skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the texts I used back in the day:

Daub. 1975. Comprehending Technical Japanese.

Gould. 1972. Russian for the Mathematician.

Stack. 1986. Reading French in Arts and Sciences, 4/e.

Franco & Sandberg. 1998. Spanish for Reading: A Self-Instructional Course.
> The hard part about iOS development was never Objective-C but rather the cocoa libraries it has to interact with. Swift just applied a more modern language to the same root problem. For a more modern version of this statement, see SwiftUI

Isn't the big selling point of Swift that you no longer have to worry about null exceptions? Though presumably there could have been a way to improve Objective-C without requiring a new language to add optionals.
>> some other drink or food

Some other stimulant containing drink or food.
It is Manchester encoding on a 10MHz clock signal. Perhaps carrier isn't quite the right word.
> E.g. Shanghai - Kunming is more than 2200 km and takes between 10-12 hours[1].

Note that it could be even faster without the ~50 stops in the middle.
It's worth pointing out that the financial statements may be highly misleading. https://www.cato.org/blog/amtrak-guilty-securities-fraud
> Why is geography the privileged metric here?

Because there are 50 different sovereign states cooperating within a federation. Also, because we shouldn’t let the NYC-DC corridor become Trantor.
Hypothetically: the employer gave you a copy of the modified software (by having you modify it). He's bound by the license and so are you?
Made me think of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem
Show HN: Promises – Type safe promise library for go
I have used APL and k, and tried to use J; somehow J never clicked properly. APL mostly did, but k perfectly did.

Conceptually, they are more similar than they are distinct - but k is tiny and more practical, and IIRC even Iverson said that in retrospect, most choices where k differs from J (juxtaposition vs. trains and hooks; reduction going l->r instead of r->l), the choices whitney made in k are clearer and more useful even if they aren't as pure and consistent.
Hey HN! I built this library to help out with some concurrency patterns I sometimes have to implement in go! Let me know what you think.

repo: https://github.com/garlicnation/promises

godoc: https://godoc.org/github.com/garlicnation/promises
The URL is just an opaque path appended to a domain. You can just as easily use an UUID instead of an hierarchic model. No component in the system gives a damn.
Almost all opinions are made from a place of ignorance because nobody's personal experience covers more than a fraction of how a tool can be used.

The result are a ton of opinions that are generally useful but specifically useless. This has a chilling effect on those who might wield a tool differently for their own specific needs.
> I don't think you pick Amtrak to arrive somewhere on time.

You’re really making the case for defunding at least everything outside the NEC. We shouldn’t be spending public money on something that’s only good for leisure travel.
The fact that Stack Overflow didn't exhibit the "multiple violations" says everything IMHO. They cannot.
Paintings of the Dutch masters come to life
Exactly. I can't wait until I can do this with my own drone--though maybe I shouldn't hold my breath for the open source package because it seems to have military applications right now.

There's a 1000-ft hill behind my house, and I thought it would be cool to get a 3D print of it. You can do this now with some online apps, based on the terrain model that you see in google maps. But the public data is "only" 30m resolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Radar_Topography_Missi...), whereas this technique could probably make a 1m resolution.
Google bolsters marketing leadership with hire of former Calvin Klein CMO
German was the language of science in Europe before it was supplanted by English.

It's unfair that English should be the international lingua franca. But we can't change two facts of history: the British Empire, and America.

I agree English is not a particularly logical or phonetic language. However it has two things going for it -- it's easy to speak badly and it is easy to extend. Its grammar is simpler than most Germanic, Slavic, and Romance languages (that I'm aware of -- correct me if I'm wrong). And being a mongrel language, it's used to absorbing other languages.

