skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What route has been de-eletrified? IIRC Seattle made a big push to invest in the overhead catenary system just a few years ago, as the neighborhoods that have overhead catenary wires were in a frenzy over the mere suggestion that they'd be retired.

The overhead lines do force King County Metro to avoid changing routes (a boon for local riders), and are 50% faster at getting the bus up to speed after a stop. Short of something wrecking the overhead lines on most of a route, I doubt they'll be retired soon.
I’d just like to point out that I have and broke Pyrex, not borosilicate (as explained by the article).
But instances aren't competing for users. There's no account fees, no ads, seems most big instances rely on voluntary donations to keep running.

You are also free to set up your own instance(s) and you can follow anyone.

Otherwise, stick to an instance with people like you (i.e. don't put your account on a gardening or knitting instance if you are primarily going to post and read about FPS gaming as it will mess up the instance timeline for everyone else and you'll have little use of the instance timeline.)
Inherited wealth is part of the American dream. Everyone wants to pass on enough wealth to provide for their children - even if their children turn out to be morons. I agree that at a certain amount of wealth, inheritance seems problematic. When those morons inherit enough to shape the world instead of just living comfortably.
It used to be called Openstack.
One thing I didn't see here that's a big pet peeve of mine, if you're typing and the first option changes despite the first matching prefix not changing.
Particularly twitter is a huge sinner in regards to autocomplete. When searching, autocomplete for profiles comes much faster than the autocomplete for search terms. Often bad timing makes me hover a profile and then right when I click the search terms autocomplete finishes and changes the data underneath me.
Stadia – A Netflix of Gaming by Google
Thank you for that link! That does look like it is a very similar IR structure indeed. Very interesting.
Totally agree. Sometimes you just have to pay the bills. There are some projects that are extremely well done OSS but also have an 'Enterprise' side to them that's paid and offers more advanced features normally required by commercial entities:

1. Sidekiq (https://github.com/mperham/sidekiq)
2. Couchbase (https://www.couchbase.com)
Infrrd is automating Invoice extraction processes
Indeed, but in the private industry there is also a different pattern in compensation, as in addition to a base salary, private employers offer bonuses and stock awards, situation which is not accounted for in the study, as far as I can tell [1]. Do unions also negotiate bonuses and stock awards? I'm unfamiliar to how they operate.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ncs/ncbr0002.pdf
If you look closely, the agreement students have with Yale does not promise them empathy or emotional support. It promises an education.

The idea that someone else's opinion or words 'hurt you' is entirely in your head. I'm told that wise Italian grandmothers tell their grandchildren "what other people think of you is none of your business." You can choose to be completely okay, or you can act like a baby. It's entirely your choice. Once you get that, once you embrace that, it is liberating. You are free of the slavery of other people's opinions. You are free of racism, of elitism, of sexism, of all of that s* because you realise that their opinions are meaningless to you. When it comes to physical actions, that's the line you let nobody cross, and you get the police involved. This is just part of growing up. But don't listen to me, I don't have a horse in this race, I'm not from your country, and I'm not from your generation. I'm just someone far removed from the situation spouting another meaningless opinion. There, see? You really don't care what I think. Good on ya.
China's Greater Bay Area Plan
Unless they've solve the speed of light issue then we don't need to wait for reviews. Even using a remote desktop on the other side of the city isn't a pleasant thing to be doing full time and that's not remotely as twitch based as gaming.
Checking FreeRDP with PVS Studio
Consulting does not work in all software use cases, e.g. desktop software, and supermarkets don't take exposure as currency.
I agree that my comment might have been a bit hyperbolic. I don't mean to imply that homeowners are one dimensional characters with a single motivation. But also I can't help but notice that most of the quality of life objections you noted - noise, traffic, overcrowding etc - boil down to this: Their issue is people. They don't want to live with too many people. I think its fair to say that that doesn't reflect very positively on their character either.
TL;DR:

"Calling a function with parameters is just another form of synchronous message passing, either by-reference or by-value [...]
But yes, we already have message-oriented programming languages—if you squint the right way"
The conspiracytheorist in me thinks Chrome's address bar is intenionally crippled to make you do a Google search instead. It's so so different from how well it works in Firefox.

It also breaks the rule in the article about not selecting the suggestion for you. When I start typing in Chrome it fills my whole bar with a suggested url that matches. I end up pressing esc to remove the last highlighted/completed part, but that ends up clearing the whole field. I do this multiple times a day, drives me nuts.
Cockpit voice recorder of Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix
They do, it's not as robust Patreon's is but it does allow for tiered subscriptions ie 5$ per month which is standard, and say tier 2 being 10$ and tier 3 being 25$. The perks are getting badges and emotes which people seem to accept well.
The whole costume thing was a minor part of the conversation (and went more or less as you described). It was a convenient chance to start a conversation. Students had legitimate complaints about documented casual racism on campus, and initially they received only dismissal. This is the source of all the anger.
Google reveals gaming platform Stadia
Thank you for expressing the use cases so clearly. It is not easy to tell from the documentation.
Sum Types in SQL
Riffing on this, what about Zelda-like games /with/ foreknowledge? Let's say the game has items that serve as unique keys (like boss keys or the hammer), items that serve as interchangeable keys (like regular keys or triforce pieces), and maybe specific items that modify movement directly (ladder, hookshot, pegasus boots). Additionally it has switches that toggle certain walls.

