skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, there was general failure of AI due to overhype in 1980s, hitting hard in early 1990s, with some marking a big chunk of the hype starting after (non-hype) papers about Digital's XCON paper.

Some of it was due to non-delivery of hyped predictions, some of it was due to sudden disappearance of military funding that helped spread the hype.

The 5th generation project was part of the hype, but at least in the west, lesser part of the winter.

The original AI Winter was, iirc, related to UK report in 1960s/1970s.

The second AI winter killed a lot of advancement in computing in general, combined with new waves of programmers coming from very limited environments who were never exposed to more advanced, capable techniques - by the time they got to play with them, AI winter was in full swing and they were pushed out as "toys".

While expert systems in naive form were definitely not the answer to many generic problems, they are often part of the answer, and the amount of time I hit cases of "this could be done as rule system and be clearer", or even "Why can't I depend on features of 1980s XCON in 2020??? It would have saved me so much money!" is simply depressing.

(n.b. I suspect a significant portion of why many modern shops don't even look toward features like XCON - which ensured correct configuration in computer orders - is because the norm became that customer pays for anything like missing necessary pieces)
I understand what you're saying and I'm not having a go at you but "really, really, really fucking bad second order effects" are what exactly?
Telling anyone that people in 300 years will judge them negatively isn't really going to motivate them to change. I'm personally at the point where there needs to be a set of horror stories written in non-tech language about data people share directly impacting their life. But what are those stories?
> The use-mention distinction, any nuance and context whatsoever stopped mattering.

I don't think this is a good argument in general to be made when trying to justify the rise of the far-right, but in this particular instance, where Maher made an offensive attempt at humor, it's unjustified.

The context of the incident doesn't really matter to the article in question, and if one would want to know about context it's really easy to find out - this is an artice on the internet and not in a print after all.

And there is really not much nuance to his comment that would justify an in depth explaination.
Modern science has basically confirmed that he was right. There are plenty of studies which show how dangerous having a desk job is.
I think the objection to statistics about immigration (or minority populations) and crime is that they are inherently misleading because they generally compare crime rate to the population as a whole (as you did, jumping to the per capita), rather than to equivalent socio-economic groups. Consider two headlines: "immigrants commit most of the violent crime in this country" vs "most violent crime in this country is committed by poor people, and most immigrants are poor". How you phrase the headline makes a big difference in how people might think about policy.
They were trying to figure out the root cause of a sudden uptick of millions of requests being made for a given image with no user agent or referer, presumably with a view to notifying the app responsible or figuring out a workaround.

A few thousand requests from clearly identifiable as coming from browsers and with a referer header from news.ycombinator.com would not exactly interfere with this and in the grand scheme of things isn't a huge burden in terms of network traffic.
We’re literally looking for evidence that there was carbon life on the planet next door. When you consider that, just in the image provided, there are at least 1B x 1B solar systems. 1e18. Or about as many solar systems as there are grains of sand on the planet earth.

Considering that the building blocks of life have been detected on random asteroids arriving on planet earth (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/goddard/2019/sugars-in-me...), and the capacity for intelligence to evolve in distinct branches of our own DNA (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14668), I personally think it’s hard to say that in all likelihood we’re alone.
I'm asking you this as I believe it will help me in the future. Is having the knowledge about the tool better that having the skills to solve a set of problems? If I really want a position within a specific company (for whatever reason) but they use a language with which I haven't worked before but am willing to learn (and definitely have the learning skills for that!), would I be in a disadvantage with respect to another candidate, one that has extensive knowledge about the language (and ecosystem), even if I would have experience in the "field of the app being built"?
> which meant that when AZ lawyers interpreted both contracts together they concluded that they had to priorities the UK.

The UK negotiated completely independent supply chain that they paid for up front. It isn't comparable.
Trying to be smart by copying my other post doesn't really work here, does it?
As a self-described Wagnerian (see my profile), I am very very happy to see this on the HN front page.

This article is the kind of subject that would be discussed at my local Wagner meetup.

For a good biopic on Wagner, I recommend the Richard Burton rendition from 1983.
That's not true. You can use any racial slur in Germany to describe said slur. The laws only ever apply to insults, which have to be directed at someone. There's no "N-word" equivalent where people talk about a specific word but then somehow don't say it.
What's "kqps"? It's obviously kilo-{somethings} per second, but I don't know what the {something} would be

edit: queries?
Tangential, reminds me of this question about name of the decades https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/107437/there-are-70s...
That's (generally) not how a corporate VPN works.