Plus no need to come up with a grammatical gender for every neologism or loanword. Chai latte? Done. Twitter? Done. Whereas in German, is it "der Tic-tac" or "die Tic-tac"? Or default to "das Tic-tac" since we don't know the origin of the word? This matters because the endings in all four cases of German depend on the grammatical gender. For instance, in the dative case, if it's "die Tic-tac", then it's "mit der Tic-tac", otherwise it is "mit dem Tic-Tac". Or in accusative, if it's "der Tic-tac" then it's "fuer den Tic-Tac". And then you have to get everyone to agree (for instance, der Joghurt or das Joghurt? depends where you are.)

In practice it's not a big deal obviously (neologisms enter the German language all the time), but in English there's just less friction and fuss. English also doesn't have a central gatekeeping authority to maintain the "purity" of the language -- it's more decentralized and driven by popular consensus (more or less -- there are still rules).
Yeah I believe there are two approaches to this:

1. Either we actually have discovered all the fundamental pieces of the puzzle and there is nothing significant we still could work on so we entered the infinite journey of technological optimization. Or,

2. We have missed or misinterpreted some important pieces of the puzzle and we're stagnant until we go back and fix them so we can move forward.
Yeah and those states created a federal government.

We’re talking about interstate transportation here. If you envision even the absolutely shortest list of things for a federal government to be involved in that’s going to be on it.
OTOH a disturbing amount of oldgrowth is being harvested in Canada to this day
Better tool in what way? For what problem?

This tool is better misses the point.

If you want a quick mvp maybe Ruby is a better tool than using Haskell.

Mediocre means average. If the average developer can solve the problem in java maybe your favorite language isn't needed. The fact that a language has low adoption means it is missing features or late to a crowded market.
Some Things Good Engineers Do
I'm surprised to hear that, because I've honestly really liked working with terraform. Could you say what shortcomings you think it has?
China isn’t a good example to point to because we have no idea whether China is making intelligent trade offs about how to use its resources. It’s an authoritarian economy. It could end up that in 50 years the whole thing collapses from its own weight.

Europe is a better example because it least the government must be somewhat accountable for its guns versus butter trade offs. And if you look at things like Macron trying to privatize SNCF (with its massive unsustainable debt levels), that should give us pause about the long term viability of rail even in dense places like France.
I remote work because I don't want to commute.
Part of your reading list must include books on Psychology to better understand individuals and Social Psychology to better understand groups.
The Russian one is likely Reading Modern Russian by Jules F. Levin and Peter D. Haikalis, with A. A. Forostenko.

It is super interesting, as I want to learn to read Russian in order to learn more about the various languages of the region, many of which have only had monographs published in Russian. Now to see if I can find a used/cheap copy anywhere.
Show HN: ReactJS AnimatedText component – Show text in animated way
Why? We have national parks.

We also heavily subsidize air travel (Essential Air Service, ATC, etc.) and highways. Moving people around, even if for leisure, is a valuable activity for the government to participate in. People need something to do on their downtime.
hn is ran by a bunch of liberals - go figure
"We're"? Oh. So I have one question - what's the deal with Pricing then? What's the line exactly between "take it for free" and "pay us some well deserved money for our hard work"?

Anyway - from what you're saying, that's exactly what I'm looking for.
I use Java for work and Lisp for everything else.

I love Lisp. It is superior language for real devs. But I also recognize that it will never work for newb programmers and the reality of corporate IT is that most devs are newbs or effectively newbs, not spending more time to level up as they think they know everything programming or are just not interested.

For these people, Java, is a way to get paid for writing boiler plate code without getting much done.
Not my field, but my impression is optical system design is a very rich high-dimensional space. And thus that suggestions of hard limitation are often overlooking possibilities.

