skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really depends on the college town. In East-Coast urban cores, most students won't be able to afford to park at any time. Everywhere else in USA, they have free parking where they stay, and also they're culturally conditioned to consider walking or biking to be beneath their station, so they'll consider free parking near their classes to be their birthright.
When was the last time you saw a kid who made a cool game or software and made money using LISP?

The best motivator is recognition. Kids don't care if a language has books and whether there "exists" a game development kit. They only care about how much satisfaction they will get by learning something and building something with it.

If you want your kid to learn programming, the best approach is to teach them Swift or Java, or Javascript, so they can build a mobile app or web app and show off to their friends. And they will get the joy of building something that is actually used by others. That's how you get people to be interested.

LISP won't get you anywhere in that sense. Sure you may learn some programming concepts, but the ROI is not worth it. Kids might as well spend a bit more effort to learn languages with more exposure and actually feel the satisfaction of having real users.
Yes. Can you estimate how much these companies have received funding compared to self-driving tech companies/projects? My wild guess (based only on the general visibility) is that it amounts pretty much to a rounding error.
Of course, ultimately politics is controlled violence
I think it is not so much a testament to Lisp as to a talents of a people who wrote the software. I've met some of those. Give them anything and they'll still produce stunning results. Those were real doers. Can't even call them programmers, they had something better: brains size of f..ng Manhattan.
Why? Even as a professional developer, it’s extremely unusual that my cljs work requires any JS familiarity. I don’t see why a complete beginner would even need to know that JS exists.
You forgot one thing.

Autonomous cars won't have the same algorithm as selfish humans to position themselves.

A human will go to one of the busy places and will probably drive back to the original point of pickup.

While a computer will be notified ( 1 car only parked on the busy place) and immediately replaced by a new available/nearby car. Making the process more efficient, more remote places will be handled faster. Busy places more efficient.

Not all cabs will need to earn money, since the biggest expense will be the car driving and not the human driver ( waiting for work).

And as always, if income > fine. They will just pay the fine, some companies even negotiate it because of the sheer amount.
Strong type reveals and documents intent. Your code is not written for the compiler, it is written for other people to read and understand(even if that other person is future you).
> I doubt, that the software / hardware will have a common sense, like we humans have

Aren't sanity checks basically common sense? I would suspect they already play a major role in making autonomous driving a reality.
I made something similar a few years ago although for Android only.

playworthy.io
Please stick with the facts and thus with primary sources. Part of the blame of this shitstorm lies in those who insist in misrepresenting the problem with bullshit blog posts and "he said she said" nonsense.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/epszt7/actixnet_unsou...

Unfortunately this is not the first time Rust soundness/unsafe zealots are aggressive and create shitstorms in the community.
Yes, imagine that world. We wouldn’t have a million direct deaths every year, a million more caused by pollution. We wouldn’t waste trillions a year on roads, hospitals, signs, sprawl, and so much more. Just so someone can get a donut at 3am.
Before Zip’s time a bit, but I really liked Syquest’s 44 meg disk and drive. Compared to the Proapp 20 hard drive I’d had hooked up to my ][e, this felt like magic. Twice as much storage, just as fast, and removable?! Incredible!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyQuest_Technology

Those were fun times, in part due to the heterogeneity of hardware and operating systems. It seemed like every day there was some odd new device to discover. Even with today’s explosion of consumer electronics, for some reason it feels much more samey-samey than the old days to me.
The 95% thing can also be very different depending on how it's split up. 5% of miles have a random "you need to take over" vs. the most rural 5% of roads need manual control make a world of difference.

A car that can only drive within major cities in the UK and on motorways would be entirely fine for the vast majority of people. Exceptional journies I can always rent a car that suits my needs for the one week in several years I'm in the Highlands.
Almost all the self-driving programs use rules based solutions literally a big if this do that. Only one, comma.ai, uses artificial intelligence.

There's video on YouTube from three years ago with George Hotz predicting that Level 4 or 5 would never be reached without artificial intelligence. It made sense to me then and it still does today.
I would like to understand why you think that, could you explain a bit why it cant be replicated?
That's exactly the point, even if pilots use autopilot most of the time (level 4 autonomy).

Guess when they take control? When something bad is happening (and there are literally a million things that can go wrong and the autopilot could not fix, ever).

Guess why MCAS did not result in more crashes (the system has been known to malfunction a couple of times before the crashes)? Righty because there were pilots that could manually control the plane well enough to land safely.
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Or maybe, it’s just that iTunes sucks, hard.

...and has for 10 years.

...so Apple - let us manage our own digital media.
1) trains go basically everywhere frequently in Japan, it’s very much a functioning rail network, they exist and kick ass.

