skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was “Tati” commisioned by Prince Louis de Broglie for his granddaughter?
Daniel Dennett has been looking for information about Tati for a while now:
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/

Here are some of his photos
https://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/assets/tati.pdf

He said:

"Reward for information! I found it in an antique shop in Paris. It was made in France in the 1950s, so I have named it Tati, in honor of Jacques Tati (whose classic film Mon Oncle captures the same era with the same ingenious and humorous use of technology). I do not know who made Tati, or why, and would be pleased to receive any substantiated information about its provenance"

And now I found a post on HN that made some progress, alas confirmation is needed:

http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/195x-tati-the-cybernetic-dog-owned-by-daniel-dennett-built-in-france-belgium/

"One correspondent has told me that Tati (my name for it, of course, not the name its creator chose, certainly) was commissioned by Prince Louis de Broglie, the Belgian physicist and Nobel laureate, for his granddaughter in Paris. She fell on hard times and sold it to an antique dealer. Could be, but my efforts to confirm the story have not yet born fruit."

On a personal note, this is such a magical story that I may start working on cute SBC + GNU/Linux cats.

In case you missed it, there is another robotic dog story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4hQ87u6S40 but this one is a real tragedy, and a different story.
> Get back the extension API (not the exact same but a modern equivalent).

Another extension API will solve absolutely nothing.
I prefer doing them for free.

Most of the work I do, is self-education. I love to learn, and I have been maintaining my competency in shipping work for decades (Which often means that I am not right at the "bleeding edge." Shipping is usually a couple of steps back from that).

If you check out my SO Story[0], you'll see a whole boatload of published modules. They are -each and every one- totally "ship-ready." I produce them as if they are to be commercial-grade products, with the appearance of a major-league brand -even the experimental projects.

There are also complete source code bases for a number of published (and many, since, deprecated) apps on the Apple App Store. I've been shipping apps continuously, since 2012. I've provided full source code for all of them.

I don't promote them at all. I don't really care. I have no idea if anyone uses them. I have a few stars, and a couple of forks, but I've not seen my stuff appear anywhere (It's MIT, so I assume I'd be noted in the README -HAH!).

Many of these are 1-source-file development utilities, with dozens of files of testing code, wrapped around them.

I like Quality.

I'm my own best customer. I tend to be pretty skeptical of most of the available dependencies, out there, so I like to write my own.

The project I'm working on now, is non-trivial. It's the kind of thing that normally takes a team of at least five engineers, running 24/7 on Red Bull, to do. I do well at these kinds of things. It's coming along nicely, and will be ready in a few months. I also wrote two of the servers I use.

It is not (currently) open-source, but I may, sometimes, spin an open-source module out of it. I just did one, a couple of weeks ago (LGV_Cleantime).

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/story/chrismarshall
Thankfully, with delta varient the media can rejoice for more lockdowns
Summary of Text-to-Image Models
Regarding OCR detection, "Sometimes it's not that can't, they don't (may not) want to."
> Are current paradigms going to lead to AGI? Frankly, I’d just be guessing if I even tried to answer that. My gut instinct is no

I'll just note that while you start off saying Doctorow has no idea what he's talking about, you finish by pretty much fully agreeing with the essay.
A big issue with digging under London is that you never know what you'll find
If we were actually interested in getting things done, we'd get them done, right? It seems like the core of the problem is people having priorities imposed on them that don't match their own, actual priorities. When people aren't getting things done, they're usually doing other things, their actual priorities, not staring idly into space. (Usually. And maybe staring into space is fine too).

If your well-being or the well-being of others is at stake, then you got to do what you got to do, and "get things done". But a lot of this sounds like people feeling guilty about not going the extra mile on things they don't actually care about.

EDIT: Wow I guess this struck a nerve.

EDIT 2: And I think "people having priorities imposed on them" would also include people imposing priorities on themselves without sufficient self-reflection.
The new variable in the equation, and the only one I hear people complaining about. The things you mention have always existed and people were able to sift through them to find the gems. However the more recent subtle political messaging, sprinkled into most modern media, really turns people off.
Yes, thank you. Analyzing the effects of our technology should be part of the engineering process. The physicists back where I studied all go through a mandatory ethics class. Us software crowd, well...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_glass
The problem with their comment is that they're too busy dunking on people.

I do deal with different browsers, hence why I get headaches from Safari. If I didn't, I wouldn't complain about it.

I've been a web developer for a long long time. I know what a pain IE was, and I'm just experiencing it all over again with Safari, although they've gotten better lately.
Crossrail is legendary in the field as the example of what not to do when managing mega projects.

What I was told by greybeards: systems engineering was non-existent and rushed to the « let’s start to concrete » phase. When the project started to install the various systems, all hell broke loose. For example, systems had to be taken in, then out, because they just didn’t work in the field.