For example, resolutions in angle, time, color, and intensity can be traded, inhomogeneously, and augmented with computation. It's not that simple hard limits, say Rayleigh's diffraction limit on resolution, are wrong exactly. But they do seem to get naively misapplied as system limitations. Super-resolution microscopy techniques, for example, work around it.
Brewing methods vary as well. In Greece you will very rarely find a vendor cooking it in the hot sand. It's usually almost always stove top/burner
I see some 2FA in Disney+'s future!
Ask HN: Why is the web becoming so resource intensive?
I recently dug out a few old laptops. After installing lightweight versions of Linux, they worked absolutely fine and at a speed not noticeably slower than my daily MacBook Air - but for when I tried to use the internet, where only a few sites worked.

Why is that happening? It seems to me not necessary to have such heavy sites, and from what I could see, it was mostly the UI, or otherwise nonessential elements, causing the bloat.

As a bonus question, are there any low resource sites that you use (for instance, this)?
What is your precise definition of "object"?
Could it be part of Mr Robot ARG? I don't follow closely enough but it's final season and they have pretty in depth (and IRL) puzzles.
This is Chris Patuzzo! His work does not get enough attention.

He mentioned Sentient Lang in the article. It is really, really cool. Its a compile-to-JS declarative logic language that can do some fucking neat stuff. Think Prolog or Mercury, but with much more comprehensible syntax.

https://sentient-lang.org/

I reached out to him a month or two ago after stumbling upon his work, and he took the time to respond and have a conversation with me.

Incredibly brilliant and genuine guy, happy to see more of his stuff posted here.

Edit: He has done more stuff besides Sentient. Check out his work in the general area of computational logic/automated theorem proving.
We desperately need more investment in regional mass transit. That's not the market Amtrak serves. I'm not convinced we need to invest more on inter-city passenger trains. Of the most popular city pairs for flights, probably only Los Angels <-> Las Vegas makes sense for a rail trip, but LA is so sprawling and lacking in regional mass transit that getting to any train station would probably take away any advantage.
What is the precise definition of a "promise"?

I.e., what is the interface of a promise?
I'd go even further and say that vehicle miles are more valuable than train miles because vehicle miles generally head exactly where you want to go without detours, without time-consuming stops and without a fixed schedule. A fairly direct line of travel, no unnecessary stops and ability to depart at any time make vehicle miles much more valuable.

For some very very specific routes, train miles may be more valuable, but generally speaking they are less valuable.
Amtrak is a complete joke where I live. Plane tickets are much cheaper, which is absurd. I’d love to ride a train to visit other cities but I can’t unless I’m some sort of masochist. I live within walking distance of an Amtrak stop too.
Man's iris looks like Eye of Sauron due to rare genetic disorder
The reactor would only be about 5MW, and the wall of the reactor core can be however far away it needs to be to not get melted by x-rays. It's not like it's surrounded by superconductors or breeding blanket, it's just vacuum containment. Generally it's neutron radiation that's considered difficult to deal with, and there'd be little of that.

And the reactor won't produce net power at all unless they're right that bremsstrahlung will be suppressed long enough by the plasma's magnetic field. If it is, then most of the energy will go into the alpha particle beam.
Similarly, in French, “le cation”.

But I still think it’d be fine to teach beginners that nouns ending in -tion are “always” feminine.
There were some very nice early ARM-Linux boards based on it. For example, the LART was an open design made by a group at the Delft University centered on the SA1100. Pretty cool times especially if you were into embedded devices that could connect to the Internet.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000816095212/http://www.lart.t...
> Trains are paid for by the transit authority

Trains are paid for by riders in the form of fares and taxpayers in the form of subsidies.
Isn't Parity License a source-available share-alike freeware license? It seems very different from GPL and even the ideas by which copyleft was originated.
Prostitution is legal in Germany but it is regulated and money made from it is taxable income.

Also famously you do have to pay taxes on illegal income, otherwise the income is both illegal and tax fraud.
I'm pretty sure they'll find a way to lose more money by next Saturday.
Binance’s Explosive Rise to Power
This is a reductio ad absurdum. The meaningful issue is the essentiality of the service and government's involvement in it. Do we really need the service? Do we need it enough to force everyone to pay for it at gunpoint? (That is what taxes are, if you don't pay, you eventually get arrested by armed civil servants and go to jail, and if that's the only way you can get people to pay for your idea, we should at least be questioning the validity of the idea.)

