skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The First World War was the second most recent major war in American history, and I think the statute of limitations has passed on making V-J Day a national holiday.

Veterans Day/Armistice Day is also one of the few secular national holidays that we share with most Western countries.
"Sure, when you first launch a business built using open source components, (...) you might start off looking a little like Red Hat. But if all goes well, you’ll start to more resemble Facebook, GitHub, Amazon or Cumulus Networks as you layer in your own special something on top of the platform and deliver it as a service, or package it as an appliance."

I sure hope not.

The original intent of ICOs was to monetise open-source development, and now there are many great teams with huge treasure chests building great software, funding research and providing grants for anyone wanting to work on blockchain and the wider web3 ecosystem without having to go through a token offering, given the current sad state of affairs.

I know this isn't necessarily appealing for everyone, but for those interested:

https://blog.ethereum.org/2018/10/15/ethereum-foundation-gra...

https://blog.aragon.org/tag/nest/
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And thus throughput is not enough. In pro audio, we can't afford dropouts or lost data, even when the CPU is under heavy load.
How do you use it on mobile devices?
> 1. We used Google Sheets as pseudo database.

Was your service programmatically reading and/or writing the Google Sheet "database"? I've built some small sites that used JavaScript to load data from a read-only Google Sheet. It was a surprisingly productive way to get a prototype running, but I never had to handle more than a few hits a day. :)

Did your MVP using Google Sheet impact or influence the design of future versions of your backend?
Ah. Spotted the Newfoundlander.
You're wrong, at least according to Wikipedia. But I don't want to argue semantics, I just want one study that shows a measurable (not self-reported) effect. Just one. Please?
You can be that quick with a relatively new product but once you have a few years of legacy code and a large install base then every little chance can have unexpected side effects and is much slower.

It certainly helps to be a solo dev but that's not all.
I agree with everything you said, until you claimed that Linux development is not driven by profit.
I wonder how much of that effect is due to subjects not understanding what a placebo. Would the effect remain if the study population was other physicians or scientists?
Every new technique is able to "quickly learn X." Something most not be so quick, otherwise why aren't these techniques turning into AGI?

I think the problem is the goal is not well defined. So, increased velocity has no bearing on increased velocity towards the target.

A side question, why is there no research into whether human intelligence is computable? The assumption in AI is that human intelligence is computable, but I've never seen any good argument or evidence that this is true. Seems very unscientific to exert so much energy into this research direction without validating the fundamental assumption.

For example, the one instance I know of that defines AGI in a quantitative manner is Solomonoff induction (SI), but it is not computable. If SI is representative of human intelligence, then AGI is impossible.
Let me get this straight: Glaciers have admittedly been "coming and going" for the past 120,000 years, but this time it's the fault of the human race? And you want me to believe that and then allow myself to be ruled by quasi-communism in order to attempt to stave off what might be an impossible-to-control geologic process? How about no?
European here -
I've been to countless homes and would say that less than 1% of homes have bidets (at least around Germany, Benelux), so that statement does not make much sense.

I've been to Japan and recognise their toilets as more useful/comfortable as what you'd encounter here, which is a standard toilet.
I think it's missing the link: https://genchi.com/
That I can almost understand. What I can't understand is why after buying a Dremel, Amazon wastes so much of its resources advertising me another Dremel. This is so clearly a losing game for them. The conversion rate for that type of ad is going to be exactly 0!
You can also run

cargo clean -p <project-name>

to only clean the current project, and leave the dependencies.
That's a fair point. I was initially thinking of targeting businesses rather than individual consumers, so I thought a flexible pricing plan would be helpful (given variations in headcount, sector, etc.). It looks like individual consumers are interested in it as well, so I'll add a more transparent pricing tier for them. Thanks for the feedback!
I'm confused. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is also a feature film, so I don't get your point.
The problem of open source is attribution, more specifically attribution back to individual contributors and the significance of contributions, and it is especially hard if you want to do attribution based on revenue performance if the licensee is small and do not have an audit department. A large proprietary software licensee can work with a licensor to track revenue performance because the licensee already have the right infrastructure to do so. So here is a startup idea:

An external auditing company with APIs to streamline the process of rev share and attribution back to the open source community and contributors, so that open source projects will make revenue and have the resource to reinvest and improve the projects.
There is less of them. Entrepreneurs are takings less risks. It used to be lots of people started a business that died after a year. Now there are a lot less startups, but the ones that get launched tend to last 2 or 3 years before dying.
Something else that could make the placebo effect seem real: Only publishing positive results. There seems to be this unspoken agreement that once the efficacy of a treatment is shown in scientific studies there is no placebo "factor" contributing to it helping people. But of course after a successful study the placebo effect of that treatment is stronger, because it convinces even more people (doctors, sceptics) that it's effective.

