skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Define "successful language". Popularity of a programming language doesn't mean success. COBOL, Fortran and Pascal used to be hugely popular, now with every passing year, it is costing more and more money to support systems that once considered as "successfully built".

Sadly, it seems in a few decades, pretty much that would be the fate of every single PL in TIOBE's Top. All popular PLs of today are morally outdated. Programming languages of future would be striving for:

a) Developer's productivity

b) Execution performance

c) Correctness of the program

And none of the popular languages today are making good progress in any of those directions.
Lenovo’s ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II Is a Wireless ThinkPad Keyboard
Yeah, it does look a bit like they just rolled over. Still, bestbuy and frys are not directly comparable imo. Micro Center is more analogous to frys. Somewhere else in the thread someone pointed that they had to bail out of california.
Try doing the same thing in a non European or hilly city where temperature and humidity are much higher. You can see that in cities like Tel Aviv riding bikes became way more popular since electric bikes and scooters became ubiquitous. Not every place is as flat, cold and small like the Netherlands and Denmark
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Espressif Systems ESP32 Gets Bluetooth LE 5.0/5.1 Certifications
Safety/stability, presumably, given that people might stand on top of them (many of the examples here are embedded in sidewalks) and they'd need to be weight bearing. Safety glass is a relatively more recent invention than some of the examples (at least one example in the article dates back to the mid 19th century), and a very recent invention if specifically restricting to the types of plastic-based laminated glass trusted in things like modern car windshields and observation floors today.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101102131108.h...

Indicates that baseline is 2T/year/human (in Spain).

840lbs to 6710lbs (resting to active) exhalation. Which means, not below 0.5T/year/human. We are at 20T/year/human here in Canada -- but, of course, at 8953 trees/human, with each tree absorbing 48lbs of CO2/year, Canada absorbs 215T/year/human (carbon negative in Canada by 195T/year/human).

What action would you like? Carbon tax? We have that. Eliminate oil production? Working on that (no pipelines being built, tar-sands bitumen not being sold to anyone but the US).

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/9789264279612-en/index.h...

Personally, I prefer not to freeze, so burn natural gas to heat my house. Really big country, need transport.

I imagine that I could use wood heating could be used - 2 cords per season should be sufficient (6 to 20 trees, depending on diameter - 8 to 14 inches). I previously (20 years ago) converted all wood burning to natural gas, but could convert back. I no longer own enough land for my tree needs but (afair) 2 acres for food, 4 acres for fuel, so 6 acres of land of be sufficient for my needs.

This would reduce my carbon footprint, but would be more polluting -- which would you prefer?
>I expect Delta management to be concerned about this supplier damaging their employee performance and thus Delta's bottom line...

there is no "Delta management". Like in any other typical BigCo the VP(s) responsible for supplies like uniforms is different from those VPs who may have any relationship with the employee performance. The supply VP gets his bonus based on KPIs like cost saving, thus the cheapest/etc. uniform even if that uniform causes issues to the employees and significantly impacts their performance. Their performance isn't in the supply VP bonus KPIs. Imagine yourself in the shoes of that poor supply VP - you can provide better uniforms and lose the millions of the bonus, or you can have the bonus ... So far it has been my observation that a VP always chooses his bonus and defends it to the last man standing. Even if some other (exceptional as such things almost never happen) VP tries to push the supply VP, the supply VP provides that "toxicology report meeting highest standards" and that is it, deal with your disgruntled capricious employees yourself.
Wildflower Schools is testing kid-tracking sensors for Montessori
Can't quite tell where you're planning on running this, but it sounds like you're letting someone else manage the media buy for you, and you should for sure be running it yourself at this size. (The reason for this is that you want to maximize the amount you're spending on reach this early on.)
grief is a sonnet.

it's beauty, it's a lukewarm waterfall.

it's a warmth that washes

over us, intense.

consuming, penetrating

until we yield.

and in that silence,
we let go.