2) a train doesn’t need to replace 100% of personal car trips to be useful. I’m sure you’re not transporting dishwashers or taking trips after 11 pm every day. Covering 90% of use cases is sufficient, and the other 10% can be handled by either renting a car or taking an Uber.

3) we can and should make busses faster than cars during times of congestion by giving them their own lanes.
This is smart! Why not build it?
I believe the first fully automated transport system will go via the air.
Air is so much easier to control. The complexity of automating vehicles in a very chaotic setting (land) exceeds that of building drones capable of flying from a to b.
It will start with freight transport and slowly as reliability increases you get human transport via drones as well. Fully automated land transport is only possible when the system is clean and predictable. That means closed roads are open to only the entities which are part of the automation. Very difficult to establish.
No s.. Sherlock. It is starting to look more like a tantrum.
This isn't at all implausible: one of you should take 'agumonkey up on this! I wrote my first Scheme interpreter at 11, and an older friend of mine taught me Forth a bit before that. I wrote my interpreter with a bootleg (and ancient) APL2 copy, though.

With parental guidance, a 7 year old could totally do this. Figuring out how to handle the stack will be the trickiest part, and there are a few examples online of this, so if you nudge them in the direction of others' work, they should be able to get it pretty quickly. They'd finish it by the time they're 8, at least.
> currencies like China's and Russia's might soon be 20% backed by gold. He makes the point that there is no need for 100% backing from gold since a smaller percentage would still prevent a country from printing new currency out of thin air.

What is the conceptual difference between a currency that is 100% backed by gold and one that is 20% backed by gold? Or rather, what is the difference between a currency that is 20% backed by gold, and another currency that is (a) 100% backed by gold; and (b) worth five times as much as the first currency?
“Alternative practices” as in an alternative to conventional monoculture. This is just another attempt to fix monoculture, because it’s not working
It would be interesting to see those cars on these Parisian streets, with this level of dynamic hazard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jojf3Ci2H3A

I reckon motorways could be handled easily enough, and basic dual carriageways and normal intersections, but once you start mixing up multiple modes in inner cities, some tough decisions need to be made.
Thats great it may be changing - my story was about 10 - 15 years ago now. I was sharing my experience, and I still see it everywhere. I would imagine that it takes extreme time management for her to achieve this, which is great, and kudos to her but this is definitely the exception. I have known people that can do this, they usually have very impressive Filofaxes with things scheduled to the minute in my experience. While there are people who can do this, and who want to - they are the minority.

I was thinking more along the lines of shared half time jobs, or 3 or 4 day a week jobs, jobs that allow women (or men) to work, look after their kids without becoming automatons. They exist in medicine, in law, in accounting, I've known a number of doctors that do 4 hour days in the office, and a bit at home. The only other choice I've seen is cafe jobs, or minor admin jobs. I don't see any reason that a lot of IT jobs couldn't be structured this way. As has been said many times - there's an IT shortage - of young white males who'll work cheap.
Public transportation where I live is disgusting and often dangerous. Buses and trains don't pick me up and drop me off in front of my home. And they run on fixed schedules.

Due to these advantages, I usually take Uber/Lyft instead of BART or Muni. Autonomous vehicles would reduce the cost of such services even more.
Are the other passengers quiet and housebroken? Does the steel track go to my office? (Broken or misused rail switches cause a lot of accidents.)
Assuming you're right in that estimate, the hard work is getting more 9s. As a total kind of spitball number, you want 4 more of them.
Computers can or will deal with the other actors as well as humans do now, which is quite a low bar anyways.
the reason the league of nations failed (in many, but not all regards) has more to do with the economic and geopolitical situation at the time then it being a non american institution.

the strife of the great depression and it's results on politics was probably it's biggest factor.
>You don't understand why kids would want to learn programming. At least those who do, want to learn because they can build cool things they can show off to friends.

I mean, this isn't true for everyone of course, but I began learning to code at around 8 or 9 years old because I was heavily interested in math and numbers, and precisely because I didn't have many friends (or brothers or sisters) to occupy my time with when I was very young.

I agree with the premise that the majority of folks learn better with a practical goal in mind, but I disagree with you that there exists only one kind of curious child.

I had a second-hand IBM XT from my fathers' shop at first, and I wanted to learn how to do things with it.

That equipment being available, in my opinion, was the biggest motivator in learning how to use it.

It was there for me to use, the limit was simply my knowledge of how to use it, and that was a very enticing proposition.

My first project as an 8 or 9 year old was a prime number generator (a naive sieve). I had read a book about patterns, and primes had been mentioned. I took a trip to the city library (another rarity statistically?) and picked up a guide to Pascal that was written towards small business owners and non-CS college students to help them with simple automation, and got to work looking up terms.