Consider umpteen variants of the same treatment being tested, and one of them showing strong results (https://www.xkcd.com/882/). That medicine then surfs on its own placebo effect until its efficacy is refuted (if that ever happens) by another study or it's replaced by something with a stronger result.
That's just marketing.

Also that assumes that the goal is some general AI. We're just getting started here
That's pretty close to the point I was making. They call it the top 5% because 5% of people pass their interview. The company doesn't have any idea whether those people (out of the entire pool) are the best candidates to do the job they were hired to do, because the company probably doesn't measure that. And, they sure don't know that their "top 5%" is representative of the top 5% of all engineers. For starters, how do you measure that?
That's because they're mostly written in the monstrosity known as Java.
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Thx - my bad.
https://blog.genchi.com/2018/11/07/why-project-status-report...
It's true, but I think this case is still counterintuitive. This was in the middle of the YC batch, like “Where are the AirBnBs this week? Oh, they're in New York taking pictures of apartments.” At the time it just wasn't obvious that was what they should be doing.
For the average person, it probably seems weird that you can buy groceries online but you have to go to a place with a special machine to vote. Online voting seems like an obvious win, if you don't realize how fragile online security is.
Gotta agree. My signature is chicken-scratch. Much like my handwriting in general. Yes, it's a personal failing. But, if it disenfranchises me, I'll be pretty upset.
Encouraged users to send emails for support, and answer every single one, no matter how unpleasant (one exception). At first I got angry with "stupid" questions, but then I realized that angry is not going to stop new emails, so I rolled up my sleeves and started fixing UX problems as they came in. At the peak I had 40k active users, and the deluge of communication was like drinking from the firehose, but with continuous improvements the stream of support emails withered and then dried up completely. Eventually I got to a point where had only one or two per day, and they were more of a leisurely conversation than support requests.
You might want to enable offline storage for your route/map, in which case you don't care about cell signal :)
My guess is that they will make this explicit in SIL first, to be able to add that into the language syntax later.

For instance, as far as i know, the auto ref-counting model is on SIL, who injects lower level refcounting ops into the intermediate code, before going through the LLVM pipeline.

This was a good thing to do, now that they are willing to open the ownership model to other kinds of ownership. Which will probably be controlled by the dev in the end.

At least, that's what i understood from what i read. Its SIL only for now, but it means what is it implying it means. A opt-in manually controlled ownership model when ref-counting is not the best approach.
Then there's roundabouts that look like this:

https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9775503,-82.8273026,101m/dat...

Multiple two-lane entrances. An inner lane that goes all the way around but cannot exit. An outer lane that has a single break between the incoming and outgoing sides of the same road.

Oh, and cherry on the sundae, it's in a tourist-heavy area, so many drivers have little-to-no familiarity with it. People block the outer lane waiting to move inside when the outer lane disappears. And then block the inner lane waiting to go through the outer lane to exit.

Not all of this is on the drivers...
Ok Socrates we get it the democracy is only as strong as the polis is educated. But maybe the polis will be forced to educate itself once a technology makes any barrier to voting irrelevant. Either you value an individual’s will or you don’t. It sounds like you’re advocating a poll tax.
Yes, Maclisp and Common Lisp are quite close. I'd argue it's more fun to run on a PDP-10 (emulator).
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I'm an Eagle Scout too and I guess I don't really have a strong opinion because scouting here in CO is fundamentally different in my eyes than what I grew up with in CA.

In my troop, once a year we'd spend one weekend spreading flyers about our annual garage sale, over the following week we'd pick stuff up, then the next weekend we'd use the community clubhouse that was our home-base for meetings for a blow-out garage sale.

We'd clear $15-20k in a week, give everyone who donated a tax slip for their donation, and sit pretty for the rest of the year with regard to our outings. Plus we'd do a clearinghouse in the last few hours of the sale where you could fill a trashbag up with anything and pay $5 for it. (I got stuff like suits, laser prints and antique cameras for <$1)

These massive fund-raisers are why we could finance trips to places like Hawaii or Scotland every few years and had outings like going to Camp Pendleton for paintball wars, plus we were helping the community by moving their junk.

Here in CO, the Boy Scouts do the door-to-door sales thing with over-priced caramel corn and the like.

