skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The semantic web was much richer.

You could build an ontology in RDF [1] or OWL [2] and link the grammars together.

FOAF [3] was a means of describing your friends and social connections, and it allowed rich annotation.

No tools were ever built around this because by the time it started taking off, Facebook and MySpace were already a thing.

The great thing about these technologies is that the graph is public and you could write tools to ingest, export, and exchange the information. We never got to that, though.

The technology was centered around graphs and triple stores, allowing you to apply subject-predicate labels to anything. The URI became a central node, document, and ontology identification scheme.

There were languages like SPARQL for querying rich triplestore databases, but they never really took off. Again, Google and Facebook were already huge by the time these started to mature.

If you think the promise of blockchain is exciting, you should take a look at what the Semantic Web could have been...

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/

[3] http://www.foaf-project.org/
Holy crap! This is insanely awesome. I just tried out one of the courses and it's way easier to use this.
These are hearing amplifiers, not hearing aids. The difference being that hearing aids can boost certain frequency bands to compensate for hearing loss at those frequencies. The hearing amplifiers boost all the audio frequencies in a one size fits all manner. There's no signal processing going on. Maybe that is good enough for your father, maybe not.
Apple is not reviewing the source code, they probably looking at what system calls you use and maybe they do what anti-virus software do on Windows, check for signatures or something like that. From my limited knowledge you can have your executable very obfuscated and make it impossible for someone to easily understand what is happening.

The thing is nobody would force the normal users to side load things, the number of applications for Android that are not in the store is small and I think only Fortnite was one with popularity and the number of people sideloading it was not that big.
I think the point of this article was not to bash standups but to give an example of empowering your team to make decisions.

Be bold. Make change. Improve the way you work.

Was cancelling standups going to far? Maybe. But that's not the point.
Aha, so when an interstellar empire comes around and fucks up our planet -- if not outright just sending an asteroid our way, it's justified because we are of a lower technological level?

The humans and proto-humans of the past weren't 'stupid'. And even if they were comparatively, 'stupidity' isn't a justification for committing harmful actions, degrading, or otherwise treating the recipient as lesser. This sounds like a philosophy that encourages "well I'm going to hurt you and it must be right because you can't stop me or dissuade me".
The sentiments here seem to be generally "Why launch anything at all" or "Stop killing things". I think there's a middle ground that google doesn't seem to see: if there are passionate people involved, why not let these things grow on their own? Spin them out, give the lead developers a paid year off in return for a 10% equity stake or similar. Or if no one wants it, why not sell/gift it? Why throw all this potential away?
If you look up the researchers working on the stuff you think you might be able to help with - just email them. They may even have some budget to help you out. I've found most scientists to be super open to talking w/ interested parties, and often willing to let you help for free :)

Some are busy divas, or busy in general, or also teaching and busy, so it doesn't always work, but there are a lot of folks out there doing research, so just keep shooting!
> This situation is much like the browser nightmares of the past, where Firefox users complained that the browser was slow. People didn't really take into account that the slowness wasn't fault of Firefox, but of the zillion janky browser extensions people freely installed. Chrome came along, and people were wowed by how fast it was, not realizing it was 'fast' because they hadn't installed 47 browser extensions yet.

Not really relevant to your point, but Chrome was legitimately faster than Firefox for a long time. It wasn't just extension bloat, V8 was a huge leap in JS speed and Chrome optimized the hell out of rendering. Firefox wasn't able to bridge that gap until their recent Quantum initiative.
> An acquired taste ... You have to learn to like it.

Why? it tastes inedible, repulsive and vile to me. I'm happy for your tastes, but people tend to either like licorice from an early age, or never do. The preference seems strongly innate, not "acquired". Why put myself through something horrid that my body does not want and never will?
If you only have 30 minutes a month, you’re not the target audience.

It’s also wildly expensive at that point. How much are you paying to game per hour? Much more than going to a movie.
It’s hilarious how small these busts are. 179 people, 500 kg of drugs, $6.5 million of cash/crypto? $6.5 million probably doesn’t build the entryway to the “Sackler gallery.”
Have you reaccumulated a lot of stuff since then? That's always the part I fall down on :(
I think I'm onboard as long as the procedure is cumbersome enough, and the registered adult owner of the device confirms that they understand and agree the warranty and support is void.

If you want to keep iOS as well... at that point, I do feel Apple is also in its right to remove all trademarked content from the phone running an iOS-like OS. AppStore, applications, remove all reference to words like "iPhone". So it would be a very bare-bones iOS-like.

Because otherwise it could negatively impact their brand. Their brand is built on the premise they build amazing products for customers who want those products. If someone looks at your "modified, uncurated iPhone" and thinks it "feels janky" or "poor UX" or "bad battery life" or ..."" that could result in that person not buying/recommending an iPhone.

