skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think there are a lot of great uses of the patterns that come out of s-expressions, for example, but I would still choose Go, Python or JS / TypeScript as my daily driver.

There's no God.
This is basically correct. There are two other contributing factors:

- The controller who was talking to the two aircraft was a trainee (and being supervised by a senior controller).

- The sequence happened after sunset, but before EENT, and the controller cleared the aircraft after judging the distance visually. Most things aviation-related, and in particular visually judging distance, become much harder after the sun sets.

Incident info: http://avherald.com/h?article=4cb85fbe

Departing flight: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA459/history/20190805/...

Sunset table: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/australia/sydney?month=8&yea...
If you use Google to search (or use Chrome or gmail or...) then you have a direct relationship with Google, meaning Google is not a data broker.
Elon’s predictions have been wildly out of touch with reality when it comes to self-driving.

In Jan 2016: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920

“In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere connected by land & not blocked by borders, eg you're in LA and the car is in NY”

Four years later, summon works in parking lots at 2-3 mph, while a person is supposed to be monitoring and watching the car the entire time and holding a button to keep it moving.
It is very, very common for one plane to be on approach for a runway while another one is taking off. If the plane taking off is delayed at all, the approaching plane is told to go-around (which is what happened here). Happens all the time.

I haven't read up on this incident, but I suspect the approaching plane wasn't given clearance to land yet, and would have gone around on their own if they hadn't gotten that clearance in time.
In my locale, "campus police" is a division of the city police department.
I see Zendesk listed as one of the businesses that uses this. Does anyone have an idea why Zendesk would need an exchange rate API?
I’m waiting for machine learning to predict play calls for baseball and football. It shouldn’t be too hard if it hasn’t already been done. Based on the offensive coordinator and things like field position, etc it should be easy to make predictions as to what that human would make based on past choices.

I wonder if that would be considered cheating though If they only used past performance and not real time signal stealing.
I'm trying to like it, but I keep running into bugs... and I haven't been able to find a point of contact on their web page to describe them.

But, yeah, when it works it's very nice indeed.
And plenty of other problems with missiles before that one too.
As the news dramatically reminded us recently, the number one cause of non accidental casualties in plane is being shot down by the military, by a very large margin before terrorism. Similarly it is not hard to guess that car related casualties due to terrorism is never going to be significant compared to others.
Terrorism overall is not a big issue, despite we like to think that our main problems are caused by a few malignant individuals.
The parent comment got downvoted, but I have definitely experienced this "too much power" issue at work in other languages. E.g. one programmer on the team chooses to use powerful abstractions, but then other folks have trouble modifying the code. Usually we give the respect that is due and ask for a simpler rewrite. When the abstractions or tools are powerful and also simpler, and we can all pick them up and use them, that's the happiest outcome.
so you went public yesterday. and you are surprised that your page is trending on HN? right.

shame on he who thinks evil of it ;)
For a long time the only interface in iTunes that I've really liked was the Column Browser interface. That's remained available throughout the various changes in iTunes and now in Music over the years, but disappeared in Catalina.

Fortunately, that disappearance was only temporary. It returned in 10.15.2.

Select "Songs" in the left sidebar, and a "Column Browser" submenu will be added to the View menu. Turn it on (⌘B), and you get a nice, no-nonsense, high information density view of your collection, letting you quickly filter by genre, artist, and album. Right click on a column heading and you can add columns for composer and grouping or remove columns.
I don't think it's super relevant who is at fault, I care what the consequences are.

"It's ok if I get into an accident - it will be the other guy's fault" is only the right reasoning if you're talking on the individual level about about monetary costs of an accident only. If you're talking about injury, or if you're talking about the cost to society as a whole, they are bad consequences regardless of whose fault the accident is.

I think the actual answer is that self-driving cars will end up doing a good enough (i.e. at least human-level but not perfect) job of not wildly swerving or braking to avoid harmless objects like floating plastic bags that this won't be a concern.
>Pretty sure Logo was originally implemented with a lisp, no?

Logo is a bare-bones Lisp disguised as an educational language.
Not really. It's true if you compare, like f(x) to (f x), but in general Lisp really does have more.

// 3 brackets
float diff(vec3 v1, vec3 v2) {
float dx = v1.x - v2.x;
float dy = v1.y - v2.y;
float dz = v1.z - v2.z;
return sqrt(dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz);
}

;; 18 brackets
(def (diff v1 v2)
(let (dx (- (x v1) (x v2))
dy (- (y v1) (y v2))
dz (- (z v1) (z v2)))
(sqrt (+ (* dx dx) (* dy dy) (* dz dz)))))
I see it more than organizing more than a certain number of things is a lost cause, so search is a better solution than organization. Yahoo used to be hierarchically organized. Then good search (blame Altavista, I guess) came along. When Window 7 added search to the Start button that would search for installed apps, I never needed to drill into the Start Menu again.
> casts a shadow on the integrity of the game

MLB. FIFA. OOC. ... let me know when you can see a difference, lol.
If you can't afford the $4 for parking, you can't afford a car. The rules don't become optional because you can't afford them. Being poor sucks but it doesn't give anyone the right to ignore the law.
You don't sound like a person capable of being persuaded by anything (using strawman arguments about slavery is a pretty good sign of that) but I have in the past sold non-software products and the simplest option to promote them is stuff like adwords/adsense.

