skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree.

new technologies are over-estimated in the short term, and under-estimated in the long term.

Decades ago our computers were "soon" to be voice controlled, listening to our speech and doing our bidding. That was a big load of hype. However, over time and below the radar it became true as computers first answered phones, then took limited commands in cars and smartphones and now it is basically true (without all the hype).

Also, I wonder if these kinds of comments risk becoming

"I think there is a world market for about five computers."

or

"640K of memory should be enough for anybody."
And Lisp in Small Pieces, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8600048
Yes, those are particulate emissions. Your skin biodegrades quite readily so it's not much of an issue. Leather-soled shoes could be a tradeoff that I'm unprepared to compute... but yes even your shoes pollute, if to a lesser degree than a motor vehicle.

When it snows, do you notice that slush turns black? Much of that is shredded tires; that ends up polluting our waterways or (hopefully) burdening water purification plants.
Now you are bumping on the reason I think the founders put the 2nd amendment in the bill of rights. Govts have to be balanced at some point by the will of the people
You give back shares on a later date. But sell the borrowed shares for money now.

If you don't know it, don't try it. You are playing with money, you don't have.
You jest, but I'd love it if we could automatically group cars into physically connected trains for long distance travel, and have them automatically split off when they approach their destination. Maybe there's some way to do that with rails, carrying peoples' cars, but not sure if the efficiency gain is worth the increased complexity of including another set of wheels/motors/etc, and making the automated separation/joining work with all of that.
Coaching students for Oxbridge in the UK is another example
"Computational Psychiatry"
The prohibition on matching any earlier state of the board makes playing the game significantly more complex in reality, but not in terms of how many bits it takes to describe the rules.

Have you considered defining the complexity in terms of the number of bits required to implement the game, and not just the ruleset? Go requires a potentially very large list of past board states.
No, I’m living in a world dominated by American hegemony. International institutions like the UN are valuable but when the other Western countries tried to set up a rules-based international order after WWI it only lasted 20 years.
Great, another one of these articles, but this time I feel more confident in my usual reply, having been working in Go exclusively for a while.

> Implementing all of this functionality in Python may be doable with recent tools like asyncio, but the fact that Go is designed with this use case in mind makes our lives much easier.

This just makes me think about Armin Ronacher's article on back pressure but, sure, whatever.

> Building a cross-platform CLI is easier in Go

No, it isn't.

> The performance benefits of a compiled Go binary versus an interpreted language are also significant

Ah, yes, because performance is such a key feature of command line interfaces, as evidenced by bash and its outstanding performance in every benchmark.

> The Go ecosystem is great for infrastructure projects

And the reality discussed in this point would be different if docker wasn't written in Go. Had the docker developers chose anything else, this point would apply to that hypothetical language, so it isn't an inherent advantage of Go as a language.

> Go is just a pleasure to work with

No, it really, really isn't, but that's not the point.

This is ultimately the real reason they chose go: whoever made the original decision liked it and everything else is post-hoc rationalization.

Which is fine, most of this tends to be subjective.
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better specs for jobs

dependencies, timeouts, resource policies and retries without hacky wrappers and boilerplate
»

This is what I miss.

There's a strange gap in traditional Unix there, compared to other time-sharing systems. I have a feeling that if Unix had had a primitive job manager then by 1990 there would have been a pile of Gnu extensions and by 2000 there would have been people reinventing it, and GUIs that looked a bit like what you get to monitor print queues.
Lego sets its sights on a growing market: Stressed-out adults
I rigorously organize my mobile apps, so this is quite rare for me. However, pretty much everything I do through my desktop (GUI at least) is done with search. Actually, I do the same in my terminal too with `fzf`, but to a lesser extent.
Also https://github.com/brutusin/wava
LE certificates last 90 days. $3.60/hour is enough to cover renewal for almost a million certificates. The mining doesn't have to be done during the renewal process. You can do the mining gradually between renewals.
It seems to me 99.99% of all road markings are perfectly visible
eh, something that only works in cities would be pretty nice for more than half of us. If you need an off road vehicle twice a year, you rent one; we have that technology already.

(I mean, we're still a long ways away from level 5 in the city.. I'm just saying, something that was level 5 only on pavement and only in the city would be damn useful; and good enough for more than half of us.)
Every country sponsoring a currency approaching the reach of the dollar will begin to experience the same political forces as the US. Weaponization of the currency in the service of foreign and domestic policies is viewed as a cheap alternative to war. And so the pressure to weaponize will sooner or later become irresistible.
I don't think our generation will ever let a computer take full control.
Access to communications with a warrant is fine; they already have that right. That doesn't solve the encryption problem. How do you propose solving it? This problem has only one real solution.