This is a stateful pathfinding problem, you can solve it with Dijkstra's. But how fast can you find the shortest route through 100 Zelda-likes?

Or take a page from maze-running bots and not provide the map up-front, but require an agent that actually explores to get information, and judge results on the sum of three times through the same game.
> using opt-in data about what Bing Toolbar users click on

lol specifically, what Google search results Bing Toolbar users click on and what query they had entered in Google to get those results.
Total includes scattering which isn't a loss mechanism. Best bet is to do a spectrum weighted 1-group macroscopic absorption XS (including all neutron loss mechanisms) in various reactors for a meaningful comparison. Most nuclear textbooks have these in the appendix. All I'm telling you is that boron is used for control in fast reactors. I think you asked how it was done a while back.

I kept reading about all these advantages of "slightly enriched uranium" in candus so I'm surprised they aren't using it anywhere! [1]

Autonomous control can theoretically be done with many kinds of reactors and fuels. Sodium reactors have vast pools of liquid metal with extraordinary thermal conductivity and heat capacity. Lead-cooled reactors are similar. So are salt-cooled FHRs, and pebble-bed gas reactors like x-energy. There are a few decades of regulatory catchup before that can happen. Arpa-e has a current project into operator assistance which is aiming to move to more autonomous control.

Don't forget about maintenance costs. Equipment and chemistry will cause maintenance of any reactor to be higher than an average diesel. Fluid fuel will have 50% of the periodic table in thermal gradients, plating out in heat exchangers and other cold surfaces. Sodium reactors have sodium fires. Lead reactors have corrosion. Gas reactors have power cycle leaks. It's a worthy goal but we have lots of work before we get there. We don't have enough experience with fluid fuel yet to judge how maintenance of a commercial unit will pan out. It might be great, or it might prove difficult. Very worthy goal though!

[1] https://inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:20038082
You don't even have to go that far back. Just 20 years ago the idea that being gay was ok would get you treated like an anti-vaxer today.

Go back 50 years and "race mixing" was taboo.
> Do we have a confirmed source that it can't be override by pilot input?

Pilot input works... then MCAS silently does it again with up to +2.5 degrees additional adjustment, until after enough times it's maxed out the full rotation of the tail flap. See: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/faile...
I like the idea, but I'm not sure how the abuse will work on those networks. There are two possible cases:

1. Volk data goes out via their gateway (proxied): They get access to your data. Their IPs get CloudFlare captchas all the time. (Like tor)

2. Volk data goes out from your router: You get to explain the CP access from your network. Your home IP gets CloudFlare captchas all the time. You get to monitor random people's traffic.

Which option is it?
It doesn't; what I meant to say is that "just because you don't see slackers doesn't mean they're not there".

As for the courses and the professors' capabilities, there are a bunch of systemic issues there. One is that "number of students who fail out" is a metric that is used to measure program performance, so first year is usually full of courses that are review for like half a given cohort. Another is that one often gets tenure for research, not teaching ability, so some professors optimize accordingly.

For what it's worth, there are plenty of folks who will tell you that you should "slack off" on a degree and just start a startup instead.
Great list. I would add:

* Don’t automatically add the suggestion as selected text in the search box. Because pressing delete will delete (only) the auto-completed text, not the last character you typed (which is what you’d expect if you’re typing fast). The Chrome URL bar is an offender here.
Kind of, one of the reasons of the failure of desktop FOSS business is that no average consumer is going to pay for consulting, trainings or books.
I pay $0.05 per GB or so at home ($60 per TB). I'd happily sell my data at a small profit just to offset whatever the equipment is that's required.

Someone else on this thread mentioned gotenna, which seemed like a similarly cool idea. Unfortunately they rejected the idea of allowing gotenna <-> internet <-> gotenna via a gateway I offered to write. They already have a unique id per device and I was going to use a DHT to allow all the gateways to track which user was behind which gateway. Seemed like a killer app to me, after all why limit who you message to being within 2-3 hops of you... why not allow the other few billion folks on the planet?

Sadly they wouldn't allow access to the underlying mesh meta data and instead required using their extremely limited API.