Apple clearly values its brand highly and I can see why they would want their brand to be distanced from the type of device you would like.
In Denmark we mixed in some pepper with the salt, making salty licorice with pepper inside (Tyrkisk Peber). People love that stuff.
Semantic web is still here, it's just not a dominant headline.

As an enterprise architect I've evaluated most of the major AWS and GCP offerings. We still decided to look into semantic web for many use cases, and it was still the best solution.

Semantic web is many things, so I'll narrow it down to one of the most impressive offerings; RDFox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpB_tl1Vc0A

You use RDFox when you want a graph database but you also want reasoning. You can do logical deduction to infer new information. Just like programming languages evolved to have modules and namespace systems, semantic web allows you to namespace entities to more easily share data. It's based on descriptive logic, a subset of first order logic.

The alien features I don't see anywhere else;

* I can add logic to my graph database and have it execute as soon as I insert data into the database

* Recursive queries is way easier than SQL

* Forget materialized views and generated columns, RDFox can automatically apply descriptive logic to update facts as soon as you insert data into the database "incremental reasoning"

* The magical declarative syntax that gets reconciled that have made tools popular, like, kubernetes, terraform, graphQL, react, it's now generalized for you to use in any app at almost any scale

* You can put business rules in your database, and even if they heavily chain off other rules, it's lightening fast. You can also just type "explain" to see how data was derived

* If you have streaming pipelines that you were sending to ETL and import back, in many cases you can use the streaming inference to do this all for you without separate apps

* You can import data from Wikidata and other massive RDF based sources. This abstract wikipedia project coming up may have broad implications to the availability of RDF, especially if they're successful and it's heavily copied everywhere for other domains
> I doubt it's genetic

Why doubt it so much? "It's genetic" would be the simplest explanation why the preference so fixed and polarising. And also why it's concentrated in some geographic regions.
You probably could of given most of it away
The Polite Type
> have broad powers to do pretty much anything under 46 USC 264.

If it really is "do pretty much anything", its probably also an unconstitutional delegation of Congressional lawmaking power, since one of the three required pieces of a Constitutional delegation ïs that the law must clearly specify "the boundaries of this delegated authority." Mistretta v. United States, 488 U.S. 361 (1989), and the rightward turn of the courst since Mistretta may work against the Administration here, because it is the conservative wing of the court that has historically had the most negative view of delegations (In Mistretta itself, which found the challenged act a valid delegation, Scalia was the lone dissenter and would have found it an unconstitutional delegation.)
Because then it's easier to justify enslaving or killing them. Mostly we just don't even want to know.
Is Breaking Bad addictive? It's a good show, and it's compelling, but my analysis wouldn't conclude that it is addictive.
Selling separately destroys the iPhone brand and business model. Far fewer would pay for a separate OS, iPhones would have to be more expensive if they didn’t bundle a services component, customers wouldn’t trust iPhone as much.

There is a simple solution, and it’s not misguided delusional antitrust talk. It’s buying the other type of smartphone that is 85% of unit sales world wide.
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This is fantastic and reminds me of when I learned that crows look like this in eastern europe and other places, not all black like in the US :)
> Everything I've read suggests you would be much better off using black coffee to wean from a soda habit, especially if you don't like the taste of black coffee (because it might just wean you off caffeine altogether). The ritual of brewing a cup of coffee (even as simplified as it has gotten with modern single cup machines) is a useful slowdown to measure your doses by.

I find this funny. I don't have a soda habit (I do not enjoy drinking it regularly, but a couple times a month, maybe, is nice) but I drink a lot of black coffee! I love the taste, and even though I grind beans on a per-cup basis, and my kettle takes a while to get hot, and there is some cleanup involved, it doesn't stop me whatsoever. If I didn't like the taste, and needed milk/sugar, maybe things would be a different story...
Aww, you got me. :)

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/08/25/armadeaddon-gr...
From a Nordic country myself and have never experienced that effect, nor heard of anyone who would eat it for that. We just like it for the taste. Getting a little more cautious from reading all the comments here though!
Shopify Threatens Store Closure if Censorship Demands are not met
> Holding breath to operate them (until they can do it remotely) is inconvenient but they are pretty good at it.

Nitpick: Dolphins breathe air.
Just to add here, the article's author is an expert on middle period (Tang-Song) China (her first book was on local deities, her second on contracts). She then shifted her focus a bit westward to the Silk Road. She has apparently shifted her focus yet again. I'm not an expert on pre-Columbian archaeology. But neither is she.
Anethole, one of the major flavour components of liquorice, is shared among a range of popular cooking herbs and spices.

Milder-tasting fennel goes great with loads of cooking, it's quite common to chop up a fennel root to add to slow-cook roasts / braises, or sprinkle fennel seeds over roasts and mix into dry rubs.