Each client that connects to the VPN gets it's own IP, just the same as every PC plugged into the physical corp net gets it's own IP. When you access an internal service, it's no different to a desktop on the LAN accessing it in terms of ability to identity the end user.
Communities online all seem the same--have you seen Reddit?
Any kind of source that requires rendering is inherently fragile. We’ve all seen old posts messed up by a template change. There is no reason to think that GitHub will live (and continue to render markdown) much longer than, say, GeoCities.

The simplest subset of HTML you can manage coupled with an uncomplicated layout and no external assets is better in terms of longevity.
This is true of all types of editing if it is done badly. An editors job is to improve a piece of writing without taking away the author's 'voice'.
Hi mate,

very interesting library. Keep it up.

Improvement suggestion: While reading the README, the JSON library comparison [1] it's confusing, at least to me. It uses symbols like: ○, and △ which are not obvious. I would rather use "yes/no" or the classic check/x (unicode chars, HN does not support them here) if you want to use symbols. I don't know what "△" even means, so I cannot suggest an alternative.

Just my 2 cents.

[1]: https://github.com/goccy/go-json#json-library-comparison

Edit: This 2021 I have the objective to contribute more to OS projects. Is it OKay if I submit a PR with the change? Thanks!
Advanced NumPy: Master stride tricks with 25 illustrated exercises
You can also generate similar scale astronomical images with GANs!

I worked on a model that could do this last year:

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10286

7.6 gigapixel image: https://star.herts.ac.uk/~jgeach/gdf
When the data no longer fits inside a compute resource (a node, or even a rack), you are by necessity going to be distributed. Communication is a fact of life when the problem-size grows. This is true also for GPU-based computing.
The worst of two worlds :P
Is there a tunneller version?
How effective are the group sessions in therapy for alcohol/drug addiction?
In group therapy, the people dealing with addiction can speak about their problems, health issues, emotional issues and everything they want to talk about and listen to others as well. It works as a psychological treatment where the addict can connect to others and think about his life in a positive way. Group therapies can be very helpful to motivate them to get sober and live a better life.
https://landmarkrecovery.com/services/mindfulness-recreational/
> tale about a dubious thing

I don't understand? The difference between author and NYT reporter is one reported a lie, and the other reported based off of facts (though will a lot of emotion/ tone).
best comment i've read in a while.

KISS
I think I’m more impressed that the omnipresent being turned out to be a bookmaker :)
I don't think that's realistic for the majority of front-end developers working at companies. Even for freelancers the client will often have existing tech in place or a preference.
Too bad they did not learn how to write.
Man to pay £25,000 damages over negative TrustPilot review
Incidentally and apropos to the subject at hand, McNeil's apology is a pretty good one:

“I was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself,” McNeil said in his note to the staff. “I should not have done that. Originally, I thought the context in which I used this ugly word could be defended. I now realize that it cannot. It is deeply offensive and hurtful. The fact that I even thought I could defend it itself showed extraordinarily bad judgment. For that I apologize.”

https://www.thewrap.com/ny-times-reporter-donald-mcneil-jr-o...
AWS is recruiting a principal product manager for their Elasticsearch fork
Huawei Analytics Kit and Jianghu Games
I don’t think I’ve ever sent a Dropbox link and have received few enough to count on both hands. Dropbox for me always seemed like a polished file sync solution with associated/inadvertent offsite backup that later bolted on a not-quite-polished file share function.
The difference between AAA and indie games seems to be night and day in terms of working conditions

I'll take "boring" (but not too boring) and pays the bills any day before "cool but will be unhealthy mentally/physically"
Apple uses a VPN. Most stuff needed to get work done (version control, e-mail, bug tracker) is behind it.
I am playing with the sample part. Can you explain the difference between best price and best value?

The best value quote seems to provide a more expensive and slower estimate, compared to the best price quote.
In interviews with Jimmy Wales, he seems somewhat regretful of not having made Wikipedia a for-profit. At the least, he's fairly adamant that Wikipedia could have been Wikipedia as a for profit.

The way he structured wikipedia, from back-end infrastructure to ownership/governance structure was just the logical way of doing the project. Times were different. Online culture was different.

I don't want to overinterpret the man, or put words in his mouth... but... I got the impression that Wales thinks that if he was starting Wikipedia now, he'd just do it asd a startup and also succeed.

To me, this is almost sad. Besides being an awesome encyclopedia, wikipedia is existence proof for something of scale outside the norm. Something that isn't a corporation. A lot of things are deterministic to the structure of an organization.

