skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think walkability also varies a lot within LA. At my previous apartment, I was about a 5 minute walk from 2 grocery stores, my dentist, my doctor, etc. Maybe a 15 minute walk to the beach.
Hopefully the PGP signatures are downloaded over TLS, at least.
Learn the mechanics of compiler construction first - that'll inform everything about your language, and is a prerequisite to actually building something other people can use. I'd recommend The Dragon Book [1], SICP [2], and Modern Compiler Implementation in ML [3] for this.

After that, it's a question of where you want to go with your language, and what distinguishing features you'd like it to have relative to other languages. Languages which just change some syntax and keywords but otherwise look like C are common, but they tend not to get usage beyond their creators. Much of the academic research lately is about type systems (TAPL has already been mentioned) - there's research into dependent types, effect typing, total functional programming, linear types already made it into Rust's borrow checker, etc.

However, many of the worst problems in industry - dependencies, versioning, smoothly migrating from a prototype to robust production code, code navigation, security, parallelization & distribution, the memory hierarchy - have gotten relatively little attention in academic research, and are desperately awaiting solutions. If you have some industry experience, it may be worth trying to imagine how you might fix these problems if you were allowed to change the programming language at will.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniq...

[2] http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.037/sicp.pdf

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Compiler-Implementation-Andrew...
I've been working for a while on a sort of language for writing highly optimized cryptographic code, mostly elliptic curve cryptography where there's a very elegant mathematical description, but when you try to optimize every single detail manually it's easy to get very dirty code.

The idea was then to have a language that maintains the elegance and clarity, and a compiler that generates in my case C code. This let me focus on the "core" of a compiler, without too much emphasis on parsing, tons of optimizations, corner cases.

So this would be my advice. Pick a domain, maybe focus on getting highly optimized code, design a small language and build your first compiler.
There are no young new workers in the construction trades.

Average age of some trades is now 60 and these are not trades typically performed by older generations.

Wages are rising but I believe there exist opportunities to use AR to transfer tacit knowledge - the type of knowledge thought to be difficult or impossible to formally educate.

I believe solving for x on this problem has higher order side affects that we don't presently anticipate because this topic is a neighbour to long standing mysteries in AI.
One note is that perhaps people roll the dice because they want to feel some control and forward momentum. But if you're sitting in the car, being autonomously driven somewhere will you be so impatient?

I assume the car will give you an ETA, so you'll check the clock and go back to your book/social media. I'm okay with "slower, but smoother".
I think I only use Chrome to read my Gmail. I use Firefox for everything else that I can.
Oh yeah, just like Prop 1 in Olympia WA in 2016/2017.

Prop 1 is an initiative to "help educate the children of Olympia", using a little tax to help pay for college tuition. So noble!

Except: it proposes a levy on households of $200K or more (not constitutional in Washington), is an income tax, also not constitutional in Washington, requires the city of Olympia to fund the administration with no enforcement clauses, and multiple groups have already announced that they intend to sue the City if it's passed (which it will, because it's a 'think of the kids' measure), and the City knows it won't win but could not get the measure struck off so is already budgeting for constitutional lawyers. Hell, the City doesn't have the authority to see these people's tax statements, so it'd rely entirely on self-reporting. It's just a mess.

So you look a bit closer, and who is pushing this bill? A group of locals just concerned about local education?

No. A bunch of multi-millionaires from Seattle who want to use this as a proving ground for their challenges to state taxation law. Of the top ten donors, not one has ever lived in the County, let alone the City, nor does any of them have any children who attended school in either. (Olympia, like most state capitals, is far smaller than the largest city in the state), which makes you wonder why they're not pushing this in Seattle/King County - probably because they don't want their own taxes going to fund the defense of a proposition that's very specifically unconstitutional.

"Think of the kids" at its worst.
You certainly will get more space for the money in LA at least.

While LA rents have increased dramatically the last several years it does not rival cost of living in NYC from my experience.
>right now the price is at a discount

The price is generally at a discount in bad times, when there's a lot of people and companies looking for work. And it's not like the central banks around the world are going to increase interest rates in a downturn.
First, you have to transport one of the entangled pair to your remote location.

> assuming you have some way to change the state of one with out breaking the entanglement

Second, this isn't possible.

