skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The USA did something about that prison population just yesterday, signing the FIRST STEP Act.

Full transcript of announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-pres...

Partial video included with this tweet: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11134886607779061...
SSH supports multiple methods of authentication, including challenge-response authentication, which is specifically designed for the kind of exchange that FIDO2/CTAP uses.
Interesting, it looks a lot like Haskell. And Edward Kmett used to work there right? Could someone comment on its relationship with Haskell and the ML languages? Which I assume is the ML in DAML
What this and many other similar situations argue for IMO are better blood screens for cancer biomarkers.

For it turns out even with early detection, metastasis has already happened. It's just that those metastasized cancer cells take a long time to grow.

I mean the doctor is right, but it sure sucks to be one of the people who really has cancer and you skipped the screening, no?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161214145615.h...
I remember the sound system doing the job. Were you there for the Andy Stott gig around that time as well? That was also one to remember.
I have immediate family that is a minimum 15-20 hour drive away in 3 different directions, but I have the option to fly and get there much faster for a price. If flying was free, how long do you think the lines would be to board planes?

The same principle applies here. Do you have an option to drive there and avoid toll roads? If so, how much extra time would it take you? Surely not 15-20 hours like it takes to see my family.
Weird, those links work fine for me.

I guess I'll have to change them, though not sure what to.. annoying github doesn't have a way to view markdown pages.

I guess for now, to read the docs online you could read the raw markdown here: https://github.com/aardappel/lobster/tree/master/lobster/doc...
Better yet, just download the repo and read the html files in docs/
Planet money just released an episode explaining why that doesn't happen: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...

tl;dr: All the infrastructure is in place and everybody loves the idea (Literally 99% approval in the test-run of 80,000 taxpayers); but Intuit (Makers of the TurboTax software, who get rich thanks to people's confusion and frustration), spent $28 million lobbying against it.
> Production is up, ergo returns are up.

Production is down actually from Q4 2018.

http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...

> Production in Q4 grew to 86,555 vehicles

http://ir.tesla.com/news-releases/news-release-details/tesla...

> In the first quarter, we produced approximately 77,100 total vehicles
Oslo created or is creating a car free section of the city.
Touché! I suppose I'm partially criticizing the idea of a #1, but that aside, there's a fair point to be made that MIT would beat a smaller version of it on any nominal measurement rather than per-capita.

Additionally, if you want to learn something academic that isn't technology, I'm not sure MIT or Caltech would win (or even be applicable), hence UChicago as a possibility for a general "best at academics" university.
Also, detection only really matters if the treatments are effective.

If you can detect Stage 4 lung cancer one week earlier, it probably does very little to improve the quality of life.

:(
And actually hit 98.5%
It's painful here in Canada, too. I read passages like this about civilized countries, also heavily socialized like my country, and am envious:

> "Netherlands, the procedure is simple ... Dutch citizens can file their taxes in minutes ... in Sweden, 72 percent of taxpayers say filing taxes is easy"

I enjoy what I receive from paying my taxes. Please make it easier.
In Spain as it was tested there. But still.. it beyond gross
You didn’t read through or even skim the hundreds of comments on the other HN posts. And don’t tell me about the policy saying not to tell people they didn’t read the article or whatever it is. You didn’t read them. If you did, you wouldn’t have used the phrase “Stop looking for racism”. There were many comments where people explicitly said racist and xenophobic things. There’s nothing to “look for” when it’s explicitly stated...

You even used the word “explicit” yourself...
Ahh the old poop drugs moral panic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkem
Ask HN: We've had Agile, Scrum, Lean Startup.  What are current fads?
I didn't say that they would be infringing on Apple, Inc's trademark and I don't think that. I only think that in disputed ownership, based on instagram's purpose of providing a communication platform, the rightful owner would be Apple, Inc, not someone who happened to register it first. And they have a way of determining who the rightful owner, to them, is. Clearly the definition of rightful owner isn't universal, nor is it 100% consistently determined, but a process can be made for determining it. Here's an example: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/trademark-clearinghouse/...
Sure. I've commented before I've read the article. Now I see. In fact the BIOSes I've ended up using during the last years of my BX PC (before I've bought a laptop) were community-patched. Now I wonder if it is possible to patch my Dell E5500 to support more than 4 GiBs or if it's actually an unbreakable limitation of its chipset...
Ask HN: Smaller version of HN focused on solving day to day startup stuff?
Does this community exists? I'm searching the web all the time for very basic stuff and landing in all kinds of corporate sites trying to sell me something and not really answering my questions.

Very basic ones like:

> What do I have to write on a pre-interview questionnaire to comply with GDPR?

> How to organise customer feedback to understand their goals and needs to see what extra services they need?