The alternative would be dealing with magazine ads and the like which is a whole different profession I would have to learn. Companies have whole departments to deal with that headache. And probably the 1000+ dollar budget involved would be beyond my scale.
It is possible today to do this.

The question is ... should we?

I'm old school about this game and my answer is emphatically "no".
I'm happy to work for a company that embraces remote work, but it's undeniably more efficient and, for most people, fulfilling on a personal level to have a high-bandwidth face-to-face conversation--and "the wifi hiccuped, what did you say?", as happens here and without exception everywhere else I've been, isn't that.
We absolutely have the technology to go to Mars. We could probably have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 70s with the same technology level that took us to the moon.

It’s just that it would cost an incredible sum of money for very little gain and so it hasn’t happened - even the mission to the moon was a huge drain on the budget and the program was canceled once we won the space race.

Going to Mars is like supersonic passenger air travel (Concorde) - something we have the technology to do, but it just doesn’t make sense.

An autonomous, self-driving automobile is something we just can’t do today no matter how much money we spent on it. I think it’s a different question because we are trying to predict if we will ever reach the level of technological sophistication to allow it. (Of course we have a solution for “driving a car from one city to another” and it’s putting a human in the seat, or of “making a self driving vehicle” and it’s putting the vehicle on grade separated tracks like the Morgantown PRT)
Doesn't seem that special to me. Forth has a totally different (but at least as powerful) set of mechanisms for metaprogramming. REBOL, too. And hell, these days even languages like Rust and D give programmers first-class capabilities for compile-time metaprogramming.

It's disingenuous to imply that every other language is simply "reinventing Lisp". The Lisp community itself spent decades figuring out elements that are now considered basic, like lexical scope. Lisp is just a ball of mud that can absorb any idea in its vicinity, and Lisp programmers like to retcon history to make every idea theirs.
"I dictated this , to the quiet office. The word area isn't too bad."

[What I actually said was 'I dictated this entire comment in a quiet office <period> The word error rate isn't too bad <period>'. Built-in recognizer on a Mac.]
Named after an In Flames song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCvq8VN9owY
If you were getting a paywall like me, just delete all your economist.com cookies and block all javascript.
I think extrapolating the entire tech or startup economy off an extremely small company in a commodity area of computing is not a good decision.
Fascinating. My fist screen is all apps I use daily. The second is everything else in folders
They will start training on coach body language, things like steps, leaning over, covering his mouth, head movement...

I'm sure coaches have some kind of tell when they get excited about calling a play-action deep ball after the run game got 3 straight first downs.
Talking about affirmative action, what a horrible system. If you're unlucky enough to be born Asian, your difficulty of getting into college has just been doubled.

It baffles me that such racist policies are so prominent at some of the best universities in the world. "Personality scores" too. What an inane cover-up for rejecting people and races you don't like. While we're at it, lets get rid of legacy admissions too.

In college admissions, a student's name, race, and background should be obfuscated. Test scores and rhetorical skills should be the sole measure of a student. Maybe a boolean telling us if a student was below the poverty line or not. It's not perfect, but this would be far better than what we have today.

At least California law prohibits affirmative action, and I was able to go to a fantastic university without having to worry about institutional racism.
My question about this idea is always: what about pedestrians? Sure, you can use beacons so that cars won't crash into each other, and use signs to avoid collisions with fixed obstacles. But interactions with pedestrians often require guessing at their intentions, and you can't have them wear beacons at all times. Of course, some areas are already fairly hostile to pedestrians, but we don't want self-driving cars to make that problem worse.
You have 8 256gb iOS devices?
There are standard "missed approach" routes published for each runway. Generally they involve flying more or less directly over the runway before turning to circle around for another attempt.

The 737 flew that route. As they were doing that, the 330 was taking off and turning in the same direction after takeoff (as they were directed), so they both wound up near each other a few km beyond the runway as they were both turning to the right.
Well, the latter two seem institutionally corrupt in a way MLB is not - at least today.
How about mass transit using a fleet of self driving cars?

I can see that this isn't a future a VW exec would dream of, since it would mean far fewer cars per person.
Don’t be a drone. What are you downvoting for? Are you going to remain ignorant, or start to think?