For example, take the current postpostmodern war over truth and stuff: platforming/deplatforming, freedom of speech, censorship, bias, manipulation, narrative = power issues, etc. Wikipedia is at the very centre all these problems. Whatever difficulties Twitter is experiencing should be 100X worse for wikipedia. Meanwhile, Wikipedia is withstanding far better, and with far more integrity. I don't think this is a coincidence.

Dunking on wikipedia's budget/spending is popular. Meanwhile, Wikipedia uses <1% of the resources/budget of Twitter. They are operating @ >100X efficiency compared to a realistic for-profit equivalent. That's a flying shuttle.

We know that Wikipedia, Linux & The Worldwide Web are possible because they exist. We literally wouldn't know otherwise. Theory couldn't have gotten us to this knowledge. Each is existence proof for other ways of doing things. They aren't necessarily roadmaps, but I'm a big believer in existence proofs. What Jimmy made is 100X better, more important and non-inevtiable than what Zuck made. The thought that he wants to be Zuck bums me out.
Secure Mobile Wallet Account?
One second to read GitHub code with VS Code
I share the opinion of the author of this article. However this resort at the end of this article might be an illusion, the backend also suffers from complexity, you have package managers there as well (Composer if you use PHP), complex frameworks like Symfony/Laravel, cumbersome ORMs and for deployments you need Docker, Kubernetes, specific cloud tools, Elastic Search. It's also very complex these days. Personally I no longer enjoy modern web development at all. There is also the hyve-mind, if you dissent you get mocked, ridiculed and you encounter all kinds of aggression. It's all very depressing. I still love to code, so I started creating my own programming language Citrine (for which I got death threats by the way) - so that project is kind of my escape where I can still do things the way I want it. To be honest I don't know what happened to web development. At a certain point in time, I had the impression the web community consisted mainly of bright, intelligent and most of all, open-minded people. Today, it looks all enterprisey and there is a lot of peer pressure, maybe even dogma to conform to the norm. So, sorry for the personal notes here, but I guess I can relate to the story of the author very much. I personally think it's time for me to close this chapter and look for another line of work, because coding in an enterprise situation is just not something I want to do with the rest of my life as well. I would like to thank the author for this article, it's good to know I am not the only one who feels this way.
Is ReactOS capable of running all the Windows software OK already? I'm curious if I can actually use it instead of Windows whenever I need a Windows VM.
> they might be willing to pay you for them.

I think we have some differences of opinion about the point of students not having the solutions.

(Hint: Some people arent as greedy as you)
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> a very vocal subset of the gamers is treating gaming as the only purpose their lives have, and will viciously attack developers personally with death threats and doxxing,

That reminds me of the gamers on twitter who lost their shit when cyberpunk was delayed... because they had already requested a week holiday.
Thats true. But I guess for big project there was a reason to choose some framework. Usually with big projects without any framework you would end up with your own custom framework anyway to speed up development and it would cause onboarding new team members would be harder. But sometimes this is also necessary, look at FB, they built React because they needed it and later it was adopted by community and other companies. Its realy just about what your project needs. Btw. with backend development its same or maybe worse. There are as many languages and frameworks for backend development as stars on the sky :D.
I don't think that's solely on developers. Companies try to "penetrate" the market as much as possible as cheaply as possible. They take away power from power users because it is just too much effort for them for too small a number of people.

Do your job of being our product and make as little fuss as possible.
The first sin of computing was platform diversity: the greatest leap forward in computing was platform diversity.

Ever since, we've been trying to grapple with that problem and opportunity.

If browsers didn't evolve incompatibly during the early days of web scripting, much of this never would have come into being. But then we would have had to wait another couple decades for AJAX, etc.

Unfortunately, I do get a sense that the younger generation looks at the polyfill complexity produced by the 90s and assumes that's the baseline by which things should be done.

... and, not to put too fine a point on it (and with deference to all the folks working in front end who know more about computer science than I ever will!), front end web development has a huge amount of developers who lack formal, in depth and breadth computer science education. Those who never learned the past, doomed to repeat it, etc.
This is a distinction without a difference. What use is a bitcoin transaction that is not included in a block?
I think our worst enemy now is backward compatibility. I wish we could use other technologies/langs to target FE development without transpoling to js. I hope that webassembly will deliver.
As I wrote in a comment[1] in their other attention-seeking post[2], they keep talking about "risks" and "vulnerability".

There's no exploit or vulnerability here (despite their use of the "PoC" and "responsible disclosure" terms that apply to such things). The fact that you can detect a Signal proxy as a Signal proxy isn't a vulnerability; if it gets censored you're no worse off than you were if that proxy didn't exist: the main Signal servers are censored in Iran already. Indeed, this is the Signal circumvention proxy working precisely as designed.