To more specific ones:

> Can anyone recommend a CPA in NYC that works with UK businesses?

Would be also very helpful to just read through what others are going through and how they are solving stuff. Do the startups that go through YC have something like this?

Thanks
That's the hope and the current justification for the project, but I don't find that argument very persuasive. Like I said, the situation in China has only gotten worse since Google said "enough is enough" and left. I find it hard to believe that Google's willingness to work with the Chinese government under current circumstances will somehow result in a more expanded internet than existed before.

No one can predict how it will play out, but censorship technology has only improved since Google left. Having another search engine to choose from doesn't necessarily mean Chinese citizens will have access to more information, it just means that the Chinese government will have more avenues to disseminate misinformation. I could easily see millions of Chinese citizens being lulled into a false sense of security by Google's presence and fall prey to government watchers.
YazIAm, you should check out https://www.kialo.com and https://web.hypothes.is/journalism/ and https://www.procon.org/
In NYC (at least in Manhattan where congestion pricing is being implemented) food delivery is primarily done via bicycle, sometimes via subway or walking, very rarely by vehicle.
A mildly interesting anecdote: I used to work in Darien, CT which I was told was so named by a mariner because it sat between the large "oceans" of Stamford and Norwalk.

No idea how true that is...
> most people on HN are the actual population that is buying teslas.

Is that really true?

I can't speak for everyone on HN obviously but I don't make enough to spend that much on a car. If I were willing to spend that much there are other cars I'd much rather get personally but that's besides the point.

Also given the relative infancy of EVs compared to gasoline powered cars now I would expect the pace of advances to be much better which fares poorly for depreciation.
Laws, yes. Will, no. The Chinese Government regularly leverages influence on it's largest companies to great effect. Apple is subject to the laws of the United States (allegedly) but the US Government hardly has a say in what they do within the scope of those laws.
Yeah I think the moderators were influenced partly by Sam Altman’s persistence to start YC China, and now with the YC china running.

There is something all of us on HN can do though.

Stop buying stuff from China

Before you moan and groan and say it’s impossible, yes it’s possible. European, Japanese, and South Korean manufacturers have been moving out of China for a few years. Taiwan recently so. Hardwares are coming out of Vietnam and Thailand now. Footwears and clothes are coming mostly out of India now. Telecom equipments are out of Taiwan again.
You are getting lots of comments, but the most obvious reason is that the act of driving on a road degrades it much faster than walking on a sidewalk. Thus, it needs to be repaired more frequently. Increase the number of cars and the frequency of repair (i.e. costs) increases.
It's not the cellphones they're worried about, its the network infrastructure. A cellphone simply has access to the carriers internet connection, whereas building a carrier's infrastructure on Huawei equipment means Huawei can spy on whoever is using that network.
Learn how basic user registration to login workflow works. I.e. user sign-up -> password hashing -> confirmation email etc. There are also "alternative" methods such as medium-style "email a login link" style logins and also stuff like OAuth. Stick with large frameworks and libraries; Rails, Omniauth and Devise, Django comes with Auth built-in. Avoid Auth frameworks which doesn't build upon its built-in systems. Learn the difference between authorization and authentication. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ROLL YOUR OWN AUTH FOR PRODUCTION. A lot of concepts regarding Auth are simple in theory but if you have a poor grasp of the implementation language or the authentication protocol, you are going to introduce vulnerabilities. Stick to boring battle-tested stuff. Yes that means you should avoid the latest-web-framework-of-the-week-that-doesn't-include-auth when it comes to anything you want to push into production. Keep everything behind TLS if possible (Let's Encrypt et al. are free) and if you don't understand something, don't use it. If JWTs doesn't make sense to you, avoid it and stick with traditional sessions. Your SPA works perfectly fine using traditional server-side sessions and encrypted cookies without the latest hip protocol implemented by a 3rd party API gateway. Don't trust security advice from random people over the internet without doing your own research. Here is some good reading material:

https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/06/12/a-childs-garden.html

https://latacora.micro.blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-a...
Well, I hope they don't. Functional extremism killed Scala for the wider public (IMHO)
If that example is representative, I'd definitely put it in the "readable" bin. Leaps and bounds from what you'd want to read, but infinitely more useful than a sequence of identical placeholders. Even just being able to tell wether two strings might be identical or not would be an improvement over blank placeholders.
Goodbye open core – good riddance to bad rubbish
From your original comment I understood that your concern was with men pretending to be women to win in sports. Are you now saying that there is a problem with trans women competing in sports?

There is a difference between someone transitioning from one gender to the other and someone pretending to be a woman, for whatever reason.

