skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jomboy Media is worth checking out, even if you don’t follow or care about baseball. His breakdowns are fun to watch.

For example: https://youtu.be/W1pJRRJntUo
>Aside from Tesla owners, I do not know anyone in my life today whose vehicle connects to the Internet

When did the whole OnStar botnet start? I think it's earlier than 2010.
This sounds great for the recipient, who will get approximately the amount of money they'd otherwise get, but bad for the sender, who now has to budget a thousand times more than they were intending to spend.

Or more precisely, it's good for the party operating at scale and bad for the individual participant. This is the opposite of how most financial schemes handle unpredictable events: they put the risk on the party that can absorb the risk by letting it be lost in the noise, and take it away from the party that cares deeply about small amounts. Insurance companies will charge everyone the same amount, whether it's a customer that will ultimately bring them a bit of revenue or ultimately cost them a lot of money: the price for the individual customer is fixed. A plane flight costs the same amount of money whether there are strong tailwinds and the plane flew cheaper than expected or whether there was bad enough weather that the flight had to land somewhere for refueling, and the cost of the occasional rare disruption is built into the ticket.

This trick is mathematically nice, but there isn't really a reason for a consumer to prefer it to even paying $.02, unless the consumer is also paying at scale (in which case you can just aggregate the transfer and not use this scheme at all).
Elixir and Julia. The third is Zig.
I would love it if he found it endlessly fascinating and spent all day programming on his own, but he does need a bit of a push from mom and dad. He enjoys it, but given the choice, he would still rather play games than make them :-)

You didn't pick very good evidence to support the idea that picking a LISP is a great way to get kids to love programming. This only supports the idea that Carmack thinks that learning a LISP is good for his son's development.
Hey! Thanks for the encouragement!

A native app is definitely on the to-do list. The reason why we chose the browser is mainly so that we can distribute it to a broader audience. Also, I use a MacBook and my Co-founder uses windows, and we'd both like to use the app ourselves haha.

I may be wrong on this, but I think the friction to download a native app is much higher than a web app. And we really want as many users, from as many demographics, as we can to test the product and guide our development.

A demo portal/sandbox on our front page would be cool too! But we have some bugs/features that are much higher on our todo list.

Again, thanks a lot for the feedback!
Mentioning MATLAB in the same context as lisp is almost blasphemy
I'm incredulous that that can be the case anywhere.

I live in a wealthy jurisdiction, and the road markings here largely are not what I'd consider to be "perfectly visible". I'd guess that currently, probably 3/4 of painted lane markings have one or more of the following issues: a) obscured by snow/ice, b) faded c) road under construction and lane markings don't correspond to current lanes.
Look up "Ergodicity".

Autopilot doesn't need to be 2x or 10x better than a human driver -- it needs to be 100x or 1,000x better, or nobody (sane) should touch it.

The problem is not that autopilot is superior than your own driving in the vast majority of the cases! The problem is the 1 in a million times when it makes a trivial mistake that virtually no human would, and kills you instantly. Like driving under an obvious semi-trailer, and shearing your torso off.

An understandable example: You have two games of chance, both with identical 5/6 chance of winning.

One game, you'll play immediately (and as often as possible). The other, you would never play, not even once.

How is that possible? Both have identical 5/6 chances of winning? But, one is "ergotic", meaning that the odds hold over the long term as often as you play, and one is "non-ergotic", meaning that as soon as you lose, you're finished.

One is a single dice roll.

The other is Russian Roulette.

Self-driving cars are Russian Roulette. One "mistake" on the part of the system, and you're dead. The fact that the "stats" prove that it is safer, overall, don't change the fact: you and your family are dead.
Love the nestalga. I worked at Iomega from 1990 to 1994 during the Zip Drive boom. The LS-120 was our only real competitor for most of that time.
Well of course it seems likely some form of interaction at some point in the past or present is behind these effects, we just don’t know what it was or is. If that’s all your saying, sure.
They do still exist although I think my local one is a modified diesel van.
I think the app is more a solution for organizing your thoughts rather than capturing them when they come. But I agree that something should be done in that regards.
Gentle correction: 'jive' -> 'jibe'
For many people, Toolbox has long since been replaced by SIL's Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx). Toolbox allows you to get inconsistent representations of lexemes; FLEx effectively prevents that. OTOH, if you're doing s.t. other than the usual sort of dictionary, Toolbox might be a good choice.