When you measure the entangled pair, you know they'll be correlated: if one is A, the other is B, and vice versa. But when you measure one of the particles, you have no idea if you're going to get A or B. You don't have a way to force the entanglement to go a direction you want. So it doesn't serve as a communication channel.
Ran into a few errors the first time I loaded it (looks good after a refresh though): https://i.imgur.com/xflIFYN.png
^^^ THIS

Before launching a campaign to ban guns, focus on triage for the current gaping bullet wound.
That always seemed to me to be some particularly flawed reasoning. Any civilization advanced enough to be able to destroy another at cosmic scales is advanced enough to know that the universe will end some day, so there's no real virtue to killing off everyone who isn't you just so you can hoard all the resources until heat-death takes you.
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No offense, but this conversation is not for you or your family. The car is the second best thing that ever happened to rural life, after the tractor, and nothing is going to change that.

This conversation is about the 62% of Americans that live and work in 3.5% of the land area. (Source: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33....)

There’s no reason for rural America to act like these ideas are crazy, nor for urban America to act like these problems are universal. So often these two sides act in opposition to each other when they really have no conflict with each other - except perhaps that both side has a hard time relating to the other lifestyle.
The divided mind / healing back pain - Books by John E. Sarno.

To give you a background I have struggled with back pain all my life. After dozens of MRIs, X rays, physiotherapy, ayurveda, yoga, posture exercises, and spending almost 100,000 in the last 15 years on this, a simple book saved me.

The effect was so powerful that I could feel the symptoms fading while I was reading it. It gave me my life back. A few weeks ago I finally had the courage to teach my little one to walk without worrying about bending my back.

Now I feel that more people suffering from back pain, chronic fatigue, etc should be made aware of it. Here is a intro video about it [1]

P.S. I credit hacker news for the source.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsR4wydiIBI
I work in Fintech, I think training people on how to write good requirements and specifications is lacking
Yup that is it.
I don't see it that way. 100 years ago we had a million questions about physics, and lots of fundamental values were a mystery. Today the fundamental values have all been measured to a high degree, and we have a few questions about physics and lots of them epistemological.

If in 1M years we have a different view about the universe it won't be because we were wrong about physics today. It will be about something underlying or outside physics?
I highly recommend Norvig's (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) as a very short, practical introduction to implementing a language.
http://norvig.com/lispy.html

There's also a followup article implementing additional data types and tail call optimization.
http://norvig.com/lispy2.html
Funny, I've found it seems to struggle with any references that cross language boundaries.... except with typescript, for some reason.

EDIT: Sorry, I meant 'file' boundary, not 'language' boundary.
To assume they are limited to the speed of light is like ants assuming that pheromones are the only method of navigation.
Why would the signatures need to be downloaded via https? You need to get the keys via a trusted mechanism and the signing keys for a distribution are usually part of the install iso (which you should verify)
The 100% attention thing I why I have tremendous faith that computers will be out-driving humans in short order. Even really good human drivers have a limited perspective and focus. And even the best human drivers are subject to emotional state.
I am aware that this is not what the NPR article is about but, can someone please change my mind on this? The vast majority of college degrees in the US do not have a return on investment. Many people are struggling because they studied information that is not a marketable skill from a university that accepts low-quality students. Why is the solution that the nation just foots the bill to make a bad investment instead of the individual?
For a data point on this, I'm in the Waterloo region, about an hour's drive into Toronto when traffic is good, or 2-2.5 hours when it's not. The government regional rail (GO Transit) operates four commuter trains into the city on weekday mornings, and four back again in the evening.

Despite being slow and expensive, those trains are packed, day after day, with commuters who would rather live out of the city, and not spend 15-20 hours of their week sitting in traffic on the 401. They recently extended two of the trains with additional carriages to handle the capacity.

We've been clamouring for hourly bidirectional service for over a decade and it's only in recent years that the relevant authorities have finally gotten their act together to build out the necessary infrastructure to make it possible (twinning a bunch of track sections, building a bypass for US-bound freight, and electrification).
Even that is starting to change:

https://www.axios.com/wage-growth-jobs-report-5cc6c15d-45de-...
That's true, though the benchmark game doesn't use many libraries, and the post was written just before 1.0, as things were settling down a bit.
He compared SF to London. Then threw in some national numbers.

SF to London is not a good comparison because SF is a small part of the greater city.
>What else would a flight of fancy be other than imagining something that we currently have absolutely zero evidence for?

Exactly, but that was spirit of OP's question.

I do think that the fact that we can rewind our own history and find examples of technologies that were unimaginable at some more distant point in our history as something more than "absolutely no evidence."
Yeah, and we can all hope that those indicators are things like "% of population with secure housing, healthcare, community, and income" and other actual measures of wellbeing, followed closely by actual government policies to provide those things directly out of tax revenue.
There are lots of places in the US where jobs are booming and people are doing great. Like West Texas where 22 year olds are making six figures in the oil fields.
There's also the possibility that some ET's may want to be known, and are sending out an easily-detected beacon.

