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I was at JPL on this Lisp project, and left for Silicon Valley. First place I interviewed was Peter Norvig's startup (that's how I think of it, though it had actual cofounders and he was an employee). He told me if they'd known they could hire Lispers, they wouldn't be using Java.

Just one datapoint on how things were trending then.
Do you mean on the tracks?

There are hard limitations on sensing onboard the train. Tracks that bend around hills, etc. I have some exposure to wireless communication for trains, and one of the limitations is that you can often not get a line of site even from one end of the train to another.
Where will existing cities find the budget and physical space for separating transportation modes?
> I want the benefits of the former without the risks of the latter. I don’t know if that’s even possible.

That's where competition comes in. Just like AMD vs. Intel or OSX vs. Windows. If you find a weakness in one, you don't necessarily find a weakness in the other.

Hence, finding a weakness in Tesla doesn't mean it will work against Waymo or Uber.
Yes, and that's smaller than a rounding error in our current $4.7T budget. Hell, the $100B (today's dollars) Apollo program would also be smaller than the rounding error, since it was spread over a decade. The R&D costs on F-35 were almost triple the whole costs of Manhattan project.

Truly, we are easily able to afford projects like Manhattan and Apollo today, it's just we aren't able to pull them off anymore.
Israeli AI Code Developer Codota Buys Canada's TabNine
There's an oversupply of people with great credentials, CVs, references and self-promotion skills and there's an undersupply of people actually willing to do the work.
I'm curious, how is this work funded? I see that they accept donations but I can't find any details on who the donors are. I wonder if their work is mostly self-funded.
I do feel like They’re having some trouble with the UX though since it has to juggle 3 kinds of file management.

You’ve got the obvious “manage my music files on this device” part. Then you’ve got the “manage my music files as part of this iCloud library” part. Then you’ve got “stream music from the subscription service” part. It’s actually quite hard to make playlists and stuff since, over time, people start to lose track of what form they have the rights to any particular song.
Wouldn't self-driving cars require substantial changes in road infrastructure to support full autonomy?
So a 'centralized' place which aggregates all your transactions, right? Why can't this centralized place use credit cards then?

Decentralization is for clueless idiots who doesn't understand Decentralization or everything is a trade-off concept
There was the Jeep a few years ago... https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
It is. But as a credit bureau, Equifax was already subject to some data protection regulations from the federal government - that's a large part of why they could even get in trouble in the first place. Due to details of constitutional structure in the US, California's general data protection law can't legally be applied to companies that are already subject to a federal data protection law.
What's stopping people from destroying yield signs and other safety critical road infrastructure now? Sometimes common sense helps, but it you're out to cause chaos, there's a ton of things you can do today that would cause crashes - but most of the time, people don't.
Ugh. I understand exactly what you're talking about here.

I work in SoCal for a smaller aerospace firm. According to glassdoor, the pay is pretty decent (a little above average for a software engineer out here), but it really pales in comparison to the numbers I hear people mention when talking about "FAANG" lol.

The cost of living is not less. If you want a 30 minute commute, be prepared to pay through the arse for a 50 year old house in need of serious repairs.

The traffic is an atrocity. I grew up in the Bay Area and never in my life have I seen anything like this.

The benefits can vary from garbage to decent. Where I work, there's free lunch, free dinner, and free (really good) health insurance. OTOH, some other companies have "coffee clubs" and "water clubs" where groups of coworkers donate money to have a monthly supply of water/coffee in their office space.

Oh yeah, and no matter what, if you say you work on space stuff, everyone assumes you work at spacex or nasa. There are no exceptions. lol.