grief is beautiful because it's a gentle descent, where in that abyss is a hand that lifts us; like a infant just now born, being wrapped in warm cloth, and given to its mother.

i have an intimate relationship with grief.

i see it coming again to visit, and i know it will be one of the last feelings i will experience as i arrive.

it's only "strange" because we are not as familiar with non duality as we are with duality.

grief is a chain that unbinds. it's a 10-Ton weight that makes you lighter.

i guess it's time for bed.
In my opinion, there's space for a "ML Product Manager" as a specialization for someone who understands the technical aspects of both software and ML systems, but also can design roadmaps, build stakeholder buy-in, and generally shepherd the project. That feels like a big open space right now.
The reason you don't want your programmers doing your QA is that they're too likely to make the same mistake twice. Same with having the point of sale people doing the receipt checking.

I've considered using a collapsible box that I bought at Costco to pack my items after a shopping trip there. I wouldn't have the original receipt for it though, so I don't know how much hassle it would be. Haven't tried it yet.
Yes, after we create AGI it will stagnate at human like level of cognition because AGI with more advanced levels of cognition can't find product market fit.
Do google developers get issued chromebooks these days? Either way, there’s a large scale difference in the amount of money (because Apple makes more money than google in addition to 10% being 4x the 2.5% of revenue google is devoting to chromebooks). On top of that, Mac revenue is eaten into by iOS device revenue, which is a pretty close product category. Much closer than ads, at least.
Trump Rule Would Exclude Climate Change in Infrastructure Planning
Trump Orders Attack That Kills Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani
Please note that Perl 6 has been renamed to Raku (https://raku.org using the #rakulang tag on social media).
You should first consider what you need logging for.

Is it just ad-hoc text "debug" logs? Structured transaction or request logs to feed some sort of analytics? This impacts the backend trade-offs quite a bit.

Are you trying to do monitoring via logs? Don't. Export metrics via Prometheus (or something like it), much cheaper and dependable then extracting metrics via a log collection system.
I can believe that it was different in other places. In fact, it's probably different at my old school now that conservative parents have been taught to be vigilant and constantly enraged about what their children are learning. Still, I think it's noteworthy that my old classmates remember our teachers as being uniformly conservative and narrow-minded when in fact we were reading bell hooks and examining John Donne's religious poems for sexual imagery, and that they have conspiratorial notions of teachers hiding information from us that they in fact tried very hard to teach us. (Tuskegee airmen, boarding schools for Native Americans, etc.) Science, too, I remember every single science teacher drilling into us that all scientific theories are incomplete, provisional, often based on limited data, and likely to be improved or even disproved in the future, and the students who sat in those classes with me remember us being brainwashed to think scientists are omniscient and infallible.
Small government doesn't mean no government. You still need government in place to make sure that rules are enforced and monopolies don't form and to help bridge moats so that companies have to actually compete.
WeWork "almost worked" the same way every large bubble or ponzi scheme almost works if you don't count the last day when everything inevitably comes crashing down.
Also, the article points out that many of them had interesting prismatic shapes to bounce light around in interesting directions, and making those prisms would be easier as smaller individual components rather than one large piece of glassblowing, even if they had the technology to make it safe enough at that size.
See, this is just absolutely true. When 7 or so of the top 10 most successful games of the last decade all share features like global matchmaking, you can't tell me those features bring more trouble than value. I agree there are hard challenges there, maybe ones that cannot be solved perfectly, but for success at that scale they are clearly worth attempting.
> But Swift’s type system was designed by amateurs

LOL. The amateurish type system design is the one you've described. Mutable<Pointer<...>> either makes the wrong thing mutable, or makes too much stuff mutable. Pointer<Buffer<Type, Count>> would make the whole language more complicated, and it doesn't solve any of the problems Swift's pointers solve. The Swift devs in fact are not amateurs, and it shows in how they managed to keep things simple, instead of convoluting the problem with total I-am-a-very-smart-Haskell-programmer complexity.

