skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd be surprised : there are more astronauts alive than YouTubers with >10M subscribers.
While this isn't what they necessarily said, to add another point of view, consider a population X which has a job option A, and a equally-sized population Y which has options A and B. In this simplified-beyond-reality model, it would be fully expected that Y will not be "equally represented" in job A. It also won't be "equally represented" in job B, as it will have 100% of the positions.

This is not a complete explanation of anything, but a tidbit to keep in mind.
This article can be summed up as follows:

"We're a bit naive and were expecting schools to be perfectly integrated and diverse cauldrons of social progressivism. However we were disappointed to discover that in the real world, many white parents value high academic standards over politically correct diversity. It's hard to balance our ideals with the real world."

They say that having a family is what stabilizes society and anchors people to the system. It causes their values to shift from the left-leaning idealism and progressivism of youth to a more moderate and centrist view that we must do what's right for our children. This writer appears to be in the midst of this shift, his gratuitous characterization of the President as a "white supremacist" notwithstanding.
Here's a thought experiment - assume that you do not have Genetic Modification at your disposal. Given that, what can you do to ensure you feed 10Bn people?

It's important to understand the challenge before posing a solution.
There are no repeated interactions: https://ncase.me/trust
For future confused readers, on mobile it's just an article + static images, but on desktop it's more interactive
Extremists Next Door: Fighting Intolerance in Small-Town Poland
The only time it’s OK is if all parties are consenting to be part of some voyeuristic fetish movie. There is never an excuse for such a blatant privacy violation. “No cameras seems a little bit excessive” sounds dystopian.
I strongly disagree. The philosophical issues are exaggerated. It’s the practical ones that matter and where the real hard work lays
Why don't people write things like that in assembly and call that from C?
There is nothing wrong with genetically modified food. People in the US eat it all the time, even if they don't know it. What annoys me about articles like this is that they skirt around an obvious solution to this and other environmental problems: don't let the world's population grow to 10 billion people. We already know how to do this, and they are things we should be doing already: empower and educate women, provide better family planning, provide better healthcare.
And to view an interactive map: https://labs.mapbox.com/labs/twitter-gnip/locals/#5/38.000/-...
Artificial Intelligence Solves Rubik’s Cube in Less Than One Second
> ie. level 5

No, we need level 4. The problem is that the other 3 levels are worse than useless, so there's no point on deploying something that isn't mature.
I work in Biotech and every time I read one of these articles/posts about how somebody hacked their insulin pump people start asking why there aren't already affordable closed-loop pumps on the market if people are hacking their own with raspberry pis and the like, and they clearly don't understand the regulatory process or the level of clinical testing that's needed to validate something that, if it malfunctions at night, can kill you.
I'm happy to explain!
From my point of view I see this as an injection of cash into the podcasting market. Personally, I don't see podcasts as being super mainstream (not on the same level as books / music / youtube). I think funding would allow more content to be produced, and hopefully allow for more people to enjoy podcasting. This would grow the market as a whole.

Spotify has most of the music streaming market (more then double Apple Music's share). I do agree that exclusives are bad, but my assumption is that Apple will make an android podcasts app if they do start charging / require service exclusivity (Like they did with apple music).

As for the iMessage issue... I don't really have a good solution for that. I know lots of people use Discord / Signal / GroupMe / Wire for group chats, since its more platform agnostic.
But you can't trivially define your own scopes wherein each has their own independent set of trusted CA:s. That's part of what's missing. But default it's universal or per program.

Just look at every kind of umbrella organization out there like industry specific auditors with a scope limited to a field (medical, finance, food safety), or even hobby organizations with a parent organization auditing local chapters.

You don't go to the social security office to look up your neighbors phone number when you need to talk to them. The attributes people care about are often more local, more narrow.

People first go to local trust anchors to get information about things (and their software clients could then traverse various directories up to a root and back down, if necessary). I need my client to be able to understand an assertion from an entity far more personal to me than a distant CA. The CA:s are most useful in ephemeral connection, not long term ones.

This is what I mean when I say the CA system isn't expressive enough.
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How about a gunman stopping the car. Will the car just let the passengers be robbed or executed mafia-style? (I'm rewatching The Sopranos)
Shame on me for thinking they were talking about the college's football team at first. I was like "It hasn't already?". Roll tide.
It isn't true that airbnb rooms cost less than a hotel, at least in Central London. The reason they can appear cheaper is that you can cram 8 people into a small flat or even a room.