Edit: I realize I probably forgot the upshot. Yeah, this kinda work is pretty darn cool! I also really enjoy doing it, or I'd go work on something else.
I´ve been thinking about working through upwork. What are the downsides to it? It would be good to know before I do anything through them.
Several points:

- On the parking side, rich people can pay for parking. Some rich people don't and will get fines, which they can pay. Some poor people will risk getting a ticket so they can not spend that $4. (Someone will respond "just leave earlier and park further away" so let me premptively remind them thar poor people are often, e.g. single parents, working multiple jobs, etc, and don't have the luxury of leaving an hour earlier.) Then that person will get a $200 parking fine and it will be enough to plunge them from scraping by to even riskier practices (not having insurance, bad tires, pay day loans, etc) or even dropping out of university / school.

- Systematic ALPR is extremly effective. Literally everyone infringing will get a ticket if there are enough cars do scanning. Enforcement is often subcontracted out, with an objective criteria of maximising fines.

- Instead of the university administration focusing on priority areas, such as where parking would block exits, it becomes a profit source and they lose sight of what parking is for -- access by staff and students.

- ALPR is often part of an NSA style 'COLLECT ALL' policy. It will record the timestamped location of every vehicle. It is often onsold to data brokers, where it ends up in the hands of car repo services, people stalking their ex-partners, and, indirectly, the government.

- Obviously these things may not concern you, and there are indeed many other engineers who will enable this kind of surveillance. However, I believe there is a market for privacy respecting tech.

- Instead of providing direct ALPR time/location, consider providing just hits where it exceeds the max time period, and deleting scanning logs automatically. Make this part of the value proposition. (Obviously not possible with an SDK product, but consider who the buyers are and the licence terms you provide it under.)

- I dislike illegal parkers, bad drivers and so on as much as the next person, but I won't endorse the beginnings of a Chinese 'social credit' type system.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/ethics-board-one-large...
Skimming the bill is frustrating (readability doesn't seem to be a strong suite with govt sites) and a question comes to mind: does this basically only apply to California businesses, or any entity who has consumer data on California residents, or...?

I'm all for it, just wish that tidbit was more clear I guess.

Or maybe I'm just not reading it correctly, who knows.
Any serious user of FX data will want to see the bid/offer points and calculate the mid themselves. This is fine for someone creating a pretty ticker on their app, which I suppose is their target market.
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It's really not damaging to drag a car up onto a rollback with a locked parking brake or in park. The systems involved can take it just fine.
Says the person who has always had enough money and has strong opinions about poverty.
My thought exactly, would be curious to know what their monetization model is. Surely can't build and maintain what must be a fairly sophisticated piece of software without money coming in.
which would you choose?

Fogbeam Labs

why?

Because it's my company, and by virtue of that I get closer to being able to "call my own shots". I also stand to reap more a substantial share of the rewards if we are successful, unlike working for a salary, which amounts to peanuts, somewhere else.

Sadly, we're not at a point of making money yet, so I still have to do the dayjob thing for now. But our time is coming...
The real estate online industry is a significant data broker. Zillow, Realtor, Redfin, AirBnb etc have lead generation platforms that, I guess, fit into the definition of a data broker.
How do you think all of the startups on here really achieve the "viral" growth they all talk about? Heavily targeted ads have allowed niche businesses to get off the ground and become profitable in a way that was not previously possible. Agreed there are problems, and agreed they don't allow much(if any) real control over the targeting from the target's side of things, but to say that don't do any real good is unimaginative as the previous comment said.
If you walk up to a bar, see a cash box at the door (maybe for a cover, maybe for donations) but no one asks you to pay and you choose not to enter and walk away because of the bucket, then you go around asking people why they would go to said club when it has a cover charge, I believe that counts as misinformation.

If you tell people a site has a paywall when it doesn't, that is misinformation. If you tell people that a site requires login when it doesn't, that is also misinformation.
But there's no evidence that the information they gather on non-users is shared with third parties, even in indirect ways like the ad-targeting information. (I don't necessarily reject the term "shadow profile", but it's important to remember that it's an activist term; there's no reason to expect that they have similar formats or uses to the non-shadow profiles.)
There are no races to land before the curfew starts at Sydney airport.

