skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> English syntax is not mathematical logic

Open any book or paper on semantics (the linguistics kind, not the philosophy or the early-20th-century pseudoscience kind) and you might be surprised :) It’s just that the logic is not that straightforward to get out, and of course there’s semantics (the literal meaning, where “Can you pass the salt?” is a question about ability) and then there’s pragmatics (the thing one is actually trying to communicate, where “Can you pass the salt?” is a request with certain degrees of respect and formality attached to it).

> “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”

This is probably not a very good example as it’s just (AFAIU) not strictly “standard English” in that it exhibits negative concord absent from the standard grammar (for dramatic effect, although “We Don’t Need No Education” is probably a better case). That is to say, this is a phrase in a language (which is very similar to standard English but not quite the same) where the grammar requires dummy negations on complements of negative verbs—a purely syntactic thing that doesn’t even reach the layer of semantics / logic.

But then many other varieties of English do that (I remember reading somewhere that the dialect that gave rise to the current standard is actually somewhat unusual among other dialects in that respect), so does my native Russian (and other Slavic languages, and some but not all Romance ones), and Japanese actually requires you to negate the adjective when using the adverb meaning “hardly, not very”[1] while at the same time using some double negations as polite affirmations[2].

[1] https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18006

[2] https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/english/teacher/36.html
I believe it's their name (and domain) that is holding them back. Sure, Google is a silly word but it's now ubiquitous. But "Duck Duck Go" simply doesn't roll off the tongue. It will make adoption much harder.

The shame of it all is that they do own duck.com. Why not rebrand at this point?

So instead of answering questions by saying "why don't you just google it" people could suggest that you someone "duck it".

Hmmm, maybe that has problems of it's own...
>The demand in the EU and UK Cars for existing models which do not have speed limit restrictions will be healthy.

Outside of the real enthusiasts I think most people won't care.
"Bash and forth" would be a good name

Edit: I'll get me coat
As if I was talking about people in winter conditions wearing gaiters or actual ski masks to protect from the cold.

Wearing surgical masks outdoors in normal temperatures is not based in science. It's theoretical at best, but there's never been any data to refute the fact that almost all transmission occurs within households and enclosed public places. It's just fearful people calming their anxiety with something that does as much good as a copper bracelet or a crystal amulet. It's a great way for politicians to "show action", by mandating them outside in large cities after they have imposed indoor masks mandates, but still have rising cases.

Sorry I offended you by criticizing a superstitious ritual to appease the pagan god of covid.

And yes I have no business assuming that people wearing surgical masks on hiking trails in 70° weather are doing it because of the virus. I'm sure many of them are wearing it to keep their faces warm, because that totally makes sense. /s

Regardless I'd be willing to tolerate this stupidity if the schools were kept open. A little performative superstition is a price I'm willing to pay to keep kids in school. I'll wear copper bracelet, turquoise necklaces, crucifixes, whatever it takes to keep kids in school.

Kids sitting indoors isolated from their peers in front of computer screens is not a good thing. You didn't comment on that at all.
I meeeaan, "wants to wipe out another country" and "former president denied the Holocaust ever happened" can apply to a surprising number of places.
Yes, it’s unfortunate. I wasn’t aware of Luna Display when I launched Lunar in 2017.

I still get emails from people calling my app Luna Display, although they clearly use and have an issue with Lunar.
Except galvanized is a common household term for a century but dipped in zinc sound exotic unless you realize the similarity.
I think that you are generalizing too much. There are huge differences between euro countries. From what I see iMessage is bigger in Scandinavia and WhatsApp seems to be winning most of the southern European countries.
I use crockford 32 to _represent_ my UUIDs, but they are obviously stored as binary. Is the only problem with UUIDs that sometimes they get stored as strings?

The only issue I've had with UUIDs is when they don't sort in increasing chronological order. RDBMSs don't appreciate high insert loads into random points in the index. Take care of that, however, and they're a treat.
They deal with pretty noisy mediums though. How much of the input is actually transformed into what we perceive as relevant knowledge and stored long-term?
Chances are that by the time wealth gets passed on a sum in the same order of magnitude has been already saved by the (grand)children. Probably the greatest leverage is at a young age. Of course this requires teaching about personal finance.
At first I didn't even notice that you can give it year of birth and I was wondering how it knows when I was born.
> The author seems to miss that one of Moxie's central criticisms is that, all else being equal, distributed solutions tend to lag centralized ones.

Distributed crypto offerings do not lag much behind in terms of features, but they are costly and inefficient, which drives most users to centralized solutions.

This creates positive network effects for OpenSea (nft), Binance, Coinbase (crypto trading).

L2 / zk-rollups / validiums have potential to change this balance of power by introducing low-cost, fast transactions.