All communications must be unencrypted or encrypted using an approved encryption scheme and using keys that the government has access to. The first problem is that it's impossible to tell unencrypted data in a format that you don't recognize from illegal encrypted data. So perhaps you have to add laws restricting the types of unencrypted data that can be sent: JPEGs, MPEGs, UTF-8 text, and million more. Of course, the bad guys are still just encoding their messages in images at this point, but this is more about security theater than security, so we'll continue. As for the encrypted communications, you have to do more than just check that you can decrypt them. In order to confirm that people aren't just wrapping strong encryption inside the backdoored encryption, you have to actually decrypt everything that is sent and confirm that it meets the plain-text standards. This would require an absurd amount of resources. At some point, you have to just give up and accept that there is only one solution: General purpose computers must be outlawed. Every device capable of computing must be manufactured under government supervision, and run government approved software. Writing software must become as heavily regulated as manufacturing weapons. You _still_ don't catch any bad guys this way; they're content to encode their communications in creative ways. But you could maybe prevent law abiding citizens from using non-approved encryption techniques like this.

What you say about rights is true, but keep in mind that there are many situations where no balance can be struck. Guns are relatively difficult to manufacture. You can't do it with the stuff you have lying around your house, even today. Encryption is a radically different problem. Practically everybody in the country has devices capable of it. Those devices need to do math in order to function, and they need to be programmable in order for many people to do their jobs, and for many others to build open source projects, or do research. From an ethical standpoint I think the guns <-> encryption relationship makes some sense, but from a practical standpoint they couldn't be more different.

What policy did you have in mind? I want to hear specifics.
It used to be that people thought about deep societal issues that might underlie the causes for crime, like joblessness, drug addiction, poor education, lack of job opportunities, gangs, being poor. Apparently today we've lost the imagination for this and the only choices left are more police or more cameras.
Indeed, the Manifold{n} type from AbstractTensors.jl (https://github.com/chakravala/AbstractTensors.jl) is defined as an abstract type in Julia. The parameter `n` is used to specify the Manifold dimension, which is locally isomorphic to R^n.

A VectorBundle is another abstract type, which standardizes an encoding format for concrete Signature and DiagonalForm types, or more. SubManifold can select subspaces of a VectorBundle or generally an arbitrary Manifold.

The design of the type system was optimized for algebra interoperability and adaptive subspace precompilation.
Some things sound great when you write the first few paragraphs and turn to hash by the time you get it all down.

If I were reborn as an author I’d hope I was wise enough to always trust my editor more than my ego. They don’t hand em out to non writers.
Uses same 1gig of ram and misses some key features like proper track search. Go figure how it’s an improvement...
The Founders also raised an army to put down a tax revolt in Appalachia—though to their credit they ultimately resolved the dispute through negotiation rather than bloodshed.
Technology Connections is great. I love all those old-tech youtubers like 8-bit Guy, Techmoan, Perifractic and co. It feels like there's been a real explosion in that scene in the last few years.
> If earth is visited by Aliens some day, we should assume they play on larger board than us. It would be laughable that we get visited by 9*9 players.

This only makes any sense if you're also confident that, should we visit an alien world some day, we would have updated the rules of Go to require a larger board.

If we can play on a 19x19 board for historical and sentimental reasons, aliens can play on a 9x9 board for historical and sentimental reasons.
I'm sure many do this. I honestly don't own a printer and make use of a nearby library instead.

some printers now use an "ink pad": "Caution: Power Cleaning may cause the ink pads to reach their capacity sooner. When an ink pad reaches the end of its service life, the product stops printing and you must contact Epson for support."

https://files.support.epson.com/docid/cpd5/cpd56719.pdf
> 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").

Sad to agree. It really is eye opening to see how many of “the smart people” get is so damn wrong over and over because of narrative or hope or just some weird political blindness.
If the parking fees are too low, it’ll just turn into first-come-first-serve.

If you have high fees, you’d be just transferring the scare resource to the rich. And the people who can’t afford it are forced to figure something less convenient out.
https://peloton-tech.com - I mean, that's just one company, I think there are a handful working on just the problem you're talking about.
>It's a little disorienting to have you relating to me as though I'm deficient in perspective taking, mainly because perspective taking (and teaching others to take perspectives) is literally my profession.

Never claimed you were deficient. I claimed it appears that you do not naturally think this way and it shows in your writing.

>My best guess is that your main point in the last thing you wrote is that I am not thinking of my own relatives and loved ones when I say I want a warts-and-all style obit for myself--that if I took their perspective, and realized it would hurt them for me to receive what I want, then I might change my mind, particularly on the grounds that the obit is actually for them, not for me. Let me know if I got that wrong.

