skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem with the question about where stuff could be hiding is that, as I said, I'm as up-to-date as you can expect to be on this stuff for a layman, and I'm not aware of any "unaccounted for" energy that might be useful for communication.

I'm aware you're not, and explained an example of a non-trivial, responsive answer which would differentiate between the "unknown" and "reasonable to rule out" case. "No, there is a way to measure the total amount of energy flux, across all sources, through a region and it rules out the possibility of undiscovered forms of energy passing through us without us knowing."

Similarly, if someone asked about whether Conservation of Momentum could be wrong, I would point out Noether's Theorem and how it falls out as a result of linear translational invariance of the laws of physics and thus has a higher barrier to disprove and what that would have to look like. I wouldn't just call their question a flight of fancy.

No one deserves ridicule for curiosity or asking which state the science is currently in.

All of your responses just come off to me as attempts to ridicule legitimate questions, so I don't feel comfortable engaging further.
Except the late 1990s:

https://www.epi.org/blog/real-hourly-wage-growth-last-genera...
Through some API that checks authorization.

Eventually everyone should be using https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/da... (which is based on https://pipewire.org )

For now, e.g. https://github.com/fzwoch/obs-gnome-screencast uses org.gnome.Shell.Screencast
> EM already propagates across the known universe.

I meant it in the sense that EM will be attenuated by gas clouds and solid matter due to the high interaction rate of EM, while neutrino (or presumably dark matter) much less so.
Here's a good article. https://danluu.com/monorepo/ It cites simplified organization, simplified dependencies, superior tooling, and easier cross-project changes.

https://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kerne... is another good one. You can build issue/PR tools treating a monotree as containing multiple repositories; that's how Google and Facebook do their work (including checked-in OWNERS/MAINTAINERS files).
Add a little fun to that by letting a cow tell your fortune with cowsay[1].

fortune | cowsay

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
Interestingly, Germany has a lower-than-average drop-out rate (https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/eag_highlights-2008-...).

On the other hand, US and European higher education are not directly comparable. (https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/ar..., https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/ar...)
Beans and rice, bought dry in bulk. It won't be fun, but you'll live, for roughly $10 a week or even less.
Of course :-)
Everyone thinks they are good drivers, yet hundreds of thousands of people are dying every year because of these "good drivers." Not sure what makes you think that teaching your kid what you know will make them a better driver than software that will continue to be iterated on and improved based on millions and millions of miles of data (more data than you and your wife could ever pass along to your child). Also not sure why you think your own driving will be better than self-driving cars.
I check that and it hides it until the next update of the app then it asks me again. I'm using the InBox app (which apparently is being discontinued).
Interesting, thanks for correcting me.
I explicitly wrote my comment because @Animats said "machine learning system", not "CNN", which I know definitely not enough about to comment on.

Surely the field of "machine learning" includes things which are not even invented yet, the same way maths comprises of theorems not yet discovered.

I was just saying that I think one could "just hook up some cameras to a machine learning system, train it, and you have self driving", maybe not today though.
> Do you know what kind of hoops they have to jump through to access that market?

Yes. I thought my comment made that pretty clear. But is hollywood entitled to the chinese market? You act like the chinese owe us their market like we own them.

>Take Gravity for instance. The reckless nation that shoots down the satellite causing all the damage is Russia when it was China in real life.

I know. That's why I wrote "Or china setting aside X number of hollywood movies to show in their huge movie market. Of course hollywood is going to give something for a portion of china's movie market share."

Well, it's called the chinese market for a reason. It belongs to china. Their house, their rules. Why would china give their markets to foreigners without anything in return? Do you think we open our markets without anything in return? Do you think europe does? Or russia? Every nation or bloc protects their markets and demands something in return for access. Maybe the chinese go overboard with it, but as I said, it's their market. They can do whatever they want.
How Israel Plans to Disrupt a $4.7 Trillion Industry (2016)
Many first world societies have unreasonably long waiting periods to receive specialist attention and care. For example, Canada's average wait from referral to specialist appointment was 10.2 weeks in 2017, up from 3.7 in 1993. The average wait period for treatment was 10.9, up from 5.6 in 1993. 4.1 weeks for a CT Scan, 10.8 for an MRI. Some types of treatment require almost a year of waiting. Hope you aren't in a hurry to get your health issues resolved.

It IS scarce in the short term. Not everyone can get treatment right away, someone will have to wait. And the wait times seem to gradually trend upward, which would indicate (at first glance at least) that it cannot keep up. There's no magical solution to getting everyone timely care.
How to Authenticate Users with Vue.js and Firebase (Article)
Something like FHSS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-hopping_spread_spect...), not only a low level of signal is spread throughout a board frequency range, the central frequency is also changing many times per seconds, synchronization and decoding is only possible if the CSPRNG key is known. The signal of interplanetary communication is also highly directional.

