skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US and Canada already possess pipelines to Mexico.
https://theodora.com/pipelines/mexico_pipelines.html
I did teach my son Racket at age 8, as his first programming language. He was able to make a number guessing game in it. I think we used "Realm of Racket," but I don't recall, as it was some years ago. He's now midway through high school and not a single course at his STEM middle school or high school has come close to teaching him as much as he learned at age 8.
Building codes and costs to make a building Earthquake-ready do. LA’s newest tallest building set a record for the largest concrete pour ever. That’s because the footings of any building we build here needs to be sufficient mass that the building won’t topple in an Earthquake. Filed under things that don’t scale. Also, taller than any of Japan’s but about 2/3 the height of NYC’s Skyscrapers.
Fedex: Three Months and Counting
Well, I'm able to semi reliably play chess without a board and I don't even play a lot, go is a bit over twice the information so it's not that much.

Also, 400 bits of information is about two sentences.
Learn to write your first OS kernel (2018)
When one of those black boxes malfunctions it gets taken off the road. When the AI malfunctions, are we going to shut down entire classes of vehicles until the problem is confirmed fixed?

Not to mention that most software fixes cause other bugs...
I know it’s practically impossible and sheer utopic but I dream of an never-ending Train going in a circle, kind of like a moving tunnel.
I've never heard an email sent via Gmail referred to as a "Gmail" before.
Does the author mean to say the ‘explosive success’ of itunes that required its functionality be spun off into three separate apps? Another boomer who doesn’t know how to use his phone or alter Finder preferences on the first page of settings!
Your argument of yeah walking distance to work obviates public transit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4pWZGBpWP0

It would be pretty amazing if all this turned out to be true ^
No way. The tech and liability will be too expensive for many years, at least till parents run out.

My guess is that interstate type highways will be instrumented for trucks and cars will benefit.
but if you had the funds to, why wouldn't you?
Search-and-replace gene editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA (2019)
That explains manufacturing new product in 2019 with 80286 CPU, got its certificate in the eighties, better not touch it.
I think a complication is that there are abstract types and concrete types. The abstract types let you say “give me a tangent bundle where ...” and the concrete types actually implement the thing as eg a vector or a sparse vector or ...

An alternative example would be that in Julia you can talk about abstract vector types of which dense and sparse form disjoint subtypes
> Most iPhone users, instead of tapping on a favorite app, now just search for it from the top bar.

Funny how "intuitive" interfaces must regress to ideas that must be over half a century old by now just to work properly.
I'm pretty sure something like Kube could be used to do this using CronJobs, pod affinities, and Prometheus+AlertManager for alerts and notifications.

You can specify memory, CPU, retries, monitor, and run on many computers.

I think Kube is like systemd + cron + containers had a baby.
It's not short term.

The US, like most developing countries, will probably follow Japan with population decrease in the next 50-60 years. Fertility is below replacement in most developed countries and as other countries get richer immigration is likely to decline.

The earth's population is probably going to peak this century and start declining. In addition the increase depends on massive increases in Africa which may not happen due to technology like mobile phones and better education for women.
Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Bing
Just want to throw D into the ring as a candidate here. It's a smashing language. I think it satisfies the very compromise you are seeking from your evaluations of other languages.
I've read that they use Matlab which suffers from the same issues
It's situation dependent right?

As an engineering manager, you could support every team or even every individual using whatever they like - but you then have other tradeoffs to make.

It's now not possible to run security tooling over everything or use a common artifact repository or follow common coding guidelines or linter settings and you'll get islands of language culture and endless internal reinvention and rewriting.
I thought people hated me when I worked at Ticketmaster.

I can't imagine what your life is like...
There seems to be an implicit assumption here that Level 5 = human = 100% of drivers. I honestly don't think that's the case at all. If I am being charitable, I'd say half of drivers would meet the implicit level 5 criteria discussed in these threads.

For example, there's a snowstorm out here today. Unless they really need to, people aren't going out displayed their incredible skill at navigating through snowsquals with centimeters of snow on the ground. They just stay home.

What will determine the success of self driving cars is not philosophical musings but their usefulness in day to day life. And if you can spend 10k on a system that'll work most of the time, but refuse to go out in snow squeals, it'll sell very well. I'd buy it.
To put this in perspective, imagine this hypothetical conversation happening a century ago:

"I have this new auto-mobile concept which doesn't require a horse and which can go fast; I envision up to fifty miles per hour. It will require a smooth, hardened road surface, but that will be achievable someday."

"Forget about it. We already have millions of miles of roads, which are bumpy, made of dirt, and hard to build and maintain. Who will do the extra work to smooth them? Harden them? Maintain them? What if some jerk digs a hole in one as a prank? Maybe this could happen in a limited way in cities, but this is overall a pipe dream."