Side note: which makes this article really a good laugh. Who cares if your virtual model works if it does not in the real world?

OK so, that would not have been too bad if the management of the mega project would just have recognized the fuck up and declared delays. Instead, it scrambled to find ways to recuperate the accumulating delays, while reporting green to the politicians. As usual, a cretin came into the room to suggest that signalling tests could be compressed down and commissioning tests could proceed while construction completed the remaining work.

Problem: crossrail decided to experiment with a new hybrid signalling system that uses two different types of train control in order to maximize throughput in central london area. That turned an already rotten idea into an impossible one. Situation in the fields became insane. Signalling contractor shot a letter to cover ass. Politicians finally noticed, and sent clueless consultants to investigate, therefore opening the gates of hell.

Aaaaah. I like the scent of Napalm in the tunnels.

EDIT: typos
I was in North Carolina in 2019, in the outer banks. I did see plastic bags and such washing up on the shore, like I've seen everywhere else. They weren't "covered" in garbage, but it's there. It's a sliding scale, a spectrum, which has a lot to do with ocean currents. But yes, there are regular cleanup efforts for these beaches run by the parks service. They'd look much worse if it were not so.
The thing about the "maybe they made it less bad" argument is that the authorities repeated refusal to let the shipment be moved could have come because they wanted it there so that it could be stolen (with said authorities paid-off for that). The explosion could even have been an effort to cover the tracks of those involved.

Edit: I have no non-public information, of course. But I have read that some people were understandably worried and tried to get the shipment moved and the authorities squashed that effort.
I'm not sure if you are being serious or not, but I'm sure the US government is getting useful intelligence out of this as well. The US has an interest in knowing how this happened
Tech companies generally get away with paying less than their fair share: https://fortune.com/2019/12/06/big-tech-taxes-google-faceboo...
If this is true, why is there no evidence? Tourism in cities that have hosted the olympics doesn’t have an increase - certainly for london it didn’t. There’s no economic benefits in the years following for the host country that have been observed. It is doubtful that these second order benefits exist at all.

Even for “name recognition” as an end in itself - cities like London and Tokyo are hardly backwaters in need of a PR boost.

If tackling obesity is such a priority, I’m sure there’s more direct and effective ways to tackle it with 11 billion quid.
I agree with you on this. Though to continue being a socratic a-hole on this thread, I might ask won't subsidizing renters always trickle up? The trickle down seems like a lie.

I'm personally supportive of housing as a human right and think it's worth it and actually stimulating all around, turns out removing stresses of life is good for the economy and people.

I think we did this backwards with stimi. Should have written checks to renters directly. The programs we do have for relief are woefully behind with hundreds of millions outstanding huge red tape.

Giving all renters point blank could maybe help start balancing the scales just a tiny bit.
If you felt your theft would be discovered, you could very easily expect the explosion would destroy all traces of the theft and nobody would know any better. Many people, especially uneducated people, would not have expected that the theft would be detectable by the size of the explosion. I'm pretty smart and well educated, but I'm not even sure such a thing would have occurred to me, and even if it did I might have preferred my odds taking my chances on that anyway. To be very clear though, I wouldn't have done something so heinous in the first place.

Given the sequence events, with the welding going on etc, I don't think this happened. But not for the reasoning you gave.
We already have "Pattern Recognition", not sure why it got absorbed by Machine Learning (the two terms seemed to co-exist with some overlap on what they covered), and then ML got absorbed by AI.
I got this feeling on other websites too, like Match. It seemed like there were lots of inactive non paying profiles and very few real ones. When you send a message to a non paying user, they can’t see it or respond to it. Match instead sends them a notification to subscribe because they have a new message waiting. It basically turns users into their sales reps.

Online dating dynamics are very broken, particularly for men who are reduced to blindly swiping on all profiles. The only well designed dating app I’ve seen is The League, where its founder took a systematic approach to incentivizing interactions between users. This has the effect of making the app less of a time sink and chore, and more of a productive way to meet new people. See this past talk from their CEO, where she explains some of their design choices: https://youtu.be/_MUOpgS6TTg
and more vertical space ;0 I love density we need WAY more in the US if we want to tackle climate catastrophe.
That's very inspiring to hear. I'm in my early 30s, and do often think about if/when I should pull the trigger and try and build something for myself. I guess I just don't feel my current skills (even the technical ones) are sufficient to really get things done well yet.
Until version 89 reaches ESR I will continue to use Waterfox classic with XUL addons archive. Not only is faster but I have more addons

All your addons are not everyone's addons. Some people have different, or more, or more specific addons

There are addons that disappeared and are not possible to do today. And maybe you can do something similar, even if clunkier or slower.
But a lot of developers have moved anyway, which created holes in the ecosystem