I’m totally in support of, and believe in the value of self-driving vehicles.

But, the SV soy-boys need to bring their A-game. Not the “My machine learning system that underperforms a nematode worm’s neural performance is going to totes solve self-driving cars” toy they’re delivering now. Come on!

I expect better, especially from Elon Musk, who should know better - he’s a Saskatchewan boy! You can’t see the highway 6 months of the year, and there’s no static friction; only dozens of variants of dynamic friction, which can only be distinguished by a sensor suite that includes vision, sound, vibration and predictive estimation from historical models, recent historical temperature profiles, and precipitation, insolation energy and angle, wind and recent traffic over the same road.

So man up. Increase your model learning and real-time solving power by between 10 and 100 times. Increase your sensor suite. Include historical memory and group learning.

Sheesh.
TCAS is not ATC though, no? Also I don't know if TCAS is localized, but it's only two words if I'm not mistaken, "Climb!" or "Descend!"
It's a common thing to happen and I've noticed it a lot with middle age non tech crowds. It's not a new phenomenon overall but people talk about how their son made a YouTube or they sent a Gmail quite regularly. For some reason tech folks find it natural to use the verbs (e.g. I googled/youtubed it) but not the nouns.

It doesn't always require the service have 100% market dominance either, just that it be popular enough people hear others use it and commonly used in exclusivity by the user.
The most direct impact would be an increase in costs because the American supply chain, which is currently almost completely dealt in dollars would need to factor in currency risks, since, for example, they may have to start paying manufacturers in Yuan, and shippers in Euros.

More indirect results would be things like making American companies less competitive than they are worldwide. For one thing, most American companies have little to no experience dealing with multi currency issues, while companies in other countries deal with these every day and do have experience. This will give those other countries and people a slight advantage against American competitors.

Also, America gets a decent chunk of stuff for free or cheaper than it would otherwise, because countries are paying Americans goods and services in return for pieces of paper. Those benefits will gradually reduce and disappear.
"Existing law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, beginning January 1, 2020, among other things, grants a consumer a right to request a business to disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information that it collects about the consumer, the categories of sources from which that information is collected, the business purposes for collecting or selling the information, and the categories of third parties with which the information is shared."

The new law requires companies to tell us who are they sharing our personal information with. Applying common sense law -- this sounds like anyone who sells my personal information to a third party with whom I'm not having a direct relationship - that gets covered.

The Ad I see on the top of my search query seems based on personal information that was sold to a third party.
Those figures are not as good as you seem to suggest.

First of all. Tesla counts the number of miles for every Tesla being involved in an accident. The other figure you quote is for all miles driven by motor vehicles before getting involved in an accident. Given that accidents tend to involve two or more vehicles the number of miles traveled before an accident involving a Tesla without autopilot or safety measures would be closer to 820.000 miles.

In that figure of 479.000 miles commercial traffic is also included. Commercial traffic makes up around 60% of all accidents. We cannot translate this to miles per accident comparable to Tesla, because commercial traffic tends to drive more miles than passenger vehicles do, but there are far less of them, etc. Another big category that needs to be excluded from the general figure is motor cycles, that generous source of donor organs, to make it comparable. Passenger vehicles in general are more safe than the overal figure and thus closer to Tesla's figure.

Second point is that Teslas are hardly part of the second hand or n-hand market yet. It is even a question if Tesla will tracks that data in those markets. In those markets you will see more young people as drivers (something to do with income). They are responsible for a majority of the traffic accidents involving passenger vehicles (something to do with tendencies to discount the future and to overestimate their own capabilities).

Third point is that the really good figure comes from auto pilot, but that only works in places and under conditions that are already far less accident prone like highways under normal weather conditions.

The good news from the figures is that enabling the safety measures make Tesla drivers better drivers: From 1.6 miles to 2.1 miles roughly a 25% increase in miles traveled before an accident. That would lead us in the direction of mandating level-2 automation in all new cars for more safety rather than trying to push for level-5 for some brands.
A very good question!

I think given the amount of manpower we had, it was the best choice to make the browser version first. If we desperately want a desktop version, we can use Electron or some tools to convert the browser version into a desktop version. The performance may not be the greatest, but it's cheap.
We can do the same for iOS and Android.

This may just be me, but I feel like the app is somewhat like my kid. This may make it tough if we need to ditch the app or pivot one day, but yea...great question!
If nothing has zero emissions, then the phrase "zero emissions" would have no use whatsoever, so applying a context where nothing has zero emissions is internally inconsistent. It can't be a null phrase and not a null phrase at the same time.

If something has zero emissions, but it's not a BEV, then maybe you should say what and why the correct definition excludes BEVs.
This model works maybe for uses where small value transactions aren't worth the cost or hassle, but that's not the (main) problem here. It's that payment itself adds a layer of complexity.

