skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in London, visited LA (not SF but kind of similar?)

The wealth inequality was massively more visible in LA. Far more homeless people. Neighbourhoods were either rich or poor, there wasn't any mixing. OFC London has similar problems, you're going to see more luxury cars than homeless people in Chelsea and vise versa in Brixton, but LA felt like it had gone a lot further. The projects in LA are also far more run down than council estates in London, at least from outward appearances. Agree with what the other comment says too: there isn't really much of a middle ground, it all felt like everyone either has a six figure trust fund or is almost homeless.

I've been saying this in various places for a while, but the predominant difference between the UK and the US is the size. Since it's a much bigger country and they have more space, everything is spread out far more. In London I live in a mainly working class (stabby) neighbourhood, but I walk ten minutes and I'm surrounded by houses all worth £1m+. Same thing in every flat I've had in London. In American cities you walk ten minutes and you're still on the same street. It leads to huge buildups of either run down or expensive neighbourhoods which keep themselves very, very isolated from each other and it shows. SF is a bit more walkable from what I've heard but the general problem is still there.
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If you're still on FB, I use groups __a lot__. If there's a topic I enjoy, I put a bunch of my friens into it, and then hope for quality sharea.

Mainly though, I'm just trying to be more mindful. I have to ask myself "is this __really__ worth my time?"

Finally, more (print) books and print mags.
The article's headline has no relation to the article. The article text clearly states that the pedestrian was flagged as a false positive. 'Deciding not to swerve' implies the system gave preference to the safety of the passenger over the safety of the pedestrian. Heavily misleading IMO.
Obvious stuff that's too pro-user:

Tab pause button.

Or better, opt in to not pause; I hacked up a -STOP for webkit (surf/glide) when the tab/window was not in the foreground. The X plumbing was tricky and never quite right. Still on my TODO to finish.
The title of the book is “Beautiful Racket: How to Make Your Own Programming Langauges with Racket”. It’s reasonable to expect that a reader unaware of the distinction would get the impression they’re learning about Racket.
It does not consolidate monopolies because, by law, ISPs are required to add all apps from a category (chat, video, etc) to zero-rating. i.e. if you add Netflix you are required to add YouTube, etc.

All I see about NN is a lot of manipulation from both sides. And what's especially frustrating is that some people insist that NN is anti-customer. No thanks, I'll keep my zero-rating.
> I'm being entirely serious; I think the language would have been more popular with a cooler name.

How do you explain the lack of popularity of Lisp dialects that do not use "Lisp" in their name, for example, Arc, Racket and Clojure. I know that HN was written in Arc, Arc was written in Racket and Clojure is used in a handful of companies but a far greater number of companies and projects use Python.
IIRC I think I remember him saying in a room that this bug had been fixed in the develop branch :)
And sometimes the best people live in cheap places and still ask for a lot of money.

What you're saying is self contradicting, and in any case GitLab does take cost of living (rent being the largest part of that) directly into account when calculating compensation.
Ethernet PHY supports automotive 100-Mbps single-pair designs – Embedded
> There's 48 languages more common than Kotlin, according to https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ . Why is it better than all of them?

Funny you should say that:

TIOBE Index for May 2018

May Headline: Scala cracks top 20
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Iridis 5 Supercomputer to Simplify Use of HPC – InsideHPC
Seriously though, that city is SO dirty and smelly. The public infrastructure is not only bad and falling apart, but politics is sufficiently broken that very little is likely to be done about it. (Same for housing and homelessness: politics is completely broken, don't expect much to improve in this department.)

And yes, it's a huge techie bubble. In a bad way - most people there are completely detached from any "normal life" perspective. But then again, the same can be said for those in politics in SF.
The U.K.'s (government / regulators) stance on net neutrality) is that as long as there is competition in the market and there are services you can sign up for that “neutral” then there is no need to step in yet.

