skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Leave out one parenthesis and...you miss Venus?

You won't, since Lisp editors automatically keep parentheses balanced.
Sonant: A tool for creating generative music based on random walks
How then to explain Python's popularity? Modern Common Lisp is dramatically faster than pure Python. CL is compiled down to the metal; Python is usually interpreted.

C functions called from Python (like Numpy) are faster than Common Lisp but pure Python is much slower.
The flip-flop operator, I think: https://nithinbekal.com/posts/ruby-flip-flop/
Agreed, especially with a note taking app. You want me to live in here? Ok, you better be around in 10 years. Charge me some money so that will be the case.
The yield signs could be backed up with an an official map all cars read from as well.
You're doing God's work, Ron.
Sorry, but I think this point of view really does not take into account the reality of the situation in many US cities (or, more importantly, many US suburbs). I would love it if I could take a highly quality bus instead of be stuck in traffic driving, but it's simply not feasible given where I live. Driving downtown to work takes about 20 mins with no traffic, about 35 mins during rush hour, and even if there was a bus that I could take (there isn't) given the additional stops it would still take longer than that, even though it can take the 'express' lane.

Where I live self-driving cars, even if "highway only", IMO are much more feasible than an adequate public transportation system that would cost billions to construct.
People who pay attention are not ok with it being their phones either. Most people don't entirely get that they're under, or will soon be under constant surveillance.
The law has a lot of requirements for every company that collects data about you. It has additional requirements for companies that are data brokers. The quote you provided is about the former. The list linked in this post is about the latter.
Regardless of how good a substitute you feel remote communication is in general, the effect of network problems and such is an objective fact, not anyone's opinion or delusion.

Also, if we stipulate that my fulfillment from being in the office is irrelevant, that doesn't change the fact that other people will not conform to my preferred mode of communication. I'm fine with instant messaging, and a lot of people are, but in my experience, a majority don't or won't use it well.
> Already in the early 80s

The 80s is already 10 years later than my timeline, C had already gained massive momentum by then.

> Lisp was used to program massively parallel supercomputers

I'm curious to learn more about this, can you be more specific or provide links?

But anyhow, a massively parallel computer is a very different beast. Most computers used by people and enterprise were not massively parallel, and Lisps had poor performance on them and their architectures compared to C.

> Lisp stopped being slow a long, long time ago.

How long ago is that? I'd bet it was too little too late already. In my opinion, it would be somewhere along when Java came around, in the mid 90s. And even then, I'd say it was still too slow for most user application, but started being good enough for server work. At that point though, the momentum of C was already unstoppable, and Java became dominant, not CL.
The dollar’s exceptional liquidity makes it more valuable, which is good for people who have dollars, but it’s bad for people whose costs are in dollars (American exporters). The dollar’s strength since the earlier 1980s (the first major flight to liquidity during the era of free movement of capital) has been terrible for American industry. It’s like Dutch disease, but instead of a commodity like oil causing unbalanced trade, it’s the dollar itself.
For the lazy it's a next level microscope making a short video of two 0.2nm black dots jamming into each other, walled in by grey carbon nanotubes.

They used TEM for imaging.
https://www.umassmed.edu/cemf/whatisem/

Read the article, it didn't capture the minutia of a bond happening, just a few frames of what atoms look like when they do bond.
It's not really a local speech pattern thing it has more to do with associating <product name> with <name of tool>. If you can think of examples for a dozen other traditional products (kleenex, ketchup, jello, aspirin..) it shouldn't be hard to imagine that people do it for gmail and technology products/services. It's also certainly not unheard of though it is still less popular than traditional "emailed" https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=h...
> .. and will be a niche hobby on race tracks

Just like horses. Am sure there was a time no one ever imagined cars would completely replace horses on roads.
It absolutely did. Both AlphaFold and RaptorX (another deep learning approach from Jinbo Xu's lab) were mentioned in that paper as the main motivation of their architecture
I just wanna say that these are very valid points! It does make us seem less professional. And is potentially losing us some users.

We kind of scrambled that page together quickly because we wanted to get launch and get users as quickly as possible. Designing a pricing system may not take too long, but implementation would have delayed our launch date quite a bit and we really didn't want to delay the launch any further.

I think our lack of professionalism can also be an upside. It kind of allows me to create a personal relationship with some of our hardcore users and talk to them in order to guide the development direction of the app.

All in all, I appreciate the criticism!
C succeeded because of Unix, not the other way around. Unix was given away and ran on small, inexpensive minicomputers (originally the PDP-11). Lisp typically ran on more expensive equipment.

High level programming languages have been used to write operating systems, including the kernel: Lisp (on Lisp machines), Algol 60 (MCP on Burroughs mainframes) and PL/1 (MULTICS on General Electric and Honeywell machines). MCP and MULTICS (from which Unix gets its name) preceded Unix.

