skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>LISP won't get you anywhere in that sense. Sure you may learn some programming concepts, but the ROI is not worth it.

Do you want your kid to learn actual computer science, or do you want him/her to basically be able to create a cookie cutter mobile app?
This must be a local thing. I've never heard "gmail" used as a verb, ever, by any one of any age.
pretty much all cars with modern head units connect to the internet for things like traffic data and software updates.

as of 2017 it is no longer legal to sell a car with no backup camera, and 99.9% of cars implement that with a digitized head unit that, wait for it, connects to the internet.

thus, very new-manufacture cars in 2020 do not connect to the internet, bluetooth, sometimes wifi, etc.
There's the possibility that the USG believes the dollar's primacy is going to come to an end in the relatively near future. There are other factors at play that could weaken the dollar's status that matter more than sanctions, including:

(1) The geopolitical shift away from a unipolar world, with the rise of states such as China.

(2) The upcoming end of the petrodollar, as nations shift to renewable energy.

If you believe the reign of the dollar will come to an end anyways, you might as well use its power while you have it and throw sanctions around to weaken your rivals.
Panicking About Your Kids and Their Phones? New Research Says Don’t
What's changed since the last time this was posted: APL is now generally free. J[1] is GPL. The newest version of k is closed-source, but still freely available for personal use from shakti[2], and there is also an independent AGPL implementation[3]. Dyalog APL[4] is closed-source but free for personal use; and, finally, GNU APL[5] has always been open-source, but it's matured quite a bit. Whatever your choice, you have a freely usable option.

1: https://www.jsoftware.com/

2: https://shakti.com/

3: https://bitbucket.org/ngn/k/src/master/

4: https://www.dyalog.com/

5: https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/
With no salary cuts would be amazing. So long as the policy is transparent for new hires in the new market, you would only need to grandfather people those that make the move.

There are tons of places I’d move to easily if I could keep my current SF salary.
Absence of pricing != absence of business plan, e.g. note data is valuable in its own right. They publish a privacy policy.
Brandchirps – Simple Brand Monitoring
I wanted a simple and easy social media listening tool that was cheaper than Brand24, Brandmentions, and Awario.. but scanned more sources than TalkWalker and Google Alerts.

It became very convenient to find discussions about my brand, my competitors, and my industry so I could drop in and engage with potential customers after I built this tool.

What makes Brandchirps different? It does 90% of what other big boy tools do, but for a lot cheaper. Your use of my product also directly supports a small family business that invests their lives in helping others, not some VC portfolio that only cares about cashing out.
I think surmounting those challenges is useful in itself, not just as a way to enable trains. Using self driving cars to avoid doing that would be a real shame.
> Driving 95% of the way or 95% of the trips is nice

People will abuse that. They will get high/drunk/whatever and when that “5%” rolls around (quite unexpectedly mind you), they’ll run into a bus full of nuns. Always assume people will be judgement impaired because “the car can drive itself”....
Acclaimed scientist gets brain surgery for alcohol addiction
Key Characteristics of a Successful Mobile App for Every Business
Maine's giant spinning ice disc looks like it's reforming
I saw no mention of a REPL in the story.
> 2. Ad Tech is trying to make advertising experience better (even if it might be failing at the moment).

Oh my.

Youtube's current business model essentially breaks all ad-supported classical music content on the site. It does this by interrupting the music in the middle of a piece to insert an add. That means a long piece like a Wagner opera is littered with tens or perhaps even a hundred tiny adds that cut jarringly into the piece in the middle of acts, sections, and even phrases. It's not possible to concentrate on a piece of classical music that way. Your ad tech industry has destroyed whatever segment of content ad-supported classical music on youtube represents.[1]

But that's not my complaint.