I'd rather just give the troop $20 than spend $10 on a little bag of popcorn. Maybe that's part of the GS issue, a lot of Boy Scout troops are basically just copying the Girl Scouts' business model.

But I guess what I'm saying is, there are a lot of factors that go into your fundamental scouting experience (I honestly give all credit to the crazy outdoor dads that were in my troop at the time), so I'm trying to observe this transition more than question/judge it.

I can't think of any good reason why the Scout Law shouldn't be ubiquitous in American society.
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Keepass, with the database file stored in Google Drive. Drive is reliable enough to always keep the file updated correctly, as long as you only update it when you have an internet connection. I almost only ever enter passwords when on the internet, so that's not an issue.
> Did you guys apply to YC this cycle?

Yes, we applied to YC. We didn't get an interview. I assume that the market size isn't big enough for VC.

> If I signup as a developer, how easy/hard would it be to find a gig?

Contracting kind of depends on how much energy you put in. We've seen smart people not try that hard, and get zero gigs after 20 applications. On the opposite end, professional contractors who give thoughtful applications get many jobs at high hourly rates.

Moonlight can only net increase your job flow. If you are in need of contract work, you can always email us (team at moonlightwork.com) and we'll manually coach you on improving applications, and make warm intros to clients. (We have had success doing this manually over the past month, and are contemplating on turning it into an automated "I'm available right now" flow in the product.)
People who follow the tech press talk about the same thing when talking about nm, and they know TSMC 7nm competes with Intel 10nm not Intel 14nm.

It's been all over the town for months that TSMCs 7nm is estimated to be worse than Intels ‎ambitious failure that is 10nm [0][1][2][3] but quite a bit better than Intel 14nm (with the exception of clocks), and that 7nm+ with EUV for cost savings (which TSCM already taped out last month) is estimated to be equal or even slightly better.

So I'm not really sure what to make of your comment?

> AMD's 7nm might get them close to on par with Intel's current 14++ nm chips, but it's not like AMD has really figured out how to make the entire CPU half the size.

No they didn't, but they don't claim that, do they? From what they say they decided on the IO die exactly because IO doesn't scale as much, and that decision allowed them to double the number of cores. Since 7nm is expected to be much more expensive than previous nodes this seems really clever from a money standpoint as well. The core only Zen 2 chiplets are expected to be around 70 mm² which is mobile SoC territory.

AMD is already close in IPC to Intel even though AMD uses a worse node (GloFos mobile optimized 14nm is more like Intel 22 then Intel 14nm) and wins in multithreaded workloads because their SMT implementation seems to scale better than Intels. They also seem to have better performance/watt when under load. I have not seen numbers for idle wattage for Xeons but Intels desktop CPUs are slightly (5 - 10 watt) better when idle.

So I'm looking forward to them having the better node for the first time ever.

[0] https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7544-7nm-5nm-3nm-logi...

[1] https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/6713-14nm-16nm-10nm-7...

[2] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/10_nm_lithography_process

[3] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/7_nm_lithography_process
I use Passwørd Safe

https://github.com/andy-goryachev/PasswordSafe
In the same vein, someone says it's not working for them in WinXP IE 8
What If the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
To add to this, you have to figure out if it really won't scale, or if the specific individual you're talking to just doesn't know how to scale it. Are they the right person?
Smart move. Quit about 10 years. Whats wrong with tea or water? Sadly when you here stories about schools serving pizza and coke at their cafeteria... No pizza is not a vegetables.
Fuck that, emulate the Australians and move it to a Saturday. Go one step further and make it a national holiday. Need to work? Mail-in your ballot before-hand and work if you must.
To highlight just how cognitively dissonant society is with ads - we ban smartphones while driving because it's distracting, but the giant TV screen billboard flashing things at me on the highway is totally OK.

Not only are "we" OK with advertising stealing your mental bandwidth, we're also OK with you endangering the lives of everyone around you while it gets stolen!
Named parameters doesn't necessarily mean optional parameters.

However, if you did want optional parameters, you could potentially have them be `Option` types.
I think you're taking the wrong message away from the following simple idea: "Good decisions depend on taking the available information into account." If we take this for granted, then it's not clear why free will is a good thing.

How would you say pre-determined actions and free will are compatible? I would say they are not (and indeed randomness doesn't really help). In contrast, I would claim that the only sensible definition of free will is based on dualism: Many people seem believe there's some inherent aspect of them that is separate from the physical world and is the source of their self and will. If, like me, you don't believe in dualism, then the conclusion is that we don't have free will.
Most game source code I've seen has exhibited this "poorly designed" trait. Some because it was originally written in a single-threaded context and continued to provide shareholder value, and others because it didn't have high enough performance needs to utilize parallelism.