The "5-second googling" example you give is a of a transgendered woman who is also an athlete. I don't see how this fits in with "men who pretend to be women to win".
The bots would be a serious issue if this ever became big enough, since they can add to each other's reputation. Reddit probably has thousands of code-hours devoted to this, and bots are still a problem.

There is also the problem that humans will probably tend to upvote "facts" that they agree with, and visa-versa. I'm not sure that reputation is the solution.

And yet "expert" verification introduces trust. I'm not sure what the solution is.
It's a long term difference between the Unix culture and the Windows NT culture (which date back to VMS) that Windows will give up when things are wrong and Unix will barrel ahead anyway.
> Small differences in layer order and layer contents multiply to very large inefficiencies at scale.

Can you provide an example of how layer order can cause an issue?
Isn’t that sorta like what Steve Ballmer said about the iPhone, and then laughed?
Or those are considered outliers.

While those rags-to-riches cases are true data points, they are not representative of the population sample. They are the exception despite the strong correlation, likely due to another contributing factor (sheer random luck, great financial earning abilities, etc.).
I think about this a lot when considering China's extensive High-Speed Rail network. China's government operates it at a loss, and the capital expense must have been enormous, even with their wages. But the government had enough social good and political reasons to bite the cost.

The USA and our interstate system are the same way. The cost was enormous, the maintenance burden continues to outpace the money we make on gas tax and registration, yet we had political and social good reasons for building it. The interstate was a massive investment, and investments of similar scale could give us a HSR network at least on major corridors. But for some reason, we have a social good attitude towards highways and a social waste attitude towards subsidizing rail.
I see, thanks for the info.
My lay-brain imagines that a wire of the same "length" could hold much more power that would flow with much less resistance.
I suggested some falsehoods that programmers believe about telephones a while back (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19215636). There is a case for falsehoods that programmers believe about ASCII, starting with:

* It's 8-bit. (It's 7-bit.)

* It is sufficient for English. (Ð ð Þ þ)

* It is sufficient for Modern English. (zoölogy coöperate £ née resumé)

* It at least has everything that one could type on a typewriter. (½ ¼ ¢ , and that's just starting with some contemporary 20th century U.S. typewriters from IBM such as the Selectric)

* It is sufficient for the U.S., at least. (Not for the U.S. Library of Congress in 1969 it wasn't. It needed 174 characters for catalogue cards, per https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02404378 .)

* It was used by Multics. (Multics used a modified version, padded out with leading zero bits and replacing DEL with PAD. See http://web.mit.edu/saltzer/www/publications/multics/bc-2-01.... .)

* It does not have broken vertical bar. (It was in the 1968 standard at 124, a broken bar because the PL/I language people did not want their unbroken vertical bar to be in the then "national variant" range. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.infosystems.www.authori... http://jkorpela.fi/latin1/ascii-hist.html#7C )

* It does have broken vertical bar. (It was replaced in the 1977 standard by an unbroken vertical bar at 124. Then some subsequent 8-bit character sets in the 1980s re-introduced a broken vertical bar in a second position, with much ensuing hilarity.)

* It did not have arrows. (In the original standard ↑ and ← were where ^ and _ now are, for some consequences of which see https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/9201/1932 .)

* It is the same as ECMA-6. (ECMA-6:1991 allows national-language variants in several code positions. The standard ASCII characters in those positions are merely the "International Reference Version" and one possibility from amongst several in ECMA-6. See https://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ec... .)
As the owner of Huawei and Xiaomi devices, I would say the chances that they stop working is extremely high.
While I like how the software ties together the sourcing, I feel like the following is lacking (and I realize this is an alpha, but its things to consider)

1. Anyone who answers a question regarding whether the claim is "fully" proven by a source or whether the source is valid for the claim must or should (debatable) provide proof of their own interpretation by citing either specific instances in the source in question supporting it. For example, in the Net Neutrality article, Yatz states this: The adopted principles in this statement are at the top of page 3 in a response to does the source fully prove the claim. It would be nice if that was linked to the actual location in the document or identified through highlighting or some other mechanism to get full context for the response. There also should be uses for outside sources to be attached when evaluating these questions that are suppose to validate a source. This is because someone could submit a response to these source validity questions and cite an external source or internal quote of the source in question for their reasoning that doesn't support their answer.

2. Having some sort of expertise verification is extremely important and should be weighted either separately as in Experts: Yes Experts: No category and should be more important. It distinguishes this from random anon answers that have no training in how the source should be interpreted.

3. Having anonymous people do this seems rather dubious and the current platform seems like it would make it prone to Youtube comment syndrome. Maybe have some reputation system to gate keep like StackOverflow?

4. Sources usually require appropriate interpretation in order to be taken in the right context and be considered correct. Sometimes there's no single source or any source, philosophically, that fully proves a claim. I'm guessing that's what supporting documents are for?