I was renting a room in a flat in Soho. The other floors slowly got converted to amateur hotels for airbnb/booking. Many a night, I'd see families stuck downstairs with luggage. They would then phone a capricious property manager who would tell them to walk about two miles to the key safe. Many a time, they didn't have a phone that worked in London, and I would lend them my phone. One angry customer checked in to the 5* boutique hotel next door after waiting for an hour. The hotel was about the same price. I wonder if he got his money back. I doubt it.

I don't book airbnbs. Hospitality is not for greedy unregulated amateurs. Of course, there might be some great hosts, but I like consistency.
Could be saying that to defeat competition. Don't bother trying it's decades away! And Ford is notoriously behind the rest of the pack so I'd believe even less of what they say as well. I don't listen to executives with a stake in the game regardless of which side they are playing.

The barriers to this seem mosly man made. Regulations, restrictions, taxi lobby, trucker unions, etc. A lot of it depends on where the line is drawn for safety or versatility. Does one vehicle need to operate in all climates with 0 accidents a year? Simply being safer than humans is easy- we are already there.

I'd be happy to even see more and more driver assist to the point where you can't crash even if you jerk the wheel and try to.

I think the bar has been set incredibly high, almost impossibly out of reach, by people interested in things staying the same.
I lack the talent, but I'm definitely interested.

Have you taken a look around Casey Muratori's handmade.network? Or interacted much with the guys who watch Jonathan Blow's livestreams? They make much the same point you do about taking the linux kernel and creating a new userland around it.

Anyone who's interested in working on something like this, email walkinginalinuxuserland@lj3.me. The least we could all do is keep in touch, right?
the BBC sometimes have similarly well animated and formatted articles. Would be nice to have a list of some of these compiled.
A long time ago they were talking about Java chips. That didn’t materialize and as far as I know there are no chips that run JavaScript natively so I wouldn’t hold my breath for WebAssembly chips.
In the US it's usually a city or county ordinance we're talking about, which can be criminal. Some cities have some kind of code enforcement officers to handle those cases, but a lot of the time this is handled by the police.
Extensive Python Testing on Travis CI
Popular YouTubers will easily be able to afford a trip or two to space in their lifetime, so it kind of makes sense?
I know you don't work there anymore, but that really doesn't feel "web native".

Front page images load several seconds after they're scrolled into view. I looked at the moon story and it was frozen for about 10 seconds before a start button appeared. In the story I can scroll, but it's about 5fps, and the blue dots and the secondary map are glitching on/through the moon.

I am using a relatively new smartphone, a galaxy s8, something with more power than most average consumers have (most people have a cheap budget phone, not the latest iPhone).

The format definitely was interesting tho, I can see the potential of these types of tools.
Windows' slowness is almost all attributable to process startup time and a lot of modern apps being based on Electron, Chrome, JavaScript, and other very process-happy environments. Writing applications in Rust is not going to change Windows' process startup system.
In practice a web of trust is only trustworthy 1 degree out from you. Just because you trust someone doesn't mean you should trust the people they trust. The web of trust is a difficult to use misfeature. In theory it's great. In practice it's unusable.
It's a lot tighter as the GP underestimated expenses.

The only $100 electric bill that'll show up is one month every other year when there aren't any heating or cooling needs. Over the last two years there have been none of those days. I live in a trailer FFS and I'm near $200 in the summer: At my house it's $270.

Cable isn't $100 unless one receives public assistance. Strange requirement isn't it? Those who aren't getting public assistance have to buy the whole package at about $200/mo.

OTOH the $200 clothing budget is excessive if there aren't growing kids. $100/wk for groceries and cleaning supplies is about right if you eat sparingly (I eat sparingly and alone).

Left out were: Car maintenance, car insurance, home renters insurance, licenses and fees, grooming, health insurance, health care out of pocket, other things I used to know when I did this sort of thing in a different line of work.

I agree with your net paycheck calc but it's not tight, it's blown, important real expenses aren't there.

EDIT: I was going by Florida expenses but my ham friend below notes the heiress was at Disneyland. Florida pay scales are far less than elsewhere because we're all here on vacation, dontcha know.
These kinds of things are interesting, but at the same time I doubt the people making these things overlap with the set that build safety critical systems actually dealing with the constraints necessary to not kill people when things go wrong..
That's a brilliant solution, what a shame that is also part of a problem.

GM crop is by definition commercial crop, half of Indian agricultural problems are because of death of local farming vs conventional farming (think energy costs, supply chains effectiveness, technology dependence and lack of biodiversity which hits food chain hard).

Why are we exactly fixed on GM crop but not on better food management policies, promotion of local farming and climate-related tech (ie. irrigation)? Is it because GMO has clear profit margin where above mentioned (and many more) doesn't?