The competition in the U.S. isn’t as great as it can be in here in the U.K. where many will only have a single choice for their ISP (or have restricted cell/sat isp or have a service that we wouldn’t even consider as broadband as it’s speed is so low).

It’s strange how people from different parts from the world may require different rules that govern them.
That is how the web is browsed best, in information explorer mode. An agent moving amongst the archives by their own impetus. A tool to satiate their thirst for stories and information.

The alternative is in consumer mode, where you sit and consume anything that shows up on the conveyor belt of feeds, wondering why things aren't as good these days.
You might also want to have a look at Julia. It's not really a lisp, but it sits on top of a scheme - and it has a rather interesting, pragmatic type system:

"Julia: to lisp or not to lisp?":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK3zRXhrFZY

https://julialang.org/

Maybe compare and contrast with Maxima?:

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
Rather I wonder why Browsers display such non-CSS sites in this primitive way. Pretty sure browser vendors could slap on a primitve CSS limiting the text width and tweaking a few defaults when a site does not load any CSS or JS.
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The title makes me wonder, is it too late to read these books for me, a decade long programmer?
The Gilbert had an electric motor with various power takeoffs.

There's no doubt that Lego, with their immense popularity, has every imaginable add-on. But to me, snapping brightly colored plastic bricks together with plastic wheels just makes plastic toys. It doesn't tickle my engineering sensibilities, while screwing together girders and brackets and metal pulleys produce things that look (and behave) like machines.

Granted, putting the tiny nuts on the tiny bolts could be difficult for young hands, but I got very good at it. These days I see even teenagers who have problems getting a large nut started on a bolt, and/or have difficulty using a screwdriver.
Joey Hess, creator of git-annex used a Yurt for a long time, https://joeyh.name/yurt/
IE/edge does recieve monthly updates every patch tuesday for the last several years
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The lack of static typing does not explain why there are so many companies using Python, Ruby and Perl but very few using Lisp. If the lack of static typing was the real cause of the lack of popularity of Lisp then Python, Ruby and Perl also would have been unpopular.
Intel’s A.I. Architect Singer Lays Out the Vision for Deep Learning
I'd like to see it in action with a pre-loaded video, instead of uploading my own or giving you access to my webcam just to see it work.
The tourism industry must head the warnings of Boracay Island and Maya Bay
I’ve thought about it but no, some of the recommended videos have zero link to the other ones, the only link is my “shadow profile” or whatever Google calls it. Tell me how a video about wasp pest control (had a wasp nest issue about a year ago, that was a fun experience) has anything to do with what I usually watch which is electronics (mainly EEVBlog), car repair, etc?

The “other computer” doesn’t actually exist, it was a test in an AWS VM that was only used once to prove/disprove my theory, so no way for them to have associated that computer or IP to me in advance.
Isn't that true in Python too?
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I've read accounts in the local media (in Malaysia and Singapore) that Mahathir will work at getting Anwar pardoned. Once pardoned, Anwar will run for a seat in Parliament. Once in, Mahathir would step aside and let Anwar become the Prime Minister.

How this would work in practice is, of course, pretty much unknown territory for now.
What confused me a lot is that nobody seems to give an example on how to build a binary out of a Lisp program/make it runnable from command-line.

Also most tutorials/books I found don't guide you on how to build an application/structure your code – which is rather confusing for a beginner. You have to spend a lot of time and try and error to get things working using Quicklisp. I got often the impression, that since Lisp is so old, everyone using it knows how to do things and forgot to document for newcomers their knowledge.
Other fantastic projects by the same author:

“Typography for Lawyers” https://typographyforlawyers.com/

“The Book is a Program” https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
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Very well presented website - I like it a lot.

Would be interesting to see some reports about the real estate plugins available for Wordpress. I did a quick review myself and did not find any really high quality plugins but would be good to see some more detailed analysis.

