skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd disagree. Encarta had different, almost magazine-like ways to present information. Google has too many blind alleys these days, and Wikipedia is very inconsistent.

Wikipedia is great, until you need to explain to children how to weigh the credibility of the information provided.
That’s how it will always be. You can’t retract an OSS license, and the old ServiceStack v3 you're referring to continues to be available 6 years later:

https://github.com/ServiceStackV3/ServiceStackV3
I’m the same way. Video is such a slow mechanism for consuming information, so unless it’s primary material to bear witness to something, it’s usually just a lot of overhead - slow talking intros, context setting, bias, association, etc.

My memories with Encarta aren’t that special - the searching was cool but I think I was jaded to the cdrom video thing already, wishing it could be better technically. Definitely gave you a sense of what could be possible with an endless source of material, irrespective of copyright.
Just as I was implementing and testing high-priority Google SSO changes at work... it goes down :-)
Looks cool! Would you say this is similar to https://landa.app/ ?
Always interesting to see how fast things have changed in terms of how websites are designed.
Slightly related: I’d love to see a cheap DevBoard available which can be programmed easily and runs well on battery. While ESP8266 and ESP32 dev boards can be programmed easily, they use a lot of power due to their added components and not energy saving way of making.

The ESP8266 and ESP32 chips are reasonably energy saving but there are afaik not
cheap boards which leveraged the property.

The SparkFun ESP8266 Thing [1] might come close, but is not very cheap.

[1]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13231
I assume that each byte of that memory has a 1 clock cycle latency to only one of the 400,000 cores on the wafer. That's about 45KByte of memory per core; 1 clock cycle latency to a block that small is quite reasonable.
> Anything software does that is in some way seen as "intelligent" is seen as AI by a layperson.

I mean... isn't that the technically-correct definition? It's artificial. It's intelligent. So it's artificial intelligence.

Academia can define "AI" as a term however it likes, but in practice people are always just going to interpret it as the brute juxtaposition of the two adjectives that compose it.
Both: build a Progressive Web App (PWA), and also package that up as an app, giving an identical experience either way.
with 200k accounts on Twitter alone, the press teams on Twitter and facebook had plenty to choose from... or china adapter the content to facebook audience?

would be interesting to dig the data they released to create a profile of the profile china have for those audiences
From the status page: We are currently experiencing an issue with authentication to Google App Engine sites, the Google Cloud Console, Identity Aware Proxy, and Google OAuth 2.0 endpoints.
I used to love encarta. The thing I remember most though were the entries on musical instruments from around the world. I remember being blown away by the different types of instruments and used to spent lots of time just clicking the interactive map and reading about them and listening to the different clips they had. That was where I first learned about and heard the difference between all the different types of bag pipes they have in different countries. Up until then, I only knew about the Scottish ones.
Apparently it's mostly acting up in Google Chrome, but not in other browsers for us.
It's usually better not to have the same content at two urls. Whichever one you choose, the other should redirect to; or if you're picky like me, trying to go to the non-published one should send you to the home page on the other --- this reduces the tendency of others to link to the wrong form.
Raspberry pi with openmedia vault or with Nextcloud. Easy to setup, update.
They probably run the benchmark (I guess many times, and not only against nvidia). But yet it is not in the white paper.

I was an SE at an hardware company and it is the first thing that you do as a product manager.
It's an interesting problem. A thing you might keep in mind is that rate scaling with billable time is situational; in some fields, part time might pay lower, but in others, especially in specialized tech fields, "part time" work actually pays (on a billable increment basis) more than full-time work.
The basic `#` is a reserved character in most shells (for comments, typically), and reserved in both POSIX file naming and Windows file naming conventions.

The similar looking Unicode Sharp, however is available.
Stockholm syndrome and self-selection, since people who are not willing to put up with it leave long before they become senior developers
we temporarily fenced our goats

This sounds so much easier than it practically is - unless you're talking electrical fence or have something really decent you can setup temoporarily? Our goats destroy, both willingly and unwillingly, any simple fence in hours or days.

no underbrush or scrub left - just the trees

We have a rather large species of goats (maybe largest, something Nubian) and they eat the bark of trees so unless you get them away from the tree or the tree has a sufficient diameter which makes it hard enough to get their teeth on it, at least 30cm or so, the trees also don't survive :)
How do you get by the laws from state to state? I know people in real estate and escrow and this has always been the challenge. The local state laws for fee, process etc.

You need to work on your UX/UI. This site seems cheap imho. Like it was copied from a template, and no real work is done to it. No about, no help, no info about how you keep things secure if you do that? Nothing about the entire process. Why should I choose you? etc etc..
Ask HN: Seeking a Cofounder
Overview:

I'm looking for a co-founder -- preferably someone with a technical background who can build and understand complex web systems, to build a SaaS startup (with equal ownership). I'm interested in the reviews space, restaurant industry, data science, education -- anything that has a clear benefit to society. I have thoughts of my own but am open to other ideas.