Almost everybody agrees in funding the court system because it's an essential function of government that's required for society to function, even if you're not using it now, you want it to be there for you if you're assaulted, defrauded, your kid gets kidnapped, your spouse gets murdered, etc.

The same cannot be said about having a good train system. That's surely nice to have but society can get along fine without it (as it does today). Thus it's not obvious that the government and its monopoly on violence need to get involved at all. Opinions other than yours are perfectly legitimate on this issue.
I'm really curious how you came to believe that, given that AMD started supporting the development of open source GPU drivers in 2007 by collaborating with Novell/SuSE and releasing low-level documentation. By 2013 the open-source AMD GPU drivers were far better than any reverse-engineered NVidia driver has ever been, and only two years later AMD started the process of deprecating part of their proprietary AMD driver in favor of a hybrid approach (proprietary userspace module, open-source kernel driver).
It’s the default for piracy too
The perks of being a bit neurotic
You're discounting the San Diego - Los Angeles Pacific Surfliner route. It connects many cities in Southern California and is often faster than driving with traffic congestion as it is, and a useful commuter rail in its own right.
Great Green Wall Didn’t Stop Desertification, Turned into Something That Might
Depending on where you live, the USGS may already have LIDAR data for your area: https://usgs.entwine.io/
> Had data and presentation be decoupled

"What if "data" is a really bad idea?" -- Alan Kay (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11945722)

I just don't see how he has ever pushed for the direction you're advocating. If anything, it's the opposite.
interesting.. what is the value in learning German?
That's exactly what he meant.
I don't have a precise definition, but regardless which of the many candidate definitions you choose, none are "mini-computers". A computer, if that term is to mean anything at all, is Turing Complete. It's a machine that can become any other type of machine. And unless your object (or actor) happens to be emulating a Turing Complete machine, it's not a "mini-computer".

The only self-similar architecture we have in computing is the virtual machine, not the "object", whatever that word means.
Wow this is pretty bad. What part of dropping the packet in the worst case is hard ?
1GB RAM > 1GB HDD
19-Hour London to Sydney 'Test Flight' Shows How to Make Long Hauls Tolerable
If I were starting a new chip company I would be working on FPGA coprocessors. You get the economies of scale of producing a single chip but a lot of extra efficiency/sales by marketing it as customizable hardware (which most large buyers of chips increasingly want).

It’s a transitional step between the current mass market mode of chip productions selling one size fits all, and the way the market is heading towards task specialized hardware.
Writes poetry and serves coffee.
Scientists Are Testing a Herpes Vaccine on Humans
1. There's nothing to stop fractional reserve banking. Bitcoin is just a more convenient bearer instrument (more portable, divisible, verifiable than gold), so if you don't trust a bank, it would be easier to opt out.

2. Personally I think fractional reserve banking is at very least problematic, because it leads to competitive advantage, but also eventual systemic collapse. (More about it: https://twitter.com/dpc_pw/status/1195932699141103618)
The runner is free, as is the tool chain. One of my employers has paid money for the SaaS state management; two others have not. We’ve gotten by just fine.
Why is this being downvoted? Doesn’t Section 230 apply to them if they don’t editorialize?
There’s another comment that claims it’s the fact the switch is trying to pair constantly with it (which doesn’t sound right, I’ve been doing some BT dev here and I haven’t had my switch trying to pair even though I’m playing at the same time). Regardless, good job Roku either way I guess.
Funding open source gives ZEIT access to world-class talent
Every article on The Economist gives me this same reaction. Probably because they're a medium of neoliberalism, not legitimate journalism.
Honestly, pirates tend to have the best archival and preservation results.
Joe seems a little lost. Not really sure what productivity gains react/graphq has over php or ruby/rails. Must have provided one for Joe. PHP with laravel is like a rocketspace for productivity..
I was looking for the deep learning. But there is none in the patent and I don't think there is any in the process.

