptocurrency without these issues. Lightning may sufficiently solve this for Bitcoin (and/or other cryptocurrencies), but that has yet to be seen in practice, at scale. If a DDoS attack forces all (or even just some) Lightning transactions on-blockchain, what does that do to transaction times and costs?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17898721

[2] http://moneyandstate.com/the-true-cost-of-bitcoin-transactio...
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We’re not talking about “getting in people faces”, we’re talking about a situation that is extremely unsafe, for everyone, homeless and non-homeless alike. If you’re suggesting more of that, there’s something seriously wrong with you.
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There are, but the "replication studies" tend to change little details for whatever reason so they aren't really checking for reproduciblity anyway.

I don't mean details like where/when the study was performed, because obviously the original authors thought it would generalize beyond their exact sample. I mean they will change the methods to ask different questions on a survey, etc.

Also, they use statistical significance vs not to determine if the same result was observed (rather than having quantitatively similar results)... The entire situation is ridiculous.

You can start here though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility_Project
How long would it take radio waves to travel 3 billion light years? If it is a communication it would be from very far in the past. Assume it takes life about the same time to evolve on other planets wouldn't that mean that we wouldn't expect to start hearing radio communications until billions of years from now?
Most OLEDs use the PenTile layout, which means that each logical "pixel" only consists of 1¼ subpixels, whereas in RGB panels every logical pixel is always three subpixels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile_matrix_family
I would spend $1k on a phone the size of the SE with a headphone jack, fingerprint unlock, 3-day battery life, a camera like the ones on the new iPhones, and internals robust enough to last 8-10 years.
What happens when the nationalist right and preachy left unite to demonize the #2 power while it's overtaking us as #1?

Hopefully everybody calms down soon.
I'm sure it could be used that way, but the compile() function and the ast library (part of the stdlib) are a more direct way to create a macro system:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html

I've built macros using the ast library before and it works, but I also found I could adjust my DSL's grammar just a bit and express the same thing with ordinary Python code. That's why Python macro systems rarely gain much traction.

BTW Bowler looks cool. I expect to try it next time I do a big refactor.
People get very emotional about this stuff.

Places emerge because of culture, economics and time. LA is LA because it entered a long boom that lined up with the explosion of automobiles. People wanted cars and people wanted to live in LA. They got what they wanted. Ironically, at the time many of the "immigrants" from LA are fleeing the crowded cities of the east and midwest.

Now, we're in a era of wage stagnation where land is expensive and industry is consolidating into a few places. So apartments that were crack dens in the 80s are hot properties today.
That's a gross oversimplification of "dark ages" -- modern historians no longer use that term, because they weren't actually "dark" :)

To me, it was a very interesting time. For example, that's the period of time in which we built the most beautiful and livable town squares in the world. Even today, when you go to Europe to visit a city, the city square was probably designed in the middle ages (Paris being a notable exception) and the "old city" dating back to the middle ages, is more beautiful than the newer stuff around it. It was a period of beauty in urban design.

Also, the patterns of Feudalism were incredibly stable, compared to previous economic models, so a lot of the rich cultural traditions that were necessary to catapult Europe forward in the Enlightenment were rooted in the middle ages, and wouldn't have existed without Feudalism. If you tried to skip Feudalism and go straight into the 17th Century, Europe would have turned into a horror show -- just think of the French Revolution reign of terror, but assume it just never ends, because at the reciprocal commitments that became established in the middle ages tempered the radicalism of the enlightenment.

And although the pace of learning wasn't as fast as before, there were huge advances made in architecture and construction, culminating with the beautiful Gothic Cathedrals that are still wonders today, and survive today. How many buildings built today will stand for 800 years in the same splendor as the Cathedrals built in the middle ages?

It was also a time of great flowering of crafts and craftsmen, working in guilds scattered across small city-states and distributed political organizations. Distribution, rather than centralization, was the mantra.

For a more nuanced view especially of the cult of crafts, I recommend reading John Ruskin's essay "On the Nature of the Gothic" from his series "The Stones of Venice"

http://homes.ieu.edu.tr/arch204/READINGS/02_RUSKIN.pdf
> 3 billion miles away, typo?

"from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 somewhere between Neptune and Pluto"
> That's because it is

It largely depends on the country or even city. Me and my gf went to Switzerland by car a couple of years ago (we live in Eastern Europe) and I’d had expected that we’d visit different parts of the country by car. What happened once we got there is that we “forgot” the car in the hotel’s parking lot for a week and we did all our travel by train, it was wonderful. Even traveling inside the city itself (we were based in Lausanne) was a very nice thing, I’ve started building a soft spot in my heart for the city’s trolley-buses (electric public transport rocks, btw, always has, alwsys will).
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I am really confused as to how your personal experience would ever be able to figure out the actual percentage of homeless people who suffer from mental illness/drug addiction. No amount of experience would tell you those percentages, because no experience would have you meeting with a uniform sample of the homeless. Your experience is always going to have a huge selection bias.