Disclaimer: I helped develop the morphology and phonology model in FLEx, and an earlier version of one of the two morphological parsers in FLEx (Hermit Crab), so I'm not an unbiased observer.
Not to be pedantic, but since Clojure is a hosted JVM language (as one of a few platforms it's hosted on) and has full interoperability with Java, by definition it has more libraries than Java as it has all the Java libraries plus all the clojure libraries. So definitely not library support in recent years but maybe back in the days. Performance was an issue early on as well, but that's certainly not the case now. Clojure is extremely performant and outperforms pretty much all the popular interpreted languages easily.
Security is hard to quantify in a useful way. Compatibility to standards can be quantified https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html but you'll find much debate in what counts as a "standard" vs what Google released publicly as well as debate about things like proprietary video codecs or DRM. Privacy gets debated much the same way and it's harder to quantify to boot. UI/UX features can't really be benchmarked as much as a list of unique features made for each and the question "do any of these seem useful to you?" at the end.

These things would be interesting but I don't think a benchmark gives enough of a picture as general text reviews would. Not that the way these performance benchmarks were presented was very helpful in the first place.
> Using prices from retail fx brokers usually isn’t a good idea either since their spreads are so outrageous.

What's wrong with averaging them together? That should negate the spread unless they're really short of one currency and long on the other. I guess your local bank would post bad rates on some pairs because of their carrying costs, but someone like transferwise?

Back in 2009, I recall one Canadian bank having competitive rates when you wanted to sell them USD, but terrible rates when you wanted to buy their USD. I guess they were in dire need for USD and didn't want to sell what they had to their retail customers.
AlphaStar didn't really use any techniques from AlphaGo either, so the answer is 'yes'. Anything sufficiently whizzy will get the 'Alpha' prefix for branding.
> Russia may attempt to assert itself to a greater extent in the next few decades, possibly going so far as to annex a Baltic country or two.

This is in the book that forecasts that Japan will attack the US in 2050 except that it'll be all space-borne battlestars and lasers and hypersonic weapons. Among other preposterous scenarios. Riiiight.

> It is advantageous to them to have Western Europe dependent on its oil and natural gas supplies.

Loaded language. Don't you think Western Europe has thought of this? And hey, if Russia turns off the tap they turn off their revenue stream. Besides, Europe, like the US, keeps strategic fossil fuel reserves.

> The United States' main geopolitical imperative is to maintain global hegemony.

> Not saying this is a good or bad thing. Depends on your perspective and what country you live in.

Seems to me that if the US keeps sanctioning foes and allies alike every country bar the US will consider this a bad thing.
> Supersonic was a huge bust.

With the caveat: for commercial travel. And even then it’s partly due to noise restrictions. It’s not like the technology for supersonic flight isn’t widespread.
Cars are different than a lot of goods though, because in and of themselves they are a wealth signal (at least in the US).

Most Americans don't really need an SUV or a pickup; a minivan or a sedan are more practical. Yet most Americans are buying them, because it makes them feel better about what they're driving and they want to show off. You may only take your car to the grocery store, but if you meet Becky from PTA in the parking lot and she has a really nice car that she owns, that's still a big deal.

Unless the ownership cost of a car were to spike significantly, this part of American culture seems hard to change, particularly when automakers spend lots of money making sure that Americans see premium gas-guzzlers as status symbols.
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.

Humans can reason about things that haven't to them happened before. Today's machine learning systems cannot. As you say, to react appropriately they must have been trained to do so using human annotated data.

The argument against FSD is that you would need an infinite number of annotated examples, and an infinite number of subroutines for behaving in any identified situations, because the space of driving is effectively infinite.

Until machines are able to do general reasoning about things they've not experienced before then FSD is not happening. By the way, Demis Hassabis thinks that this sort of transfer learning is the key to solving AI.
That is exactly what the article negates.
Another quick check I've used is to take a function I suspect might need optimization and make it slower, and see how that affects run-time. If it hardly affects the run-time it's probably not worth spending time on.

Not perfect by any means but usually a nice check to verify optimization potential.
I think the threshold for downloading a native app vs a web app is when you have to start putting your person data in the application.

what you are creating is something that will be filled with peoples personal data. Many of us, are required by employers, law, or a sense of owning the data, are going to prevent people from storing the data on your server.

you could look at a native app, if your rending is done client side, you could make the data files exportable, and make use of client side encryption.

Think the way a lot of password managers are working.

Additionally, on your demo video, I know voice over can be a pain for small devs, but have some on screen techs would really be helpful, or hell even some background music.

I know I personally started checking my headphone, trying to see if they were muted.
The vast majority of the data I'm able to find on road types covers only fatalities, not accidents... but New York has accident rates per road type (and junctions!) for several years[1], and their rates are very roughly 1 accident per 300k-500k for rural roads, and 1 per 500k-1m for "[fully] controlled access" (which I read as highways, with divided being by far the lowest rate).

So even if it's just on highways, Autopilot is still out-performing humans by 2-3x, if not more.

On average, ignoring better luxury car rates mentioned elsewhere, and that I have no clue if this is representative. I would be surprised if broader data was so much worse that it would reverse the relationship though.