I'm watching television the other day and I come upon some classic movie that I hadn't seen in awhile. I start to watch for about five minutes; then, in the middle of a scene, the movie switches to a loud, short commercial. In the middle of a scene! I thought maybe the channel got changed by accident. But no-- this was a youtube-sized commercial doing a youtube-sized jump-cut into a television program.

I kept watching and sure enough, every subsequent commercial used a jump cut in the very middle of dialogue, and every commercial was as short as the ones on Youtube. Now this movie was almost as unwatchable as youtube classical music is unlistenable.

So your ad tech has managed to do something I didn't think was possible-- become a big enough influence on commercial television programming so as to make it even more painful to watch. That's much worse than just "failing at the moment."

[1] Sometimes it appears that the ad-placement algo inserts ads at the next available silence. But that still destroys all kinds of music. For example, many long classical pieces are made up of short-- yet related-- variations separated by silence. Inserted loud, obnoxious sounds between every single variation is no more acceptable than blaring an air horn between each move in a chess game. Edit: on the Brahms Paganini variations I listened to the algo seemed to be every other variation. But that hardly matters.
As I see it, it's a case of

- ridiculous before the fact

- dangerous as disruption becomes real

- obvious in hindsight

I.e. a "paradigm shift". These things take time, from inception to maturity for adoption, regardless of tech. Usually about a generation: that customers and voters be mostly people born with the idea as an "almost reality" (after PoC, before mass adoption), that's what it usually takes to raise the S-curve.

Cars themselves weren't accepted or desired by most people years after their appearance, it took time to change minds.

But in some cases, it was much faster, like the web or mobile phones. I just hoped this would be a case of that.

(meta: I think it's totally OK to disagree, upvoting you for discussion as a shield against downvoters based on opinion)
HP's "RPL" language, Reverse Polish Lisp, was basically that.
They let you buy 99 cent apps too. Clearly they have better deals worked out with the processors.
This list seems like a good place for hackers to start. These brokers likely don't have the infosec teams that Google or Facebook have.
I wonder if this continues to hold in the presence of fees calculated on ability to pay? That is, some schools will charge full tuition to people with rich parents and discounted tuition to those with less well off parents.
>The Tesla drove as if the black car did not exist at all

I wonder if the Tesla simply didn't think it existed.
The permanent signs would already be in the database. The signs you'd worry about would be temporary, for road works or accidents, but perhaps these locations could be made electronically available.
The housing costs of some second/third/worse tier city are almost completely meaningless. Unless the job gave me a 10 year contract with a golden parachute or something. It doesn't matter if you can make the numbers work once, what matters is that you will almost certainly job hop 3 - 5 times, so you need to be in an area dense with employers to make that viable without having to move your life/family every time. Even if you never wind up changing jobs, the fact that you could matters, you're not completely fucked if things go south with one company. They don't own you (as much).
I can't see bikes taking over in urban area with actual climate. Even the biggest enthusiasts in Chicago or New York will tell you it sucks during the winter.

And I can't see mass transit being viable when our biggest cities with the money and initiative to improve it plan these projects over the scale of decades and billions per mile.

Self driving cars or trolleys on the existing road surface is probably the most realistic form of mass transit out there. We have the vehicles and the infrastructure already.

It doesn't have to be self driving at first either. Uber's forays into mass transit with shared rides and fixed pickup locations was always pretty solid for me and reasonably priced.
Buses are always going to be more efficient than cars for that purpose (less weight per person). An adequately funded, high-quality bus system would, in my view, make self-driving cars redundant for almost all purposes.
The web is many orders of degree larger space to traverse while the apps on your phone are much smaller.

It used to be that I found apps by typing in a few letters. Lately, however, I’m more likely to find an app by pulling down the search mode on my iPad and then tapping one of the suggested apps.