It takes rigorous research, with properly accounted for selection biases, to determine actual ratios of the population as a whole.
If we look at humans as a counter, sure, apply all the stats you'd like, but I don't think we should do that when it comes to self driving cars.
if we simplify the driving risks, we have:
1. driver kills him/herself
2. driver kills person outside his/her car

* Humans and computers can make mistakes on both.

But, my wife and I can teach our kid everything we have learned over the years, to prevent 1, and try to reduce 2. I consider ourselves better than average drivers, if I get my kid a self driving car that is not as good as us, I won't care that it drives better than my neighbor or someone in California.

And in a tragic scenario, it's one thing to say, my kid made a fatal mistake vs, some random QA didn't do a good job and now my family is minus 1
Yup, that worked!
Yep, his idea is for psychologists to never actually double check each other's work. Hes probably scared of what would be found.

Edit:

And of course "conceptual replications" should also be done. Its just that they are not a replacement for direct replications.
I think smaller web dev/design shops are what keeps PHP alive. Many, many sites are built on Wordpress, Laravel, etc.
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Radio waves travel at the speed of light...so 3 billion years.
I don't understand this thread. Sure with enough effort and manpower you can prevennt your own civilians from discovering these. How would the US government stop civilian entities in say Russia or China from discovering these? I still see a marginal potential utility though: not showing adversaries that you have noticed their satellites (in order to prevent them from improving their stealth).
it isn't like Bernie has been all the successful in doing much about it anyway. Most Washington politicians only remember the homeless come election time. They are but a foil to use on the other guy, a sound bite, and not much more.

The same is true of many local politicians. They have political links to activist groups in their area who they steer funding in return for support during elections and also for intimidating developers into contributing to them.

this is not a problem that could not have been solved it is a problem that solving is not an actual goal but a means to continue the gravy train and perpetual power lock.
I don't know what you are advocating. Amazon paid people a lot locally. That's usually considered a nice thing. As a side effect, that inflated prices locally. That's sad. So, to not be shamed by you, they should have been doing ambiguous something all along. What?
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It's great to see Bezos invest in a way that is quite different than other folks in tech's Big Philanthropy approach. Many are piling their money into trusts to avoid taxes now, but don't deploy their philanthropic dollars quickly. Even with increasing wealth and charity dollars in cities like San Francisco, local charities have had a hard time making ends meet. International philanthropy and trusts are not bad in and of themselves, but need to support local charities as well which seems to be the goal. Pretty awesome.
Why not buy older or used models then?

You're never not ever going to get the latest technology/functionality in a low margin device--because return on investment, I guess.
I have a question... and this is probably a stupid question, but... does anyone know if there is any theory to support the idea that sufficiently advanced civilizations rely on something other than radio waves or light to perform communications? My dumbass-self wonders about quantum entanglement or teleportation as means of communication we have yet to master; may be, the medium of communications for the super civilizations of the universe.

Note: Just wanted to say, I'm less trying to talk about "FTL" and more so that we may just not be able to intercept, decode, or "see" the communications via our current technologies.

P.S. Thanks for the thoughtful replies.
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Lets hope that they allready checked the microwave oven
If you haven’t read “Three Body Problem” - warning spoiler alert - the premise was mind blowing to me - that the reason aliens aren’t broadcasting signals is that more mature spacefaring societies use those signals as targeting vectors! Eg aliens aren’t interested in making contact, and our efforts to broadcast our location could be inviting our ruin.
>Please don't come here though, rent is going up as it is.

Why do you have a right to the city but others don't?

Please leave there, I'd like to come and want rent to go down. Thanks.
Google appears to have a long history of infantilizing its workforce, partly - one hopes - as a sort of group-bonding in-joke, and partly - one suspects - as a darker psychological management strategy with objectives that are not always unambiguously in the infant's best interest.
Nausea by Sartre. I used to really struggle with existential anxiety, and still do to some degree. That book took away much of that concern, it gave me a new way to think about meaning in life
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We've had flying cars for decades. They're called helicopters. Unfortunately they're much too expensive for the masses. But I don't see why anyone would consider the concept stupid.
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Or maybe we hold driverless cars up to an unfair standard. Today, 3000 people die in the US every single day because of car accidents. Many, many more are injured or disabled.

Why would we expect driverless cars to reduce that to 0? Shouldn't it be good enough if they reduce it to 50%? 25%?
I'm sorry. You are that standardization is a problem. You can have different political organizations oversee the voting process. I'm not saying do away with states. Yet you can have a standardized system.

If we built an interstate highway system and have standardization in rail and roads, we can do this for elections as well.
> This is especially bad because packages aren’t served over TLS when using the default repositories. This bug has been fixed and the Alpine base images have been updated [...]

Do I understand this right: They fixed the apk vulnerability but the packages are still downloaded without TLS in default repositories?
I'm a physicist who does all of my numerics now in Julia. My main reason for checking it out inititally was that I got really interested in Lisp out of pure curiosity and novelty but was despairing at the idea of doing my actual work in common lisp because of the very tiny community of people who do numerics in CL. Then I discovered Julia and the fact that it had lispy macros which got me really excited.