I guess an alien civilization has much better ideas to avoid detection.
I’d be curious to hear abit more about those two.
How Google is breaking EU privacy law, according to a new complaint
I'm going through this book right now, i find it to be pretty good! https://www.amazon.ca/Writing-Interpreter-Go-Thorsten-Ball-e...
I did, took an Uber in Bangkok and there are occasional highway tolls, which I paid the driver 50 baht (~$2) cash for on the spot. I guess he forgot or decided to get a little extra cause he adjusted the fare to include it after. Simply filed a ticket and got reimbursed.
while that one is a particularly bad implementation of the new generation of the flying machines, the typical arguments you voiced are basically the same as the arguments behind "Locomotive Acts" in Great Britain 150+ years ago.
Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang Talks AI Security
Tangential to your point, do you think it's fair to compare AI driven cars to "average" drivers? I think it's more reasonable to compare them to "average [worst_category_of_driver]." For example, how does the Tesla car compare to teen drivers? If it's better than a meaningfully sized category of human drivers, it's probably ready for the road. Being on the real road is where the best data will be collected.
Yes! The bursts from FRB 121102 took 3 billion years to reach earth.
After lamenting the size of the 6🅂 following my iPhone 5, I was happy to get an iPhone SE as a burner for DEF CON this year. I was shocked at how small it felt. I've gotten so used to the extra space afforded by the 6-8 form factor. I still think the 6/SE is my favorite design, but would find it hard to go back to it as my daily driver.

Now I'm looking at the X🅂 and have the same reservations. I don't want a larger device in my pocket (and have pockets that the 6🅂 is already unsuited for), but will probably like the extra screen space once I'm used to it.
> I don't think its particularly associated with SETI.

That depends on what you mean by "associated". It's not associated directly with SETI the institute, but it was the site of the first systematic/scientific search (and false positive) for extra-terrestrial intelligence lead by Frank Drake. It is also the place where The Order of the Dolphin (Drake, Carl Sagan, Otto Struve, et al.) met and developed the Drake Equation.
"Communication by electromagnetic radiation suffers from the fact that the radiation diffuses indiscriminately in all directions."

While lasers technically do not need to be beam-like, I would point out that beam lasers do exist, as well as many other directional effects, as seen in flashlights and such.

It is a bizarre alien race that people are hypothesizing that apparently uses whatzamamagic communication that we currently can't even conceive of, but aren't capable of building the things we already know how to build that can provide very good directionality today. A very particular sort of powerful.
This awesome essay by Steve Yegge: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rich-programmer-food...
How would we get accurate information on the number of lives Tesla's "autopilot" has saved?
How did you conclude this? There are other similarly-priced but more-numerous models of car where literally nobody has ever died after crashing one. Controlling for price (as a proxy for the wealth of the occupants) Tesla has a poor safety record.
If anything, the Chinese education system is a ripoff from Soviet Union, not the Western countries. It is probably still is.
The secrets of the AuthaGraph revealed
That is extremely dystopian
I think olivewell's comment in this subthread is what dooms the idea of camera-only self driving for a really long time horizon: you basically need general AI for it.

I work in machine learning in a different area (healthcare) so my perspective may be incomplete, but what I see in ML/AI is that models are really good at memorizing, not so good at understanding. What I mean by that is that a human navigates the world by knowing what a car is, what fog is, what a person is, what a plastic bag is, all sort of things. Object detection can get much of the way there, whether it can get enough of the way there is an open question, but ok we'll grant that. Whether AI/ML can actually make the step from knowing what the object is to knowing how that object interacts with all the other objects in the world is another.

In other words identifying an object is just step one, understanding what that object means in context is the next absolutely required step, and it's way harder. We have a leg up as humans so we can rely on visual alone, but machines almost certainly will need other sensors that report additional information because they don't "get" context in the same way. And I'd say it's an open question whether even with those sensors, they'll be able to get there. I hope so, but the game is far from won.
To me the most straightforward thing to think about is EM waves at frequencies we can only imagine. Very different sources and detectors from what we have, therefore the radiation is undetectable to us (also very line-of-sight), but still the same physics in terms of the properties-of-the-universe required. I would imagine this increase would be developed for the same reason we have gone from KHz to GHz in a hundred-odd years: The higher the frequency the more information you can transmit per second.
MonoGame WebAssembly initial support
Wouldn't the prospect of billions of dollars for you personally change your mind?
The tech for automated road trains is vastly closer than where self-driving cars are. If you feel this way about trains, then you should feel the same way about highway-specific automobile autonomy.