That shows to me that there are definitely better ways to organize and present apps to users that haven’t been tried enough.
Presumably they get the data for the shadow profiler from tracking scripts and stuff that run in your browser, so technically that’s a relationship you accepted when you ran their script and allowed it to phone home.
netflix got me.
I work in publishing. Multiple times I have seen developers who were running ad blockers and then had trouble figuring out why their own sites weren’t loading properly.
Perhaps your subconscious is worried about it's potential when it's inevitably weaponized.
Now I am just flabbergasted. How on earth could they let the 330 take off in that case? And it still seems to me if the 737 didn't execute a missed approach, there would have been a crash on the runway. That is just as big a deal as the 800m flyby. This story should be a bigger deal than is being made out.
Not quite 50/50 but the University of Oregon lists 2075 faculty and 1521 administrators and officers of administration. Also, 112 of those faculty are listed as retired.

https://ir.uoregon.edu/overview
With great simplicity comes great complexity.
Toothpaste: How It Became a Mainstream Product
Do you know if he turned to deep learning after AlphaFold's stunning performance at CASP13 in 2018? I haven't heard anything from that particular niche since the "AlphaFold @ CASP13: “What just happened?”" blog post: https://moalquraishi.wordpress.com/2018/12/09/alphafold-casp...
> even though we have many technical tools that make remote work far more practical than it was even ten years ago, physically being in the same place as your coworkers remains extremely valuable.

I've seen this artificially enforced by executives who refuse to engage in a discussion about remote work. There are a lot of them, and until they feel comfortable managing remotely, remote workers can't flourish. So it's nothing to do with the nature or quality of remote work. We just don't have enough truly remote friendly execs.
I feel like the anti-competitive concerns about index funds are another example of people having concerns about everything and its opposite and not seeing that implies the problem is misidentified.

We're all worried about companies doing things to compete that are not in the interest of society, right? Less competition equals less (fewer?) externalities. Why even have companies in the first place if competition is simply always a good thing? Why was Eddie Lampert's clashing departments at Sears (supposedly) a disaster?
So, your family would be ok that your car sheared you off in a quirk unnecessary accident, so long as the overall stats were better than average?

Non-ergotic stats are not comparable to ergotic (group) stats.
Armslist, the Craigslist of Guns
That's what I was saying, but mark_l_watson is saying that in case 1 the price of gold is higher, meaning a smaller amount of gold to buy the same number of apples.
> but if Russia has the off switch for Germany's economy

You are completely missing the part where Germany has already been running on Russian gas for decades, from land based pipelines. I think that you might be unaware of how permeable to natural gas the iron curtain had been.

The power Russia gains from Nordstream isn't the power to stop supplying Germany (they could already do that and then go broke), the power they gain is the power to keep supplying Germany while playing with the off-switch for their dearly loved "Slavic brother nations". The geopolitical relevance of Nordstream is not Russia selling more gas, it's about Russia deriving more influence per unit of gas.

Ever wondered why Poland is refusing so hard to switch from dirty lignite to cleaner gas? It's not just money and miners, far from that.
And if TCAS says "Climb!" and the ATC says "Descend," what do you do?

Think quickly! Several hundred souls are on the line.
I didn't see the story mention whether there is a signal triggering movements or these things are preprogrammed for certain movements.
"France has enough nukes to provide MAD protection."

It's never so simple.

First, does France have the ability to deliver them? Under what conditions? With what warning, etc. etc.

Second, is the fact that nukes are the biggest hammer in retaliation, and most things need to be proportional.

Would France use nukes on Russia if Poland was invaded?

What if Russia tried to 'pull a Crimea' in E. Germany i.e. small forces without uniforms, supporting insurgencies, disrupting communications. Tons of money pouring in changing elections, disrupting governance. Would that be a case for nukes?

It's far more complicated, and Europe cannot defend itself - this is the tacit admission of their own leaders. So America still provides baseline defence capabilities.

The unfortunate reality is that Europe actually could defend itself, but it's not willing to either spend what's necessary, or to coordinate along those lines, which might be even harder as the EU doesn't provide for that and it's a really big existential deal. The reason there isn't material progress on it is because it's really, really expensive and nobody wants to pay bills if America will continue to pay it form them.

