skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legacies are considered more favorably for admissions regardless of how much (or even whether) they donate, right? Or have I misunderstood the system?

That is, the only thing that donations get you is the vague hope that your university will never make the decision Johns Hopkins just made, and it's a vague prisoner's dilemma - as long as enough alumni donate, legacy admissions stay around for all alumni.
WiFi is much more convenient if you live in an apartment, or if you're renting and can't tear down the walls to run ethernet.
Me: I'd like to talk to you about something...
Him: Let me guess - you want to use Smalltalk.
Me: Er, no...
Him: Lisp?
Me: Right.
Him: No way.

Let's meet halfway and settle for smalltalk.
Four days ago: "Team Builds the First Living Robots" (uvm.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22040150
Did iTunes ever had a life?
Hopefully this is a non-controversial (register only) beginning to regulation.
Paying parking fees, taxes, and/or fines to a police department that uses "The Barnacle" is destructive.
> When the AI malfunctions, are we going to shut down

> entire classes of vehicles until the problem is confirmed fixed?

Yes, a malfunction AI would have to be grounded, just like for example the Boeing 737 MAX is now.
So for a lot of shares that people can only afford fractional ownership of some kind of fund would still have to own them?
It's a source of ongoing perplexity to me that so many Linux file managers don't even offer a tree view, never mind some of the more advanced possibilities. Consider Robertson's work on Cone Trees from Xerox Parc in....1991.

https://research.tableau.com/sites/default/files/p189-robert...

and variants thereof at https://infovis-wiki.net/wiki/Cone_Trees

Oddly, there has been some work done on source code trees such as Gource, but for some reason nobody has yet thought of applying this to file systems or browser navigation paths.

https://gource.io/
Maybe this is an added benefit since those well connected kids will go somewhere else and increase the access to those networks.
It’s about Russian natural gas, not oil.

About 25% of Germany’s primary energy are produced from gas, of which about 40% come from Russia (down from about 50% in 1995).[1]

The US sanctions against the Nord Stream project are seen by a number of Germans as a rather clumsy attempt to push the sale of their expensive liquified natural gas, which to a high degree is produced by hydraulic fracking.[2]

1) https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?tl=en&u=...

2) https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?tl=en&u=...
Personally, I think Drones will meet self driving... Easier to have a system without need of "markings on the ground" when things are flying.
> C is not a match for modern processor architectures and how modern languages such as Rust address these issues.

The basic answer I get when asking this is 'because hardware has changed' which is obvious but avoids the question. Sometimes someone will bring up vector instructions are supported in rust but for a large portion of programming you don't want to vectorize (seriously measure what you think you need to vectorize). Ideally a compiler could compile $lang to word at a time aka SWAR if needed.
At least other humans fear death as a consequence of driving incorrectly. Computers do not.
fraud, maybe not.
bad idea, maybe.
the idea was that a lot of effort and money was spent certifying a plane, and it makes sense to allow delta changes to the design without revisiting the entire process.
so a plane is in service and customers want it to fly a longer distance. the oem makes them a configuration that has more fuel tanks, and less seats. the delta change has to be evaluated against the original certification, because it is possible that meeting current rules is impossible without major rework (think how wiring is done, the kind of hydraulic fittings allowed, things that are everywhere.
it allows the economic life of the design and the investment of end users (airlines) to be protected with some semblance of regulation.
This is so incredibly true and particularly frustrating on iOS where the music player + Apple Music is a complete UX mess. There are so many features that everything os buried under more and more menus. On top of that it is riddled with bugs!
> Why would you think so?

Well asked! I've been trying to understand why I do.

I think it comes to this: Good places to live come from encouraging and empowering people to make those places their own, as communities.

What it means to be a democrat or a republican changes from place and decade to decade. What is effective in actualizing that community participation then also changes as a place changes over time (ironically, that's also why it's important to have that community participation).

AFAIK, the Republican party _used_ to stand for small, decentralized government; now they stand for ineffective and centralized government (despite the talking points).

I'm less clear on what the Democrats "used to be" (except racist, way back in the day), except that in this era and in these places, community participation is hampered by unaffordable housing, unaffordable and/or inaccessible healthcare, and a lack of living wages.

I know I haven't fully answered your question, but I've been at this for far too long. Thanks for asking so effectively!
Check biohacking or biofabrication.
I grew up being told by various family members about a great-great grandfather whose mother was Comanche. “You’re so very lucky to have taken after your grandmother, with those high cheekbones! They’re from her Comanche great-grandmother.”

The whole “Comanche/Cherokee princess” thing is not an uncommon family myth in Texas and Oklahoma, and I had a high school classmate whose mother thoroughly believed she was 1/8 Native and therefore eligible for all sorts of scholarships.