And just having to go and find replacements was difficult since it took a lot of time for addons to reach parity. And people have a day job to get on with

TreeStyleTab still breaks today, sometimes the side bar disappears or is empty

I had an addon that would highlight all bookmark link in all pages, including google results, and on mouse over would show the tags and description.
Can you find a similar now?
That’s why it’s great that the comp and benefits are skyrocketing.
I have no system. I boot up my laptop in the morning, have a coffee and answer all support emails. After finishing my emails I feel like I've done a lot and start looking at my fun projects (trading bot, IoT projects) Then a server error pops up on Telegram and I realize I was supposed to rewrite the image processing routine. Back to work, and up until late at night before finally finishing this task. In short, event driven task management.
The comparison being that several hundred years ago if you wanted to work in a certain city sometimes there would literally be one company that ran everything.

They were aptly named company towns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town#United_States

They have an interesting, and often sordid, history.
I don't think it has to serve a purpose other than power projection for the rich owners. I'd say that owning all media is the best bang for your buck if you want to to convert money to power.
Okay… in practice they work fine though. Saying you can’t use ad blockers in safari is straight up wrong.
The author almost immediately took the site down and packaged it as part of some social media analysis tool. I can't seem to find the actual post at the moment.
Are you suggesting it's unthinkable that someone would burn down a crime scene?

It happens a lot. Crime concealment consistently places among the top 6 motives in studies of arson.

I'm not saying it's a very likely cause, but it would be hasty to rule it out
I totally agree if you are directly impacting the business with your code you might be making good amounts of money
I'm the author of the fastest open source HTTP server. Parsing HTTP 0.9, 1.0, and 1.1 is trivial. It's a walk in the park. It only takes about a hundred lines of code to create a proper O(n) parser. https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/blob/0b317523a0875d83d6...

The Joyent HTTP parser used by Node is very good but it's implemented in a way that makes the problem much more complicated than it needs to be. The biggest obstacle with high-performance HTTP message parsing is the case-insensitive string comparison of header field names. Some servers like thttpd do the naive thing and just use a long sequence of strcasecmp() statements. Joyent goes "fast" because it uses callbacks, which effectively punts the problem to the caller, and, for a few select headers which it handles itself, like Content-Length, it uses this really complicated internal "h_matching" thing for doing painstakingly written out hardcoded character compares. Redbean solves the problem by using better computer science: perfect hash tables. Thanks to gperf command. That makes the API itself much more elegant since the parser can not only go faster but return a hash-table like structure where individual headers can be indexed without performing string comparisons.
I remember when the first Avengers movie came out, a lot of my industry friends repeated some nonsense line about how we need to see Blockbusters so that the money can trickle down to independent filmmakers and riskier ideas. 10 years later and the market is saturated with super hero films, the independent directors are all directing Disney blockbusters, and the riskier ideas only get a spotlight during Oscar season (unchanged).
Archive and/or reshare if you can. The thread might be thinner than you think.

Use 50/100 GB (m-disc) BD-Rs if in doubt.
I don't disagree with everything you're saying here, but some plastic products (especially bags, polystyrene boxes and small pieces of plastic) are definitely harmful to some animals, who of course form part of the environment.
> In the way autonomous driving works in general, just not in unexpected situations ...

I see what you did there :)
> You can blame Zeigarnik again. The mere act of making a to-do list relieves so much itchy stress that it can, paradoxically, reduce the pressure to actually get stuff done. “People feel that when they put all their tasks somewhere, they’ve already done most of the work,” Perchik says. But it’s an illusion. The pile of work is still there.

I suspect that this effect can work for you, without working against you.

For personal (non-work-project) tasks, I've been using a variation of Todo.txt throughout the day, for both "to-do list" task management, and scheduling appointments and reminders.

I suppose this Zeigarnik effect described by the article might be helpful, and not defeated, partly due to the priorities assigned the tasks.

Tasks are assigned priorities A-Z. I usually only end up looking at priorities A-C (occasionally D).

One effect of this might be that prioritizing a task as D or E gets it off my mind (thanks, Zeigarnik)... but another effect is that I keep being reminded of the A-C tasks on days that I could do them, so they don't feel done (take that, Zeigarnik).

(Some notes on my variation on Todo.txt, and a snippet of Emacs Lisp that helps support it, is at: https://www.neilvandyke.org/todotxt/ )
Yeah, at the end of the day we simply have more tasks than time we are able (willing?) to devote to them.

There is no technique or strategy to have infinite productivity.
>The constant nonsense UI redesigns that come about with every new update. The instability, and ridiculous resources consumption. The slowness and slugishness.

>I want a browser that works, respects my privacy, stays out of my way and lets me get shit done. A browser built for professionals, by professionals. I want a consistent UI that remains stable over time. I'm easily willing to pay for such a browser.