Trump is a loathsome figure, but he's exactly right on this issue. European leaders will make some happy talk, public statements, but really they're just waiting for Trump to be gone so they can go back to what they hope will be the status quo.
Thanks for all the detail. I wasn't aware that you could have "closed airports" where you could still land.
I, for one, already fail to grasp where we manage to get the funds required to clear and level the land and butter a fresh layer of asphalt on top of it regularly enough to build and maintain that many roads to begin with.
Love this point. Not sure if it can be called cynical or not, but a really smart kid would definitely miss out on a networking opportunity with the parents of a legacy friend. Think Bighead from Silicon Valley.
The ad you see in the search results was put their by google after an advertiser said “advertise to someone who searches for X, and also likes hacker news”. Google wouldn’t share that data to the advertiser. Once you click the ad... that’s another story.
>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,

Armed Bear Common Lisp is an ANSI Common Lisp, thus can use all CL libs, runs on the JVM, and it can easily call Java libraries. In fact as easy as calling regular lisp functions.
There is some overlap with javascript because it's the only one of the three that offers uncrippled lambdas. Or I may be wrong about that; did Java finally add them?
> undeniably more efficient

No. It's debatable. Many believe remote work is undeniably more efficient and the fulfillment you feel from high bandwidth conversations is a delusion.
I believe there was a study in Minnesota that concluded they could get to 70% of electric demand before it made sense to start adding storage, by overbuilding and curtailing solar, and by installing some of it at winter angles. I suspect bifacial solar also makes a lot of sense there.

A consequence of this will be that power will become very cheap much of the time. If you can consume power intermittently you'll be in a sweet spot.
> (but keep in mind, the value of a currency is dependent on a lot of factors, and not just the gold that is backing it. Otherwise currencies backed by nothing would all be worth nothing, which we know isn't true).

True, but once you've pegged the currency to gold, it can't fluctuate very far from the price of gold. A change in one is necessarily an equal change in the other. Currency that isn't backed by gold is free to fluctuate independently of the gold price, but gold-backed currency isn't.

You could have a currency backed by a weighted basket of commodities, but that would be "backed by a weighted basket of commodities", not "backed by gold, but the backing is metaphysically different than you might expect".
I've been thinking about creating a company, or foundation, around the idea of owning your own data. You'd have a hardware device like a powerful tablet always connected at home, and use a "generic" third party to do backups and enable pocking holes at NAT. You'd use this to store your music and listen it from anywhere, to run your email, instant messages, storing your photos, streaming movies from your downloaded collection...

I'd love to be working in that project, however it does not exist yet and I haven't found enough interested people.
Already in the early 80s, Lisp was used to program massively parallel supercomputers.

Lisp stopped being slow a long, long time ago.
FWIW, I was taught Scheme as a kid in nerd camp (maybe seventh grade?). I had previously learned BASIC. I didn’t notice anything very different. I didn’t understand it really. I didn’t use it once the summer was over, probably just because of lack of learning material.
What are you talking about? Every country isn't trying to assert itself. Most are trying to stay our of the way and not get noticed.
Why don’t we play a 9x9 board for historical and sentimental reasons? Because it’s too easy for professionals.
Well there are go rounds and there are missed approaches. It appears this was the latter. I can't see how a standard go round involves flying at low altitude directly above a plane that is about to take off or taking off. Obviously planes can approach runways from a distance while others are taking off, it seems here it didn't just approach, but came close to actually landing.
Why do you think OnStar doesn't have access to the can bus https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10008228
It seems to me that you're coming from a perspective where you don't have any roots at the time of your first job. I think it might be good to step back and realize while that may describe a lot of people who go off to college some place and then take a job anywhere, surely there are millions for whom it's not true. And 5-10 years in, if you are unmarried and change your mind, you can't necessarily make it work then for a number of reasons, including that in a hot tech area, you're already old and therefore useless.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

