skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t say hes a terrible host but he is a certain kind of host which is like the opposite of a Charlie Rose- who mostly glossed over the technical details of a person’s accomplishments to get to their more personal motivations and universal human interest type stuff. From the 3 or 4 episodes I’ve seem focuses entirely on the technical and is good at that but not very good at drawing the guest out emotionally. But this method still has a lot of value for a technical podcast.
Ah, I found one.

"MIT Engineers develop magnetic soft-continuum thread-like robot with lubricating hydrogel skin"

or in no-BS language: "Some college guys move coated wire with magnets"

https://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828
Sure you can get very lightweight two seater road legal track cars. You can even slap an Exocet kit on an MX-5 and get that for very cheap.

But you said "Nissan Leaf". A five-seater car that can fit a full baby stroller plus a bit of luggage in the trunk. That is fully incompatible with being a lightweight track car.
This is how I feel when I get an SMS from an email address. There are 0 legitimate people who would message me that way.

I have an entire rant on XMPP in some other HN thread, but basically I agree, chat federation is for nerds. And if XMPP wanted its federation dream to come true, the core standard (not including extensions) needed to be more rigid and keep up with the times. Instead, every sever ended up supporting a very different feature set, usually lacking things you'd take for granted in other chat apps.
There is going to be a huge gap in used cars for the years 2020-2022 (at least).

The good news is that ICE cars have gotten so good that the ones made before then can last for a very long time.
Honestly, that's one of the nicest things about JSON. While it has a lot of on the wire redundancy, it is a very compressible shape of redundancy.
It's more like the C programmer is a sushi master. They can make a delicious, beautifully crafted snack. But if the wrong ingredients are used you'll get very sick.
There's a lot of Google hate on HN, and much of it is deserved, but I think this particular trend of blaming Google for the prevalence of useless clickbait articles is a bit much.

The real answer to this question is that walled-garden social media took over everything. The much-pined-for "Old Google" worked because people used to actually create content on their own sites, and not just post it on walled garden monolithic social sites like Facebook or Twitter.
For me, what social media has over a personal website is a common identity system and access control.

I would like to host my occasional posts and photos on my own site. But I don't want to post everything publically.

But requiring people to sign up to my personal website is probably unreasonable. And requiring a login implies a DB of some kind, which for me transforms it from fun into work.

I'm also not going to get excited about anything that isn't self-hosted. Sooner or later every cool startup either fails or becomes successful enough that their incentives no longer align with my interests.
I want to see two DALL-E bots talk to each other.
First bot: "Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who was left?"
Second bot: "Repeat"
First bot: "Pete and Repeat were sitting on a fence. Pete fell off. Who was left?"

What happens next?
There are two outcomes:

1. It isn't terribly successful and dies a quiet death as do a lot of non-consumer Apple initiatives

2. It's wildly successful and Apple shifts its focus to the pursuit of ad revenue...which will gradually erode privacy controls and the pristine experience Apple is known for.

This may sound like hyperbole, but if this takes off, then we'll look back on this as where it all went wrong for Apple.
You just need a neural network that knows how to interrogate other neural networks, and a neural network that knows how to find new datasets and train new neural networks and you potentially have something very scary right?

Maybe a third neural network that knows how to purchase cloud compute?
Came to this conclusion for teams of our current size based on years of experience and experimentation (never at the expense of the business).

They are a better fit because they are much easier to manage and it's much easier to debug issues when something goes wrong. We are a small team and we hope to stay that way. But our operational responsibilities are growing significantly. The extra cognitive overhead of working with technologies like kubernetes would prevent us from scaling up our effort the way that we want to.

It's hard to answer your question in detail outside of a very long essay.
Many people have reported good results from Ben Patrick’s knee rehab workouts. I can't personally vouch for them, but people who are struggling with knee injuries might want to research his protocol.

https://instagram.com/kneesovertoesguy
I remember, in the 90's, I typed "hexdit" in altavista and spent the time visiting exactly 100 websites to find exactly the hex editor I was searching for. I remember the number exactly because it was in the last position (10) of the last page and there were 10 pages.
> And very naive man boy

> You sound triggered.