About me:

2 degrees from a top-10 school. Startups (full-stack software engineer, operations), NASA, VC, interdisciplinary AI/medical research; equally receptive to any programming language/stack as long as it's tried and proven. I can commit full-time or part-time to the business. I'm extremely driven but have an overall positive / friendly temperament. Would prefer a co-founder with a similar demeanor who believes that good karma matters.

Expectations:

Looking for someone who is similarly driven and persistent -- someone who won't get flustered/mad or flake when the inevitable obstacles come rolling in. I don't realistically expect an exceptional relationship to blossom overnight, but at the same time don't want to spend too much time philosophizing before getting something out into the world. A US-based co-founder would make things a little easier, but I'm happy to collaborate with those outside of the US and have done so in the past.

Why / Next steps:

I'm posting here since most people in my direct network are not very entrepreneurial, and I know there are others like me who would benefit immensely from collaboration outside of their direct networks. Email osrevnicohsnon@gmail.com if you're interested in chatting and I'll be happy to give some more details :)
This seems like a very slippery slope.

Recently Jackie Chan and Liu Yifei are a couple of higher profile individuals have expressed support for the mainland or condemnation of the protesters' riotous behavior. Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong national - Lieu Yifei is Chinese American. The reason that this is relevant is because we live in the day and age where holding the wrong opinion is increasingly frequently grounds for getting black listed or worse. They feel strongly enough that they're willing to risk an immense amount, just to share their views and values.

They they feel so strongly about this issue is reasonable evidence that many others also likely feel strongly about this issue, and not necessarily in support of the protesters. Consequently, there are undoubtedly large numbers of people expressing genuine negative views against the protesters. How many of these individuals ended up getting banned? It's twitter. A huge chunk of the userbase posts like bots. There's not exactly a whole lot of insightful discussion going on with 140 characters + memes. When you get into political talking points where real people are simply repeating the same talking points at one another, this gets even more extreme.
Information is a Diet. I'm trying to eat well.
Great write-up, concise enough but not too dry.

I generally agree with dropdowns being overused, but this seems too much to me:

> Picking a date from dropdowns is the worst. If I ever do this, then I’ve really failed as a UX designer.

Really? On a laptop, native dropdowns use keyboard input as search, so using tab (granted, not everyone knows this) I can generally enter my age almost as if I was writing it.

On mobile, scrolling through the iOS dropdown control is fine, more comfortable than typing. Scrolling 30 options back to enter my age is the worst part, and getting worse every year, but it isn't that bad.
Japan was never considered evil in the 1980s, even the economic competition aspect is overblown in today’s view. China has always had a much more complicated relationship with the USA, even in the 80s when relations were at a peak due to the Sino Soviet split (and before Tiananmen).
Here in San Diego, they are doing the same thing.
same in brazil and crimea and before that arabspring.

the obvious fake content on youtube and facebook was reported and removed, but all it did was hide the traces of the content that flooded private whatsapp groups.
That's not really accurate either. Netflix's ISP didn't have the bandwidth available. That was the whole dispute. Their ISP wanted a free peering agreement and Comcast just refused.
My gut reaction is that many companies make the majority of their income/deals during the fall/winter/spring (think back to school shopping, Christmas, re-signing contracts for the next year, tax season, etc.) Thus, many companies try to make major infrastructure changes during the summer, when there will be a slightly smaller negative impact on the business's bottom line in case something does go wrong.
One of of the more interesting restaurants that we ate at 3 days a week. I started going with friends and noticed I got a menu and they never ordered. But we all got lunch. After awhile I didn't get an menu either and they just brought lunch. I was a little surprised by this and asked, she said they watched what we ordered and once they got it down, they just brought us things they though we would like.

If you wanted something different, or it was a special you wanted to try all you had to do was ask for it when they took the drink order. Otherwise it was a nice chat, lunch was served and it was great.

I would be into a place like "Mistaken Orders" since I'm sure it would be fine, and a little adventure.
> Nonetheless, many interns love their experience. Free access to the parks and employee discounts are more than enough for some of these Disney kids who have grown up to be Disney interns and may yet become Disney parents. “I’m a Disney slave and I wouldn’t have it any other way,” tweeted one intern proudly.

Leaves me a little speechless, honestly. Are people really so blind in their corporate worship?
Note: Please let me know if this is not suitable for this thread, and I'll delete this.

If you are open to BE devs in GMT +0530, I am currently on a break to take care of my aging/sick family, and looking for a parttime remote role.

Contact information on my profile page.
Very curious which entities get blocked by this policy.