One difference between C and Lisp is that C was designed to run on the PDP-11, and is a close match for its instruction set. Lisp didn't have a native hardware architecture (the closest it had was the PDP-10) until Lisp machines were built, and there were economic reasons - largely economies of scale - why they're no longer built.
Since your salary would go much further outside of SF, why would it be necessary to keep the same salary?
Data brokers are middlemen. Not the source (no direct relationship to the data subject), and not the consumer (derive revenue from selling data).

If the process of selling data involves a daisy-chain of three middlemen companies, they're all data brokers.
I think this statement satisfies a working definition of irony: about half the audience is in on the joke, and the other half earnestly believes it. I guess that's also true of trolling. Kudos, I suppose.
Does Google make the same profit regardless? Yup, I think it's necessary.
Well, all these suggestions are nice and this also looks like a nice finger exercise but you really want to start something like this only with software that's still useable somehow in 50+ yrs. So just ignore this proprietary stuff and use plain text files + grep (or something similar).
For the uninitiated, how do you steal signs by making a banging noise? What is a "sign", anyway? What electronics are involved? The article doesn't explain anything.
Good luck getting the system to even that level of proficiency. Not impossible, but people are actually very good drivers (that still kill truckloads of people).
The author of the article you linked also has this repo, to welcome the public to start training https://github.com/aqlaboratory/proteinnet , following in the same veins as Imagenet
Agreed, was looking for something like this.

You could integrate it into the site a bit as well and display release notes or your blog.
What does Google's profit have to do with your salary needs?
Presumably it is worth a lot to keep the credit card details up to date.

That then allows for impulse purchases (movies, apps, etc), and validates that the user is not fake. One whale can pay for a lot of users.
I've subscribed to the Economist for the past five years (or so). It's sad to see their decline.

About 90% is still good, especially when they focus of international news.

But they're willing to publish lower quality articles when defending their official liberal position.

Sadly, the occasional low-quality article is seeping into other areas.
Transaction costs.

But note they mean zero price, not zero cost.
Oooh, thanks for that!
Alright. I work with roads and traffic infrastructure, and have never seen that situation before. The active equipment (in my experience) is all stored in above ground cabinets - just simple grey metal cabinets, elevated on foundations or poles, sealed with a gasket but with vent holes to prevent heat buildup. It would take almost deliberate misconstruction to cause a short.
The pilot in command is the final authority in the military also.
I've been working remotely for 5 years. Left the Bay Area last year. Network problems have not been an issue. Comcast goes down for a day.. I tether. Are we really saying latency and the occasional video freeze is worth forcing the whole company to commute to the office? And live within an hour or so of everyone else?

The people who suck at communicating online suck in person too. At least online there's a record of who can't read or spell. And don't get me started on the hours I've had to wait while someone is in the hallway having a chat.
Sure sure, maybe we have FSD only in like SoCal+TX+AZ+AL+FL. That, on its own, is a game changer.

Doesn't have to solve all problems, only sufficiently large problems.
No we don't.

We live on a planet around a midlife star. The amount of resources available to us over the next 10,000 years is staggering.
There was an article on HN a few months back about some variant of maize found in southern Mexico which can fix nitrogen. The trouble is that it makes the plant less efficient - only one crop per year, and requires a hot climate.

There's an overhead cost to plants that can fix nitrogen. It's good to have that capability, though; it's useful for areas with lots of arable land and sun but no good fertilizer source.
Yeah. Wow.
That's pretty fascinating. Do you have a reference?
If it's such a busy location to cause a big jam, how did the vandals get away with destroying it? In out of the way places, it won't cause a big jam.
iTunes existed well before the iPhone (since the first iPods, 6 years before).
There are still horses on roads sometimes. I passed through a town recently and saw two separate horse drawn carriages on the roads.
I agree. This is one of those things that feels like real science fiction. It feels like the researchers are playing God with parts that they have no idea how they work.

I think I'm in favor of this work, but it is alarming.
This whole affair makes the Clojure way of relying on libraries instead of frameworks really appealling to me. Frameworks are not fork-friendly.
No they use that now. They have stats for matchups vs where the ball will be hit, etc. Based on this the defensive will move. It has been working.
And then let that ‘official map’ from Google charge $100/month subscription fee.
I hope, it will help other folding research projects too, like Folding@Home[1], Rosetta@Home[2].

[1] https://foldingathome.org/

[2] https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
McCarthy invented conditionals. Seriously, if you've ever typed "if" into a program you owe a debt to Lisp. Likewise garbage collection. Lisp didn't absorb that; Lisp invented it. Likewise dynamic typing, first-class functions, recursion, etc etc.