Having near free widgets that can mesh at low bandwidth (think SMS and IM like bandwidths) and then pay per GB for faster links seems like an excellent idea. I can imagine having phones/tablets without a $50 per month WAN charge if it could mesh and use wifi. Would be handy for sensor networks, home security, public safety monitoring (like cars going the wrong way on the highway), etc.
> The idea is more about exploring what can be done when designing a less powerful language, without macros.

Lot's of things. But the language won't be able to easily compute code at compile time, which a main purpose of macros. Lisp has a simple data format for source code and thus code transformations are relatively simple to do and even integrated into the language.
Because the communist government demands a monopoly on being able to kill 30+ million people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#Death_toll
Zelda was simply a means for Nintendo to sell Nintendo Magazine subscriptions. They had to have made a killing on subscriptions, and they were absolutely required for solving games like Zelda. For example, you have to place a bomb in this one obscure location without any in-game clues as to said location. Or burn a tree.

Here's the connection to your post. I think a human and a computer have about the same chance of solving Zelda. At least a computer could be programmed to drop bombs in every rock wall in the game. For a human, that would be too brain-numbing hard.
I'm glad young people at least think about not staying silent to racism.

However, do not forget, these students were yelling at a man for a letter his wife wrote. That is not defensible. It's also sexist--as if the man is the one who's really behind all the wife's thoughts and can't think for herself.

It's too bad you can't say silent to sexism.
That’s a bad assumption. People often type faster than they can respond to changes on screen. Typing speed & muscle memory means I’m more likely to type “arr” than just “ar”. But I’m also likely to be thrown off by the search reshuffling as it expands.

Once an item matches the search, it should stay in place unless it’s invalidated by further typing. Reshuffling just adds needless friction.
That would be a bit crazy because the line for funding is about 15-20 years long.

Exactly! Yet they hadn't even applied yet. Quoting: "an application to the Federal Transit Administration was due this spring for federal funding of $1.25 billion"
Given the title and domain, I thought this was going to be about milk going into a bucket, you know, from a cow.
One must be gentile, I guess. Of cause, the lower classes have no way to be that, stuck in a lowest wage war inflicted on them from up high. Well, this new aristocrats will do with the land of the free what they always do to societys. Human nature 1:constitution 0. Just another copy of Europe.
Procedural content generation: Creating an entire universe from three integers
yeah both Windows search and iOS search swap things around as they load and it's super frustrating
You can cite individual examples of talented people who were born with privilege and I can cite entire genres and art forms that were born out of struggle. The foundation of Western music, the blues, originated on American slave plantations. Punk music was started by poor and disaffected youth in the United Kingdom. Hip hop, the most popular and innovative genre of music today, was invented by African American youth who continue to be systematically disenfranchised and discriminated against in our society. These are artistic movements that changed the course of history and I'm only talking about music. The same can be said for other mediums and if you'd like me to present arguments supporting this claim I'd be happy to do so.

Let me address your two cherry-picked examples though. Lady Gaga is overrated. Without the aesthetic (which is an amalgamation of many creative energies from different backgrounds), she would be another formulaic pop artist. Sorry to any Gaga fans, but her music is not that interesting on its own. She's no Björk or Nina Simone or SOPHIE. Her time at an "elite private school in Manhattan" apparently didn't teach her how to color outside the lines. Give me the name of her magnum opus and I will gladly stack it against any number of great albums, both indie and mainstream, from the past 10 years. She won't fare well.

Spike Lee is a more interesting example. I love Spike Lee. He does come from a relatively well-to-do background. But you have to admit, the subject matter of his work tends to focus on disenfranchised people and communities. We also can't ignore the racial prejudices of people in Hollywood that may have made his story a bit more turbulent. I'd have to look into this a bit more but I'm willing to bet it's not as simple as you think.

Final note, I apologize if any of my arguments here have come across as insensitive. I believe that personal struggle plays a huge role in the creation of important artists and creators but I absolutely do not see that as a valid excuse for social injustice. My original point was only targeted to OP's post. The Yale professor mentioned in this article and the students calling him "disgusting" are largely insignificant in my view, and I considered it a waste of a click (especially considering NYT only gives you three free reads a month).
Spotlight in macOS is terrible when it comes to this sort of thing, and it's been that way forever. I can't count how many times I've tried to launch an app with Spotlight only to realize that macOS has conveniently replaced the highlighted top hit (that I wanted) with something else between the time my brain said "go" and my pinky hit "return".
This is a bit dishonest (and very self aggrandizing). If you did not care you would not have commented.

However I agree, there is no point in caring about the negative comments that someone throws at you if they are just comments. Too bad that usually it is not just comments, rather it is also fewer mentorship opportunities, worse starting salaries, and all the other consequences of racism.