This is a short article I wrote about real estate plugins in WordPress:

https://smallbusinessforum.co/why-an-alternative-to-wordpres...
Correct. Just a minor typo at the end: it should be Malaysians.
Do you still feel the same way if you consider the option type a container type.
Option types and comprehensive pattern matching in F#.
If you just need to filter them you can simply use Seq.choose.
"10 L/m²"... not even close. It produces 32 µL/m²
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When I was you age: the rush of the "it works!" moment.

Now: knowing that when I get home, my infant baby will smile at me.
The other broadcaster inserts it's own ad's so it would just filter them out.
You chuckle thinking about photosynthesis?
It’s not as clear cut as “it helps users”. There are positives and negatives for users as there are in all things in life; nothing is black and white.

Firstly I would hardly call demanding the end of free services on moral grounds “helping users”. As far as the end user cares, forcing them to pay for all services equally when they could previously get one for free is a net harm.

The bigger problem however is that internet has been running largely at full bandwidth capacity since mid 2015, particularly the backbone. Bandwidth is being devoured faster than it is being added. Not being able to limit major hogs, namely streaming services, in favor of other smaller and potentially more important connections actually harms users with slower overall response time for the internet at large.

I personally think things like medical/government services and online banking traffic getting priority over entertainment is not that controversial - but not allowed under net neutrality.

It’s not as clear cut as people think.
oh wow I thought scots was a joke language mocking the scottish accent

oops!
Your avg hire comp may be quite a bit lower outside of the major tech cities, but your still gonna pay a lot for the really good people. You may need less of those people and at a later point with AWS though, depending.
The constraints of a medium are often the appeal. Not to mention, a quick glance over Gilbert stuff and it strikes me as utterly charmless. The global and universal appeal of Lego is clear in comparison.
Got demos in English?
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I'm of the opinion that buses are the best candidate for the first mode of road transport that can eliminate road deaths for passengers.

They're driven by professional drivers who don't drink, have strict rules about the amount of rest, don't speed and typically (far more than amateurs) drive in a predictable sensible manner.

Certainly in Belgium it's down to single figures per year. The crashes that do occur are usually caused by amateur drivers in cars, the driver falling unconscious or something like a tire blowout.

I think passive neural networks can be trained to take over if the driver becomes unwell (this was one of Musk's claims for the Autopilot in the Tesla Semi) and I think they can be trained to handle the situation of a tire blowout better than a human.

The final issue is amateur drivers. Not much can be done about them until we reach level 4 automation.
2 words. Soul sucking.
Damn pricey. Crazy housing. Elitist liberals. Tech mecca. 49er women. Lambos & hobos. Decent weather. Fin^2
Regarding 2., in general, if you have a function that takes a `const std::string&` as parameter, you can replace it by a `std::string_view`. If you have stuff like `constexpr const char* whatever = "blah blah blah";` you can also replace it by a `std::string_view`. If you have a `std::string` member in a class, then you must not replace it by a `std::string_view`.
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Smart pointers have been an evolution, C++11 deprecated auto_ptr (gone in C++14), make_unique only came up C++14 due to an oversight on C++11, C++17 constructor type deduction makes everything more productive.

Regarding memory and performance improvements std::string_view should better than using std::string, but don't go overboard replacing all code. It depends what kind of application you are writing, the age of existing code, or sometimes a plain old const reference might be enough.

There are some ongoing efforts for such chaining

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2017/p079...

https://github.com/TartanLlama/optional

EDIT: corrected the make_unique/make_shared misinformation.
I am the only one that sees totally that this product is result of work done for military? Task: Sergeant Google, use everything you have to analyze all audio streams in real time. There are multiple enemies to look for, be alert! Google: Ay, ay chief. Can i use this for my troops to order pizza? Chief: Affirmative. Do it, this is Murica, pizza is important.
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Same. copy-and-paste works as expected.
Open source LoraWAN based pager
What I mean is I’d rather go about creating such systems than spend minutes on a pointless back and forth.
You don't need consent for the cases when processing personal data is necessary to provide a feature for the user. For example, if you have a "find my friends near me" feature, you don't have to ask for consent to use the user's location for that purpose.