I think that will slowly change over time though, especially for big-budget titles that want to scale with performance better. Architectures like Unity's Job System and the specs package in Rust[1] with a stronger emphasis on staged data processing can help with utilizing cores and cache.

[1] https://github.com/slide-rs/specs
Why create a Frontier-inspired scripting app?
Mutual/Bidirectional NDA, partnership agreement, JV agreement, royalty agreement, statement of work, employment/contractor agreements
I don't really find this distinction useful - essentially it comes down to definitions. It's not a treatment that is well understood in the way that some physiological mechanisms may be understood, but trick is an overloaded term and the persisting feeling that it is a trick may well be dampening furthering our knowledge in this space.

In any case after studying some pharmacology, my takeaway really was that "understand" is a pretty relative term - biochemistry is insanely complex and medical chemistry is a pretty fuzzy thing when it boils down to it...
Pre-internet technology (Web apps re-imagined)
I'm surprised no one is commenting on how poorly this article is written. It lost me at paragraph four.

Paragraphs three and four completely misrepresent the placebo effect. They suggest that it cures problems. That's not what it is. It changes perception. Mental effects, like pain, are what placebo changes. It never cures underlying physical problems.
Unless the user is using IE11. A perhaps not-so-modern but still a mainstream and typically supported browser. But if you're going to specify "old Debian" I think it would be fair to expect it to work on "old browsers" as well. But I think it would be silly to expect it to work in IE 5 anymore than some modern programs working in some old flavor of a Debian distro with outdated libraries.

At some point, like people do with dated web browsers, developers need to tell users they need to update as the developer won't be supporting such outdated software anymore.
Solomonoff induction is not representative of human intelligence.

At least, speaking for myself, I do not exhaustively search literally every hypothesis and match it against my data. Your mileage may vary. Dunno. It's a diverse world out there, right?
Hey Ivan, usually what happens to this kind of a project is corporation knocks to your door and offers a pile of cash you can't reject. Since your project isn't libre open source, it would be nice if you can consider this option. Photopea is great! And it covers all my needs. I would like to teach my son using your product. But I want to be sure that one day I won't see Adobe logo at the top.

Open source under licenses like AGPLv3 will prevent other companies/developers using it for generating the revenue without full source code disclosure (and you'll be able to sell exceptions).

Unfortunately, nowadays the threat of acquiring and killing the product is more realistic than ever.
I'll also add you can use two parsers: one that's super fast on code that's correctly written; if that fails, one that makes error messages easy to handle. sklogic said he used that strategy in his tools for program analysis. The extra code is negligible. I don't know how much extra time or maintenance burden but I figured marginal versus cost of handling errors in first place.
I'm a big fan of your music.
> most developed countries can point to a "great suffering" that made them quickly turn their shit around, akin to an addict hitting rock bottom.

It's an interesting ethical question on paper, but I bet it's one you wouldn't bother to ask if it were you dying from cholera, "for the greater good". In any case, only the living can hit rock bottom, so I salute the humanitarian effort going into saving lives.
> no other public standalone companies

Well, SUSE isn't public, but they're mostly "standalone". And there are plenty of other companies based around a single open source platform.

Sure, they aren't $1B+ companies, but they don't need to be.
That is a great story of grit! Love it, thanks for sharing.
I don't think the point of the article was to say that placebo is a legitimate effect but exploring the philosophy of science implications of the research on placebos the author was reporting on. I'm personally very interested in reading about this sort of stuff and similarly enjoyed their other recent article about Latour but I could also see how someone would think it's non-sense.
> why aren't these techniques turning into AGI?

What prompted you to even ask this question? Where in the article does it say that "These results are step N on the path to AGI!"? This is research: the researchers found a problem that had limited solutions before (learning concepts with limited examples) and came up with a better solution. It's not clear why you're questioning this.

> [on the computability of human intelligence]

This is just silly. Even if human intelligence was beyond the reach of silicon (which I and many real researchers doubt), this work is still useful even if it doesn't result in AGI.

You're too fixated on AGI. It's not the end goal.
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Nice work! Can I ask what the experience was like writing your own view library? Did you find it difficult or relatively easy to put together? Were there any challenges that you didn't anticipate? Also, what is your long term vision for Affinity...is it just a "see if I can do it" project or do you want to see it evolve?