> You know what else has had undeniable success? Cigarettes and Facebook. Terrible argument.

Just a note, I think you've violated the guidelines in a multitude of ways here. Since you're new, definitely have a read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But these apps don't need to be branded due to being a monopoly.
Google's approach is better (if they didn't butcher the naming every time and kill apps constantly) for the consumer as it indicates you have choices.
There will be no default or standard in low code / drag n drop. It's a market that has been around a long time, very crowded, largely segmented, and a tough space to compete in.

I get the game engine analogy, used it myself, but it's a little apples and oranges. Very different personas, if you only have one persona for developers or even backend devs, you haven't narrowed down enough yet.
> All I'm asking for is to be able to call someone who looks like a girl and acts like a girl a girl, and vice versa.

And if they're deeply uncomfortable with this, and would prefer you remember to use "they", you're not harmed and should defer.

You may have to take a little extra effort to tell someone "They present as female but prefer 'they'" at some point. It's a little bit of cognitive load, but the kind of courtesy we can extend even to vague acquaintances.

And, you know-- if you screw up in good faith, they should be understanding. Of course, there's enough people screwing it up on purpose to be hostile for political and ideological reasons that it's harder for people in this situation to discern whether it's really good faith.
I’m surprised noone has brought up what I recall being told was the oldest known joke. Not sure about the specifics, but IIRC it’s from a mesopotamian cuneiform tablet and goes something like “Name something that never happened — A wife has never farted in her husband’s lap”. Supposedly a reference to the common knowledge at the time that everyone involved (or maybe just the wife) would vehemently deny it if it did happen, or perhaps awkwardly pretend it didn’t happen, knowing well that everyone noticed and politely joins in the pretense.

I don’t like it when people act as if these were objectively bad jokes. Many jokes are very dependent on a specific cultural moment as well as carefully crafted wording. Lots of current jokes fall can flat if you slightly change the phrasing, even if they aren’t word play. And then there’s delivery, pacing, knowing your audience…

Surely widespread literacy and technology allow modern people to develop comparably sophisticated tastes just by the sheer wealth of entertainment we consume, but people 5000 years ago were still people and I’m sure they found humour in similar places as we do.

edit: here’s a source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-joke-odd-idUSKUA147851200... Again, I would take issue with the reduction to “toilet humour”. Clearly the comedy of manners aspect plays the larger role, even if farts are somehow eternally funny.
Speaking of which, can you take DALL-E output and feed it in and get 3D art? Or maybe someday prompt-to-3D direct, although the right kind of training data might not be there yet.
This is an interesting point. It is more the gesture rather than the monetary value.

And probably because no one else is doing it. If every bad service you got for everything got a refund then it would be normal and I would think: "meh just a $1 refund again, why don't they damn fix it... shrug".

Tipping is an example where it is really appreciated in non-tipping cultures.

Which speaks to how marketing and "PR" need to keep up with culture and people's expectations today. If you want to exceed expectations that is.
Well, theres one issue: everybody hates SAP.
We have non-excel financial reports via a web app, but of course the actual software requirements were gathered in an excel file

It is not vastly easier to use than Excel, but certainly nice when there’s a web app to find instead of a loose file
I find this such a nasty bit of insidious sexism in the workplace. Men are supposed to wear full sleeves and full pants all the time, and being in shorts or short sleeves is seen as unprofessional.

Less of an issue if you WFH but anytime summer hits, take a look in downtown and what people are dressed up in. Women are in light summer dresses or shorts and men are in restrictive full clothing. Same goes for choice of footwear.
In many of its outputs, it's doing far more than stretching, and essentially rotating new entities into scene-appropriate relationships.