So there's never a reason why the product must be worse for any particular subset of users.

When you need to ask consent is when you're trying to use personal data in ways that aren't directly related to providing features for that user. Like, for example, ads.

And you can't develop a bad version to "punish" users who don't consent to those unrelated uses of their personal data, because then the consent wouldn't be freely given.
Nope, no vendor does (fortunately). AFAIK people get the "Redis way": grab the source and do whatever you want with such code, in the limits of the license / law. Also I get near no contacts from big corps using Redis at scale. This is a sane model otherwise my work would be dealing with communications instead of writing code :-) However when technical people from big companies ping me about bugs / issues / improvements ... then it's great feedback, but is rare.
I stand corrected. Thank you
In Paris, night busses have bouncers. (At least the one I used to take)
College dropouts whose startups failed, what's your story?
Allow audio to autoplay, but optionally mute output
Google announces plans to acquire cloud migration company Velostrata
If that were the case, I would certainly not want to burp so near my nose.
Thanks for the comment and link! I have been thinking about this the wrong way around for a long time.
Methane contains carbon so it's not 100% temporary just mostly.
Are there any numbers for that or is it just a assumption? Do we know API access doesn't count as web access in the numbers above? Facebook is begging people to download the app for a few years now, I am not to sure if we can still expect people adapting to this degree.
What changed is that they are now agrresively charge you these days.

In London area (city and outskirts like Oxford) its £1500-2000 per 10kw and they count the PSU rating regardless of what you actually use.
And that is on paper only as many DCs limit a rack to 20A which gives 4.8kw only so if you need more you need to lease another rack which costs more money.
And leasing adjacent racks also isn’t really cheap they usually give you maybe 2-3 ones if you need more than that well then you are now leasing floor space which means if you need say one rack with 15kw rated bare metal you may end up having to lease enough room to hold 10 racks if not more.
Amazing read - I had no idea how much this was going to change things. 500km/s streams? 1.3B velocities? White dwarfs flung at high velocities? Satellites with massive black holes? 'satellite galaxies ... all ... currently at the closest points in their orbits'? Well - this will liven up discussions for a LONG time.
And nils in Go might be different. That's even more weird.
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They were very trumped up indeed. I am acquainted with someone who used to be on Anwar’s staff - he was put under severe pressure (threats to livelihood, family, life) to testify against Anwar - “sign this statement we wrote” type thing.

He ended up changing his name and seeking asylum in Thailand.

As to how this plays out - I am highly sceptical of Mahathir’s motives. You don’t have a sudden change of heart in your 90’s and give up a lifetime of authoritarian nepotism unless you’ve a strong motive - and what that motive is, I don’t know.

I just can’t help but think that this is a trap. BN brand is getting dirty, so transfer their animus to the opposition, resume business as usual?
Not really, the empty list, None, and False are distinct values in Python.

In [1]: [] is None
Out[1]: False

In [2]: [] is False
Out[2]: False

In [3]: [] == False
Out[3]: False

In [4]: [] == None
Out[4]: False

In [5]: False is None
Out[5]: False

In [6]: False == None
Out[6]: False

This kind of relatively fine-grained distinction between different types of data is essential for operation in a world where other systems presume that you can handle these distinctions.
> If you're a software engineer, there are plenty of jobs and you will never have issue finding work.

Even over 40? I am genuinely curious.
What are 49er women?
Agreed, London buses are in a much better state than American in general. But then you should be comparing them with NY.

The main issue of London buses is that they can be slower over long distances.