My point is, it isn't a question of whether this is feasible, it's a question of incentives. If the incentives lead society in this direction, it will happen.
That’s the theory. If doing the right thing is not the default, it’s bound to get bad pretty fast.
James Rikard (author of Currency Wars) in his newest book Aftermath predicts that the dollar's reserve currency run may soon be over, and special drawing rights (SDR) reserve currency might only be 1/3 dollars. I think he is probably correct on this prediction but maybe not on another prediction: 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.

I think the dollar has a lot of inertia so it might reign for a long while longer as reserve currency, but then I also think about how much debt we have. Our treasury can not account for $21 trillion (ref: Catherine Austin Fitts http://solari.com) and the amount of consumer, educational, real estate, etc. of debt worries me, but: I expect a slow burn of our economy, not falling off of a cliff, economically speaking.

We can adjust to a decade long slow downward economic trajectory, people are resilient.
I don’t know. He really floated away into his own sea at the end there. I sort of get his point, just not how he got there, or whether it’s really the case at all.
There's a really cool pipeline for shepherding Toolbox-cataloged utterances and definitions into Delphin-project symbolic grammars to basically auto generate morphological models & do TDD on symbolic grammars. Took a class from Emily Bender where we built a grammar of Chintang with this system, and were able to do simple machine translation via an intermediary language to other grammars built in the class for e.g. Nuuchahnulth and other small languages. Its a really cool system for machine understanding of languages that never would have enough tagged text for a machine learning system.
CD burners were never as convenient as floppies - you simply couldn't immediately save your work, eject and go. While CD burners had a role, what really killed the floppy were the USB sticks and broadband.
I firmly believe that learning is not about remembering facts but about shaping your thinking. Surely there are professions where having facts ready is important, but relatively few. It's for a reason that many employers don't care too much what you studied, as long as you graduated (or have something else to prove your character). You'll have to learn on the job anyway; what they want is someone with the right attitude and who knows how to approach a problem.

Feeling slow is definitely familiar, while everybody else seems more than satisfied with my results. I'm still trying to always get better at what I do, but at the same time I remind myself not to sweat it. The internet makes it too easy sometimes to see top performers, and mainly their good aspects. Doing average gets you a long way, and a bit better than average a very long way. Stop comparing yourself to others. Just do your best. It's most probably enough.

Having hobbies that differ from work is something I'd consider healthy.
Game Generator [video]
I don’t mind driving 200 times one hour commuting a year. I want to a) not own a car but be picked up by one I can share with others b) be driven home after having a drink. Both of those use cases are only working if there is a 100% (or close to) self driving solution. Driving 95% of the way or 95% of the trips is nice, but I wouldn’t pay Tesla autopilot money for it.

The value in the 95/95 autopilot is because it will make commercial drivers be able to never need breaks (they sleep or rest until the autopilot is in trouble, and they can even remote control cars). And of course because a lot of people seem to hate driving and would pay to avoid it.

I don’t - I hate owning a car.
Sometimes I like driving, but I also like sleeping or hacking or drinking, and it'd be great to have the choice.
Leave out one parenthesis and your program doesn’t compile, i.e., exactly the same failure mode as almost any other language.
I doubt it. At least I can't find it anywere here:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c...
People in this thread are way too hung up on the "what if cars get attacked" problem. Just because you can't solve every problem, doesn't mean you can't have a usable product.

Cars today don't have any defense against people dropping bricks or pouring paint off an overpass, but somehow the system still works.
SuperDisk was my first exposure to the idea that better ideas don't always win out in technology.
They have stopped listing animations in 3D. Also closing the website.
I was staying in Santa Monica this last time and it always has felt very suburban to me. Same the times I’ve stayed in silverlake, los feliz, or echo park. When I’ve visited friends from Baldwin heights that definitely felt more sprawling than, say, Santa Monica for sure, so I get what you mean.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Venice and it’s a bit better, you can kinda exist without a car there. My favorite is downtown, it actually feels like a city in that area.

Maybe my frame of reference is more east coast when I say suburban, where there is a downtown area that’s walkable, but you still have to drive most places.

I’ve never had a license, so I’m generally happiest in dense cities. I appreciate that many Americans prefer car life for whatever reason and LA is great if that’s your vibe. I just wish there were more cities like NYC in this country.
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.

It's not about whether a programming language is simple or not. (I actually think LISP is not as simple to understand as imperative languages, unlike most nerds think) It's about what you can build with it.