Anise has a stronger flavour than fennel, which lends itself to stocks, sauces and curries.

Less commonly you'll see liquorice root itself used in cooking, I haven't used it myself but I don't see why it wouldn't work - if balanced out and seasoned properly.

edit: Of course, just pan frying a slab of black liquorice with salt and butter would get mixed reactions, personally I'd find it overpowering, like eating straight up peppercorns even though they work well in moderation as a seasoning.
I think you are missing some opportunity for ML to identify the ideal strap count for each individual user.
Me think you are in a bit too deep and may be underestimating how things can go wrong.

Another possibility is that you have a high risk tolerance as well as an uncommon knack for this sort of thing that most people don’t have.
The point is not to fear undefined behavior (though if my software was used in safety systems, I would fear undefined behavior).

The point is to eliminate it because it can cause problems in even the most well-tested code, either when the code inevitably operates outside the test parameters or when compilers or compile flags or system headers change.

Eliminate it both reactively and protectively. Not only in your own code, but encourage others to do the same.
Don't ignore your potential customers. I found great value in allowing a potential/client to actually use the demo/program/app. It can provide excellent (free) feedback to improve your product.
That also correlates, agreed.
This is awesome! Plans to include data science topics? Seems awesome for web (and the python course).

Just tried it out for a couple hours, a little feedback on the UI:
-After I changed code around, I clicked "play" on the video (mistakenly thinking it would run my code)- of course it resumed the video, and all my code changes/additions were gone. Frustrating for a few times, until I learned my lesson.
-After a video finished, I started editing code, but the auto-advance kicked in, moving me to the next video, and ending my code edit.
Similar to this art project made in a disused room in the Copenhagen Central Train Station:
https://www.rapolitics.dk/produktioner-2/hip-hop-samlingen/s...
For the glory? Because even chumps deserve justice? Because someone needs to defend the reputation of digicoins?
Humans can weld underwater - with equipment that they built on dry land, using materials that they created on dry land. Could they have created the materials underwater? It would have been hard, even knowing how.
Very much this. Even more with places like ours where all of our cows have horns (highlands). I can see all sorts of bad things happening when two cows get hooked together when a horn slips under another cow's collar.

Add to that, my wife can gather and guide the entire herd with a bucket full of cubes, or every even random junk in a pinch to get them to go anywhere she wants whenever she wants.
Indeed. I'm a Dutch guy who migrated to the US and have had to import all my licorice from abroad since it just doesn't taste the same.

Though, now I may want to rethink this consumption.
Instead of being widely distributed w/agents it is stuck in a data store reasoned over off-line and served as a Knowledge Graph (materialized in a solr index) for a limited domain.

in my world anyway
Never heard about this before, thanks for sharing
Sure, but it is still redeemable value for an attacker, yet attacks are relatively scarce. Or scarce enough for people to keep putting money into it. That's the point I was trying to make.

I know what you mean by "no underlying assets" but I'd say it's arguable. Does BTC (WBTC) have value? By this time it seems like it does. There are also billions of dollars of "stablecoins" on the network. Are they a valid underlying asset? So far it seems like they are... Things have no underlying value until they all of a sudden do, I think that's the story of Bitcoin. A story of value too.
We can make up for it by uplifting their species with our technology.

I sincerely believe we should be doing this - it's a core premise of one of my favorite novels: Sundiver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundiver
They can be sold here, but they can't be marketed as "hearing aids" afaik.
> Apple wanted to create their own little world. Phones with updates that keep on getting updated, an app marketplace with much more transparent pricing (lot less fine print), and the list goes on.

Other than anti-trust and similar laws, there is nothing stopping Apple from eventually creeping it onto the web. It's "their" device after all.
True, but perhaps they could harness technology we never thought of as valuable. Perhaps they could build structures around sea vents, or use sticks and weeds to build pens in which to farm fish. Many possibilities exist. They could even be doing agriculture right now and we wouldn't even know it.
Just call it a subsidy.
>The principle that would be applied when considering game consoles.

What "principle" is that, specifically? I genuinely don't understand.

Is it my usage of disparaging terms? If so, that's fair. If not, can you articulate why the idea put forth that it's useless to compare consoles and smartphones is somehow violating a "first principle".

What first principle does that idea violate?
That's fair. When it comes up, it's usually limited to explicit threats.

Basically if you don't flat out say "I'm going to do X", that's not really counted.

But I can see why it's confusing for an outsider.
Not, is from the root of a legume. Anything that substitutes cereal flour by legume flour is gluten free. Same if you just mash the dried root to extract the flavor, instead to eat the candy bar.

The problem is that legume flour is normally very toxic in raw, and therefore more complicated to produce.

