skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current approach: http://github.com/metaleap/gonad-corefn (to be renamed later) --- heavily in-flux, even more slow-going pretty-soon-now (long-term freelance gig coming up), but I'm committed to keep committing =) --- won't be polished in terms of docs/tests/better-commit-msgs etc until reaching a certain stage of completeness. Also about 1/3rd of the code can be ditched at some point, coming from earlier stages --- only will become fully apparent which 1/3 at a later stage of maturity as well though.

Earlier first approach, won't currently compile due to deps: http://github.com/metaleap/gonad-coreimp

Auxiliary stuff currently dumped in: http://github.com/golamb

For a fun ps2go comparison, side-by-side:

https://github.com/golamb/test-pscorefn-src/tree/master/src/... <-> https://github.com/golamb/test-pscorefn2go/tree/master/Mini --- lots to-do still =)
This artificial intelligence is designed to be mentally unstable UK
There isn't any meaningful difference between the kinds of challenges you present. It's given a facade of mathematical rigor, but it's still a facade.
Of course there's a difference between good architecture and fad chasing. That's what I understood the article to be about, in fact.
Long term,there is no alternative but solar, either direct or indirect. (But but not too indirect such as oil...)

The energy budget is set. It's the spending that needs to be controlled.
Ask HN: Any advice on meeting a co-founder in London?
I recently started working on my B2B SaaS startup full-time and it's just me. I have a demo product which I am showing potential clients with the aim of having something production ready within two months.

I used to work in investments and I know ~50 potential clients I can contact directly to show the product to. Three firms have offered to take a look (of one offered to take the beta for a test drive). Two of my former managers in London and the US are onboard as advisors and will give my warm intros to potential clients as well

Prior to my time in investments, I used to be a software engineer so I learnt React and am using Graphcool to build my MVP.

I have savings for more than a year, I know clients and I can make the product myself. So given that, I am in two minds about getting a co-founder. On one hand, I know there's lots of work to but on the other I feel like I could potentially go it alone. Maybe an issue will be bandwidth between sales and building the product.

I have or had potential co-founders who were interested but they are in the US and I just moved back to London after 4 years away. I am really looking for someone London-based. Most of my friends here have kids or mortgages...or just like having a job....

I know a few HNW people who could potentially invest for $100k-$300k but I'm not really thinking about that now since I'm focused on building the product and getting product market fit.

Any advice on whether or not I should get a co-founder? If I were to look for a co-founder in London what's the best way to go around it? I've been away 4 years!
Where does this tribalism and polarization take place if not online? Do you have any evidence of changed patterns in "real life" with that regard? So if Facebook keeps people in bubbles so they never get exposed to other views how do you know they are more polarized if not using social media.
> The weak part of all these systems is the constant GSM heartbeat, but even that is beatable.

Curious: how do you beat that? Do you listen to other signals and try to transmit at the same time (if you must)?
Steem Magazine: Bitcoin Gold Blockchain Not Live Yet.. But Can Be Traded
I think Nextdoor has a real opportunity here in offering something very differentiated and useful (to varying degrees, depending on neighborhood).
So other people are rewatching Westworld too? :)
Uh why allow anyone other than people on your contact list to even get anything other than a busy signal ... I do this on my home phone and mobile. If my phone rings it’s someone I know.
The org-mode reference is "rhetoric". That's the Latin for "#thatsthejoke" :)

Regarding the REPL - what I mean is, run a snippet that executes in the context of the editor. Like, in emacs, you can execute ``(defun fred () (interactive) (insert "fred"))'' from the scratch buffer, and now you've got a new editor command: fred. Run it with M-x (the closest Emacs analogue to the Command Palette). Bind it to a key, maybe: ``(global-set-key (kbd "<f6>") 'fred)''. Good for prototyping, debugging addons, or just writing quick one-off things.

And as for Git, I don't really understand the suggestion. I have a Git repo for Emacs settings that works on all my PCs: Linux, OS X (terminal), OS X (GUI), Windows (non-work), Windows (work). If there's anything that needs to be different on one or the other, I just do ``(when (tom--is-osx) ...stuff...)'' or whatever. tom--is-osx is a function that's something like ``(defun tom--is-osx () (eq system-type 'darwin))'', and so on for the other systems I use. I check for my work PC by examining the hostname.

For VSCode, on the other hand, there's only one settings.json (and it's right out of the way, in some fiddly folder structure that's laid out like there's no real user-serviceable parts inside, which gives me pause - but that's a separate issue). In my case, most of it wants to be the same on every system. Some bits want to be different. I'd also like my plugins list to be synced as well. Doesn't seem to be any good support for that either.