One can argue even about selective breeding which also has its own costs (fragility of a given genetics), but GMO should, by rule, be heavily limited.
> You can't even go 400km/h on the Autobahn

Yes, you can actually:
https://www.motor1.com/news/264061/bugatti-veyron-speed-reco...
I would disagree slightly. They treat it like any other hotel. There are always some overtly noisy people at a hotel. There are always people who will leave crap in the breakfast areas because "they are paying" and it is someone else's job. The difference is that someone's apartment isn't employing the same people a hotel is. And like the thread mentions, they are breaking a social contract of the building even if they aren't breaking a legal rule.
Well it IS a bad thing if it isn't needed. You're basically saying we created frankenfood, but we didn't need to. but hey. EAT
The operations commander purposely chose personnel with no children or spouse to go on the northern tower

The call was made knowing that there may be casualties among them
Ultimately the features involved in optimizing WebAssembly are even more variable than they are for Java, so a Jazelle approach is probably even less useful.
You can find "slim" webcam privacy covers on Amazon. Since they can slide it they're a better solution than tape.
Tidelift and Ruby Together to support critical open source infrastructure
By attacking, looting, and setting fire to shops that have nothing to do with the government?
That’s a fair criticism and I will happily admit that’s what it should say: that all PGP users are morons. (Just kidding. You’re right re: bug bounty advice.)
”It was so easy to break into these houses, and I felt discomfort with the low quality of locks used”

All of that fluff does nothing to cover up what an absolute dick move this was.
I've had my entire site cloned by scammers looking for content. I fought back by continuing to publish boring and ill-written posts that no one wants to read. That shut them down after a few months.

I don't know why they bothered. As this article notes, content is cheap. You can always find someone to write empty words for pennies. I can see no easy way for Google to combat this apart from boosting trusted sites.

One way to try to raise your PageRank is to submit your own articles to HackerNews, like whalabi just did. Nothing wrong with that - I've done it myself - but it didn't work for me.
What crops would those be?

And why not just plant more crops in an area where water is plentiful, like the Amazon?

And...isn’t that exactly what we’re doing, making more farmland from the rainforest?
Thanks for the clarification, Wes!

Semi-related question: How do you expect Arrow to be integrated to the larger data science landscape?

Will it mostly be used as a go between format? Will new libraries using it internally and old libraries just reading and translating it to a native format? Do you think established libraries will change their back-end to arrow? Is that even feasible with e.g. Pandas (or are you too far from their governance now to say)?
Just to play the devil's advocate: the level at which autonomous vehicles operate today was unthinkable in 2000. Literally unthinkable.

The progress in AI has been a massive step forward in a very short amount of time.

We may be years away, but the truth is we are one or two "massive breakthrough" away. These could happen tomorrow, or in 50 years, or never at all.
You tend to have two types of processing done in a mainframe, batch and online. Transactions usually refer to online work. In the old times, it used to be someone connecting in 3270 and issuing a bunch of "transactions" to bring up screens and perform various operations. Now, it would likely involve a web layer. The server part can be CICS for example, but they are others.
Think of them as application servers.
Proper batch jobs tend to perform even faster.
There is a few reasons to that, one of them is the full integration of the systems (ie: the batch has "shared" memory access to the database, basically it's a big stored procedure).
> Iron input from anthropogenic sources, like the burning of fossil fuels and other industrial activities....
They mean in America, right?

Because I’m sure China will simply build dedicated roads to kickstart the process.

Dedicated self-driving roads for trucks to move products would likely be profitable.

There’s no need to solve the entire problem for self-driving to be worthwhile.
Or "How the Earth Hour could collapse the power grid"
Yes, I'm talking about replacing the motorcycles. Drones can fly close enough to get basically the same footage as motorcycles. Yes, the pace is not precomputable, but the path definitely is. For professional drone pilots, that is huge, because if the path is known but the pace isn't it reduces the entire piloting effort down to a one dimensional instruction. And there's no need to have only one drone.

The motorcycles are an eyesore, they interfere with the race, and they emit noxious gasses for the athletes to breathe. Replacing them with drones seems like the thing to do.
My point is, COBOL is responsible for a really small % of said value per value transaction between me and said services. Linux, [Oracle/My]SQL, Java, JavaScript, C, anything from router firmware to Intel cpus powering the VMs is more relevant than said COBOL code.

So saying COBOL powers the global economy is indeed a stretch. Want to say Linux powers it? True, Intel powers it? True. COBOL... not so much. Imagine rewriting every COBOL system in the world, now change that into replacing all Intel cpus, ~~SQL~~ OracleSQL or MySQL databases or Linux kernels...