>Firefox used to be it, but I no longer feel like it is. Any suggestions for what to try next?

That's my experience as well. I was using FF from v 1.0 back in 2004. Upgrade to Quantum almost gave me a heart attack because it ruined majority of addons and disabled custom themes. Upgrade to "megabar" was a final straw for me. I've spent ~ 3 hours, but finally migrated to Pale Moon ... and it's like I'm back in 2004. Even Noia theme is working again.

FF, in my opinion, went full circle: from being the most functional and the most customizable browser to being the new IE6. There are no redeeming qualities left really.
You mean that the pressure from an explosion follows the inverse cube of the distance, so even increasing the explosive power a lot wouldn't matter that much because the distance to damaging-pressure (for whatever threshold you choose) would only increase with the cube root of the factor it was increased by?

How do you get 10% more? Based on that logic I'd expect the damage radius to be 1.6x the size for a 5x larger explosion, which would mean 2.5x the area inside a damage-threshold pressure contour.
> If the price gets too high people will seek alternate suppliers or do without.

That’s exactly the desired effect. I didn’t say raise prices to make more money. I said raise prices until incoming orders and delivery capacity align. The purpose is to get less orders.
Ask HN: The cost of OCR error correction
Yeah, most people seem to waste their time contacting the BBB, instead of their State AG with complaints against businesses.

You can get a lot more done complaining to the right places.
Interesting -- I had no idea!

From wikipedia: 'Some combat sports (such as boxing, judo, taekwondo and wrestling) award two bronze medals per competition, resulting in, overall, more bronze medals being awarded than the other colours."
What about "GET //etc/passwd"?
Yeah I do the same. Some of the meetings are not avoidable though considering I'm in the middle of requirements taking. For the rest I just ait through.

It was a lot worse when I worked in the analytic team. Pretty much everyday is 3 hours of meeting at least.
> We're all simple machines.

Great. Prove it. Build the simple machine that acts as a human does. Should be simple, right?

Personally, I don't think there's any magic. But it's not "simple" either.
I wouldn't say running your own miner is necessarily the way to not "trust anyone (else)", because at the current global hashrate the chance that your individual miner will get to mint a block with your transaction in it is basically zero.

The more correct answer is that your transaction has fees, which is why other miners are motivated to include it in their next block. (And also why a majority of the hashrate being centralized into a single entity with a singular will is a doomsday scenario for bitcoin.)
Ok, cool, nice to know.
That wasn't the one I was referencing. I was talking about a post that was at least a couple years old. I can't seem to find it at the moment.
Fyi: it is about unlicensed software, not actually illegal software.
The company which makes Jira also makes a CI server.
Thanks for making Reclaim. I’m struggling with ADD and it’s something I’m able to stick to in longer spurts than other things. I’ll reach out on Twitter or by email with some of my pain points.
Orcas are highly intelligent beings who do not seem to commonly engage, if at all, in territorial violence. They say "you eat that and I'll eat this".
The Delta variant is their great white hope.
Yes, but the question is why would all the nodes agree that the transaction has happened. What's stopping them from disagreeing?
This resonates a lot with me. I've tried so many todo apps, but in the end I always returned to a simple piece of paper.

It did bother me that paper is not very flexible, so I'm experimenting with a digital 'paper to-do' version.
If you're curious, check it out at https://can.do :)

Feedback of course most welcome.
I didn't say I knew how. I said I believe materialism is a dead end, by which I mean I doubt the consciousness arises out of atoms configured as neurons. How those neurons receive a conscious field seems a more productive line of inquiry, but for some reason people resist this idea. Not sure why.
With all the bird shit they must be breathing in that room, they must be in for a surprise.
The reason it had popular support is because USSR gave them money and resources, presumably just for this reason.
In some states in the USA a lot of service jobs will cap your work at 31 hours, to get around their own corporate policies of giving benefits to anyone who worked 32 hours or more.
I completely agree. People only grow when they step outside of their comfort zones, whether intentionally or not. But there are many more ways to do that than starting your own business. I suppose doing that provides an even greater dosage of that than most other things.
> 2) the maximum beneficial brain size just happens to fit through a primate pelvis modified for an upright walking gate

I'm not sure that's a given. Whales and dolphins, particularly orcas are counter examples.
I couldn't read it. With all emojis involved it reads like a long, obnoxious text message from an unstable gen-z.

Checked the author, author's tweeter account, looks legitimate (not GPT3?).

If there was a real message written as a novel-like short story, the audience will definitely be limited.

What if it was done intentionally, on purpose?

Author constructed a targeted message that repels all but the most promising marks, causing those to self-select, tilting the actionable true to false-positive ratio in his favor?

I might be overthinking. Will dump this one in my reading list (along with Lukas_Skywalker's comment), will get to it later.