That's the gist of what I'm trying to convey. I can understand though that some, maybe you, would rather risk some distress to those around them in hopes others will have a better acceptance/understanding of who they really were.

If you feel I'm really off-base on my comments about you, I'm actually making a point with that too. If I were you wrote an obit about you, you'd obviously disagree with claims being made (yes, I'm aware we only know each other from a series of brief posts back and forth). It's the same way with any acquaintance doing it, they only get to know parts of you and the parts you think they know might be totally at odds with the values/image you tried to convey about yourself.
Hah. I've been saying that for a while, much to the amusement of some of my friends and coworkers. Some of them claim that their kids will never need to learn how to drive. Maybe I'll have the last laugh, although I wish I'd be wrong about this.

I hope that by the time I'm too old to drive - a few decades from now - self-driving are available, but I'm not betting on it.
Your guess is as good as mine. My guess is that all intelligent life in the universe would be "soooo unique", not just the one on Earth. So it would be very improbable any life form would be similar to that on Earth.

However, it could be probable that there are two life forms in the universe which are similar. But then they would probably be too far apart from each other to ever be able to communicate.
Yeah but if the system is designed in the wrong way, hackers could kill millions in a single moment. Admittedly, this danger already exists as in all modern cars between driver and car there is a layer of (hackable and wireless network connected) software.
This is because people who are really great at something have already forgotten what they used to be like when they first started out. They just tend to think everybody would be excited about the cool thing they themselves are excited about.

In most cases, people who are masters at something tend to be the worst teachers because by becoming the master they have forgotten how to sympathize with complete newbies.
Atleast with impark you can just deposit their idiotic overzealous tickets I'm the garbage with no repurcursions.
Yes, they only mentioned several wild successes, why would they want to continue having them?
Because it's called "autopilot" and Tesla has already fraudulently sold millions of people on the false claim that it is an autopilot for your car. Gating or segmenting how it works exposes this falsehood immediately.

We were supposed to have a million fully autonomous Tesla taxis by the end of last December, remember that nonsense claim too?
Lisp (especially Common Lisp) works just fine as an imperative language, even if it’s not the most common style. And there are entire books written about using Lisp for game development.

If the goal is for a beginner (whether child or adult) to be able to make cool things fast, Lisp is a great choice. The interactivity and the simple syntax makes it very easy to get up and running compared to more mainstream languages.
Apple Fixes an Interesting iOS Kernel Bug
This isn't even worthy of Reddit
Does Mexico use those pipelines to project power into North America? If anything it would be the reverse as the US is a net exporter, but in reality it’s not quite comparable.
Did Jaz suffer from the same click-of-death issues as the Zip?
Wat? Pretty much all eastern/former communist block countries that are in the EU oppose it. That's almost 40% of the block.

They can't directly confront Germany, but the US can, and it is doing so rightly. The project comprises the long term security of the Nato block, and the said countries have a major distrust towards Russia as it has they have suffered a lot under thier imposed communist regimes.

For a bunch of smart people, HN veers too much into hands off 'libertarian' side of things. US lets its hands off in the region, it will slowly be transformed again into a basket case of 'kleptocratic' countries in the way Russia is today.

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The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Croatia––all highly dependent on Russian gas––signed a petition against Nord Stream 2 in March 2016, highlighting the risks for energy security in Central and Eastern Europe.

Italy is in a similar bind.
In 2015, Italy accused the EU Commission of applying double-standards when the Commission did not reject the Nord Stream 2 project, as it did with the South Stream––a project which would have benefited Italy’s role as energy hub in the Mediterranean. For this reason, Italy complained about Germany’s influence in the EU Commission and called for equal treatment.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/04/22/n...
A lot, that's what makes it so efficient.

Just like it's more efficient to get money by robbing a bank than by sneaking into houses to steal tooth fairy payouts.
I remember my syquest 240. That was the greatest thing in the world at the time... it was very nearly as fast as my internal hard drive, and I could expand it in increments I could easily afford.

It is really something how hard I had to think about storage in the early - mid '90s. I'm happy that it requires next-to-no mental energy from me now.
Can't spoof gps all the time everywhere. Once you have a general idea where you are (usually because that's where you were when you stopped yesterday), you can compare what you can see with hd maps, and fix your position exactly. You know you're not in a building, but on a drivable surface for a start.

My 2006 car was fine driving underground for 10 mins with no gps signal, but got confused when I drove it onto a train and it moved 30 miles without the wheels turning. Then after a few minutes got a gps signal again and fixed itself. Had an option to manually set the position and heading too.
Was Google's failure there due to lack of technical infrastructure?
Probably just became to unweildy for the developers and they split it out.