It was curiosity and interest in metaprogramming that got me infatuated with Julia, but it was the multi-dispatch generic programming and raw performance that made me fall in love. If I'm being honest, Python probably would be of little to no hinderance for the numerical tasks I do but I find Julia to be such an interesting idea that I program in it for fun and feel emotionally invested in its success and adoption.
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Possibly race conditions between scripts which see different versions of the DOM.
Background: I've spent the first 25 years of my life in China, and the next 20 in the US. I know my opinion probably won't be popular, just wanna point out a few things missing in the current discussion.

Most of us here on HN are entrepreneurs. We wanna make something useful to the world and make tons of money in return. Just as we should look at what kind of impact our products have on our users' lives, in the discussion of whether Google should return to China, we shouldn't focus on the Chinese government and ignore the 1 billion Chinese people.

If Google launch a new Google.cn:

1. The Chinese government won't benefit much from this. Compared to these Chinese companies, Google will always be an outsider. It will have to work with the government, but won't be eager to do so, and might cause troubles to the government from time to time.

2. The Chinese people will benefit a lot! Without good competition, the dominant search engine Baidui has become such a bad actor over the years. If you are annoyed by Google ads, Baidu is 100 times worse, especially on mobile devices. For many search terms, the first a few pages are all ads. People are really fed up with this. In a recent survey by Sina (http://finance.sina.com.cn/stock/s/2018-08-07/doc-ihhkuskt26...) 72.8% the users surveied wanna use Google if it goes back to China.

If you were a farmer in the North right before the civil war, you probably would still have been willing to sell to the people living in the south that are against slavery, even if Southern government would benefit from tax.
This sounds like it is just going to trade one set of problems for another. It makes it impossible to write generic container types. What if elements of the same collection need to have different structure? What benefits justify this extremely tight coupling?
If I were to take a contrarian view of this, I would ask: "What is the difference between Google censoring search results based on the public security laws of China, versus Google censoring search results based on the copyright laws of the USA and EU?"

Why didn't this researcher resign over the 2nd instance?
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> You won't help human rights in China by refusing to work there.

Maybe so, but you definitely can hurt human rights by working there. I would say providing censored search results (and putting an American stamp of approval on them) is hurting human rights there. Furthermore, giving an authoritarian government economic leverage over an American search engine company can hurt human rights here.
Hopefully not
> Because of non-deterministic data placement, it is very resilient to failures in terms of write availability.

I am happy to expand more on this point.

We have this concept of "node set" of a log which is the set of storage nodes available to receive record copies sent by the sequencer. It is typically made of 20-30 nodes in typical deployments at Facebook. Write availability is maintained as long as enough storage nodes in the node set are available to accept copies. When storage node failures are detected, the sequencer can just exclude these nodes from the list of potential recipients for new records. It does not need to update a view that needs to be synchronized with readers, which is a heavy-weight operation. This model allows preserving high write availability even if many nodes in the node set are unhealthy.

Additionally, this record copy placement flexibility allows the sequencer to quickly route around latency spikes on individual storage nodes, which helps guarantee low append latency.
Is this interesting? The ECHR and European parliament are not the same organisation or people?
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What law would this violate? Please be specific, as legal definitions of things like espionage are often not as broad as a layperson might guess (and on occasion, they're broader).
I think this goes back to searching for other life on earth-like planets. We know what life looks like on our planet, so that's really the only thing we have to go off of, otherwise we are stabbing in the dark.

Likely we are searching for radio waves and light since that's the only thing we know how to communicate with.
I can't speak for Montreal, but there are countless counterexamples of cities in wealthy countries (not as wealthy as the US) where metro users are drawn from more or less every income level. Turns out you can actually make riding a metro into a good experience with a bit of effort.

New York, Chicago, Tokyo, Taipei, London, Berlin, Munich come immediately to mind.

And as sibling commenters have pointed out, in some places even smaller cities and towns have excellent public transit networks that pretty much everyone uses (maybe not always, but when convenient). Freiburg, Germany is one example I've seen.
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Cars, underpasses, camping tents, and cardboard boxes are not properly "homes".

Apartments, houses, yurts, and RVs are "homes".

Homes need to (1) provide adequate shelter, (2) have sufficient space, and (3) have access to water and waste facilities.
I was in academia dealing with the same stuff. I worked constantly for years to save my project once I figured out what was going on. I got it to the point where at least it wasn't BS, but after that was too burned out to go further. At every step there were social (not scientific) obstacles to me doing a good job.

After completing the degree, I quit rather than produce fake science or spend my time trying to fight against those who are. I have been there, and have no pity for people who choose to produce fake science.
Well I can spend my personal time in addressing edge cases for a tiny/occasional audience, or not. That was the point rather than defending the benefits of a specific platform.
We should be paying down the national debt during the upper-side of the business cycle so that we have stimulus funds for slumps. The tax-cuts are reverse Keynesian economics. They are "doing it wrong".
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When the score is 400-3 you can sit out a couple of plays.
No, the point is that if Google does not work with them then they'll do exactly the same without Google.
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Also the recent rash of articles documenting low rates of being able to reproduce results of many well cited papers.
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