For example, my first experience with programming was to build a game. If someone had tried to force-teach me LISP, it would have actually had opposite effect on me because then it would be no different from someone trying to force teach me some boring subject I have no interest in. The best way to teach something is to provide gratification. LISP is only gratifying to nerds who marvel at its "elegance", but it has no ecosystem which has tons of cool projects like fancy graphic engine or fancy game engine. It's just a "cool" language to nerds.

DON'T teach your kids LISP if you want them to love programming. Teach them JavaScript or Python, or anything they can build something tangible with which they can show off to their friends.
Menlo has a similar size.
I use still Mozillas but have planned to replace it some day.
Very cool product. Nowadays I don't play enough games to ever justify paying for something like that but I can totally see past me do it to play on my college notebook while in between classes :P
>What I'm predominantly responding to is this weird way people seem to look at these liberal cities and go "oh, they've succeeded in spite of their liberalness" instead of those being part of why they became desirable places to live in the first place.

Why would you think so? For example California used to be if not a Red State then a heavily leaning Republican: since 1880 until 2000 it has not voted for a Democratic president who has not also won the national election (and the 1880 election was extremely close). In the same time period it voted for a Republican candidate who lost the election multiple times (e.g. it voted against JFK and Carter).

Do you really believe that California had not been desirable before it started voting exclusively D (in 1992 the earliest)? I had not been living in the US at the time but judging by the popular culture it does not seem to be the case.
What should I talk about?
A car also functions as a usually-secure place to store a good chunk of stuff, rather than taking it with you. This is more relevant if you have children (carseats) or take multiple-destination trips.
Atari took on Apple with the Atari 400/800 PCS (2019)
I was always surprised MD-Data never took off. Even with low acceptance as an audio recording media, volumes should have been enough for it to effectively compete with Zip, SyQuest and others.
None of it is "necessary", but having my locks, garage doors, HVAC, doorbell[1], most of my media players, and most of my lights integrated with Home Assistant provides all sorts of convenience.

It all works "offline" (in reality, as long as the house has power, it all works, I just can't connect to it if I'm not home).

[1] The doorbell is a "dumb" doorbell that triggers an IO pin on an ESP8266.
I saw a video showcasing this idea some time back. They showed slowed-down video that exaggerated both the colour red, and the lines on your face, neck and hands, following a steep logarithmic slope.

Basically it showed that we imperceptibly blink and undulate like freaky globular aliens, and even consumer level cameras can pick it up. Not so different than a deep ocean jellyfish. Really fascinating stuff, so I'm looking forward to the Android version of your app.

Let me know if you want a beta tester for Android. I can test if it matches the heart rate monitor on the stationary bike, and there's all kinds of weird lighting at the gym I go to. Plus I do HIIT, so my heart is purposely increased/decreased to significantly different target rates every few minutes.
> For a human its trivial...

I anecdotally question this based on both personal experience and stories I've heard. It seems like it would be a hard problem for both humans and AIs, however AIs have the edge in the long run due to sheer processing speed.
Another way to look at it: The number of legacy students has fallen almost to zero, so now Johns Hopkins announces they are getting rid of legacy students, not before.
Because that's quite unrelated. Websites display will be fine or break independently of the OS, but depending how the browser has been updated to follow the last trend or not. Same goes for security: if he doesn't install crap on his XP, the main source of danger is Internet: malicious files input to unmaintained programs, and of course his Web browser first. Maybe there are performance improvement coming too, either in the browser or the e-mail client.

Personally, I don't use XP, but I'm stuck with 2.49.1 because they broke GTK2 support between that version and 2.49.5. When I'll have enough, I'll switch to another browser, perhaps Palemoon which still had GTK2 support last time I built it (28.6.1). /Edit:/ Just checked on Palemoon forum: they say they will support GTK2 until at least 2024.
Owl: Motion planning algorithms with demos for various state-spaces
Right on all that.

But plants are made of cells too and cells need amino acids for all the machinery of life. So how do they get away with so much less than animal cells?
It's not a game as such, but yeah, I suspect that it's pretty widely known across the universe too.
Didn't expect the article to mention this, but this is absolutely true for me. I only know the locations of some apps, and I search for the rest.
Why not Clojurescript? It has access to the whole JS ecosystem.
This is interesting, I was asked this question in an interview for a Microsoft internship, but for a binary tree.
A system optimizing collective well-being will absolutely not make it more pleasant to park a car. It will tell you to ride the bus.
The lack of any viable alternative has kept the dollar in its current dominant position.

That alternative won't exactly announce itself so that US policymakers can rationally decide to change course about the weaponization of money.