> Thus mutability would be a composable trait

I mean, this is a major tell. You don't just hand-wave mutability being a composable trait.
A Debate About Phone Bills
Yes, that would be an option.
We are talking a couple of hundred kB here. They store more in analytics.
I dropped by the Fremont Fry's the past weekend to see if the "inventory issues" I'd seen in September had gotten any better. They were worse.

From 2004 till about a year ago, I'd never seen any inventory problems at any of the Bay Area Fry's. Starting around June (I think), I'd noticed inventory issues at their Fremont and San Jose locations.

By September, it was very noticeable -- I couldn't even find a basic plug converter in preparation for an international trip a few months back, finding Target had better selection. When I asked if the store was closing, they said something about some inventory changes, presumably the move to the consignment model the article spoke about.

A few commenters mention that Fry's seemed to be adding more kids toys sections giving that as a potential reason for Fry's demise. Many retailers started stocking more kids toys as Toys-R-Us fell victim to vulture capital. I suspect Fry's was trying to cash in on the sudden market like many other retailers.

Well, it's certainly a reason for geek parents to give as an excuse to drop in to Fry's. Or was at this point.
> Moore's law stays dead

It is not dead yet. Maybe you meant Dennard Scaling?

> Having a lightweight laptop that does nothing more than provide a portal to more powerful machines enters the consumer field

Chromebooks already exist for a while.
The argument could be just as strong, but since very few people wear helmets in cars (only Formula 1 etc.), I think it's unlikely "the evidence" is just as strong; however, by all means provide us a reference.
How to Overcome Fear
It saddens me to see people growing a business and having to make tradeoffs due to hosting costs or trying to catch up with new tech.

My (opinionated) take on this if you are just starting a new business:

0. Lay your foundation on something that is battle tested and well supported.

Rent/buy a real computer (dedicated/root server), not cloud.
Use software that is already included in major/stable GNU/Linux distributions.

1. Build your stuff.
Get used to writing things.
Beware tech news.
Dopamine fast: 'The hunger and boredom were intense'
"Just like the dot com craze kicked off the idea of an internet startup (and a decade later, just about every tech startup uses the internet in some way), I believe that by the end of the 2020’s almost every tech startup will have some sort of cryptocurrency component."

This literally already happened for a hot second, did you not notice the everyone doing their own ICO when bitcoin was 20k? Are you saying it will happen again?
That must be a western concept. On the east coast it's common for sidewalks to be owned by the landowner yet have to remain unencumbered for the public right of way. Some owners find out the hard way that they are also responsible for maintaining the sidewalk when the city hits them with a notice.
Thank you for sharing your perspective.
What do you have in mind then?
DeFi (Decentralized Finance) is the new ICO

https://defipulse.com - 3m ETH locked so far as of today (1 year ago = 1.9m ETH, 2 years ago = 63k ETH)
That article does not provide any evidence that thirdhand smoke is a real health hazard.
This is good problem-solving. Why spend tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars building technology to do a complicated task if you can cut that effort in half or more by having somebody where a funny vest?

Remember, the problem is "I need to know when I don't have two managers on the floor," not "how do I use machine learning to know when I don't have two managers on the floor."
We use and like https://www.scalyr.com/.
Retraining and existing model does not need many (fast.ai lesson 1 example is retraining a net to distinguish cricketers and baseball players with 30 images). For a full net, it's on the order of thousands per category.
High ranking politicians and generals don't want a world where assassinating people like them is considered okay.

In Europe there used to be a tradition of politely capturing enemy nobles and ransoming them. They were quite upset at the reality of modern warfare where the leadership died just as easily as the common man.
It doesn't sound like our opinions are that far off. Even in the last year it seems like the media and public have adjusted their expectations.

I live in SF and worked at Google so I've been hearing all about self-driving since 2009 (and I remember when co-workers went to the DARPA competitions in 2006).