Which can be achieved by making transaction execution/verification faster through ZK proofs and offloading execution off-chain (without sacrificing security). There is intense competition in the space (zkSync, Polygon Hermez, Starkware, Loopring and others).

Some large players like banks or BaaS companies may create or license their own private rollups.

So far most wallets do not support L2 rollups, I've only heard of Argent supporting zkSync.

This is of course a hybrid solution, not for purists.

Blockchain critics will have fun criticizing it for the next 5 years while it scales. :)
Don't worry. I've got 14% and I can assure you that years go by at an alarming rate. It started for me at 40. 50 was on me pretty quick but 60 was there before I knew it. Now it's all just a blur. Probably best to do stuff now.
Don't forget to plan it a little. Make to do lists and create repeatable habits. A tip from a 60%: Life's better with a kayak and a fishing pole.
> On the one side they replaced the flat fee which was paid for electricity produced to a complex auction schema (...)

Aren't you referring to the initial subsidized program where private companies were enticed to invest their own cash in renewable energy sources in exchange for assured profitability during the initial period?
The system is working as intended if a rich person is discriminated against based on their wealth, but illegal if a poor person is discriminated against based on their wealth?
It's easier if you create some value added service like "premium support" or an Active Directory integration plugin then charge for that.
Based on the growing divide between have and have-nots in the past decades I would call this article B.S..
Like for example, you work for a company which claims to be working towards certain goals, then when you make some significant progress towards one of the main technical goals as an employee; instead of the project founders being pleased and giving you a bonus and rolling out the new tech to the community, they cancel everything, fire you from your job (or put you in a situation where you are forced to quit) and then they turn the entire community and their social network against you to ensure that you don't succeed outside the company... All against the stated goals of the company/project. True story BTW.
Which individuals though? This seems to highly benefit th many poorer people, at the expense of mainly the rich elite. As a member of that elite who understands where my quality of life comes from (robust social contract enabling wealth creation through cooperation without friction)and where my place is (I'm top 30-15% of my home country but no higher, but was born into a life that could have easily launched me into the top 10% if I was a smarter/more disciplined person) , this seems fine
"!so " is my new "!g" for technical searches...the sheer difference in spam results is lovely.
No, we are very far from anything like that. I would watch Neuralink's recruiting events for a sense of where things are. They are trying to make a robot that will insert dozens of threads with several hundred tiny electrodes on these threads. This will allow reading a high-resolution picture of that part of the brain's activity. You can then hook this up to a computer and train yourself to map your brain's signals to some desired output (typing, moving a wheelchair, robot arm, etc). They talk about "writing", but that is just providing feedback, ie they send in signals and you train to interpret them as something.

If they are successful, you can expect to have an accessible (ie, couple thousand dollars) brain-computer interface covering a tiny portion of your brain sometime in the 2030s. New knowledge would necessarily need new connections between between neurons, ie you have to grow and connect neurons in a very particular and intricate pattern. I think we're still at the "just barely trying to understand wtf is going on" stage.

If you'd like a more in-depth intro to the state of the art, Jeff Lichtman's work on connectomics is a great place to start. Here's a 3-part lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtTOg0mzRJc

You can skip ahead to part 3, where he describes the absolute state of the art machine they are building which will be able to map the structure of a tiny slice of brain <1mm^3 part of a brain using advanced optics, robotics and machine learning. It's quite humbling.
Isn't owning a Premium Apple Product supposed to be convenient and not like going to the DMV?
Working remotely? Consider spending some time in Argentina
Stoicism of broke guy will be framed as passivity, laziness and cause of his brokenness in the first place. That guy is supposed to hustle.
It depends on what you need, I've been a fan of Brother for years and their thermal printers actually have a full sized printer that fits in a backpack (it's basically a rollthrough printer).

The issue is putting a pack of thermal paper and not forgetting it.
Don't read this then: https://www.volvocars.com/uk/care-by-volvo/
Signal Is Playing with Fire
I don't think the Acid tests had anything to do with Chrome's rise. That thing was pushed and promoted in ways that reminded everyone with half a brain (and knowledge) of malware. As difficult to remove, too.
What if you convert from MySql to postgres? Will the uuids still benefit from postgres optimizations?
As soon as you stop being critical of the experts they get swapped out for empty suits. There is plenty of reason to be skeptical of experts on anything novel. Experts are also tremendously cautious in the advice given where given your day to day risk tolerance it is a tremendous distraction to focus on one particular source of risk. Probably it makes sense for some people to just follow the given guidance but for some others it induces too much cognitive dissonance. I would hate to live in a world full of mandates based on hot off the presses science.
Would you happen to have a link to the book?
The UK just built a high voltage line to Norway. The eventual plan is to sell North Sea wind to Norway while the wind is blowing (which is almost all of the time, they're called trade winds for a reason). Some of that energy will be stored as pumped hydro and sold back to the UK when the wind isn't blowing.
Having been to various parts of Texas in the summertime on numerous occasions, I can't imagine what it's like to have to wear a mask outdoors as a child.