5. Why is the original articles claim allowed to be edited?
It can't be mentioned enough that Approval Voting works with existing voting machines. One of the unfortunate difficulties with IRV is that it often requires a wholesale replacement of the voting infrastructure.
The Center for Election Science is a big supporter of IRV as a better system than our current "Choose One" voting method, but we've found that Approval Voting is both more descriptive and less prone to strategy, as well as being significantly easier to implement and use.

NB: I'm the Chair of the Board for The Center for Election Science. AMA.
It's not a good time to buy a stock. The market is pure speculation, which is why you have this phenomena of twitter assholes (TSLAQ) being sure that every bit of bad news is sign that the company is about to go bankrupt, and all of their stock shorts are suddenly going to make them the next Gordon Gekko. Couple that with the fact that Tesla is a really volatile company, none of my money would go there.

On the other hand, a company with zero self-driving cars in the hands of consumers is supposedly being values in capital raises at $75 billion, while VW is about to pour $50 billion into their EV efforts. Tesla is way ahead of them in adopted augmented driving, battery chemistry (which is theirs, not Panasonics) and electric drivetrains.

In terms of cars, absolutely. The Model 3 SR+ is awesome. I have a MR and love it.
Can you back this up with examples?
Just reading this gave me a headache
At 13:45 in this interview from 2003, Sergey Brin and Larry Page try to explain idempotence to Terry Gross (NPR's Fresh Air host):

http://www.npr.org/2003/10/14/167643282/google-founders-larr...

(It does not go very well.)

Edit: I can't find a transcript, so I just transcribed that portion of the interview myself, starting at 13:45:

TG: Now I'll tell you, in preparing for this, I decided, let me Google Google, so I typed in "Google" into the Google search, and I came up with a lot of Google things in the regular search, but in the "Are you feeling lucky?" search, I got nothing.

LP: Well you just got Google itself.

TG: Yeah, I just got Google itself. Oh, I see, Google was giving me itself.

LP: Yeah.

TG: Oh.

LP: In computer science, we call that recursion. [laugh].

TG: Oh, you even have a name for it. [laugh]. I didn't quite get that. I kept thinking it was just repeating itself. I didn't realize it was giving me itself. [laugh].

LP: [laugh]

TG: And what's the name for it?

LP: Uh, recursion. It's... kind of... Sergey is giving me a dirty look.

TG: Why?

LP: It's a loose definition. [laugh]

TG: Lighten up Sergey. [laugh]

LP: It's a loose interpretation of... [laugh]... recursion.

TG: Sergey, what's the more literal interpretation?

SB: The technical term is you got itself back.

TG: Right?

SB: There's not really much beyond that. [laugh]

TG: Okay.

SB: Idempotence. How about that.

TG: Say it again.

SB: Idempotence.

TG: What is it?

SB: That's when you uh... [laugh]... Maybe I should stop while I'm ahead...

TG: ...You're just making this up, aren't you...

SB: ...Before I dig a deeper hole. Idempotence is when you do something and you get the original thing back.

TG: Oh, so that's a real word?

LP: It's a mathematical term.

SB: Yeah, yeah, but it's also just as loose an interpretation as Larry's was of recursion.
I have Tesla and use Superchargers. It’s 7.00 for 100 miles and it takes 30 minutes not 10 and they are usually full so I have to wait. We use our gas car for road trips and skiing. The supercharger wait times up to mammoth are 2+ hours.
If you use software such as ufile, it is pretty easy in Canada.
I'm not sure if I've misunderstood your position, but you seem to think that only subject matter experts should be able to criticize a government. This seems absolutely crazy to me, and I think you'll find that most Westerners share my view.

If this was how it worked, the government would be able to claim that nobody is expert enough to criticize, and it would be able to do whatever it wanted to its citizens. Kind of like how the government works in China, and exactly like what's happening here.

"You're not an expert. You don't understand. You're not from here. We do things differently here." The entire international community has criticized China's treatment of their Uighur population. Yes, China does human rights differently. We know.

Western governments are accountable to their citizens, expert or not. If the people think that something is unacceptable, they are expected to express these thoughts through the Democratic process, and then the government is required to change its behavior, even if the people were "wrong" in some expertly measurable way.

The culture in the West sees anything less than this as immoral or corrupt, and we generally don't consider things like "social orderliness" to be worth sacrificing Democratic ideals for, as seems to happen in China.

It's not a matter of talking to more first generation Chinese to get a clearer perspective. I've spoken with ethnic Chinese people who still live and work in China, and I understand their perspective quite well. Most of them have understood my perspective too. The issue is not that we don't understand each other, it's that our perspectives and expectations from other people and from government are different in some pretty significant ways.