Fox News? The Telegraph?
No. It has been demonstrated on numerous occasions that all IQ tests are ineffective in predicting long term outcomes along any measure.

It’s also been demonstrated in numerous studies that IQ tests are not remotely objective - cultural and other variations produce massive gaps in measured IQ of individuals in different social groups. To the extent that you can engineer IQ tests “without bias” that demonstrate group A is smarter than group B, for almost any groups A and B.

That’s before we get into the borderline statistics, weak methodology, and vanishingly small sample size: 600 infants, so somewhere in the realm of 300/300 split, so they’re saying a p=0.05 result of a 1.3 point drop in IQ. You only need a minor number of infants with learning difficulties to cause that. Even if the testing methodology were sound (which it isn’t).

Addendum:

Per [1] the prevalence of learning disabilities is 7.8% of the population of 3-17 year olds, with 3.8% showing severe learning impairment. So if we take our 600 infants we’d expect around 40 kids with learning difficulties to some extent. But it should be easy to see that at the relatively tiny sample sizes (generously 150 boys in the F vs non-F groups) that minor variance would be more than sufficient to skew things.

Further sample considerations: controlling for all those variables necessarily increases the noise (legit not sure how they get to p=0.05) due to the further reduced group sizes.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK332880/
That's 18GB of static RAM accessible in one clock cycle... the memory on a GPU isn't in the same class of fast. Given the bandwidth and latency of this thing, you'd likely have to use a cluster of machines doing all sorts of pre-, post- and I/O processing just to keep this thing busy.
If HN's view of itself is even 1% accurate, then hundreds of current and future billionares hang out here. ;)
I don't think you're taking the strongest possible interpretation of my statements.

The person I responded to appears to disagree with maven. But they used googles actions as a negative thing, when in the end those actions aligned with his values.
Big Customers Pressure AWS to Step Up Open Source Suppor
Good on Twitter and Facebook.

On top of blocking thousands of websites (which includes Facebook, Google, Twitter) China's government employs thousands of government employees just to purge even the most mild criticism of the CCP on Weibo [1]. They also employ tens of thousands to export their propaganda overseas, using sock puppet accounts to push their worldview[2]. And their worldview is fiercely anti-democratic.

The Internet cannot remain free if we allow governments to use their power to control narratives and suppress the truth. US-based Social media companies are not ideal judges, but at least they publish their methodology and allow public criticism of their platforms.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sina_Weibo#Censorship
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
If you'd like to read a well researched book on the subversive goals of the CCP, I suggest you read "Silent Invasion"[1]. Note that there some critical reviews of this book, suggesting it's connecting dots where there isn't true motive, but little criticism of the evidence presented. I encourage you to read it and make up your own mind and draw your own narrative around the facts.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Invasion-Chinas-Influence-Aust...
I wonder if they bond it to a copper slab. At that scale, the tiniest amount of PCB flex would probably shatter the die/wafer...
As a new person learning Kubernetes I dont really think it is complicated.

If you are familiar with cloud computing and containers, it's pretty straightforward.

But the amount of additional stuff built around Kubernetes - THAT can be overw"helm"ing.
Wouldn't that suggest that the interest rate should be something astronomical?
Good points, and good outlook on the topic. Thank you.
This is a variation of patio11’s “Don’t call yourself a programmer” article https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
Early Careers at Startups: Sheri (Tide and Monzo)
e.g. Madeira Island: Laurel forest doesn't burn by arson, efficiently, people that tried, never succeeded more than 10sq meters, and were arrested. Only Gorse ulex europaeus and eucalyptus not managed forests (all introduced species) did burn out of control, guaranteeing success of the arsonist.

My point is that fire-resistant species would help reduce fire propagation.

Not even in "Pedrógão Grande fire", only after the fires of mid-October 2017 did the Portuguese government started to react, and by react I mean enforcing the law that has been around for 20 years.
Serverless vs. Containers Rap Song
When did this ever happen?
A few buckets of sand also contain more elements than there are synapses in the human brain. They clearly lack any structure, and so are computationally stuck at a big fat '0' no matter what you do with the sand (unless you want to turn it into a giant abacus or turn it into integrated circuits).

Where on the scale between a few buckets of sand and an actual working human brain this chip is is not so much a function of it's structure but of what it does, and the brain's finer structures are so complex that even modelling a few neurons is going to crush that complexity downwards by so many orders of magnitude that we simply hope that we are not accidentally throwing out the useful bits in the simulation.

That's a roundabout way of saying that I think that:

> We are finally approaching the same order of magnitude of complexity in structure.