And you are wrong about the "agreement students have with Yale". There is supposedly a code of conduct that includes protecting each other's dignity.
Makes complete sense to me. The assumption probably is that people you invite are usually close to you.
2011 @ Microsoft:
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches"

2019 @ Microsoft:
"We are all in on open source"
Kotlin though. Everything you said, but a joy to write instead of a chore.
Ever Thought How Lord Shiva Is Related to Holi?
You kinda have the right idea with the commoditization behind k8s, but I don't think you seen just how deep it goes.

Every cloud platform needs its own management layer to make the hardware infrastructure useful, and it's at this management layer where lock-in happens. Google made this layer a commodity with k8s, but took it a step further by making the trend toward open infectious and one-way.

Google's gamble was that if providers have to compete directly on a level playing field, Google will win because they're better at it. It's a bold move, and we'll eventually see if they were right. In the mean time k8s is still at work leveling the field.

Here's the key that makes k8s a one-way de-proprietarization mechanism: it's not just infrastructure for building systems, it's infrastructure for building infrastructure, and it's better than anything you could come up with otherwise, and the infrastructure it builds is natively open and extensible. K8s is trivial to extend, but it's REALLY HARD to extend it to become a proprietary system, while still keeping it useful.

This is true for gke as much as anything else. The value-add for gke is that someone is managing it who knows wtf they're doing. The value add isn't (and can't be) any Google-specific magic sauce they add to k8s, because k8s is only really useful if the customer themselves can extend it using known interfaces. And you can't make gke meaningfully proprietary without breaking that extensibility. Sure they can have gke-specific components, just like how Amazon can have aws-specific controllers if they need to. But those have to be extensions to an open base. If such things could result in lock-in, then they would also result in a lock-out of common tools and extensions, which would kill the platform dead.
Is China getting singled out?

The West tried it, not knowing because it had never been done before, and found it had issues.

I would expect the West to be criticised as much, if not more so for doing the same thing today.
> How can you be a mentor if you dismis the concerns of your students?

Just curious, what would be the opposite of them dismissing the concerns. It seems you have been there and have a better perspective on things. So given the context at that time, how should this professor have reacted that would have been satisfactory for the students?
"Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area"
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It's a legit question.
There will be serious security concerns with this, opening so many possibilities for Man in the Middle attack.
Chromium (and so Chrome too) uses lambdas in its Java parts.
I'm concerned that providing a bounce for someone else's call will use large amount of battery. This means, trying to conserve battery won't be possible if people keep using your phone to bounce off.
The thing is, it does never really stop: https://i.imgur.com/UVPpYYO.png
>it seems clear that "table statistics" are a weakening of encapsulation properties.

I don't have the original source of the Ullman comments so I don't know the definitions he's using to make his assertion. So unfortunately I'm speaking a bit out of ignorance about precisely what he meant. I can't really say whether or not table statistics is a weakening of what he intended.
> misconception that Lisp macros are mostly used to 'delay' evaluation.

It was in the examples. No generalization to all of LISP was made or intended, though it would be interesting to make a survey study of actual macro usage by developers.

It is also clear that you actually need the delay-evaluation mechanism in order to get something like "if" out of the language and into the library.

> what Smalltalk calls 'blocks' are just (anonymous) functions in Lisp

"but blocks/anonymous functions seem quite different from alternate argument-passing mechanisms."

I think the history also explains why Smalltalk blocks were a bit odd as anonymous functions go: they did not start out as a "function" mechanism, they started out as just a delayed evaluation mechanism, and Smalltalk has no ordinary functions, just the anonymous kind. Which is also odd.

The Smalltalk developers were well aware of LISP, cite it as a major source of inspiration in fact. They initially had a more macro-ish mechanism (the unevaluated token-stream), then moved to a pure delayed-evaluation mechanism which then turned into blocks. They never added a macro mechanism again. I think that's interesting. YMMV.
you forgot virtualization =)
Here's my question... if the entire universe of Elite was generated by procedural code, that is, a function, an iterated function system, a fractal, then

a) Are celestial bodies (planets, solar systems, etc.) positioned according to a higher-level fractal or fractal-like function that we are as-of-yet unaware of, and

b) If a is true, then how could we begin to compute, or at least to understand, what that mathematical function (or iterated function system) might look like?

?
> The trades are hard on the body. Some trades are hazardous. An injury or medical problem that would be a hassle for someone with an office job can be career-ending for people in the trades.

Very true. I know a Uber driver who used to install and repair ACs. Unfortunately, one day, he had a mishap leading to a serious back injury. He was told he couldn't carry on in this line of work. He had no other skills or means to acquire a college-degree with a family to support. The only option he saw best fit was to drive a taxi.
I've noticed the Europe where I am living for a long time successfully import outrage culture from the USA. The internet has truly brought us closer together - and not in positive ways.
Information wants to be free, it doesn't mean that we should enable all information to be free.
And meanwhile, it's the left who argue that the State should hold a monopoly on the use of force.