(This stuff is easy to do with Emacs, because Emacs doesn't have a settings file per se, just a file with Lisp commands in it that, when run, leave the system in the desired state. So you can have ifs, along with anything else you like, because it's just code.)
Then you’re just defining “breaking change” as “change that breaks the tests.” Anyone with any programming experience knows that “but the tests passed” is never a valid excuse for a bug.
Leaning Tower of Nevyansk
Your downvotes here trouble me --- because I strongly suspect the suspects simply haven't read their Beckett =)
Firefox used to show a custom page when an RSS feed was displayed, but it doesn't seem to work any more.

Edit: it didn't seem to work earlier, but is working now after I added the RSS subscriptions button.
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Every day. All of them (automated).
It's due to alphabet altering their "algorithm" to favor established companies and sources ( aka fight "fake news" and clean up the "interwebs" ). Google stopped being a faithful reflection of the internet. It's why now, any coooking and recipe searches now brings up nytimes links first rather than those that people clicked/linked/sourced.

It's not just google search. It's the entire alphabet ecosystem. Google news, youtube, etc all are getting worse. Google news was "cleansed" and now just peppers everyone with nytimes and wapo articles. If you have the time, waybackmachine and see how different googlenews is now compared to just a couple of years ago. And youtube trending is just awful as well. It doesn't reflect what people are watching. It's just a advertising platform for established news channels and late night shows.

It's the direction the internet is going. From user directed (bottom-up ) system to a moderator driven ( top-down ) system.

The government and establishment media has put so much pressure on social media/internet companies that they finally have given in.

Essentially, the age-old tactic of blaming someone of aiding the enemy ( aka russians/fake news/propaganda ) and "we must protect the children" was used to intimidate and cow tech companies.
...or you could just use the editor that does what you need out of the box.

Yes, emacs is great but many people will go with less friction.
It really depends. The problem is that once advertising become the primary drip of financial resources, the content begins to revolve around the needs, goals, and preferences of advertisers. Content that isn't seen as monetizable gets shown the door. Content that rails against consensus opinion or is anti-corporate gets shut down. Things that earn money get promoted at the expense of all else.

You can see this lucidly in the case of Bill O'Reilly. People had already known his deal for over a decade, but it wasn't until his ad dollars were pulled (after a public pressure campaign) that he was dethroned. That's an example of the kind of media system that is fostered by advertisement.

EDIT: changed 'decades' to 'over a decade'. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/a-timeline-of...
> There seems to be a hard boundary with reaching the demographic of users in developed nations and both Snap and Twitter are there

I think Twitter and snap are very different. Snap is a messenger app and has the same potential as FB messenger or wechat. Twitter will never be that. The latest news has Tencent making a strategic investment and bringing chinese style monetization to Snapchat. I'm very optimistic about this.
No, it's really not. The action that put the person in the hospital where they lingered for a month before dying either happened when it was legal to homicide, or not. Without that specific action, the victim would not be dead — or, more specifically, would not be in a situation that led to their death.

Criminal law absolutely recognizes that causal chains have a "first link", without which the rest of the chain wouldn't even have happened. It also specifically subjects the party causal to that first link to special scrutiny.
Network connectivity correlates of variability in fluid intelligence performance
Just another reason why it sucks here.
I agree language should not be considered so fundamental. It gives a structure which is more formal than fundamental. Noam Chomsky also promoted a version of the fundamental-language concept in his linguistic work. I think the notion will fade with time.

This Temple Grandin bit is great!
I had interesting discussion about logical thinking once. My fried claimed that it's impossible to think logically (btw. etymology of word logic is "word" or "what is spoken") without verbally running the the words and sentences in your head. Then I explained that I have always used logic visuospatially. "and" is choice between places or fork in the road, "or" is combining two objects in the same place and so on.

Content of our consciousness seems to be based on sensory input and sensor fusion. Thinking is running simulated sequences and scenarios in our head. Different people use different sensory content more than others. I wouldn't be surprised if some people use feelings or motor imaginary more than others.

We have visuospatial ability, audioverbal perception and motor imagery/proprioception. Interoceptive senses seem to relate feelings somehow. If you really drill and analyze what if feels to love, hate or fear. The feeling is related to our internal senses.
> Ebay has a pretty good return/refund policy. And then you can fall-back on Paypal too.

Anecdotal evidence, but I have had far more success with AliExpress' dispute/buyer protection system than eBay's.

eBay is laughably bad at disputes. I have received several items from eBay which were DOA, and my options were to take a very reduced refund, or ship the item back to the seller at my expense.

Same issue with AliExpress, upload evidence (pictures/video) of the DOA item, full refund no further questions.

PayPal is another nightmare in of itself.
We can. It just requires a reactor or cyclotron, some other heavy metal, and a lot of energy.
Yes, it's good software, but pretty much a monoculture.
WolframAlpha can display subdomains, not sure how and the format is not easy to use. But it works.