Is not necessarily true in a way that is relevant. The parts count or basic interconnection may have nothing to do with how the brain is connected internally, nor with how it functions at the lowest levels.
No, it's not. Most of NPR's funding comes from member stations paying dues. Most of the money funding member stations comes from individual donations. A relatively small proportion of funding does come from government grants, but it's misleading to say that NPR is "state funded" (implying complete or majority funding form the state), much less state run.
One thing leads to another, and one ends up listening to the Hunt for Red October movie theme ...

Basil Poledouris - Hymn to Red October: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRG1UixHvos
Twitter permanently banned Alex Jones a couple of days after the above article was published.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/06/twitter-permanently-bans-ale...
Neither NPR nor the BBC are "state run". NPR is funded by the state as well as private donations (don't know as much about the BBC), but it's an important distinction, especially in this context.
There is so much fallacious thinking here it would make me look like a pedantic doof to list them all. Suffice it to suggest that you consider accounting for the fact that there are real things actually happening outside of your mind.
I have a Fujitsu Scansnap 1500 and a heavy duty paper guillotine (basically a very sharp, very tall blade, kind of like this one on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/HFS-Heavy-Guillotine-Paper-Cutter/dp/...). The ScanSnap came with a license to Abbyy's OCR software (which is good for words but it makes for interesting jumbles when you have tables and of course no math recognition). And the Foxit PDF editor version.

Since most of the text books I've scanned are hard covers I cut off the covers, scan those on flatbed scanner, then disassemble the binding to remove the pages. Cut off the margins to get to something closer to 8.5" wide (more modern text books have been "experimenting" with page sizes).

Disassembly takes about 20 minutes, scanning takes another, 10 minutes depending on how many sets I need to scan (the paper feeder for the ScanSnap is nominally 75 pages, but if it gets overloaded can misfeed). Occasionally I'll get a misfeed (two pages feed at the same time) and I generally clean the paper handling belts every 10 or 15 books because they get accumulation that make them less effective at gripping the paper.
Fsql: Search through your filesystem with SQL-esque queries
Probably true. But I notice, not infrequently, that stuff which is posted to HN ends up showing up on other news sites a day or two later. So I get the feeling some reporters/writers mine HN for content/ideas regularly which would make it more of an influencer and thus attractive. But still probably unlikely TBH.
IIRC they use batch size = 1 and each core only know about one layer. Which is to say this thing has to be trained very differently from normal SGD (but requires very little memory). There is also the issue that they rely on sparseness, which you get with relu activations, but if, for example, language models move to gelu activations they will be somewhat screwed.
I apologize, but I really am having a hard time understanding your question at all. Every non-trivial computation requires some kind of conditional.

The first computers were literally people, they computed. There wasn't really a lot of "conditional" work to what they did, they did math (principally numerical work) like generating tables of data and compiling the results. They still needed some conditionals, like if a value was over a certain threshold, use a particular formula or change some parameter.

The early mechanical computers were largely tabulators of the same sort, but machines and not people. But as you want to express more complicated computations, you need the ability to branch. Conditionals are just a means for executing such a branch. Even the simplest of computational machines (in the theory sense) like regular expressions and deterministic finite automata include a branch or conditional element: Given input C while in state S go to state S'. A simple way to visualize this decision matrix is with a table:

Input | S_0 | S_1
-----------------
0 | S_0 | S_0
1 | S_1 | S_1
Accepting states = {S_0}

Is a simple machine that will recognize any binary string ending in '0'. In each state, a decision is made on what the next state should be based on the input. This isn't even a Turing complete system, DFAs can only recognize regular languages. This cannot be done without some sort of conditional branching capability. You may be able to encode this in a hardware description language such that the conditional is obscured or obfuscated, but it's still there.

Even trying to compute taxes or payroll depended on conditionals (income level determines which tax brackets you pay into, over a certain amount of income you've maxed out Social Security). And that was one of the earliest (commercial) uses for computational devices.

Now, the way we express conditionals may change from one language or system to another. In Erlang, you can remove a lot of `if` expressions using pattern matching, consider the simple computation of the Fibonacci numbers as an example:

fib(0) -> 1;
fib(1) -> 1;
fib(N) -> fib(N-1) + fib(N-2).

A conditional is right there: If N = 0, return 1; if N = 1, return 1; else return fib(N-1)+fib(N-2). Haskell and other functional languages use similar constructs, and you can include other guards:

fib(0) -> 1;
fib(1) -> 1;
fib(N) when N > 1, is_integer(N) -> fib(N-1) + fib(N-2).

This removes the potential for infinite recursion by adding an additional guard, now this function is only valid for non-negative, integral inputs. It has been transformed now to: If N = 0, return 1; if N = 1, return 1; if N > 1 and N is an integer, return fib(N-1)+fib(N-2); else signal an error.
The problem is not if it bigger than nvidia (which is kind of a strange metric). It is when Amdhal law kicks in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
This is a really good point. I don't think I'd given enough weight to this offline processing before.