"Method 100 automatically processes FMV data for delivering rapid two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) geospatial outputs." According to [0041] 'Method 100' is FIG 1? Looking at FIG 1, it talks a lot about clusters and metadata. From [0026] and [0039] and [0064] it seems like a cluster might be a collection of images containing a point of interest. [0089] says they do measure the altitude of the aircraft. Since they have the metadata of camera FOV they can place each image in a 3D world. I think they take a lot of redundant images and they have many views of each object of interest, which is enough to give them a (x,y,z) estimate for their points of interest.

"The increased processing speed of the system is achieved by configuration of system components to perform novel geometric calculations rather than by increased processing capability."

This gives me the idea that there is a ridiculous amount of data per scene.

I suppose when you control your own data collection, the methods can be completely different than what is worked on in academia. Compare with single image depth estimates, or even for depth maps from video for self driving.

I guess it's good that deep learning isn't being used here. Now that I think of it, it is not appropriate.

I like this part lol: "Method 100 further may be automated
using various programming scripts and tools such as a novel
Python script generator."
This guide is gold, thank you.
Actors were developed to synthesize and integrate a whole bunch of things including those mentioned by Alan above.

Additional important influences in addition to SmallTalk-72 [Kay November 1972] were Petri nets, Planner [Hewitt 1969], capability systems [Dennis and van Horn], semaphores [Dijkstra], the lambda calculus, and Scott-Strachey semantics failure to integrate everything using the lambda calculus.

1-way message passing is most important for hardware systems in which there is near certainty that a message will be delivered and there is no need to wait for an acknowledgement of receipt.
Dallas to Houston is, I believe, the most popular short-haul flight route in the US (maybe SF-LA beats it, but it's up there), and the geography/distance makes so much sense for a high speed rail that a private company, Texas Central, has secured private capital and is working with the government to bring a Japanese-style Shinkansen to Texas. The station locations have already been secured in downtown Dallas and Houston, and groundbreaking is tentatively set for next year.

A 90 minute train ride connecting Texas' largest two cities? Compared to the 4hr trip a car takes or ~2hr for a plane (factoring in security)? At a (tentative) price point of ~two tanks of gas?

I'm optimistic that it won't only be a commercial success, but also that it will convince people (and politicians) that a HSR-network is in the public's best interest, even for routes that don't necessarily make sense from a commercial (private) perspective.

https://www.texascentral.com/
That's true. Turkish coffee is the most political coffee there is. In Israel, it's a national drink (and referred to as Turkish coffee, no appropriation on that one). However, there is a proper version and a lazy version. The proper one is where one would cook the coffee on a hob. Takes some time and care. The lazy one, which I sin with 3-4 times every day, is a a heaped spoon at the bottom of a glass (never china/porcelain, and usually larger than a proper turkish coffee cup), hot water on top and a hefty mix. Quick, dirty and hits so many spots I can't even begin to imagine life without it.
We have, today, approximate models that are simple. But they're not quite exact for things like quantum gravity. If you want an exact model, it is presumably longer. Presumably, because smart people have looked for a long time for simple models that are more accurate and haven't found one.

If the exact model is only moderately long, then we (or a Turing machine) can discover and simulate it. But it's at least conceivable that the shortest-possible exact description of physics is extremely long.
Hi there. Nice to meet you. I'm one of those people you think don't exist.
Then we should tear up the road in your neighborhood.
The reactor is described to be 5 MW average output. But if it's very bursty the instantaneous power will be far higher. Damage to the wall will be determined by heating of the surface by these flashes (and possibly mechanical damage from shocks induced by vaporization in that surface layer). Keeping the instantaneous power low enough to avoid damage could make the reactor unacceptably large.