As I understand it, these people got banned from the Signal forum for spreading this FUD there, too. Predictably, they started accusing Signal of some coverup. They managed to get an interview to further publicize their FUD, but eventually reason prevailed and that was pulled by the author, too.

Sometimes I really wonder the motives and identities behind the people causing such massive and unnecessary drama and fear in the community surrounding the only mainstream, reliable, end-to-end encrypted messenger out there. iMessage and WhatsApp both got their end-to-end crypto backdoored en masse via plaintext backup/escrow systems, but Signal remains generally safe and secure (provided general endpoint security practices are followed). These sorts of FUD attacks make me wonder about why they're happening, and the motives and incentives of the people causing them.

One of the people harassing Moxie about it on Twitter has <50 followers and an account that's only ~2 years old, with only a handful of posts in that time. My money's on sockpupppets.

1: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60#issuecomment-775...

2: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60
That is because H.N. has essentially only one sub board which could be called “technology”.

If the single board were about relationship advice, some identity politics subject, video games, or some pornographic theme, the quality would drop similarly.

Reddit's r/programming is, for instance, not all too bad but r/linux is a disaster, for it is quite close to identity politics.
It works as well as it did on my post, where I said nothing about "both sides". And responding to criticism by calling it "'both sides are both equally bad'-rhetoric" is definitely discussing in bad faith.

I'm not talking about "both sides", my point is about reddit's hypocrisy in allowing hate speech directed at conservatives. In an alternate reality where reddit chose to ban all hate speech, the discussion would be very different.

I would post examples, but they'd probably get me banned from HN just for quoting them. And your responses are descending into flames, so I'm just going to step away.
It's not clear to me whether the quoted prices include shipping. Presumably not, as they don't ask for my location.

I was ordering 3D printed parts just a few days ago and finding shipping costs was a major frustration: every site would quote $5 for 5 copies, send me to make an account, and only then tell me the price was $5 for printing and $50 for shipping.

Obviously I could have ordered more copies of my part to make the order more efficient - but we all know the first print of a snap-fit part isn't going to fit properly, so these prototypes are going to end up in the trash anyway.

So that's my feature request for you: Shipping prices upfront, not gated behind creating an account.
Wikipedia seems to think they had revenue of $100m in 2018, so it sounds like either a LOT of this is profit or the investors are extremely optimistic that it can grow significantly.

I'm with you though. I am continually dumbfounded by the sky-high valuations for these kinds of companies. Many on HN act like it's all normal and cool, and when you cast any doubt on their valuations or suggest there may be a bubble you are treated like an out-of-the-loop normie who doesn't "get" the internet. Time will tell, I suppose.
> It’s also worth pointing out that as far as I know efforts to 10-base time have failed.

Sure, the French Republican Calendar "failed". But it "failed" less so because it was 10-base. Napoleon abolished it because of 2 main flaws:

(a) The decree that formalized the calendar contradicted itself when it came to determining leap years. (b) The beginning of the year/era was based on commemorating a historical event rather then observing the beginning of Winter or Spring. Which would make adoption of the calendar hard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar

Then again, the traditional Chinese timekeeping was/is partly 10-based. This system developed in it's own right separate of systems that emerged throughout Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_timekeepin...

Time keeping is a "hard problem" anyway. As a historian, dating a historic document can be a daunting task when you're confronted with different calendars.
r/zerowaste is a great sub too. It's about reducing your waste output.

Some bizarre subreddits I read once in a while are:

- r/CatsStandingUp: the rule #1 states "Cat. and only Cat.", and the community interpreted it as only being able to write "Cat."... So, every post and every comment says "Cat.".

- r/IMGXXXX: random videos with default names given by cameras (e.g.: DSCXXXX, IMGXXXX)
A lot of software from the Windows XP days runs well. Running newer software than that isn't usually as successful.
You can still get value from a book that doesn’t give you all the answers. You can even get more value. Christ the answers have been all solved in papers, in literature, it’s all out there in small baby words what to do.

But the whole damn point of math is learning to do it on your own. It’s like bitching that an art textbook doesn’t include draw by numbers in the back pages.

“I just want to know I’m doing it right“ Then check your work? Proofs can be checked. People did math alone before you.

I really view this mentality as pretty childish. Life doesn’t have a solutions guide. Get over it. This is easily one of the best written books on the subject. And I love that the problems remain difficult and meaningful, _because_ there’s not just a solution guide out there for every problem.