A week or two later I had a CLI program that spat out primes as fast as my computer (or my poor implementation..) could make them.

I then tried to use those primes to draw trippy pictures, which began another foray into programming topic that were new to me, necessitating more work looking up terms and generally haunting the library.

Years later, when I was a teenager, when I ran into like-minded computer folks and we'd get to talking, that same prime generator got spun into a small benchmarking suite that my friends and I toyed with before the multi-core trends.

so.. I guess that the "show it off to friends" thing still happened, but knowing myself and how I learn, I doubt that i'd have ever been interested in a hobby that was pushed towards me by authority figures as being useful.

I have a hard time conceiving how I would become a 'computer person' now-a-days, in fact. I was so anti-social and actively hostile towards teachers that the idea that one of them could have tutored me in the hobby , quite counter-intuitively, may have been the exact reason I would have avoided it as a child.

really, my grand tl;dr :
"There is no one teaching method."
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All those countries you mentioned are totally free to buy only from the US. Building a pipeline will not prevent anyone from buying gas from the US as long as it is competitive. The sanctions are mostly trying to strangle competitor/adversary and prop own industry using political means rather then market forces.
He successfully taught his child Lisp, in a way that caused that child to release a video game. He didn't forget anything.
One thing I've learned over the years is that "best experience" is an euphemism for "what we want to force down your throat".
That's easy to fix, just charge a termination fee for the unused ink. Low BS solution.
> (assuming no traffic)

Heh. I’ve lived in your old neighborhood (Culver City) the last two years. The % of times there’s been light traffic going east to DTLA or west to Santa Monica is <10. Expo line trains run frequently and are consistently ~30 minutes to either destination. In a car, it’s between 20 and 90 minutes.

I’m from NY and spoiled with train options. The Expo line and LA Metro in general has allowed us to live here with one car and for me to mostly avoid driving altogether. Just like in NY, more cross-town train options are welcomed, and the airport extension to LAX will save time and stomach lining.
Ask HN: (Non-execs) What do you use a remote/local personal assistant for?
I have some research tasks that come up (travel, books to read etc) every now and then that I'd like someone else to do for me, so I can spend my non-working hours relaxing. But that's sporadic and sparse.

What else do you use a personal assistant for? I don't have a business so no major email/scheduling/data entry requirements. Maybe making/changing appointments with doctors? Sending gifts to family?
I have been using X10 and Insteon devices for years. I have no plans to upgrade the system to newer zigbee/zwave hardware; though I have added some IP Based devices too for things like smart bulbs such as Lifx.

I control everything with a Universal Devices ISY-994i controller and have set up a Polyglot node server to tie it all together. This gives me flexibility because I can always expand the isy-994i to support Zigbee or Zwave; and polyglot node server is open source.

It’s very nice to be protected against forced IoT obsolescence due to cloud API Reversioning, Company failures and mergers, etc. some of my smart home IoT devices are over 20 years old; no plans to upgrade them. Best of all, nothing requires the Internet to work.
In NZ, those minimums and surcharges are coming back and relatively common. Retailers are getting vocal about the "evils" of credit cards companies too.
This relies on a correlation between “legacy” and “good connections”. But if it’s about good connections, why not just have a policy like: “if you’re sufficiently good you get in and if you don’t have a ton of money we can provide scholarships to make things more affordable or free; and if you’re ok but rich, you can pay 2x the usual rate for admission up to some quota of these admissions”

You could even replace “rich” with “rich and well-connected” though it may be hard to determine the second part.

This seems like a more honest system and it doesn’t strike me as obviously unfair or unreasonable to have. Someone paying double fees isn’t taking someone else’s place so much as providing for someone else’s place.
There is no evidence that automated driving systems are any safer than human drivers, or that they ever will be.
Show HN: Android game discovery website that I built a few years ago
> a small group of people who are strangely very friendly to Russia on all other matters.

Can you give actual examples of this friendliness? I see it cited very often but I don't know any concrete example. I know Trump has imposed new sanctions on Russia last September, that is sanctioning European companies for the Russia pipeline, and that he's doing anything that he can to destabilise Iran, which is supported by Russia. So it doesn't seem that friendly to me.
> I actually think LISP is not as simple to understand as imperative languages

Lisp is an imperative language. The order of execution is defined and you use side effects.
Sure, but in the sense that road signs or traffic lights are a wear item. They wouldn't be exposed to the real causes of damage to roads (at least in my area) - transport trucks and road plows. They would need to be replaced at 5-30 year intervals, rather than 4-12 month intervals.
There are so many things wrong with this report, I'm flagging the post.
I also think we'll see more brokerages starting their own indices, which will lessen the power of any individual fund

This seems to be happening with ETFs
This totally might be the case. However it's still a good change and might lead to other colleges following suit. I'm reminded of a recent trend among the Ivies where Princeton was the first to eliminate loans from its financial aid packages[1] and instead offer only grants. Of course they have the largest endowment per student in the country, so the amount they collected from low-income students via loans was probably trivial. However it did seem to kick off a trend to the extent that all of the ivies[2] (dartmouth and cornell being more stringent) have replaced loans with grants for low-income students.