It's not even slightly disingenuous to imply that every other language is simply "reinventing Lisp".
I can't imagine how a music player became such a monolithic application in the first place...

But I mean that's not true. I suspect the reason it was such a behemoth was because Apple wanted it to be the gateway and gatekeeper to both acquiring media and transferring it to the device.

Like Spotify manages to do quite well for itself without being the monstrosity that iTunes became. I'd guess that the foundation of Apple's garden walls is also the source of their technical debt.
Yes, as the studies have confirmed this to be the case with Harvard alone - which has the model described. Indeed, most of the elite schools with controversial legacy admissions have practices like that and the effect is still noticeable.
Agree 100%. It is now $7000, by the way.

At some point in the not-to-distant future I expect them to bundle most of what they currently package as FSD and sell it as enhanced autopilot again, for a whole lot less than $7K. Then I might buy it.
Volvo has proposed some rather simple infrastructure - driving magnetized nails into the pavement as a lane hint. This is mostly because they have to deal with heavy snow. It's not the sole, or even the primary guidance system, but it helps. They also suggest that snowplows could use the magnets for guidance. In snowy areas, it's common to use posts or flags or even overhead signs (in Hokkaido) to show where the road is.
Logo may have more potential than it seemed at the time, but as it was presented in my school, there was not much to it, and I never investigated further after turning to BASIC and then compiled languages like Pascal and C.

I certainly agree with the comment that what matters at an early age is what you can do with a language. I wanted to make GUI applications or games, and Java and Javascript hadn't been invented yet.
Most modern browsers are designed to prevent IDN homoglyph attacks by using Punycode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

This shouldn't be much of a concern these days.
Suppose we could identify some basis for meaning that we could be reasonably sure would be shared with beings in other universes - a Schelling point for meaning, if you will. Such a thing would be neither based on the laws of physics, nor restricted to our consciousness. Whether or not it would be "artificial" remains open to interpretation.
I use autopilot between Seattle and Portland regularly. It requires intervention a half dozen times or so, each way. Sometimes my wife makes me switch back to TACC-only, because she finds the interventions unnerving.
Also left click should be "place new if null and immediately open note" to reduce friction.

Right click can be context menu for changing color/placing objects etc.
Your comment is wonderfully muddled, since Benjamin was not an original inspiration for so-called postmodernist thinkers at all. Benjamin (and his intellectual companions, Adorno, Marcuse and others) were very much modernists, right before the heyday of the French "postmodernists". One has to wonder how 'opaque' Benjamin is, given that he is one of the most studied critical theorists in philosophy and literature. He must be at least translucent if there are knowledgable people making sense and use of his ideas. Apparently his ideas are sufficiently clear and interesting for an interest on HN[0].

In fact... someone on HN in 2014 claimed that Benjamin was a "postmodernist" too, and they were quickly shut down on that claim[1].

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=walter+benjamin

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8295413
How does this compare to Open Exchange Rates?
It's a cool idea, but nails rust, meaning a maintenance issue and outages. Is there a magnetic material that doesn't corrode?
At first glance above the fold I'm not sure what the site does - I think it would make sense to hit people with your value prop straight away - "an interactive DevOps Board" doesn't tell me exactly what value I will be getting by using the site.
Sure, just not the abbreviation. "Having a read-eval-print loop running on the spacecraft proved invaluable in finding and fixing the problem."

I shared the reaction, "wow, must've been glacially slow"
Note that the Bank of Canada provides, for free, feeds of exchange rate data: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/exchange/. It's only updated daily, but I think points out the difficult niche that currencyscoop would be able to go after. For anyone showing general prices on goods (like an online store), daily rates should be good enough, while anyone doing something like currency trading is going to need something much more accurate than what currencyscoop provides.
It’s more that the Euro has been a fiasco for Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain... It’s fundamentally problematic to have a single exchange rate between countries with different inflation rates, balances of trade, etc. - because you can’t have an exchange rate that works for everyone and the value can’t move between the other economies to balance out the differences.

The only way around that (apart from going to separate currencies with floating exchange rates) is to have some kind of fiscal balancing method. In the US, for example, federal taxing and spending tends to do this between the states. But that is probably politically impossible in the EU (redistribution from richer countries to poorer is pretty unpopular).
Just getting him to read a book or go outside would be progress.
I don't think self driving cars will be a thing until self driving friendly roads are a thing. Just one example is roads could have RFID embedded everywhere. Maybe that specific idea is bad but that's the kind of way I think we'll have to approach this. If we start embedding RFID as we're repaving roads today, in 5 years the roads where most miles are driven will be equipped. In 20 years basically every road is done.
Yes! Another of my top channels. His Polybius documentary is top-notch.
The catcher will signal a pitch with their hand between their legs. One finger for a fastball, two for a curve, something like that. The reason this communication is necessary is so the catcher sets up correctly to catch e.g. a breaking ball.