True, it has some problems fully abstracting, and then logically-enforcing, some object-to-object relationships that most people are trivially able to apply as 'acceptance tests' on candidate images. That is evidence its scene-understanding is not yet at human-level, in that aspect – even as it's exceeded human-level capabilities in other aspects.

Whether this is inherent or transitory remains to be seen. The current publicly-available renderers tend to have a hard time delivering requested meaningful text in the image. But Google's PARTI claims that simply growing the model fixes this: see, for example: https://twitter.com/gojomo/status/1540095089615089665

We also should be careful using DALL-E as an accurate measure of what's possible, because OpenAI has intentionally crippled their offering in a number of ways to avoid scaring or offending people, under the rubric of "AI safety". Some apparent flaws might be intentional, or unintentional, results of the preferences of the designers/trainers.

Ultimately, I understand the practicality of setting tangible tests of the form, "To say an agent 'understands', it MUST be able to X".

However, to be honest in perceiving the rate-of-progress, we need to give credit when agents defeat all the point-in-time MUSTs, and often faster than even optimists expected. At that point, searching for new MUSTs that agent fails at is a valuable research exercise, but retroactively adding such MUSTs to the definition of 'understanding' risks self-deception. "It's still not 'understanding' [under a retconned definition we specifically updated with novel tough cases, to comfort us about it crushing all of our prior definition's MUSTs]." It obscures giant (& accelerating!) progress under a goalpost-moving binary dismissal driven by motivated-reasoning.

This is especially the case as the new MUSTs increasingly include things many, or most, humans don't reliably do! Be careful who your rules-of-thumb say "can't possibly be coceptually intelligent", lest you start unpersoning lots of humanity.
General question: where does this research lead to? As in what might be the next step for this research team, and/or their field in general? I always like to understand what discoveries like this could open up in the future.

*Asking as someone not in the field or any type of physics/mathematics
That battle is lost.
I feel Apple have tried this numerous times in different flavors before.

Just stick to what you do best. Let Google and social networks poison our minds with ads.
> so it's not like they are driving around at 75mph.

Plenty are in the US. A lot of people from other countries don't appreciate just how much open space there is to cover here.
This guide recommends to use Signal which does require the phone number anyway. Which makes the paranoic start with “GSM is inherently unsafe” that much more ironic
Why there is no "Check spelling as you type" in Excel?
To be fair to protobuf, its own docs make no claims about "safe". That is projected upon it by people who do not understand it.
> I wish every company would provide that with their TOS updates.

Agree, now I remember that at least Google is doing it.

TOS: https://policies.google.com/terms/archive/20200331-20220105

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy/archive/20210701-2022021...
A purism laptop and an aeron chair.
Substitute "the camera" (and perhaps even more "the gramophone") for "DALL-E" and "AI art programs", and the 19th century wants its argument against the future of creative media back.
Ctrl-Shift-S? What did it ever do to hurt anyone that it had to go?
A bit of an overkill, just buy a 2nd hand laptop for cash, install linux and use a chat app that does not require a phone number.
> What I dream of is Google circa 2006. A time where a search engine searched what you asked for. A time before aggressive SEO. A time before social media, when the only people on the internet had a reason to be there. A time before sticky headers and full-screen modal pop-ups asking you to subscribe to a newsletter before reading the article. A time before click-bait and subscription-only websites which tease you with a paragraph before blurring out the rest of the content.

Well, I built sort of exactly this: https://search.marginalia.nu/

It's not great, but it sure has its moments.