The curfew only affect large planes, and late arriving jets still land normally in sequence, though the airlines pay a steep increase in landing fees.

It is worth noting that the Melbourne-Sydney air route is the second busiest in the world [0] in regards to aircraft movements, and the the flight paths are over some of the most densely populated parts of the city.

The noise was intense and getting worse each day.

Aircraft that arrive early circle well off the coast and do not cause noise issues.

[0] https://www.oag.com/hubfs/Free_Reports/Busiest%20Routes/2019...
Perhaps they weren't so bright after all.
> don't hate me

No hate warranted at all! Thank you for your contribution to the world.

You’ve routinely enabled me to park when I didn’t have the change, or avoid standing outside on hot summer days coaxing a semi-functional parking machine to spit out the right ticket.

On one occasion it even helped me pay for my SO’s parking from hundreds of miles away.
Java, C++, etc. has the same number of parens, they are just placed differently.
Car pooling is a big win. Universities should encourage it. Primary obstacle is probably perceptions of safety.
It is doing the great and worthy work of connecting consumers with the products they desire.
Though PageRank has the innovation of weighting the connections based on how important the information is.

(Just for fun, here's one linear-algebra-free way to understand classic PageRank: imagine starting from a random page on the internet and then randomly clicking links. If you continue clicking for long enough, then the probability that you end up on any given page is, more or less, its PageRank. If your access patterns with Zettelkasten are random-ish and you keep track of how many times you look at each card, then these counts are a crude approximation of the PageRank of your cards.)
It looks like there’s no desktop app of any kind? The idea looks fascinating, but unfortunately it’s a complete no-go for me without a native and offline option.
Are you a fan of Alien(s)? The first thought that popped up when I read Xenobot is Xenomorph.
>That's not entrapment.

It's still highly unethical, especially when your target population is supposedly already paying tens of thousands for use of the facilities.
Even if that was true,

> they do not sell the data itself

Selling seems like an important part of brokering
> The Airbus A330 involved in the August 5, 2019, incident was taking off on runway 34 Right as a Boeing 737-800 landing on the same runway was instructed by air traffic control to perform a go-around.

This makes no sense. The seem to be blaming the go around. But what really seems to have happened is they allowed and aircraft on a runway a plane was about to land on. Who authorized this and why? What if the plane didn't go around? Would it just have wiped out the plane on the runway?

And it sounds as if the 330 was both taking off ans flying at the same time.

> The A330 first officer, who was pilot flying, then saw the 737 in close proximity and, in response, reduced the aircraft’s angle of bank to reduce the turn towards the 737.

I don't get it.
Are these in use now?
did you ever work with Ed Gamble perchance? such a cool community we have here.
BITD, the idea was going to be that ads would connect commercial offerings to people who would actually appreciate them... Hasn't really worked out that way, though.
sure, but I think the truck convoy companies are run a little bit more like regular companies than startups? they have a reasonable near-term goal and sales pipeline. Like, I think if you have a couple modern trucks you can go have peloton install their system and you can use it right now.
I had a SyQuest EZ135. It was great, big enough at the time to install Windows on so I could basically swap OS's with each disk, and it booted as the C: drive.

I thought for sure they would be the 'winner' as they were twice as fast as the Zip drives were.
That's neither great nor worthy.