Glad you made the move and it sounds like you're enjoying it.

Are you in the Austin area?
Actually a good collection. Might still be a seo spam blog but at least this article was decent
Why is Retro Gaming so Expensive?
SecDB is one of the greatest technological achievements in finance.
I wouldn't take Reddit or Twitter posts as anything close to representing the vox pop.
I discovered this when the HP printer I’d just bought from a major UK retailer refused to accept official HP ink cartridges.

Turned out that the starter cartridges that came with it were US region coded and the printer was now permanently locked to US ink.

Hated that thing with a passion - the crunch it made hitting the bottom of the e-waste bin when it finally broke was deeply satisfying.

I’ll never purchase an HP product ever again.
Switch to https://68k.news for 10 minutes a day. Enough to stay informed.

On tech, usenet has good newsgroups, such as comp.misc. By pulling articles once a web, you'll get sorted.
Analyzing Seated’s restaurants by reversing their API
Fossils of a Prehistoric Rainforest Hide in Australia’s Rusted Rocks
>> That is an example of the difference between expensive toys like Dall-E and world-changing scientific work.

There isn't really that much difference. DeepMind took some 3 years to max out CASP protein-folding benchmark running from 1994 on a problem known since ~1960. Protein folding is exactly the type of world-changing scientific work. But it is just a tip of the iceberg. DL is being successfully applied to PDE solving or electron density predictions and more.

The psychedelic hamster dragon is an example of the fact that DL is capable of 0-shot generalization. It is a significant scientific observation in itself.

And with regard to your example. We are discussing whether deep learning has staled. I give you mostly examples from last year like EfficientZero (30 Oct) ~500x improvement in sample efficiency over 2013 DQN, some literally not older than a month: GLIDE (20 Dec), Player of Games (6 Dec).

You are giving me example from 2004 (2009?).

I'm not trying to troll you. I just think you are biased in you assessment of significant results and what it means to be stalled.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US8588949B2/en

* why is this even a patent? Gah!... Stupidness we've had volume knobs that affected multiple speakers since approximately two seconds after the first radio that had more than one speaker was created. We had a house with late 1960's multi-room intercom with a neat control panel that had "multizone technology"

* google should not license this shit, they should throw a few million into continuing fight their suit with sonos, hopefully driving them into oblivion and/or getting that stupid patent declared invalid.

* if they fail at that, they should just buy them or take them over outright and immediately fire every single person that worked there.

Note: it doesn't matter to me if sonos is the "good guy" and that google is very certainly the bad guy in some other context, which I'm sure is the case. If sonos wants to act like a patent troll that also produces smart speakers, then they should be wiped off the face of the galaxy with as little sympathy as possible.
Yeah, ok, ammonia is not completely useless as a fertilizer. You can't do that process in any soil, and can't repeat it many times on the same place either. But it is used a few times in a few places.

(Interestingly, I live in a place that would gain a lot from it, yet people overwhelmingly prefer to use magnesium and calcium during the PH correction of the soil. Now I'm curious about the reason.)

There is also ammonium nitrate, that is a much safer and easier to handle carbon-free alternative to ammonium and much more widely applicable. It is still more dangerous and harder to handle than urea, and also requires equipment renovation (so, don't expect people to change any fast). But if the carbon becomes a hard constraint, people will very likely migrate to it or something similar. The problem we are seeing right now is that any migration takes time and money.
Texas. Many of them think they're a separate country. :)
HP burned their printer brand a long time ago, my last HP inkjet was the HP 720c and was very reliable and had a big ink that can print tons of documents. After that they made the ink so tiny you have to buy ink every month.
You're decrying a technology not for its current benefits, but for its future potential unrealized risks. I doubt banking through a VM will ever be disallowed. There are too many benefits.

Banning banking through a non-signed OS, sure.
Norway and Iceland come to mind. However, they obviously don’t use much solar power due to location. In terms of recent technology, Iowa is probably the clearest US example.

More generally you need to look at wholesale prices and more specifically inflation adjusted wholesale prices to see large drops from the recent solar price drops.
> provide "instant knowledge", like learning kung fu

How quickly we forget, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg21M2zwG9Q
It's still ongoing: https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1479850090957262856 Only fully completed when all the latches are locked in position.
Nice as a generic reminder, but I'd really want to see it use a bit more empirical data for a semi-realistic projection of biological age/lifespan, e.g., taking into account health conditions & habits. Heck, just taking in smoking, obesity, & exercise data would make a huge difference.