That might be our best hope.
> everywhere that people get freedom of travel they go their own transport.

They have freedom to travel, but not freedom to live where they want. The United States has entirely banned dense housing in everywhere that people want to live, and this consequently makes transit impractical. Get rid of zoning restrictions on housing, and we'd be in a much different place.
Driverless vehicles are "the new fusion power".
Always "about 10 years in the future".

>Driverless cars are coming along just fine.

Even if this were true it doesn't mean humans will be fine with them being deployed. We had working driverless trains 20+ years ago yet almost none are deployed today (AND we have plenty of human-caused fatal train crashes that might be a good reason to want driverless trains).
The new gmail looks hideous IMO
Also, it took a couple of seconds of staring at the world map near the end, as it has almost invisible continents. Initially it was a matter of connecting the dots.

So did they follow Google's new "Sterile Design" standard?
> Nah, California really isn't that densely populated. Besides, denser-type development would be mean less resource usage, person for person.

He's talking about Los Angeles specifically, not California generally.

> Agglomeration of an industrial sector in a particular area is normal and fine. It happens, even though companies have to pay higher rents and higher salaries, because it's advantageous to productivity to concentrate a wide variety of specialists for a certain field in a particular area. If companies want to spread out more, of course that's fine, but forcing them to do so would almost certainly hurt their performance. If you want lots more high-paying jobs, maybe not the best idea.

The essence of his point is that there's a tradeoff between livability and productivity. As an LA resident (though not a homeowner, so I don't have NIMBY-skin in the game), traffic is horrendous, and substantially increasing the population would make it unbearable. Now, you can argue that we should build better mass transit infrastructure, and I think that's a good idea. But that needs to happen first, and the point I think is that there are really a complex set of tradeoffs here between the character of a place (along many axes) and its population density. I do think that the scales are often overly tilted towards NIMBYism and against dense housing, but I also think its important to acknowledge the reality of the tradeoffs.
If you're interested in machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence, for example, I've got bad news about a lot of those papers that appear at NIPS...
In 500 years we've gone from signalling towers to lasers, fiber and RF. If someone got a 10,000 year jump on us and has a technological improvement rate close to us, we don't know the scale, frequency, or means of communication. There's a lot of physics we know, but there's also more we don't know.

Also, I can't use language bi directionally with a plant no matter how hard I try. Maybe we're the plants. Maybe they don't have language.
one of the best posts I have read on hacker news!
If you like books, this one is great:

https://www.elsevier.com/books/programming-language-pragmati...

If you like excellent free university lectures online, this is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N__tvmZrzc

In reality - programming languages are most likely what you think they are, if you simply start with the basics like what's a variable, what's a function. How do I call functions inside other functions. Do I want variables to have types. What kind of types?

If you start with the very very basics - global variables, global functions, you can't call functions within other functions - and implement that, you'll get the feel for it, which is most likely as far as you'll want to go, because it gets very tedious, very quickly, as soon as you want something as 'simple' as proper unicode support, garbage collection, generics, inheritance, foreign-function-interface and the list goes on and on.

To get your feet wet regarding what it's all about - those video lectures above are top notch.
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There's a great short story by Harry Turtledove called "The Road Not Taken" that tries to jostle that view. If you can find a copy of it, worth a read.
Privacy is still a worthwhile goal.

Also, HTTPS is not expensive, contrary to popular belief.

> On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the above numbers (public for the first time) will help to dispel that.

(source: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h...)
For rich people that is probably true. Everyone else is like, going bankrupt from medical bills, starting Gofundmes to pay for their medication, and still dying anyway. Our life expectancy is going down. Having a kid is a much more expensive proposition here than elsewhere. Homelessness and opioids are huge problems and only getting worse. The list goes on. America resembles third-world countries more and more as time goes on. And we don't want to admit it.
Has there been substantial discussion about this feature? Neither of the two links provided lead to deep discussions about this. It doesn't seem like this is related to any agreed upon standards process.

As far as I can tell, this is being presented as a change to the programming model which will be undertaken unilaterally. Are we back to the days where one browser gets to decide how the web works, and everyone else can catch up if they like?
The point is that we allow teen drivers on the road with the expectation and understanding that they will improve over several years. Why would we not expect to have to make the same concession for AI?
Https does nothing to protect you from a compromised or evil mirror. You cannot trust https at all in this context, you need to rely on signatures.
so basically the cyberpunk future we all had imagined in the 80's..
>Go where you want, when you want (but you're gonna be bumper-to-bumper most of the way there.)