Look at the top comment on this article from February 2018:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16352467

It’s great to explore this topic. You can have a lot of fun in picking a random industry and imagining the effect that self driving will have

A lot of that is true IF we get to level 5 soon -- but it seems like most people don't believe that anymore (for good reason).

https://a16z.com/2018/02/03/autonomy-ecosystem-frank-chen-su...

One thing’s for sure: We’re at a critical inflection point with this technology, so the shift is going to happen a lot faster than we think

Here's my comment which I think should have been totally uncontroversial since I simply quoted three people who are very close to the problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16353541

However I got pushback on that comment, and also when I said similar things in person to people even further away from the problem than I am. I remember a summer 2018 conversation where an engineer was poking fun at the tech-unsophisticated for doubting that self-driving is possible.

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Take a look at this 2013 nytimes article, which might have been the height of it:

http://archive.is/7ARB6

That city of the future could have narrower streets because parking spots would no longer be necessary. And the air would be cleaner because people would drive less.

I would definitely take a bet against changes in city layout or the the air being cleaner in 2030 because of self-driving. (Both of them will improve in many places for other reasons though.)

I would also take a bet against self-driving impacting your average senior citizen or disabled person, which has been in the marketing of at least a few self-driving companies.

“I could sleep in my driverless car, or have an exercise bike in the back of the car to work out on the way to work,” he said. “My time spent in my car will essentially be very different.”

note: the article does present both sides: I'm picking a few people's opinions. But I heard a lot of that in person over the last 10 years.

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So really I'm not predicting anything controversial... it looks like the hype has already died down. I'm more interested in my other predictions on this thread.

But I also won't rule out the possibility of a "black swan": if there's a big innovation in self-driving, it probably won't come from Waymo, Tesla, or any incumbent.
People always bring up fast.ai because it's a good course and it's free. As someone who has gone through it, I can attest to its quality.
Tesla Crashes Highlight ‘Black Box’ Challenge for Investigations
Alex Trebek reflects on cancer battle, hosting 'Jeopardy ' all these years
I believe GP means that as long as everyone has more money than they know what to do with, SaaS companies will more reliably find business (partly because other new companies, SaaS or not, are popping up and using them). However, if the economy took a downturn, these same SaaS companies would be some of the first to bite the dust. Many modern consumer companies are able to hedge against this through the fact that they are more or less "free" and people will not outright drop them, e.g. Google, Gmail, Instagram, Facebook, Fortnite BR - they are more likely to weather a downturn. Of course, these things are not true for all consumer companies nor all SaaS companies, but you can see the rationale.
I was at the Northgate store just before Thanksgiving, too. Totally shocked when they had zero CPUs, motherboards, and RAM. An employee said they were hit hard by the tariffs and were looking for new suppliers. That didn't make very much sense to me, because you can buy stuff like that elsewhere, even if the prices went up (I'm not sure if they did or did not). I grew up going to that store when it was still called Incredible Universe. It seems certain that it will close any day.
The MAD doctrine is an evidence in favor of us thinking along the game-theoretic rules in such scenarios, and the beauty of Dark Forest theory is that it essentially follows via game theory straight from its axioms.

The way I see it, it's similar to efficient market hypothesis. That is, as long as the axioms are reasonably met, you'd expect the system to reach and stay in the determined state over time. Incidentally, in the books both humans and Trisolarians are examples of local, temporary deviation from rules of Dark Forest. Spoiler alert: it ends up badly for both, and the Dark Forest asserts itself over time.
Space successfully launched their first rocket on 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1#Fourth_flight
However spacex workhorse Falcon9's first flight was in mid 2010.
I know people say this a lot on Hacker news...but, that is not the model of Venture Capital.

And the Vision Fund has not only invested in high risk ventures.https://visionfund.com/portfolio

Vision Fund's "investment" in WeWork is effectively a hostile takeover of a distressed asset. It is one of the most conventional bets they have made.