That goes twice if your significant other also has a similar career trajectory.
Presumably if you replicate the holdings you are lagging their buys and sells. The lag could cost more than the fees so you might as well but the fund instead of replicating...
Yeah on iOS 13 I get Safari tabs reloading if I toggle between them. Just switching to one tab and back to the other will sometimes completely reload the page.

iPadOS was such a major leap forward for the iPad and there's not many features left I need to use it as a laptop replacement... but the aggressive app and tab killing ruins everything. I've never said this about iOS devices before, but it's time to start putting more RAM in these machines.
For civil pilots, that's easy: Whatever TCAS says.

For military pilots, it's more complicated because they're now deviating from orders. Hopefully it's follow TCAS anyway, but more shades of gray regarding who can deviate.
>Do you use Lisp at your workplace?

I do.
Facebook Apologizes for Vulgar Translation of Chinese Leader’s Name
That's not how currency rates work. This requires Bitcoin to be identical in demand. For example, EUR to TRY using Bitcoin is 0.15496, vs 0.15313 according to XE. Moreover, that crypto API only features 15 fiat pairs, vs. well Currenyscoop's 159.

https://currencyscoop.com/supported-currencies
You can also have poor work and poor working conditions in a remote environment - depends on how the team and yourself operate. A phrase I often tell friends who transition into indie work or remote work is a Merlin Mann phrase "You are your own worst manager".

Even if you want to argue this isn't true, developers still seem to end up in cities for the sake of networking.

(bias: I've been working remotely for ~7 years and had trouble justifying a move to a smaller off-corridor city)
The business model changes then from car sales to a mix of car sales and being a mobility provider. VW would need to be able to move into those directions.
This presumes a difference of opinion in what blackrock thinks the security is going to do vs the investor. If blackrock thought it could get a better rate of return without a particular security, then there's no moral justification needed for dumping it.
Climb - TCAS always takes precedence. This was standardized after this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Japan_Airlines_mid-air_in...
It is when you sell them the autonomous cars that people can use and maintain them with the guarantee that they wont breakdown often when used basically.
I have no direct knowledge about Zendesk's use case however currency conversion is table stakes for any
company doing international business. Purchase orders and employee travel expense reports being top of the list.
I once heard the dean of admissions at Columbia claim that they could get rid of the entire incoming class and replace them from kids in the applicant pool without suffering a decline in quality. I'm guessing this is mostly true, save for a few truly impressive students at the tippy top. Given the low number of spots compared to applicants, it's likely that you can fill an entire class with children of alumni without much of a dip in quality. But it sure is unfair to people who don't have parents who went to elite schools.
I will just say this. I am a Dodgers fan and Houston's cheating may well have ruined Kershaw's legacy, one of the best pitchers to have ever lived and played baseball. Shame shame Shame.
Sometimes they even turn their lights off, and you click your mic into a frequency to turn them on:

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/march/flig...
In death of dinosaurs, it was all about the asteroid – not volcanoes
>But everyone writes their own DSL on top of the language because the language is simple

This is a myth perpetuated by people with zero lisp experience.

I've navigated plenty of lisp libraries' codebases and haven't found not a single case of that.

>I've heard this called "the curse of Lisp

An essay written by... a graphic designer with zero Lisp experience.
Shitty maintenance on top of lower bidder supplying sub-par equipment because half of the money went to corruption. The result is water getting in the circuits and shorting them out.
it's all but certain that the EU will start to break up in 12 days time

(whether or not it will stop there is a separate question)
That doesn't mean that every police station in the land should have it. And they could sell this to absolutely anyone if their policy revenues aren't sufficient. There was a story about Palantir selling its tech to a NY bank (Morgan, I think?), who used it on their staff.

Just because the tech isn't ground breaking doesn't mean the application isn't a concern to society.