How one would one go about finding A domains pointing to specific AS. The target web app in question allows either using their subdomain or pointing to your own. Any ideas how to find those?
so sneaky. that's just the kind of sneaky thing a benevolently manipulative, savvy mother might do.
There seems to be an accepted idea that ancient people had a totally different way of thinking: that up to around 300 BC, humans navigated through the world with a dream-like, pre-scientific logic, and didn't view the world as comprehensible or subject to predictable laws and patterns.

I've always wondered, do we actually know this for sure? What's the evidence? Just by introspection, it is so hard for me to imagine being in a state of mind where I didn't believe that if I dropped a rock off a cliff twice, under similar conditions, it would do pretty much the same thing the second time. Or that if I did it over and over again, I would start to see patterns that I could rely on for later. This feels as hard-wired as just about anything in my mind.

To me, it makes more sense to think that humans have always thought the same way, and these days we just have better tools and have learned to refine the cognitive abilities that are wired into us. But I'm really interested to hear the case for the other side.
Of course we can engineer gold, but it is very very expensive
Do your family have private or public Insta profiles? My understanding is that the usecase is not perfectly the same. Insta is "halfway" between snap and twitter, though I'm sure Zuck would like it to be "both".
Why conservatives are more susceptible to believing in lies
StringX SDK – Automatic Android App Translation
The story behind this project is that I have several apps with 16 languages natively supported each. I got them from user's community, what is really cool, however each update with new string is a pain in the ass, because I had to get in touch with various users, who previously helped me with translation. At the end I ended up with Google Translate produced translations, which in general are good enough. Sorry for this prolonged entry!
I made similar solution Google Chrome offers currently if a page is not in your language. I ask user if he want's to use translation of the app (most of the do) or use english if they are fine with that. I'm using this solution in all of my apps with great success and today I'm releasing it to you! Why great success? It turned out that after implementing stringX sdk, user engagement with translated version became as high as for users with natively supported language. High session time = more money from ads + more money from in-app purchases I even started to observe purchases from countries, never observed before!
All the details are on the site I've prepared. It's on the early stage, so I''m looking forward to your opinion, what more information would be useful for you. Also soon I will add use cases with details, how stringX helped my apps.

https://www.stringx.io

I'm looking forward to your thoughts!
Yes, true. But still, having the compiler reject breaking changes when there should be none already goes a long way
Thanks for your feedback!
Preview image as well as language have been adjusted.
Installer has been put on the todo-list ;)
https://mindmodeling.org/cogscihistorical/cogsci_10.pdf page 601

http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference/ is an intimidating amount of information
Do you know how to find out which certificate issuers DON'T submit certs to transparency logs? Is there a list somewhere?
Season tickets to a ski resort (where I live) are less than $1k.
> in March and made about $1000 from sponsors. That's one sponsor per episode at ~$200 each.

I've heard that sponsors pay more for podcasts than they do for youtube videos. Any idea why?
As a heavy snapchat user, I'm a big fan of the idea of snapchat as a better foursquare/find my friends because honestly neither application ever made enough sense to keep installed longer than a week at a time.

I don't know if I'd pay for it, but if they wanted to use location to sell ads to local businesses or whatever they could probably tap an otherwise relatively untapped ad market.
At what point does google admit g+ has failed and stop crippling their primary search tool to accommodate it? I know "you are the product" etc, but if the tool becomes frustrating to use and someone else can provide a better user experience, it's going to cut into those ad dollars.
>there’s not even a way to enter an RSS URL manually

That's not true at all. At least in the web version this was an option from the very beginning.
While I don't have a phone phobia, I do hate how much time it takes to get a simple piece of information.

A recent example: I wanted to book a suite at a hotel. The hotel is not tall, and it overlooks a very noisy bar on one side. Is it possible to get a suite on the other side? Where will I be located, anyway?

This information is not online. Instead I have to engage in a phone call. Spend some time on hold. Bounce between people who work in the hotel and a reservations desk a couple of time. Eventually I get the answer, and it's exactly what I want.

But. I'm bothered in two directions. One, that the information is not at my fingertips.

The other, that I find it irritating to have that actual conversation to get the information I want. I'd like to have a better handle on this mental impatience.
> it's harder to show that the functions actually do the same thing

Effectively impossible, with a Turing complete programming environment.

(“Effectively,” because technically our physical computers have a bounded number of states and inputs, thus aren’t technically Turing complete, thus Rice’s theorem technically doesn’t apply.)
It's not knee-jerk conservatism. Literally in his comment:

> Prove it works. Qualify it properly.