We also need to focus on the actual problem we're faced with. Cities are hitting limits to growth due to congestion and we can't build more roads. The state of tech right now is capable enough to solve that problem by increasing the throughput of the major arteries of LA / DC / etc.
Unexpected, unreported, and so far unexplained emissions of CFC-11
Containers vs. Serverless from a DevOps Standpoint
Your opening statement of "make something useful to the world and make tons of money in return" is completely antithetical to all discussion in and around this article. That idea of amoral profit at all costs is exactly the point the employee in the article is refuting.

Point 1 makes no sense, Project Dragonfly demonstrates a willingness to work with the Chinese government in the first place, so this does what for the Chinese people?

And in point 2, your only claim of the provided benefit is less annoying ads? Really? This is not a very convincing argument and reads like standard HN Chinese astroturfing...
Well, of course they don't. How would you even begin to build a simulator for something like that?

Communications overhead between the nodes is bad enough as it is.
I'm interested in aliens especially because of biological curiosity. I wonder how did their evolution happen, what unique futures their species developed, from what sort of creatures they evolved (if they're primate-like too, that would be very weird), do they have emotions like humans, why did their brain evolve so large?
LA has the worst traffic in the nation. They responded to traffic problems by just building more and harder, and it just made the problem worse. Which is why they're starting to turn around and embrace multi-modal development.

Cars are nice for some things, but they don't scale well. The bigger the city, the worse cars work.
That's today.

Debian was the recommended base image previously, and Alpine grew in popularity despite of this. The issues were more around DNS resolution based on musl not having the same bugs as glic (I believe, this is from memory).

At the end of the day, I suppose the community has spoken, and docker backed that up by hiring an Alpine developer, and I suppose the rest is history.

Not that I intend to be having a go at Alpine, all distros go through this. I was just making the point it's a fairly small distro in contributor numbers, and it seems to have become fairly important to the eco system.
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?

This implies a common assumption among people: That any civilization out there is automatically going to be more advanced than we are.

If you believe that the universe started with the Big Bang, then (IMO), it's reasonable to believe that we all had pretty much the same amount of time to evolve and develop civilizations. Asteroid events notwithstanding.

To me, believing that all beings average about the same place in the development cycle, it makes sense to look for the signals we know, rather than the signals we don't know.

But I'm no scientician.
> In their current state self driving cars would kill far more people than humans if all cars used self driving 100% of the time, and no one knows if we will ever move past that.

Really? No one knows if we will ever improve on self-driving cars than the current technology today? I'm going to stick my neck out and say "Yes, I know that will move past that."
Types and Programming Languages (TAPL) is required reading, in my opinion: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
Yep. And driverless, electric locomotives are decades-old technology.
The 4-Hour Body is a great book too. I hesitated to mention it but if you mention the 4-Hour Workweek then I feel like it is to be mentioned as well.
as if earthquake resistant structures can't be built or water efficiency is not a thing or 85% of the water in the state doesn't go to corporate agricultural welfare.

I was going to rebut more of this but its a joke of an argument and rightly should be downvoted to infinite
Things would be a lot simpler if it were faster though :)

Consider a modern cpu running at 3ghz. It can retire some instructions on every cycle. Light can travel one mm in that time. That means the part of the core that decodes the incoming stream of insns is effectively outside the lightcone of the part that retires instructions.
Can you explain a bit more about how the grade system works? College is generally equivalent to uni in the states.
The solution for that is bringing the state college systems back to life, with only token fees low enough so anyone who gets admitted can attend without a serious financial burden.
Perhaps, if it gets a sequel, this (or similar) will be revealed as the cause of the "event" in _Seveneves_?
Apple discontinued it yesterday, it's not part of the lineup.
In what way is it "not supported by cloud providers"?

Google App Engine: has PHP runtimes

Heroku: supports PHP

Azure App Service: supports PHP. Experimental support in Azure Functions available.

AWS: I think the only language-specific thing they have is Lambda, which doesn't directly support PHP, but it can be run on it with workarounds if you really want to.

Everything exposing VMs or containers of course can run it. API client libraries/SDKs are widely available. FaaS support is limited.
This is cherry-picking. It always makes more sense to take a car service when multiple people start and end at the same places and can easily coordinate (e.g. a married couple). But this tells us nothing about the average outcome. The _average_ car contains only 1 person.
Check out "Writing An Interpreter In Go" https://interpreterbook.com/
It uses Golang to make an interpreter for a simple C-Style language and it's "only" 200 pages long. I'm about a third in and my head is smoking.
The national debt can wait, the private sector is more indebted than at any point in recorded history, and getting worse. In the US especially you can see the seeds of debt servitude being sown.
Aaand Hack ist dead. At least for everyone outside fb.

Not sure why fb even made it public. First baiting everyone by switching and now having full control.

Not sure who would risk that dependency.
Revisiting the sad, misogynistic fantasy of Xanth
Yes, that is covered in my wikipedia link and a comment below.