I now realize that it is probably unlikely that said great-great-great grandmother of mine was Comanche.
Do you often reread old books? I find that most books are only read once and then discarded, but it's hard to tell which ones are before buying.
A punk-inspired collective beat the streaming giants at their own game
I would add

do you get regular cardio exercise

Do you eat well

To that list
The point of Logo is not to teach programming but to teach geometry. At least that is what I took from the Paperts Mindstorms book. I never had Logo in school myself.
I still have a parallel post SuperDisk drive in a box somewhere!
I think self-driving cars are like fusion reactors, they're perfectly possible on paper and, like, totally 15years away from now.

There's a certain similarity but I don't know any paper that actually gives any assure that self-driving is going to ever be possible. The only theory is "we will prevent extraneous factors and then calculate".
That’s a fair point. The reality is that they all could have taken the time off individually anyway, this was just a small gesture to show my thanks for a great year!
Apparently bus fares in San Francisco just cover the costs of collecting the fares. When a recent Mayor attempted to just make the buses free he was told it was impractical because they would become "rolling dumpsters".
That's totally right! It's incredible just how much ambient information is visible to consumer cameras that human eyes and brains can't or don't process.

We're always happy for more beta testers, especially with a variety of diverse situations and environments (true heart rate, lighting conditions, etc).

To sign up as a beta tester, fill out the Android Sign Up form at https://heartrate.hedronvision.com/ - that will let us reach out with a beta app when we build it!
Daimler Announces Production Electric Garbage Truck
It did, though. Go, I mean.

Korea had Sunjang Baduk: https://senseis.xmp.net/?SunjangBaduk

Tibet had its own variant: https://senseis.xmp.net/?TibetanGo

I didn't meant to imply that chess didn't mutate as it travelled around. It's still striking to me that Go was unknown anywhere which didn't use Hanzi to write.
> All those countries you mentioned are totally free to buy only from the US.

That has nothing to do with their objections to the pipeline, to the contrary.
That's it?

While the point of this project is to go for developing a very small kernel, I afraid I can't recommend this as a way to "learn to write your first OS kernel".

Particularly, this project has been fossilised for two years, (last commit was in 2018) with a single commit each year hardly qualifies as an updated tutorial for writing OS kernels.

My first recommendation would be the "writing an OS in Rust" tutorials [0] and the xv6 tutorials [1].

[0] https://os.phil-opp.com/

[1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6.html
No -- I'm going off news that came out in light of the lawsuit against Harvard recently, but I have no reason to believe other elite universities handle it differently. These things are shrouded in secrecy for the precise reason that it is massively unpopular, but at least in this case we got an inside look because of discovery for the lawsuit.

Harvard creates a special "Dean's Interest List" (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/18/day-three-harv...) which includes celebrities, "top donors", and certain athletes. The admissions rate restricted to this list was 42.2% in 6 recent years.
I’m having a hard time squaring reasons 1 and 2. If legacy admits struggle, are they really being coddled? Personally, I didn’t apply to Hopkins because it sounded like boot camp. So your reason 2 seems a lot more plausible.
I prefer sanctions a thousand times over war.

Don't we have enough of the endless wars (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. from the last 2 administrations?
One example might be the growing homeless population in California. Many of these individuals are responsible and hard working, but without an advocate they're trapped in a downward spiral with zero chance of reentry to society.
Spoke: Mass-contact text/SMS distribution tool
Autopilot is evidence that automated systems are already better than humans today. The edge cases scare people but on aggregate the stats show is superior to people. This sort of tech is only going to keep getting better.
In an extreme example I expect that's precisely what would happen. Consider what's currently unfolding around the 737 Max. In the automotive space there's a long history of serious flaws that resulted in loss of life, ranging from faulty airbag deployment systems to flawed designs for ignition systems.

We have precedent for how we qualify and evaluate things for safety: test them across a variety of conditions, accumulate driver-miles or operator-hours and incident frequencies. Then, using that data establish a bar for what constitutes an acceptable level of risk given the utility something provides. If we wanted to ensure nobody ever died in a car accident, we would ensure there were no cars, but collectively we've made a different choice.
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military planes are certified, but to different requirements. and of course there is a trade off between safety of flight and mission effectiveness. military aviation is inherently a high risk endeavor.
Well, my thoughts are always a work in progress. I'd say some religious ideas are incompatible with nihilism, like believing in an omnipotent God who has mapped out the future of the Universe for some kind of divine purpose. (I'm unclear exactly why an omnipotent God would bother to create a Universe when he already knows exactly what will happen in it, but whatever).