It will instead, sneak up on the country in the form of weird little experiments that don't seem worth the time and effort to track or regulate. By the time one of them becomes the obvious marketplace disruptor, the die will have been cast.
Have you been reading too much propaganda lately? How does it feel to know that you’ve been influenced by paid influencers? Most intelligent people aren’t influenced by the MSM drivel.
How will it deal with an accident up ahead where some drunk bystander is trying to direct traffic? How will it know to ignore the drunk guy? What if it isn’t a drunk guy but a sober person directing traffic? Does the car obey in that case?

Most people wouldn't instantly know how to handle those cases either. Many people would obey the drunk guy. Maybe that's the right thing to do.

None of those are edge cases because every time it drives it will encounter some novel edge case that has never happened before and it will have to perform better than a human.

That's why these things could never be rule based, there are too many small exceptions. When they're not overfitting/able to memorize all your training examples, neural nets learn heuristics, just as people do. Different people learn different heuristics. Granted, they don't have much of the same context about the world that people do, it will take a long time to build enough examples for them to infer all of that. But Tesla's fleet is getting more driving experience every day than you will get in your entire life, and every time they train on one of those exceptions, the entire fleet will benefit.

Don’t even get started with liability. Once you take away the steering wheel the manufacturer is on the hook for every single mistake and every single accident. You’d be insane to be a manufacturer and sign up for that.

If drivers no longer carry their own insurance, this is probably going to be handled by insurance at the manufacturer level, and baked into the price. The insurance will demand certain processes to prevent large-scale bugs being rolled out.

I don't see any fantasy here, just a lot of work.
No way government allows it to be scrapped. Worst case scenario they will be refitted for cargo duty, or 'purchased' by army/navy at a reverse discount to prop Boeing up.
How many plants were put into producing that efficient stake?
As a point of fact, it isn't true that the dominant currency imposing costs is new...that has always happened. Britain did it in order to secure continued use of the £, and the US has done it before now. It is a normal extension of foreign policy (because finance is not separate from politics, as the Rusal example shows).

It isn't some kind of authoritarian aberration either. The point is that the US has most to lose from a system of free trade so is the one who shoulders most of the burden for securing it. You don't secure something by sitting back and letting people ride all over it.

And yes, some people who don't want to play by those rules will grouse. But the system will always lean towards one dominant currency, it is just easier that way (the UK losing control was was unexpected and took nearly six decades to play out after the point of obvious decline). The world is awash in dollars, no need to worry (if anything, the issue is that some are too reliant on too much dollar funding...not that the world is moving away).

It is kind of unfortunate that the Economist keeps getting worse. The election of Mango Man and Brexit has truly addled the minds of some generally smart people (or made clear that their smartness wasn't actual intelligence but an ability to just parrot whatever they were told was "right").
My take on the author's take is that by point 10, he's realized what a muddled and silly thing this is.

> So what really failed, maybe, wasn’t iTunes at all…

At which point whatever substance he's abused to get that far really kicks in for his final point.

> In 1940, the German critic Walter Benjamin wrote about an angel in a Paul Klee painting. […] It is now clear, 80 years later, that the angel is looking at his phone.

Sheesh.
I learned lisp (edscheme) in elementary school. Wrote a language interpreter in 4 weeks. Interestingly, 2 of my 3 my favorite languages are very lisp-inspired (but of course, without the parentheses)
I agree. There are many interesting questions Deep Mind could have answered about both go and chess.
I am still bitter they didn't take a few days more to run experiments of great interest for fans of both games. For chess the simplest one would be to take most popular positions from top level human play and let A0 play Stockfish from that (say 10 times from every of 100 positions). Then do the same for self-play and then most importantly publish all the games not selected sample.
They kinda did something similar but the positions they selected were chosen for entertainment value. We still don't know how Alpha Zero plays from positions that are actually interesting for human players.
Yeh I thoroughly hate iTunes. The opening time alone, but the store vs library separation was...
Yup. We did the same. For years we didn't even have a printer because of being burned by so many crappy inkjets. Eventually my wife got sick enough of going to the copy shop to print stuff she insisted we buy a printer. I made sure we got a black and white laser printer. Best thing ever. It works like I expect it to work.
There's huge waiting lists for international students to get into Hopkins. What this will probably result in is that it makes headroom for more international students to get in (because if you're sourcing "qualified and promising students from all backgrounds" there's probably gonna be more of those across the whole globe rather than locally).

Also, the Pell Grant averages just over $4K, going up to about $6K. The tuition for JHU is about $52K, but with room and board, books, and other misc living expenses this goes up to $69K.
This really is true. I learned Logo in middle school, didn't want to be a programmer, took a Java class in college because it was required for actuarial science, then read some PG essays.

Lisp should be forbidden to young programmers, precisely so they'll go seek it out.