There is a replication crisis in many fields. Not every field.
The History of the Internet
Cold boot attacks given new life with firmware attack
Freight traffic dominates the utilization of the rail network in the US and is prioritized over other traffic. Freight trains travel slowly.

This is why US passenger train service is so poor compared to Europe.

> The picture for freight is different. According to Panorama 2009 , 46 percent of EU-27 freight goes by highway while only 10 percent goes by rail, while in the U.S. 43 percent goes by rail and only 30 percent by road. (In both cases, nearly all of the rest is waterways and pipelines.)

> So, it isn’t so much that Europe decided to move people by train rather than by automobile. It is more that Europe decided to use its railroads to move people while the United States decided to use them for freight. America moves almost six times as many ton-miles (or tonne-kilometers) of freight by rail as Europe, while both move about the same number of tonne-kilometers by road. While Europe moves about twice as many tkm of freight by waterway as the U.S., we move six times as much oil by pipeline. [6]

- area of Continental US: 3.12 million sq mi [1]
- area of Europe: 2.306 million sq mi [1]
- rail network length, US: 141,808 mi [2]
- rail network length, Europe: 157,667 mi [3]
- goods carried, US: 1.558 trillion lg tn mi/yr (long ton-miles per year) (world rank: 1st) (2015 estimate) [4]
- goods carried, "Europe": 0.32604 trillion lg tn mi/yr (long ton-miles per year)

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=continental+united+sta...
[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=total+%7C+United+State...
[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=total+%7C+Europe+%7C+r...
[4] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=total+%7C+United+State...
[5] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Europe+%7C+rail+transp...
[6] https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=11847
That still measures something meaningful doesn’t it? An alternative is that the city is destroyed and there are not enough resources to rebuild it.
Beam lasers exist and stay narrow on the scale that we use them. They are tighter flashlights. Turn on any flashlight and the rapid diffusion of its light will be extremely apparent.

And I'll note that I responded to the comment "electromagnetic radiation basically has every characteristic you're looking for in a communications medium", with no mention of aliens at all. It is not true that electromagnetic radiation basically has every characteristic you're looking for in a communications medium.
Ive lived in NY and LA. I definitely had worse traffic problems in NYC than LA.

Ive never seen my GPS do the sort of gymnastics it did when driving to Long Island during rush hour.
I guess the people who rely on wages aren't really important.
Build Your Own Lisp (http://buildyourownlisp.com/) is as good a starting point as any. You learn to implement a high-level dynamic programming language in C, which is a common choice of implementation language for interpreters (e.g., CPython, Ruby). I really can't recommend the book enough.
> You can run the 5250 at 27x132

This does ring a bell, I think I did discover this eventually ("wide mode", they called it?). And I'm not sure if this is damning with faint praise, but I will admit that the 5250 monospace font kinda grew on me.

Interesting to hear that I could have been using Eclipse for RPG; for the PHP side (which was still running on the mainframe via AIX, so I had at least a few Unix tools at my disposal (not git though... I had to expose the PHP source directory via a fileshare and mount it via NFS on Windows so that I could leverage msysgit (it's as ridiculous and slow as it sounds, running VCS in a Unix emulation layer on Windows performing filesystem operations over the network to a virtual filesystem in a Unix emulation layer on an IBM mainframe (but I digress)))), I got the company to shell out for WebSphere, which I thought being an IBM product might have some RPG support, but alas.
They are if you’re a corporation.
Do you mean HHVM or Hack?
Exactly correct. The history of the United States is marred with some horrible events. But that does not change the fact that there is a large faction within the Chinese government that views the US as an enemy and second rate power that must be humbled. The US should recognize this and act accordingly.
Clearly no modern person has the moral high ground on anything when looking through the lens of history. I'm surprised the world hasn't fallen into total anarchy since no one can stand up and say "That's wrong!"
And I would as some neighborhoods in LA are the size of smaller and midsize cities elsewhere. I grew up in Boston which is extremely walkable, yet LA has several walkable cities close to the size of Boston within its city limits.
The doc answers the question, so this kind of reaction boils down to "I don't want to read the doc, I'm not willing to take answers at face value, can you please write a concise summary of the doc that I will take at face value?"
The fact that this discussion ALWAYS comes up when talking about Lua, with people saying they won't even try the language, should clue you in how terrible these design decisions are.
I heard this argument. I think, one need to prove that zoning is not a commerce regulation, but a sanitary one.
Who are these guys thinking they can make anyone show up and get grilled by a bunch of politicians looking to score some easy points? That’s offensive. That Dorsey and Sandberg showed up shows that they are desperate for attention or approval. God Bless America where the government can’t force you to waste your valuable time talking to Marco Rubio.
Interesting idea - though I think any kind of script API can be circumvented by ad blockers pretty easily: They can always inject their own script before anything from the page is executed and manipulate the API functions or replace them with "do nothing" implementations.