If you reduce "meaning" to anything that somebody thinks is worth doing (instead of just lying in bed until they die of dehydration), then it's not really possible to be a nihilist, except for those few days before you die of dehydration, unless somebody is keeping you alive (you wouldn't care, naturally).
I had an Iomega Zip Drive. I think all my old QBasic code is stored on it. I do not know where my disks are now.
All it takes is a little bit of rain and hundreds of traffic lights go haywire in my city. What makes you think those beacons would fare any better? Politicians don't a crap for long term maintanance of little visibility infrastructure like that, so they're poorly funded.

And you say "private contactors will save the day", please, stop drinking the Ayn Rand Cool-aid.
From Tesla's latest Vehicle Safety Report:

> In the 4th quarter, we registered one accident for every 3.07 million miles driven in which drivers had Autopilot engaged. For those driving without Autopilot but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.10 million miles driven. For those driving without Autopilot and without our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 1.64 million miles driven. By comparison, NHTSA’s most recent data shows that in the United States there is an automobile crash every 479,000 miles.

It's pretty unsurprising that at least augmenting human attention and input with machine attention and input reduces accidents. I agree that the cross-over point in time for full automation being safer than human drivers is a total unknown though.
The Eastern European countries that were formerly occupied by the USSR would prefer to keep Russia economically weak. They don't want to be invaded again.
page 7 https://sci-hub.tw/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Recall that harbinger zip codes have low average successrates, and so a positive (negative) correlation in Table 3 indi-cates that harbinger zip codes have relatively low (high) valueson that variable.
> or that they ever will be

Eventually being better than humans seems like it's obviously going to happen. Not driving drunk, not getting distracted, and not sleeping at the wheel alone are advantages enough that I would be amazed if the balance doesn't eventually fall in favor of the self-driving car. Self-driving cars don't even have to be particularly good drivers to be better than the average human, given how much the human average is dragged down by recklessness.
Rule#1 : Relationship between two countries is almost always Asymmetric.
I implemented something similar at https://automations.io converting a workflow stored as a flat linked list to a tree structure and then traversing and rendering it out in HTML and sprinkling CSS on top
The IRS had a no-compete agreement with tax software companies under the premise that simple, standard filings would be offered for free. That agreement recent expired, and since the tax software companies used scummy tactics to hide the free option, the IRS has recently indicated that it is willing to build its own platform.

Personally, I would much prefer that our legislators simplified the tax code to the point that specialist preparers and software wasn't necessary, but all of the incentives around elections pretty much guarantee that won't happen.
I think I heard about it on the radio(?), but might have gotten the name wrong. It's a thing, though, and there's a threshold where couples have to talk about purchases first.
The trough of disillusion has arrived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

The big challenge for self driving cars is that they are held to a standard of perfection. No human driver can meet that standard either, but they are exempted due to incumbency bias.

The benefits of self driving cars are so phenomenally huge that if they are possible they will happen. Apart from the costs of paying people to drive, there are the time benefits of not wasting time driving cars - is there anything more boring and tedious? - and the fact many people, the young, the old, those with poor eyesight cannot drive.

I don't see any evidence it is not possible within 10-20 years. Cars will get smarter and easier to drive and the final step will not seem large. For the edge cases, there is always the possibility of having the vehicle temporarily being taken over by someone remote. Remote driving is already done in some mines.
Pretty sure both Common Lisp and Clojure use static types for performance. And as far as I know, they and Haskell are pretty much in the same ballpark when it comes to performance.

I can understand you wanting static type checks for auto-complete, refactoring and minor correctness checks, but I don't think performance plays into it.
30-60% automated driving will still be a big leap forward. Less attention used up while driving.

Compare driving somewhere vs taking a ride share and how much more prepared/present you are when you arrive.
>How many % of available units do you think the top 10% of the population reside in?

In urban areas, where the housing crisis is, a disproportionate share. Imagine a topographic map where housing prices are the relief. Thirty years ago, say the highest point in a given city was at $1M. Over time, as the top end income increases, that peak will steadily rise, pulling up all the prices around it. The problem is that to earn income (to be able to afford rising housing costs), people need to be close to the city center. So people with lower incomes "buy up" out of necessity, driving up the percentage of their income they spend on housing, because their income didn't rise as rapidly as the income of the next topographical "ring" in.

Basically, there is a mismatch: there's a growing disparity in wealth between classes, but the need for proximity to cities in order to make money has remained largely constant for lower incomes, particularly for service workers who cannot adapt to work remotely, like middle class tech workers can.
iTunes was a stop-gap when Apple didn't want to have an app store at any cost for the iPhone when it first came out.
No, never for me at least.
And I used 4 discs for a couple of years as harddrives.