Edit: Also, just he focus on what one has lost (or in this case, spent), seems a tad counterproductive to extending one's healthspan...
In 2021, DDG handled 35 billion searches. Google first reached that level in 2002 (if this source[1] is accurate).

I have no conclusion, just thought it was an interesting stat to look up.

[1]: https://www.internetlivestats.com/google-search-statistics/
You can also find the 'GitHub version' (which I'd guess is where distributions get their versions from) at https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync . I used this for an uncomplicated transfer from one IMAP server to another; it felt pretty slow but with the right CLI flags it is interruptible/restartable, and I didn't end up with lost or duplicate mail.

It comes with the author's custom "no limits" licence (looks a lot like the WTFPL), so it probably qualifies as free & open source, but you don't get a support contract of course.

The author's site also has a "give me your IMAP credentials and I'll migrate your mailbox for you, free up to a size limit" service, https://imapsync.lamiral.info/X/ , which boggles the mind. On principle I couldn't trust it.
I've been hearing a tremendous number of ads on the radio for DuckDuckGo recently.

It seems they have started a heavy advertising push.
Yeah I seem to recall he also mentioned that as an approach.
Here you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity

Human Longevity has been around 70-80 years for thousands of years we know about, and possibly forever. It’s one of the common misunderstandings we get by learning about life expectancy.. I misunderstood it for a long time until my brother, an anthropologist, explained that there are historical records of people living to be 80 years old from a thousand and even 10,000 years ago. Life expectancy averages in a bunch of causes of early death, so it skews the average down. Longevity is what you’re left with when you factor out all the causes of early death. Life expectancy is going up because we’re eliminating the causes of early death mostly via basic medicine, clean water, washing hands, anti-bacterials. Not having wars helps. Vaccines help. Safer houses & jobs help. Etc. Longevity appears to have been increasing a little in the last century, possibly because life expectancy and longevity aren’t cleanly separable (nobody dies of old age, they eventually die of a disease or injury).
I remember reading the same thing when I was a child though it was only about settlers in North America burning down their homes to get the nails as they continued to push westward. Intentionally or not, it started my young mind thinking about relative values of objects instead of everything being set in a rigid system.
Hey that's good to hear, I'm going to try it out later. I never succeeded to run photoshop on WINE until now. Did you had to do anything special?
We exchanged privacy for the right to wear slacks to the office and show our tattoos, it seems.
Eh, I agree. I default to DuckDuckGo as well, but it's just as a middle finger to Google. It's significantly worse than Google and basically unusable in languages other than English.

Turns out making a search engine is a whole lot of work, I genuinely hope they keep working on it!
It could be the other way around: Microsoft hired the Apple guy and let them run wild.
Is there a reasonably priced service (for individual budgets and not corporation budgets) that would allow you to rent a satellite in order to for example count the number of Teslas that are out on the road in a given city in the United States?
Toyota injects itself into second and third sales via helping their dealers do countrywide reselling and then offering finance products on it. I assume most manufacturers do similar. When you buy through this you get a Toyota warranty and guarantee, as well as a serviced vehicle and confidence around inspections/descriptions.

The remanufacture stuff sounds a lot more like they reckon there is an ability to increase the quality of these resales - which is highly likely. BEVs want battery replace/refurbs but most second hand vehicles have a snag list that is too much of a hassle for dealers to handle, but isn’t that expensive. They are also then given upselling opportunity (towbar / reversing cam / etc.) which would add new margin (and many buyers want).

Of course the main driver is that we are going to soon have large scale sticker shock - going from ICE to EV is £££, particularly for second/third owner. To lose market share and finance here in the next two decades is likely for any manufacturer, and market share is their main value prop for shareholders.
There is a "semantic" extension to MediaWiki that makes it easier to support many enterprise use cases with data visualizations, custom queries (potentially referencing information from multiple wiki pages) and the like. It is somewhat widely used for wikis other than Wikipedia, that can simply defer to the Wikidata project for those needs.
i don’t agree. the conveniences afforded by using my apple id for text messages and phone calls while i’m on my work computer is invaluable. on the other hand the windows id doesn’t ever get me anything of value.
caveat: my thumbs hate the tiny keyboard so maybe i am particularly sensitive to this annoyance
Building Communities with Software (2003, but still relevant)
Why would I bother with an NFT when I can already effortlessly copy bits? Digital property is not physical property and I'm not sure why people are still so intent on shoehorning the characteristics of the latter into the former.
Ammonium nitrate is made from ammonia. Ammonia is easy to make renewably. It's just more expensive than using natural gas.
> it still does mostly bring me joy whenever I get to play

I think you are def in the minority of people who regularly play LoL or Dota haha

relevant: https://clips.twitch.tv/SplendidAliveQueleaFeelsBadMan-QxQq2...
That's how you lie with statistics.