A truly good product sells itself. All advertising is just manipulation.
>but when talking to him he's quite monotone and low energy. Because of this, he's failing these automated video interviews as he looks like he's not a "team player" or "personable".

i'm looking forward for the day when my AI "clone" - a very personable, cheerleader level bubbly and energetic deep-fake based of my face/voice - will charm away the dry pedantic HR AI on the other side of the screen.
Writeup is from 2002, and the year should be included in the title as per the guidelines.
1. Ad tech is a product which ~10 million businesses and people online are willing to pay for (over $100B/year), for several years now. It’s extremely unlikely that it provides no positive effect to all these customers.
2. Ad Tech is trying to make advertising experience better (even if it might be failing at the moment). People working on it believe that more relevant ads are a better experience (or less annoying), than completely irrelevant ads (which you can easily find on traditional TV or in print media).
3. AdTech (which GP kinda mentioned) pays for a lot of things that are available for free and likely wouldn’t be otherwise, including open source software development (Angular, React) and technology such as video calling or video publishing.
It doesn't help that most of the junk given away is so ugly and childish. At least doctors get useful things like Cialis notepads.
I think being interested in programming or not is pretty much like sexual preferences: there's nothing you can do about it, and it is not their fault ;-).
That's a good question. The honest answer is I don't know. It's hard to do controlled experiments on this sort of thing.

I can say this though: the ability to meta-abstract the language is a HUGE lever that no other language has. And one can also observe subsets of Common Lisp being continually re-invented in other languages. So CL must have gotten something right.
The word “sanctions” just describes a set of decisions that a sanctioning country can make. Any country is free to make any decision it wants to. If one country doesn’t like the decisions that another country makes, they can sanction them whereby the sanctioning country makes decisions about how it’s going to interact with the sanctioned country and typically how it will interact with other countries that also interact with the sanctioned country. The effectiveness of any sanction is determined exclusively by how much other countries want whatever it is that the sanctioning country has to offer. Liechtenstein has every right to start sanctioning the USA if it wants to, but it would have to first assess what would happen if it forced the world to choose between it and the USA.
It's actually debatable that you ever need level 5, because once you reach level 4 it's probably only a matter of time until most road infrastructure is converted for L4 self-driving vehicules (once you can statistically prove a self-driving road kills 1000x less than one with human drivers).

Like we never wondered about self-driving trains, essentially. It just became a fact once we could do remotely supervized L4, and that novelty was short-lived too.
If he was given a chance to go back in time and teach his younger self to learn whatever language he wanted to make himself learn, I'm pretty sure he would have NOT Picked LISP and picked exactly the same language he used to build his first game.
What's the revenue of Ginko? It seems like it's a platform in need of users that can create commercial value and they're unable to do it themselves.
Please elaborate and also please always feel free to do so!
The Advanced Snow Plow system that Caltrans used as a test on Interstate 80 near Donner Summit had four miles with embedded magnets. This cost about $25,000/mile in '98.

The full description of the system can be read at https://path.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/advanced_snowp...

Alaska uses GPS for their precision plowing - https://www.truckinginfo.com/329914/how-alaska-dot-uses-gps-... . Note that to get the 2" precision you need high quality GPS receivers.

> The trucks have two GPS receivers mounted atop the cab. These receivers cost about $10,000 each, Shankwitz says. "That's probably why this hasn't been deployed in many other areas; it's just too expensive and most applications do not require that level of accuracy."

> The two-centimeter accuracy actually comes from a third receiver -- a high-precision, stationary ground-based receiver perched atop a microwave communications tower in nearby Valdez. It's accurate to within millimeters and it acts as reference receiver for the plow-mounted systems.

I don't see this being standard on self driving cars.

That said, ground penetrating radar is being looked at and appears to be a lower price point. https://phys.org/news/2016-06-vehicles-high-precision-advers...
Probably just because you're not familiar with the usage.
It doesn't make sense to evaluate someone's abilities to interact with other people based on how they talk to a camera while alone.
Wow... love the simplicity of telegra.ph.

That's just sweet.
Serious question: do you use an ad blocker when browsing the internet?

Edit: I ask that because I use an ad blocker, as does everyone that I know. And I can’t think of a way to reconcile blocking ads with truly believing that ads are good for me.

I am strongly anti-advertising, but I always like to hear from people with an opposite point of view.
The Japanese rail network is awesome but it does not stop everywhere and it’s quite expensive. Japan is huge and taxis get expensive real quick.