The jaz drive/discs were of much higher quality from what you could tell from touch as well as price. :p
If you're going to try to swear like a 60's Brit, at least get you bloody grammar right. ;-) <strikethrough> "bloody" is an adjective, not an adverb, so </strikethrough>:

"We can't even keep the bloody yellow markings on the road visible"
Probably whatever authority is responsible for the sign installation/road maintenance.
I don’t even have a concept of an “old” book or of “reading” a book, I just keep them around for inspiration, going back for some quote, rereading, showing someone, etc. I mean I also almost never finish them, or even try to read them in linear order...
Which cities have gone carless? Are you saying that's it illegal to drive a car in some cities?
I’m not convinced it is illegal, and even if it is, no one cares.
Traffic lights seem to have a pretty long lifespan.
I approve of this outcome
I don't think it's a tool problem. It's a communication skills problem.

Everyone has different communication skills. If you chat with me on Skype, I'll be mostly passive saying "yes" "uh huh".

I've had the deepest discussions through Slack, but you have to embrace it as a chat medium - late night Slack, first thing in the morning, ignore your kids at dinner kind of discussions.

BBS/forums are the same. We've had great discussions, but only with the people with the skills for it. On an actual board, everyone chatting there does havw the skills, whereas there are 80% of 'lurkers' who are not very comfortable yet.

So it depends a lot on your team itself. Agree on something and give them 6 months to learn it.
With the risk that people take none.
Agreed, "never" is a ridiculously unfathomable amount of time if you define it on say our species extinction date.

I'm presonally bullish on fully autonomous transport because of the industry interest shown in it and the potential demand for it. The latter I don't see going away unless something comes around that makes it redundant.
As I understand, if you turn off Location Services entirely, it already disables this.

Having a toggle to disable it individually is a net improvement though.
I think it would put us on par with other countries, we would lose a nice advantage. Worst case scenario would be a sharp economic decline, but I optimistically think it would be a slow leveling out, a slow decline in consumer purchasing power, limit government expenditures, etc. But, I am not at all sure what will happen.
Humans have been failing to drive safely for longer than we've had computers, and neither has been around for very long.

It's far too soon to claim we've hit peak performance.
Watch SpaceX Blow Up a Falcon 9 Rocket to Prove It's Safe for People
>Because America provides defence for Germany, and Russia has 1000 nuclear warheads pointed at Germany, the US and others, and they are an antagonising state, actively trying to disrupt the governments in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, etc.

Those have been there for a long time, even before the "disruption". Besides France has nukes too, so not much win there.
Seconding the native app. The concept is great and I'd like to put it to work right now but (like a few other commercial products) it's a non-starter to store my data on your servers.
the avionics software process has a lot of iteration in it, because of the nature of software.
it all starts with a very detailed requirements phase, where what the software is going to do is written down, modeled, and reviewed.
design, code, unit test. some iteration here to remove the defects.
then it goes into a software test environment that replicates part (or a lot) of the system. There would be a 'software' AOA vane that would be set to replicate different conditions. (running actual A/C hardware for processor and OS)
written test procedures and written results from the tests.
the it would go on an airplane for specific tests. safe and simple first, becoming more complex.

my experience is every problem seen in the air can be replicated in the on ground development simulator (SIL- Systems Integration Lab). Every one once the conditions are determined.
Original paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaay5849
Randomness that only punishes? So you're essentially saying that typical annual cost is going to be 63 a year, but if you are unlucky it could easily be over 120, and your best case scenario is 36? I have to imagine most people would pass.
Java is mediocre (better than it used to be), but Scala and Kotlin benefit from those huge investments in JVM optimization and have a lot of potential if you don't need the minimal footprint of Rust.
The simplest board game I can think of is Snakes and Ladders, which is based on an ancient Indian game.

It definitely seems like the kind of thing that could be independently invented. It's so based in random chance.
> teach them Swift or Java

That's basically child abuse.
having graduated during the worst recession in 80 years, i am finding sympathy hard to muster
Like making sure the river you are about to ford in the Serengeti is low enough so you won't get stuck?
> a “data broker” is in the business of aggregating and selling data about consumers with whom the business does not have a direct relationship

I had to make a few clicks to find the definition, more details here (scroll down to section 1c):

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml...
Of course it’s possible: we have billions of existence proofs that driving high speed vehicles successfully using sensors equipped to measure light and sound work. The question is how much it takes to replicate that system artificially.
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This is part of the foundations of my geometric algebra implementation, which you can find out more about at https://grassmann.crucialflow.com
While the iTunes client has been something I've directed much dislike to over the years, the iTunes store feels like the last place I can get mainstream music DRM free to just play on any of my devices and keep regardless of what licensing deals change. While Spotify is great for access to music, the client is very poor for library/playlist management, and some music I'd just like to have my own copy of. If the store ever shuts down in favour of Apple Music subscriptions only, it feels like I'd have to go back to buying CDs.