I can't imagine successfully staffing a giant monolithic application. I think it would be hard to get job satisfaction working on a tiny piece of an app with decades of cruft.

Most apps like this are several orders of magnitude larger than say, the linux kernel.
Don't think so; at least on Windows it uses the optimal QueryPerformanceCounter API. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Python/pytime....
This all feels like the usual ignorance of externalities. Which feels like ignorance of information not in front of us.

This is Adam Smith’s fear of division of labor taken to extremes making ignorant stupid humans.

We’re allowed a tiny little sliver of the information needed to make wise decisions, told to defer to others for everything else.

It’s described in a variety of ways going back years. We’re not observing much new from humanities social norms.

It’s that more people are able to learn and read about it than before. And our tech is nicer.

Politically the world still works in the usual ways though.
> I'm not sure we will still be a society if we eliminate family bonds.

There's a significant difference between not having nepotism and eliminating family bonds.

> We are tribal and protect our families.

Many of virtuous_signal's arguments boiled down to the observation that protecting your family via nepotism or dynastic preference isn't even necessarily good for the effected family member in the long run. I think that poster makes a good argument that dynastic preference in university admissions is a net negative for its beneficiaries.

The negatives of nepotism also show up in business, where, with rare exception, nepotism tends to genereate a huge drain on both productivity and external respect.
A consumption tax also gives the working poor tremendous levers to better their circumstances. They aren't taxed on necessities for food and folks who make under a specified amount don't pay the tax at all. Most of the potential issues you pointed out impact any taxation system (i.e. carve outs for the wealthy) because they're political/power problems.
Scratch is a better introduction and wildly popular. Scheme is good middle school math classes -- it's smart but doesn't get things done easily. Python is great for getting cool stuff built once kids can handle syntax.
Cobblestone/bumpy/muddy/dirt streets still exist today.

I could see autonomous vehicles working in a city, but not out in the country where a driveway might be an unmarked dirt path.
M1 Finance, Interactive Brokers
Admissions should be 100% merit based. No special favors for anybody.
Yep. From age 12 to 15 I messed around in Game Maker, didn't need anything else
I wish there were a way of sending $0.01, by sending $10 with probability 0.001. That is, you and I negotiate a random seed (using something like Diffie-Hellman) and then we can generate probabilistic microtransactions and only transfer the $10 in the p=0.001 case.

EDIT: fixed arithmetic, thanks skj
Skip CL for now, and use Clojure or Racket. CL's ecosystem requires some hacking to make it work pretty often, and the only true editor for it is Emacs and Slime, so it's not a great out of the box experience.

Racket comes with an editor and a ton of libraries, so I'd recommend checking that out first (and then coming back to CL later maybe)
I dunno. Americans seem to want these giant 4x4s even when they leave the city twice a year; they'd be better off (certainly safer... most trucks are more dangerous for other people and for the occupants) if they had a little car for city driving and rented the off road cargo hauler when they needed it.

A city-only car would be totally useful for people who live in cities; you just rent something when you want to go to the boonies.

Heck, most BEVs are that way now; I've got like 120 miles of range on mine, which is fine almost all the time. the two or three times a year I need something with more range or with more cargo capacity or what have you, I borrow or rent.

I think that the economics of the first level5 cars might be similar to current BEVs, in that you can only go where there is infrastructure. which is where most of us go most of the time.
I work on a meta scheduler that solves the problem of periodicity on cron - https://cylc.github.io/

It was created to manage weather forecast model runs. The new version which we are working on will have a simpler web GUI to replace its old PyGTK and Py2.

It handles o ly scheduling, and supports cyclic graphs (contrary to most workflow managers build with DAGs only).

No Python API yet, but coming in future release. So only a custom suite.rc INI style file that supports Jinja2 too.
The difference between V"++++" and S"++++" is that the S" specifically constructs a Signature concrete type, while the V" is for automatically selecting an appropriate type of the VectorBundle category, which is not limited to Signature specifically, making it a more general constructor call.
For those of you who read the article and were still not sure what Rainway does:

> Rainway allows you to launch all your PC games from one place on your home computer or through any browser, and it's completely free.
"Trains kind of suck though. I used them a lot in the UK because I didn't have a car."

You're blaming trains because you want to have a boozy night out? Get a hotel or start and leave earlier like everyone else.

This is just a silly comment.
The non-mediocre children of alumni can still get in. "Mediocre" is being used here in a relative sense.
Which languages? JavaScript and Lua?
>proper track search

Please explain. What is is missing? I find that it works pretty well. Is was one of its main selling point at the time and its interface spread throughout the OS: Finder, Spotlight, System Preferences, etc
That difference is more because classes are designed to be extremely slow and low paced so the worst student can pass. Learning anything with a personal tutor is much more efficient.