Legumes have a much better reputation than Solanaceae, but they are still able to build some serious chemical weapons. Licorice belongs to the same tribe as Colutea, a genus used to poison mammals. Is the only genus seen as edible in its group if I'm not wrong. I don't know if it can be adulterated.
> even if they were comparatively, 'stupidity' isn't a justification for committing harmful actions, degrading, or otherwise treating the recipient as lesser

I don't think the GP was saying it is. I think he was trying to look at it from the dolphins' point of view: he was proposing that the fact that they didn't use any of their intelligence (assuming they have it) to construct ways to defend themselves from other intelligent species, like humans, was a mistake on their part.
Ask HN: How do you know when it's time to leave a team?
Software engineers all change teams or jobs every so often. Sometimes it's for personal reasons, sometimes it's for compensation, location, etc.

What about when there's no clear self-interest or benefit in changing teams? How did you know when it was the right time? The specific case I have in mind is leaving one team in BigCo and joining another team in BigCo, but the same is applicable in many other situations as well.
> Nothing about it would make it either developer friendly, nor consumer friendly.

That doesn't sound too bad to me from either side TBH. As a developer, it would be useful to have a choice between multiple publishers with the advantage of only needing to deal with one at a time instead of three. I also think competition in app stores would spur a bunch of innovation.

As a consumer with an Android phone, a Windows PC, and an iPad as a tablet, the idea of buying all my stuff from one company's app store and having the licensing work across all 3 devices is extremely appealing.

I think one of the biggest fears of Apple, Google, etc. is that it's very possible someone will come along and build a better app store with better policies for both developers and consumers.

Here's a concrete example of "better". Judging by this [1] apps in iOS 14 can specify a DoH resolver to use for DNS.

> Apps will be able to specify a DoH resolver that will override the DNS resolver set by DHCP or RA for queries made from their app.

Guess what that means? Apple is going to let developers override MY choice as a network admin and DoH is going to be used for un-blockable ads. Why should they be able to do that? I would absolutely buy into an app store that forbid that behavior and forced apps to observe DHCP settings over app settings.

I'd also be fine with an app store that didn't force the use of sign in with Apple or Apple Pay. And that's where the problem is for Apple. Forcing developers to use Apple technologies isn't benefitting anyone but Apple. You might argue that it's better for consumers, but if those are features wanted by developers' customers, developers will add them without being forced to.
Language seems incredibly important, it may actually be the basis for our ability to build abstract concepts, not to mention share knowledge.
> With social media, this is more nebulous, but I do think part of what makes systems like Facebook "engaging" is the anxiety they create when you aren't on them, and the low self-image that users try to assuage by posting flattering photos of their life.

> Part of addiction (and advertising too, for that matter) is creating a need for your product in the mind of the user. They were probably happier before they had that need in the first place.

I cannot agree with this. Facebook cannot be responsible for people wanting to be on the site/app or for which photos of their life they choose to post. I thought we were discussing the methods by which they make people want to be on FB.

As for your last paragraph, I may be missing your point. Advertising is creating a need for your product, or tapping an existing need. People being happier before they had that need cannot be a reason to stop companies from trying to sell a product. If you bought something that made you feel worse, you would probably just stop using it.
Now, if you can't stop using it because you're addicted, but the company didn't do anything illegal to make their product addictive and the risks are clear (not saying this is FB case), why should they be blamed?

If I totally missed your point, please feel free to enlighten me.
One particularly early, groggy morning I was walking into work and there were a few crows pecking around the grass by the sidewalk. Lost in my thoughts I hear a raspy old man say, "good morning". I look around and don't see anyone, then I look at one of the crows and it looks me right in the eye and repeats, "good morning". I doubted my sanity for a few days before confiding in my wife what happened and was surprised and very much relieved when I learned crows could talk.
I didn't read the article or have anything to add, I just wanted to share this.
I disagree. Just because you can easily spend $200 on crap shoes, doesn't mean better companies don't make good $200 shoes (and more likely better shoes for $65 or $100). I find that shopping by brand is important in clothing.
The power to... not have to pay Apple so much for in app purchases in the app store? How does that hurt you, the consumer?
Except for Australian Hawks, who use wildfire to flush out smaller animals.
Can a physician not just call it in?
It's through cases like this that you realize that what actually matters to the world is whatever gets the most attention.

If you are doing amazing work that benefits hundreds, thousands or even millions of people, but nobody is paying attention, then it will be really hard to justify it.

Conversely, shallow stuff that might only benefit a few but gets tons of attention, is easy to justify and keep going.
For some context at 1M deaths so far, and pessimistically if we end 2020 with 1.5M global deaths, this would be <3% increase over 2019 deaths (https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths), and with most deaths being of the elderly.