Consider Singapore, which is tiny, has a kick ass public transport system (trains and busses) and where it costs 90-100k SGD to own a beater Corolla: people still own cars.
> It's been sparked by the raise of Airbnbs which rarely offer luggage storage.

Gee, after you add on all the "extra" web services you need when you use AirBnB, it's almost as good as a hotel.
I found this [1] series of posts to be incredible for implementing Zettelkasten using org-mode in Emacs.

I don't use Zettelkasten myself, but maybe I'll have the time to get around to it...

[1]: https://blog.jethro.dev/posts/org_mode_workflow_preview/
Yes, we worked together on the Remote Agent project.
Many of these top schools that have legacy programs don't have subsidized enrollment because they meet full need. Most public funding there goes to research, not subsidized loans.
In addition to Mr. Ton-That, Clearview was founded by Richard Schwartz — who was an aide to Rudolph W. Giuliani when he was mayor of New York — and backed financially by Peter Thiel, a venture capitalist behind Facebook and Palantir.
Like many public schools, the difficulty of Harvard is largely contingent on the classes you choose to take and the program you're in.
I thought this was wrong, but it's been true in the USA since 2013. https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/testing/genepatents
There is something to this, in the sense that Palm (and others) couldn't get their machines to do complete handwriting recognition so Palm's solution was to have the computer and the human meet in the middle with Graffiti.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
That's true, and I absolutely agree with this decision, however studies have found a clear empirical link between legacy admissions rate and fundraising rates.
> A particular oddity of a lot of these systems is that they have different generations of receivers that use different methods, so sometimes you'll end up hearing the tones played aloud if a receiver opens squelch in reaction to something earlier in the sequence.

Good grief, I'm getting old...
First thing I thought of after reading that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obkpqUyfYks&t=26
What if he lost the source?
I've seen lots of programs written in lower-level languages that are incomprehensible because the patterns were macro-expanded by hand 1000 times and it's impossible to get the big picture.

I can't say I've ever seen a Lisp program where abstraction made it incomprehensible. That seems to be a common meme, though. I'd love to see an example.
> JPL really doesn't want to be stuck when a probe is approaching a planet and a fix is needed

Ironically, the point of this JPL Lisp project was spacecraft autonomy. When you're coming up on a flyby, light-hours from Earth, the standard fault-tolerance strategy (go into safe mode, wait for instructions) makes it physically impossible to satisfy mission goals. You need something smarter and more adaptable, and that's pretty hard to accomplish in the standard style of software in C they were used to.

(I was there and read internal docs about the Remote Agent project this post was about.)

Years later in the Pluto mission this nightmare almost happened: the probe went into safe mode ten days before the flyby, and they heroically fixed it over a few days of crunch time.
The density of parentheses is high, but the number of parentheses is small, relatively.
I guess it depends on what your requirements are. I’m not too knowledgeable on the pricing side but your price increases/decreases as you noticed aren’t linear and vary based on the amount you’re buying or selling. Buying or selling currencies from a trading partner exposes them to fluctuations in that currency so they’re going to need to be compensated to cover their trading costs like hedgeing (if your transactions are large enough) as well as some sort of profit for them.

If you’re just doing it for a retail perspective some sort of averaging scheme like you mentioned would probably be okay. If you’re dealing with large amounts regularly you’d probably want to negotiate with multiple liquidity providers to get an idea of what kind of rates you’d get for a given currency pair.
My 2017 Ford connects to wifi.
Waterfox (a rebuild) and Basilisk (a hard fork) are based on Firefox, but they have Widevine.
the solution is bundling. For example Patreon bundles all your subscriptions into a monthly credit card transaction, and bundles all the payouts into monthly payments too
> assume that owning a car is better

it is better, since you cannot do a spur of the moment trip without a car.

It's just that some people over-pay for a car, so you're right about most people not doing the maths.