But over shorter distances, you are normally less crammed in, have a view with sunlight rather than tunnels, don't have to go all the way down to the tube and back up.
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AI recreates activity patterns that brain cells use in navigation
We can do a demo in English if there is a potential customer (for free, we need something to show off as a use case). If you're interested, drop me a line at vlad@dasha.ai.
> It's the same kind of sense of wonder one feels when one learns how the simple concepts of Euclid's postulates can be used to prove complex concepts in Geometry or how the Newton's laws of motion can be used to derive intricate and complex concepts in classical physics.

Well, I think you've got your answer right there. Out of 100 people learning about newton's law of motions at university, how many are witnessing their intrinsinc beauty ? Maybe one or two ? And I feel like I'm being fairly generous; most just find it boring and just want to pass the test. They never feel that sense of wonder.

I certainly never felt it for Newtonian physics either, but I'll admit that the relationship between linear algebra and matrices made my heart pinch a bit at the time.

Likewise, most people (doing a programming job) are utterly bored by "how simple concepts can be composed elegantly" ; they just want to make the damn thing work, close their tickets and go back home. They don't read HN or LambdaTheUltimate any more than your average construction worker does read construction working forums, or your average accountant does read accounting forums.
Reading all of these replies is making me nostalgic for my youth in California.

I spent a lot of time in Santa Cruz between '95 and '98 and used to head to SF pretty regularly. As a young art student before any real involvement in tech, I loved the vibe of the city. Great food and bars, welcoming people. Nice climate.

At the time I did notice lots of homeless people but they didn't seem that threatening. Out of all the places I've visited, it's one of the few places where I would consider moving to, out of the UK.
The USA is big. Like, really fucking big. As a result running an ISP, wired or cellular, has an extremely high cost to entry. As a result of that, most people’s choices for internet provider is precisely limited to one choice, the local telco monopoly. No net neutrality means that ISP ca. Do whatever they want and get away with it because what are you going to do? Send a sternly written letter?
Can you show an example of linked list data structure without pointers?
>This is why that null concept shows up repeatedly in different forms such as NaN in floating point, NULL in SQL language, etc.

NULL in SQL is also problematic -- e.g. as it behaves wrt aggregations and such. Explicitly user defined unknown values are better.
I really don't like throwing the word "pseudo-intellectual" around because its mostly used to mean "I think I'm smarter than you".

However, this person begins their article poisoning the well, saying,

> I find that the people I talk to about this instantly flip on the condescension switch and try to mansplain this shit to me as if.

Proceeds to speak in that very same condescending tone, presenting a smarter-than-thou trundle down from the mountain. All the while including some nonesense about logic.

This person clearly has a chip on their shoulder: tacking on things about community-regulation in an article about Null, like all technical public engagement authors do. Let's signal "what good behaviour we expect" in the midst of a book pitch and a confused discussion of a technical matter.

One of these goals can be failed in its attempt with good nature. When you smush all this together it seems an exercise in performative intellectualism, or more accurately, pseudo-intellectualism.
Grew up in LA, living in South London now.

Homelessness and inequality is much more of a problem in LA. Skid row is a modern Hoover/shanty town, and it’s impossible to walk along the beach or any tourist area without coming across clearly mentally unstable homeless people with no support network/help.

In London a lot of homeless sit outside of tube stations or grocery stores selling big issue magazines. There are some tents along the canal, but nothing on the scale of LA. It’s rare to see

Inequality is obvious in both cities (nice cars, insanely expensive housing) but it’s more concentrated in London. Everyone is rich in central. Huge wealth in LA, but it’s outside the center and not serviced by any public transit - Beverly Hills, Malibu, Brentwood, etc.

Police culture is a huge factor. Police in UK are helpers, while police in US are enforcers.
This does not work if you want to speed up routes in rush hour, because people will demand stops at every block. Usually people are not alturistic enough to get off in bulk if they have the option to stop everywhere. Busses work great even in low density environment if you build infrastructure that is good for busses. Bicycles + buss makes it posible to serve quite large areas fast and simple.
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