[1] https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/operating/osss/highway/acci...
Implement your own tokenizer, don't let app devs have root in the tokenizer system.
Great point! The idea of running out of real estate is something that we thought quite a bit about in the beginning.

So, we used to have somewhat like a tag system that we thought would lower the friction required to make a note. Where you can open up a notebook anywhere and we'll put it on the correct island for you after #tag it. But it kinda defeated the purpose of this app, for people to place their notes down like how they place a lego block down.

Also, it turns out, people usually don't fill up their islands to the point of collision. They have a lot of empty spaces between notes. So, it's actually a problem that we haven't encountered yet.

Additionally, note blocks can be seen as their own word documents and the tiny words on top are previews. So you can also just "open up" one of these blocks and put your idea there.

OR, what I do, is I have an island for random ideas like that. Write it down first, organize it later.

lastly, we will add a font size option for the rooftop fonts soon, don't wanna get eye damage lawsuits haha.
One exception: Turning the coffee machine on so that it’s how when you get home.
I actually think these are a marvelous idea. Because if you ever encounter a company using one of these, you know for certain you don't want to ever work for them, as they don't value you even to just give you a normal interview, instead opting for an impersonal faulty machine.

Imagine the horror if you actually started working for them! If their hiring is this bad, their working conditions must be even worse! So it's pretty kind of them to reveal their true nature in such an easy to identify way. ;-)
Synchronization gear
That's very interesting!

You're effectively building "memory palaces" without consciously doing it by associating podcast content with real-life locations.

Some memory athletes use that ability to remember digits of pi or decks of cards!
Google used to have that feature around 2011
So the government is going to allow individuals to do it, but not the self driving cars? I don't see it working that way.

It's just like self driving cars will go a bit over the speed limit if that is the flow of traffic. If they don't, then the laws will be adjusted. It would be silly to indefinitely hold back a huge industry because humans get to exploit legal loopholes but machines don't.
"(d) “Data broker” means a business that knowingly collects and sells to third parties the personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship. “Data broker” does not include any of the following:

(1) A consumer reporting agency to the extent that it is covered by the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq.)."

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?...
For those interested, it appears as though David Baker (who dedicated his life to protein folding) has also turned to deep learning. His lab recently published https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/846279v1, which seems to outperform Alphafold with a very concise architecture. Code and model is at https://github.com/gjoni/trRosetta
It was flash, however, that I think killed the Zip drive. Primarily in the form of USB sticks, CF, and SD cards. The digital camera played a big role, as these manufacturers were looking for photo storage solutions and the Zip was too big.

Iomega was working on the smaller Clik Drive but couldn't get it released before CF became the major player in cameras.

My personal feeling is that the Clik drive was not released because Iomega had just settled the "Click of Death" suit and they wanted the Clik Drive to have a very low, less than 1%, failure rate. It took around two years to bring the failure rate from around 1.5% to 1%.

The Zip drive did that reduction work while still shipping product.
It’s a valid perspective. If there were to be a contagious disease that could rapidly spread via eg spores, it could wipe out the entire population of these crops. I am hoping that various ag labs around the country store a diversity of cereal grains.

That being said, it’s unlikely that GMO crops will stop being popular anytime soon. The best we can hope for is that labs get really good and fast at producing GM crops so that when the disease eventually hits, the lab/company can quickly produce a disease resistant variety.

The population of the world is growing rapidly. We absolutely do need highest yielding food crops if we are to not cut down every forest to just feed everyone.
The tech is changing so quickly that by the time you built the things they would probably be redundant.
It cost 2 billion in 1939. That’s over 20 billion in today’s dollars.

That’s about the same as NASA’s annual budget.
Lots of people are arguing about 'when full self-driving cars will happen' without giving a precise definition (and therefore without having to think too hard about the problem).

The article describes Level 5 as 'full computer control of the vehicle with zero limitations' but what exactly does that mean?

(a) Does it mean a vehicle available for sale to the general public that can drive at night when it is snowing on a new road that has not first been mapped by a human?

or

(b) Does it mean that there is at least 1 city of a million residents where at least 50% of vehicle journeys did not require any occupant to have a driver's licence?

To me (and Volkswagen) it's far more useful to forecast when the second criteria will be met than the first.
Oh I see, thought that they didn't think they should pay just because there was a long line to get out.
Not that the benchmark is particularly useful but I find it interesting I get such different results on the SunSpider benchmark compared to the article. The article got FF ~725ms and Edgium ~344. My PC got FF ~133ms Edgium ~186ms. That makes my relative FF performance on that test 3x higher overall, I wonder where that variance comes from.
Probably why Idiocracy will not come to pass. And truly idiotic civilization will succumb to its competitors.