And if the problem is that even simple payment complicates things, complicated (probabilistic maybe or maybe not) payment isn't going to make it better.
The current technology capacity is the showstopper and always will be. Technology works for humans not the other way around. Nobody will adapt our society to conform to self driving cars. It just doesn’t make sense....
This is definitely one of the things xkcd has talked about:

https://xkcd.com/1958/
CCPA's definition of selling data is both expansive, and a little vague.

Google Ads (formerly AdWords) now has an API so that customers can disable possibly-sales-like features on a per-use basis if someone clicks "Do not sell my information." So, while Google doesn't sell users information, they're only willing to go to bat and say "this is definitely not a Sale Of Information under CCPA" for a subset of the services they offer.

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/rdp/

Facebook I dunno. My sense is they have a larger appetite for testing the boundaries of the law.
or just send the cartridge back and buy a regular cartridge.....
I recently picked up 'Turtle Geometry' from Abelson and diSessa. And it was a mind blowing experience.

Really makes you think what kind of fun programming was about back then and its potential. Frankly speaking you begin to feel programming has kind of lost its way.
People like all kinds of ads. Super Bowl? People watch for the ads. People cut out clever magazine ads and use them as posters. Instagram “influencer”? That means you’re doing a product placement ad and people love it. Jingles: we sing ‘em. MailChimp podcasts ads. All kinds of ads.

You know what kind of ads no one has ever ever ever liked? Web ads. Banner ads. Pop ups, pop unders, takeovers. They’re all shit, consumers hate them, and consumers love ads in general. It’s a failed business model that has never been viable for publishers.
Clearly all the intoxicated individuals who were passengers now become drivers... or it is edge case and edge cases don’t matter for... reasons... or something. Am I getting the FSD hype train right here?
Those two crops are not compatible to co-plant.
Whilst either "being distracted by a fussy child" (if you listen to their marketing copy), or "paying full attention to the vehicle" (if you listen to their legal disclaimers).
The author made a blind guess that 80% of Google would quit If they moved HQ without any actual evidence.

If Google opened up a new large office in a place like Kansas City with no salary cut and a strong internet presence and some other tech companies (ICE exchange for example), I bet enough Google employees would want to move there to make it worthwhile. Cheaper cost of living, better schools, better for families etc. plus alternatives If you get tired of working at Google but probably not since your lifestyle would be so much better than the Bay Area.

I know a lot of people that are very sick of the Bay Area, especially those with kids.
Because there are million other better uses for that money.
The other major change is that under the current administration America has been pointing its financial weapons at allies as well.

That’s the major change the article is talking about, without being fully explicit about it. Russia and China have been wanting to move away from the dollar for over a decade.

It’s the fact that the EU now also wants to do so that has changed.

The greatest long term impact of Teump’s Iran policy will likely be the creation of Instex (or more relevant, whatever follows it) that will help the EU and Asian countries move away from the US as the center of the financial world.
What would this gain for you?

Keep in mind that the two are going to require very different planting, cultivation and harvesting timing and technique, so having narrow strips of one alongside the other is going to be a monumental pain in the butt for the farmer (in comparison to having a whole field of one in one year and a whole field of the other in another year).

No one is going to do the "plant alongside" thing unless there are massive gains to be had.
Yup. Turtle Geometry is a great book on this.

However if you dig deeper geometry is just the beginning eventual goal is to teach you to simulate movement of insects around light, predator-hunted scenarios etc.
Is that really so hard? Random selection?
Sorry. TFA is "this f... article".

I agree about the "correlation does not imply causation" plague. It's especially problematic for purely observational sciences, where experiments are impossible or unethical. Prototypically for epidemiology, but also for astronomy and cosmology. And yes, it's a slippery slope, even for experimental sciences.

I get what you say about the alignment of metal rods in magnetic fields. So yes, there could be some gravitational polarity over extremely large scales.

I see that I was getting stuck on the idea that changes can't propagate faster than light, no matter what the mechanism. But now I get how arbitrarily separated stuff can be similarly affected by a given source. For example, there was a recent article about hot gas "sloshing" in a galaxy cluster.[0]

And thanks for the YouTube links :)

0) https://phys.org/news/2020-01-sighting-hot-gas-sloshing-gala...
50 years from now, Java graybeards will be able to name their price.
Polyglot programming with Graal will eventually be awesome, but it isn't yet. If it was, I'd use Graal to use Python libraries from Clojure, but I'm not, because it still has some ways to go.

So for now, I use Pandas, Numpy, matplotlib, and all that from Clojure using libpython-clj. Which is the biggest issue with graal-python currently, how to leverage all the C-based libraries. That's where libpython-clj excels over Graal.
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