I can count on 1 hand (ok, maybe both hands) the number of times I've been in bumper-to-bumper traffic in my life. One of those was in Austin. There's lots of places to go that aren't big cities.
I put "soliton pulses in a plasma" in a search engine and everything that came back was well above my head.

Does anyone have a link to something that explains this in plain language?
Most North American cities also lack the space for new roads and parking, at least in the places people actually want to go to.
"Hope you aren't in a hurry to get your health issues resolved."

You make it sound so scary, but you make no mention of health outcomes. I don't care if an appointment happens in 10 minutes or 10 weeks, so long as the outcomes are positive. Wait times alone are not a meaningful metric to me.
There are a limited number of health care practitioners, health care facilities, etc. The demand for health care is unlimited as people get older.
> we could also start receive a civ's first ever radio broadcast tomorrow (that would be incredibly lucky).

not a chance. Our own radio transmissions barely go past the solar system before going under the noise floor.
"Food of the Gods" by Terrence McKenna was a revelation and led me to dive into his other books and lectures (and many topics spawned from it). Complete shift in baseline perception. Though not his quote, he said it frequently: "The truth is not only stranger than you suppose, it is stranger than you _can_ suppose."
US carriers introduce Project Verify to replace individual app passwords
Regulations seem to be one reason. The IBM mainframes use their own implementation of floating point math that appears to be legally required for some businesses as you can see under "Special Uses" here[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_hexadecimal_floating_poi...
> normal people can't afford to live on the wages all those new jobs afford them

I don’t believe reality agrees with your assumption here.

It’s true that an average wage worker can’t afford to live in any city of their choice, and there are some markets that are out of reach for most.

It’s also true that an average wage earner today enjoys a higher standard of living than at any point in history - bigger house, more cars, tvs, and luxury items.
A Forth or a Lisp are simple tasks for an experienced programmer, and even basic ones are really satisfying imho. Seeing simple constructs work in an hour of coding really feels great. I implemented more complex languages (with types) for work which were more like DSLs but in languages less suited for the type of DSL we required, but I find most pleasure doing little Forth (like [1]) or Lisp likes when I am waiting for hours (in a plane for instance). It is like playing games for me. I write them on my phone or iPad.

I would recommend a lot of books here as well for a solid base and giving you the background needed to write more complex languages including static types, compilers, JITs and VMs. But for me, because I really do not have that much time, that would stretch over too long time and I lose interest, so I stick to things I know I can finish (or rather, get working and achieve something a previous incantation did not achieve; smallest, simplest, fastest etc).

[1] https://gist.github.com/tluyben/16ee2645c4c8aed813005d51488d...
Very cool. One micro issue though: the medium link is 404
Tight media bubble? Hmm.

If I made an equivalent comment similar to coldtea's, one detailing a list of China's sins, on Chinese social media... place your bets on whether or not this post would be removed by the government censors. I bet it would, personally. Probably rather quickly.

Some of the "counterpoints" also were strange considering we are talking about China. For instance, China executes more people than anyone else in the world, and even when adjusted at a per capita level China's rate is quite a bit higher than the United States. (https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/04/12/china-st...) And China's internet surveillance is far worse than the United States, probably one of the worst in the world as far as this goes (eg "Great Firewall", large divisions of government devoted to censoring social media, etc.) -- it is more internal focused at this time, granted, but still.

China certainly is meddling in other nations' foreign politics too (just look at the recent politics in Asian countries with the Belt and Road Initiative, with some commentators such as this -- https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/08/28/commentary/w... -- worried about such being a "debt trap" for political purposes). And the worrying militarization of the American police force still compares nothing to what China is doing in Xinjiang (https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...).

There certainly are Americans that gloss over our sins and over-promote "American exceptionalism". I don't see that in most of the Hacker News crowd -- I think most Americans on here are plenty aware of our faults and transgressions, and are often rather vocally against our own nation's suppression of dissent and free speech. But China's on another level, a much tighter authoritarian state with much more active spying and suppression. I think it's hard to argue against this.
Ok, but the point isn't little green men -- it's that SETI is now using AI and a convolutional neural network. Not that AI and ML isn't also a victim of media hype...
It is just a larger version of the XS just like plus is a larger 8. The name is irrelevant if the facts don’t change.