All the more reason to avoid a single global government. Besides never being able to escape tyranny.
Yes but these things are already problems for human-operated cars. You just need to drive slow and be careful on some roads. You need training, instructions, markers, specialized vehicles, or prior experience on some patches of terrain. These solutions have analogs in the automated driving realm.
I recall (and had a Jazz drive). I think I finally got rid of it circa 2014 or so. I dropped a bunch of old parts and computers off at Weird Stuff Warehouse. All the old ISA, EISA, SCSI, IDE, etc adapters and all that went along with it. I can't recall the last time I had used the Jazz drive, but I had only one disk for it and that got destroyed as I cleaned things out.

Navigating standards, drivers, compatibility from the late 80s to probably 2000ish was at times enjoyable, at times frustrating. Heck, sometime around said purge, I gave up on having a server at home as well -- too much effort trying to keep iTunes and media organized (my own cds, etc). Until this last month, I hadn't owned a tower. Just laptops (primarily macbooks) and SBCs like the Pi or BeagleBone.
Maybe descendants of Paul Graham should be taught C if Carmack's kids are learning Lisp.
George's “Required for Computer Science” List
Suggestions from an old side-project: automate land management.

- Placing a note automatically creates an island around it with a recognizable landmark nearby. Add a tree after each addition. Add or enlarge a pond after each deletion.

- Dragging a line between two islands/hills either merges the two or moves them closer, depending on the size of the islands/hills involved and the population of the area. Locations, distance, and scale can change but the relative direction should not.
I think the key point is the amount of energy and resources necessary to make self driving cars a reality.

With the ongoing climate change and projected energy crisis, humanity may not have the physical resources to build and maintain self driving cars.

If somehow the energy problem is solved and climate change does not bring chaos, I can see true self driving car before 2100.
That must be what he’s thinking. He’s said he sees a need for 100 gigafactories to get us onto sustainable energy.
Same reason people use Uber and Lyft. Same thing but no driver. Uber pool is already down to maybe 3x public transport cost, without the driver and with EVs the cost could be quite close.
My understanding is that they're kind of web pages. Rather than HTML/CSS/JS, they have custom elements that are rendered from the server markup.
Okay, so say I want to do computations with differential forms on some particular manifold, like a torus or RP^n. Maybe I want to evaluate the Hodge Laplacians on some forms. What would I need to do to implement that within this system? I see references to computing Betti numbers and Euler characteristics in the documentation, so I assume something like this is possible.

I'm not very familiar with geometric algebra or its computational implementation, so apologies if this is either obvious or not even wrong. This looks very cool and useful, I just don't know how to connect it to the things I understand.
ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/pub/

http://www.norvig.com/paip/

Have fun
It did not. The Jaz had hard disk platters in the cartridge while the Zip had soft.

The "Click of Death" was actually not a single failure. The drive would click once when the head came out to read and then again when it parked. There were over 100 failure types that could cause the drive or disk to fail. When the drive did fail the drive would double click as the head came out, failed, then went back in.

The Zip drive failure rate was about 1.5% originally, then down below 1% by the settlement for "Click of Death".
It will happen. When it will happen is impossible to predict.

But I am pretty sure it will happen within 20 years. 5 years? Unlikely.

In any case, it will require much better testing than just letting it learn on the street. A vehicle should be able to deal with a snow covered road in the dark going down a hill with babies crawling across the road.

And EMP-induced total electrical failure. No sense in a million people getting injured at once, should that ever happen. Emergency brakes should quickly engage in a predictable way when power is lost.
Well, the key thing is to get everyone to use the US plant, but nobody wants to use potential competitor's foundry, who recently announced that they plan to spend $100+B to challenge other logic chip makers. A few minuscule defense contracts aren't probably worth what they have to invest in -- Samsung for instance has already spent $15B in their Austin plant.
I remember we got one of those workstations at work. No one could figure out what it’s purpose should be.. someone suggested it would make a decent mmorpg server... and it was.
That's so weird because I see text and images from fb domains in google search results all the time. Likewise LinkedIn.
Ubisoft's revamped editorial board want to stop stagnation in their games
Walter Benjamin is the original inspiration for the postmodernists. His writing is nonsensically opaque. If his name appears in an article, it's a good sign that the article is about to go off the rails.
I mean you’d need it for everything else outside of work, no? I either work from home or from my studio space (15-20 min walk from my house in Brooklyn), but I ride the subway to shows, dinners, museums, to see friends, pretty much everything else. It’s great.
I think you should check out mcron, which is basically cron redone but in GNU guile (scheme) with more features. I think it fails some of your requirements (the syntax can be a bit more to wrap ones head around than standard cron), but it is powerful and seems promising.

https://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/manual/mcron.html#Introdu...