What the Astros did was zoom in a camera from the outfield to see this and feed that video straight into the dugout. The person in the dugout with the feed would bang a garbage can (or something) to signal audibly to the person up at bat. Knowing what pitch is coming is a massive advantage for a batter.

It really has to happen in a matter of a second or two in order to work.
Would be great for Googlers ... kinda horrible for locals in KC who would still be making the same amount, and housing costs skyrocket.... funding sudden needed school expansions ... and so on...

The economic and political messes of sudden expansion can be an absolute mess.
I'm basing this on a single article I read that was a little more detailed.

A "sign" is a hand signal the catcher makes to the pitcher, indicating which pitch (fastball / curveball / whatever) the pitcher will throw. If the pitcher wants to throw something else, he shakes his head, and the catcher signals something different. Repeat until the pitcher is happy.

The pitcher's rejection is visible to everyone, but the catcher's signal is hidden.

"Stealing signs" does not refer to stealing the key that translates between hand signals and pitch types, so that you can tell by looking at the signal what pitch will be thrown. That's considered obvious. (I mention this because I assumed that's what "stealing signs" would mean.)

Instead, "stealing signs" refers to looking at the catcher when he signals, so that you see the signal. Interpreting it is then up to you. Oddly, this is explicitly legal if you do it by having a runner on second base, but illegal by any other means.

The electronics involved are a small camera mounted somewhere aimed at the catcher. The banging noise is a simple code -- one bang for signal A; two bangs for signal B; three bangs for signal C... the function is to communicate the signal from the guy off in the bowels of the stadium viewing the camera feed, to the batter who wants to know what pitch to prepare for.
Before the pitcher throws the ball, the catcher signals with his fingers what kind of pitch to throw.

Pitchers switch between straight fastballs and slower curveballs and a pitch called a change up that looks like a fastball delivery but comes across the plate slower.

Obviously if the hitter knew what to expect he’d do a lot better. So the astros had a camera that was looking at the signs and feeding them to the dugout. Then when they knew that a good pitch to hit was coming, they’d make a banging sound. It’s not actually super sophisticated.

You’re actually allowed to steal signs from like a runner on second — you’re not allowed to use a camera to do it.
A sign is when the crouching catcher flashes a hand gesture between their legs to indicate to the pitcher which type of pitch to throw against the batter. The Astros adjusted the placement of a camera to better see the catcher’s signs, someone on a laptop in the locker room watching the camera would see the sign, bang on a trash can to make a loud noise the dugout and presumably the batter to know when (usually) a fastball was coming. Fastballs have less curve on them, making it easier for the batter to hit when they know one’s coming.
Sure, the communication might be more fulfilling--the efficiency is debatable--for certain people but at a cost of the quality and quantity of work suffering, the commute, time wasted, money wasted on office rent, certain supplies, parking, lunch, tolls, etc.
Lets assume the environment does meet half way.

How resilient would such a system be.

How easily can it be attacked to fiddle with the ability of the car to navigate safely?

Also, and much longer term, isnt it kind of weird to think that human infrastructure can only be seen to massively scale i. The planet so long as we turn the planet into a cyborg?

Isnt it weird and wasteful to build a planet wide cage of tech infrastructure for the evonomies of the world to survive and for human civilization to operate along the trajectory we are currently pointing?

Seems dismal to me.
California has no jurisdiction outside of California, period. If you are not based in California and do not deal with the data of Californians, then you are not subject to it. If either of these things are true though, you probably are subject to it.

The problem of course is that you may not know that you are dealing with a Californian’s data. For example, you may have scraped an email address and have no idea who it belongs to. I suspect that for this reason, I got a bunch of emails from affiliate programs recently saying that they had to close because of this law. Example:

“Unfortunately, the Yelp For Business Owners program is being paused immediately due to 2020 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) concerns. As of the sending of this notification we have expired all affiliates, which will be effective 1/13/20.

As you may be aware, the newly enacted California Consumer Privacy Act has placed new requirements on Yelp. While we evaluate the implications of these requirements, we are taking the step of temporarily pausing our affiliate program. Thank you for all of your hard work in 2019 and we?re looking forward to working more closely with all of you in 2020 once we work past this issue.”
> given that he is one of the most studied critical theorists in philosophy and literature

Found your problem.
That is already happening. Go visit the Tesla forums, and you will hear a lot of fans trying to tone down expectations for FSD, redefining what that term means. I would have thought "full self-driving" was pretty explanatory, but from things I've recently read, the goalposts have already shifted significantly.
You wouldn’t need to sell it as random to the end user.
Buddy that's called transit and taxiing.
When are you planning to release a mobile version that has import from Evernote?
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