I'm the same way. I refuse to use whatever's hot tomorrow unless it's been qualified and tested. That's not knee-jerk conservatism, that's just smart product development.
I guess the main problem in my company is that they want to have money saved as the main input for the awards.
Physical storage startup Makespace has a new CEO to represent it
It's so frustrating trying to evaluate SaaS products for a particular domain when all of the search results are affiliate listicles and sneaky first party marketing.
I get it. Well done!

I had the same problem when I first launched https://dndemail.com. Traffic was low and if no one uses the service for an hour or so, the first load in the app was slow.

I built a once a minute Cron to keep the app warm and initial requests quick.

Now I have enough traffic that I don't worry about the problem.
A good developer will show how that implementing it in X will lead to the gains described, absolutely. The problem is much of the time "implement with X" doesn't actually lead to those gains, but there's some cargo culting or other parrot-a-blog-post justification for it.
This type of outage was common in the US in the 90s as well. Many large (tier 1) ISPs found out that their redundant fiber links were not in redundant bundles, other tier 1s also had important links in the same bundles, and that a backhole had severed the bundle.

Mostly, when this happened, west coast users couldn't contact east coast servers (and vice versa), but occasionally, BGP would work out, and packets would get back and forth, but go around the world.
> it's hard to be much faster than kdb: 10 billion rows completes in 70msec on kdb, but Hadoop takes something like 30 seconds.

Indeed, it's hard for exhaustive search beat index lookup.
If one feels so inclined to make a single-sentence reference to some obscure play, care can be take to make the reference just a little off, so to nudge the reader into questioning the sentence's plain meaning.

That being said, I appreciate your reference to [1]. I wonder if this is actually the engine's namesake.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot
Sci-Hub won’t be blocked by US ISPs anytime soon
Aw... I thought this was a post explaining active networking using capsules.
So, we use words to abstract our thought, but wouldn’t it seem there to be lower levels of abstraction as well? I believe this is the point Temple Grandin is working toward. I think I agree that words tend to puts thoughts or acknowledgements in a box, but maybe the box is mutable.
There's also the w3fools browser extension that removes w3schools from search results.
I think you might find this lack of information is a feature not a bug.
A WebGL toy featuring a dancing disco duck.
First of all, the theory described in the article does not even believe that all humans are conscious, so it does not need to account for consciousness in other animals.

Secondly, my point is that other animals may still have "language", but just without the small components necessary for communication. If this were true, then language could still be the explanation for consciousness.
cscope may be irrelevant, but ctags/etags has support for JS (and other languages that would be relevant for web developers, like HTML, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, ...).
This is a humorless place. I'm a masochist. ;-)
> Out of curiosity, does your UI allow any form of "simulation", particularly a random fuzzing/monte carlo trials?

No, at the moment we don't really have enough structured knowledge of the underlying steps to be able to do predictions/simulations like that. We're taking existing scientific workflows and adding structure to them, but there are still plenty of details that are unstructured and performed manually by scientists, and there's a lot of variability across use cases.

Monte carlo trials certainly seems interesting, though, and hopefully something we can explore more as the procedures get more structured. A similar idea that's a bit closer in reach is to do an analysis on past variations of the same experiment to predict how a newly-designed experiment will go. Possibly we could do a simulation based on historical data like that, although modeling it correctly certainly sounds tricky.
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> I hate writing C# or Java in emacs because there's no intellisense/code completion.

Agreed. The quality of the IDE/tools is such a huge factor in the quality of one's experience writing code.

Can't imagine writing C# outside of Visual Studio or VSCode. Can't imagine writing Java outside of Eclipse.

Can't imagine using anything but vim or emacs for academic coding ( Standard ML, lisp, c, etc ).

But it might be because I'm just used to coding in these IDEs/editors for these particular languages.
“I'm struggling with finding the confidence to launch my project”
Enlargement: Understanding How PE Works
Even if you often use Google search, you should switch the default to DDG and make the Google search command explicit so that Google isn't always "listening" to everything you type into the URL text field. Otherwise, even when you think you are just entering the complete URL and not doing a search, you might be sending it character by character to Google as you enter it. A Google employee I know warned me years ago that they were always studying what you typed, including keystroke timing, accuracy, backspaces, everything including what URLs you were going to without needing a search, to see how much they could learn about you, even when you weren't (knowingly) doing a Google search.

You could just turn off autosuggest, but then unintended items (ex: typos, things that don't match the browser's "complete URL" regex pattern) would still be sent to Google. Best to not make Big Brother your default listener in the first place.
> If a similar phase change had occured 3000 years ago, I'm pretty sure it would have been well-documented

Documented where?

The Sapiens book makes a similar assertion, that something changed in the brain about 10000 years ago, when agriculture was invented.

Before that people hunted and gathered for 200k years with little progress and suddenly there was an explosion.