[1] https://paw.princeton.edu/article/no-loan-pledge-decade-late...
[2] https://blog.collegevine.com/does-the-ivy-league-offer-schol...
Update markings and beacons? So far just mere road repairs are poor and take ages to be done.
> People will drive out of their way to avoid a tool bridge even if the toll costs less than the cost of operating their vehicle for the other route.

It's not just the mental overhead here. I specifically avoid toll roads because I think their concept is fundamentally wrong. I pay taxes to pay for roads and their maintenance. I shouldn't have to pay more taxes ("tolls") to pay to use those roads.

If it's a private road then it should be marked as such. The public shouldn't be permitted to drive on private roads marked as if they're a interstate or state highway or anything like that. It's deceptive and profiteering off of what the government already provides: transportation infrastructure. And it absolutely should not be permitted for a private entity to purchase an existing road and turn it into a tollway.
Verizon Makes SIM Swapping Hard. Why Doesn’t AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile?
In reality it does not although would be nice if there were good alternatives.
Hopkins was pretty generous with financial aid ca. 20 years ago when I was there - our household income was in the $80-90k range, putting us well above US average at the time, but still well below the average JHU student's family. We forked out a total of about $55k between tuition and living expenses for my whole 4 years, and I vaguely remember the “sticker price” being in the $30k/yr neighborhood. I maxed out on federal student loans ($16k total), and my parents made up another $24k in PLUS (Parental Loans for Undergraduate Students) that we had a tacit understanding that I’d take over after graduation (I even managed to pay them back for what they’d paid while I was in school!), and I worked summers, but that just went towards living expenses.

Most of my aid was straight-up need-based, on top of $2k/yr National Merit and federal Work-Study, the latter of which had me running around doing desk-side support and learning a TON about end-user behavior.

Graduating into the post-DotCom bubble was a little rough, but unlike some of my CS classmates from more prosperous backgrounds, I felt absolutely no shame taking a boring government contracting job that covered my loans and what I thought was a nice lifestyle.
Experts Condemn Keto. Will People Finally Stop?
Streaming services, iCloud backup, podcasting apps on iPhone rendered iTunes obsolete.
as compared to dollars, of course.

(alt s/dollars/bitcoin/)
I always thought the ion wasn’t a big portion of the battery. Maybe someone can cofnrim?
You are supposed to reduce the value of the deduction claimed by the fair market value of anything in return. So if they send you a $10 sticker or invite you to a banquet with $500 in food, you can't deduct that part. The question is, how exactly can one determine the FMV of a boost in admission consideration (not even just the admission itself, but an un-quantifiable additional favorable factor in review)?
Do you use Lisp at your workplace? I see it defended a lot but few people I meet actually use it (I've met one full-time Lisp developer in my life!)
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The full submission for [spydialer] says:

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> How a consumer may opt out of sale or submit requests under the CCPA:

> Go to spydialer.com, then click the link "Do Not Sell My Info".

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Cool. Now compare that to another one listed [infocore]:

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> How a consumer may opt out of sale or submit requests under the CCPA:

> contact the company

> How a protected individual can demand deletion of information posted online under Gov. Code sections 6208.1(b) or 6254.21(c)(1):

> contact the company

> Additional information about data collecting practices:

> No information provided.

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Ugh. Their contact page is intended for submitting requests to do business with them: https://infocore.com/about/contact-us/
A lot of people feel that if the current team is successful, then obviously you should hire more people who are similar to your current team.
Is there a Helm chart available for quick K8s installation?
My point is that unless you get rid of them completely, traffic flow is not going to increase. You can't have free-flowing traffic everywhere and also have pedestrians safely crossing the street, and the lower bound on a traffic light cycle today is the amount of time it takes an old person to cross the street from curb to curb.
Checkout Oscar Toledo’s nanochess for tiny chess implementations.

https://nanochess.org/chess.html
That's not what I meant. I meant using more specialized ICs or a separate microprocessor. It's not like cost was much of a concern there.
I think I can write a script what is able to recognize the exact weight of the flying object. I will calculate the rate of falling based on different observation like airfriction, rotation speed, speed decrease etc. With my model I can extract a probability number which I use to make a decision. Easy job. Opencv, tensor flow, some tracker software and php and of course a 16k 4000fps 3d camera will do the job.
I am kidding. You are right.