Edit: saying "SQL Databases" makes as much sense as saying "procedural programming languages", updating it to make more sense
> AppImages would do the same.

The user is never exposed to the mounted filesystem of an AppImage, which is only mounted while the application is running. Unless I'm mistaken, which is entirely possible, hpkgs don't work like that. The hpkg is mounted and the filesystem is exposed to the user who launches the application through it.

With AppImage, no expectation exists that the mounted fs is a real fs because the user never interacts with it.

Let me put it another way: Suppose Haiku already had all the changes it would need to use hpkgs in arbitrary locations. So I plug in a thumbdrive containing an application hpkg and all its dependency hpkgs. The hpkgs get mounted, then I launch the application, then I close the application. Now I remove the thumbdrive. What happens?

With an AppImage in this scenario, what happens is exactly what you'd expect: nothing. The AppImage fs was mounted at launch, and unmounted at close, and never seen by the user.
Just to be clear, AirBnB has rules about cameras: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/887/what-are-airbnbs-rul...

Note that you can get a full refund if the host breaks these rules.
I'm sure that if you pour enough money into something, you'll always get what you want, especially for something like agriculture that's largely a solved problem (and just needs to scale).

GMO might not be the only way, but it's probably the only economically viable way.
Hello HN, been hacking on this idea for the past 3 weeks, and I'd like to share it with you guys. its an Android app, the idea is news RSS feeds using the social stories format.

Would like for a few to try it out. All feedback is welcome. Thank you.

Previous Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20440230

(learnt that it's better to share a page describing the project, and not a direct google play store link)
The story about the insulin pump seems rather unethical, almost as if she is performing research on a human child when they are not of the age to consent, and would be biased toward consent due to parental influence.
I think your prediction will turn out to be as closer or closer than any other. Certainly more on the money than the breathless “won’t be a problem in a few years when self-driving...”

But as I read your probably-on-the-money prediction, I was thinking “here we go again, dumping money for the two-ton wheelchairs while alternative transportation goes begging again.” Where’s my fucking barrier-protected bike lane? Or any bike lane at all?

Frankly, if that’s how it goes, I wonder if it happens at all. “Separate lanes for wealthy tech workers” is how that’s going to go. You know why we can’t even get bike lanes? Because people bitch and moan because they don’t personally use it. Expand that to an empty lane of moving traffic while the plebs sit in traffic.
I tend to interrupt people only when they ramble on about something forever or when they make their point in a really, really roundabout fashion.

You know the type, that talks for 10 minutes and you still have no clue what the point is or where it will lead to.

The thing is: there are many reasons why people interrupt other people and they might be completely different.

In my case you probably would in the best case react with something like: “Wait, let me summarize my point” and then proceed to do precisely that.

Some people might shut you down, some might get excited by the thoughts your contribution envokes in then. Some might just hate it that they are not in the spotlight.

If you know the reason, you know how to react to it.
You can still have people: just have fewer kids later in life. Governments can encourage people not to have kids by reducing tax breaks for families with more kids.
> My butt starts to pucker again above 95%, because it’s all lies.

With the way you are describing false-positives; it sounds like most of your tests are written as integration or feature specs. Exercising the UI at 95% coverage is insane (maybe that is why you said it's all lies). You will definitely be pulling your hair out with false-positives and with a large enough project you'll never get it 100% passing each day.

The answer here is to shift your tests from the UI or integration level down to unit tests. You should test at the function or model level with unit tests to pin all possible execution paths, then perform a sanity check test in the UI. For example; exhaustively test your login module at the unit level, then perform a sanity check at the UI level. Moving exhaustive tests down to the function or unit level increases test speed because you don't have to load or render the UI to perform the tests (which also eliminates most classes of false-positive tests).

If you or your team have issues with false-positives at the unit level then something isn't right with your test harness, OR you need to git-blame to identify the person on your team that needs some mentoring.
Everyone likes Figma because of its real time collaboration. The performance is terrible but you put up with it because of the features.
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The really interesting thing (to me) is that Waymo operated self-driving cars on public streets in Arizona without safety drivers during November 2017 but stopped within a month. (google waymo "november 7 2017") Why did they stop? I'm sure it was partially because they realized there were some situations it wasn't handling properly, but my conjecture is mostly that expectations have changed.

I bet that Waymo cars are massively safer than human drivers in many situations, and that they're not as safe in a few others, and that there are a bunch of situations they don't handle well and "freeze up" or otherwise behave unpredictably. Waymo has probably realized that the bar isn't "as good as a human" but "significantly better than humans".
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