Should be noted, regarding Koh Lanta, that travel is one of the most aggressively SEO-spammed topics, along with pharma and online casinos. It's extremely difficult to cut through the noise and reach any sort of signal.
I often put half a dozen competing products in my shopping cart, with no intent to buy more than one of them, just to be able to compare them nicely. First round is elimination by some red flags, next is a feature-for-feature spec comparison that usually leaves just one winner.
Really? The graphs I have seen put the optimal ICE car speed at about 30-50 mph depending on car aerodynamics. For EVs it is probably even lower as drag dominate earlier.
re the chinese room, you might want to consider the computational and memory complexity of a lookup table. https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf page 14
Wow great, I used to customize Excel a lot for financial companies. VBA was good enough until about 20 years ago. VSTO was never as good because you need admin rights to install it. ExcelDNA was much better. I gave up 10 years ago so dont know what is going on now tbh.

Right now I use Python and Pandas, mostly doing the same stuff but with more rows and a worse experience. If you could find an easy way to combine Python and Excel it would be awesome. Like embedding Python instead of VBA? Would need sandboxing.
“ If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”
As someone who has worked on both sides, if you don't want people making crappy excel-based, local-to-their-shop solutions, but they are because of the unresponsiveness and inutility of your central IT bureaucracy, the system is not, in fact, working as intended.
I miss the interactivity of selecting data in older versions of Excel (pre 2007).
You can see the data ranges highlighted when you select a series on the plot and you could drag them as desired.
Currently it’s very awkward and unintuitive why you can move ydata but not xdata.
It's true: I've had trouble determining what exactly your point is, as you seem to think you know more about FaunaDB's architecture than you do.

You're under the mistaken impression that we have the same data/log architecture as described in the Calvin paper, which requires that every host talk with every other host. That is not true of FaunaDB.
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IMO, iPhone SE is the perfect form factor and overall very good hardware (though you might want to go for more storage).

Only reason I begrudgingly got a Pixel is the alternative OS availability.
John Carmack is and will always be one of the greatest programmers for me. His drive, motivation and work ethics are also very inspiring. Whenever I feel low the first thing I tried (sometimes failed) to pull me out is reading a few chapters of "Masters of Doom".

I'll probably never be as productive as he has been, but I appreciate the games and impact he made.

I also enjoy this podcast because this is one interview of Carmack that I can almost fully understand :P
Glad you added that caveat to this thread!

A lot of Western commentators don't tend to realize that aspect of Indian politics, instead applying a federal American lens (though American politics is actually equally diverse as well).

To any Americans reading this thread, Indian politics is HEAVILY local party driven. BJP MPs from states like HP would have entirely different opinions or backgrounds from BJP MPs from a region like Purvanchal (Eastern UP). In additional, most elected officials in Indian politics don't really have party loyalty. They'll change parties at the drop of the hat (or start their own) if they feel their opportunity to climb up the political rungs are best served elsewhere. That is a MASSIVE reason the BJP/NDA+ won like a steamroller in 2019 - a number of up and coming INC politicians changed party affiliations because their upward potential was blocked by regional INC machines.

In addition, it is very common for regional political barons to split off from the national party and make their own regional party - this happened with the INC in West Bengal (Mamata Banerjee and the TMC), Uttar Pradesh (Mulayam Singh Yadav and the Samajwadi Party), Maharashtra (Bal Thackeray and the Shiv Sena - which itself split into 2 parties this week - and Tariq Anwar and the NCP) , and Andhra Pradesh (YSR Raja Reddy and the YSR Congress) to name a few states. Captain Amarinder Singh - the former Chief Minister (Indian equivalent of Governor) of Punjab - himself is rumored to be making a regional party in Punjab now as well after internal politicking in the INC forced him out of CMship.

That said, similar stuff will eventually happen to the BJP as well. I've heard rumblings at the grassroots level in Haryana, HP, and Jammu about discontent with local BJP acolytes and there is probably going to be a major shift in Indian politics over the next 10 years as a new generation of local parties form.

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> The Print

Agree with you that they are not right leaning in any way. I labelled them as slightly center right due to their occasional support for certain pro-market reforms (ones that I do support by the way). Honestly, I probably could have called them centrist but the edit timer has run down on that comment.

> Wire and Outlook

I'm curious about your reasons for having a low opinion of them? I've had reservations about some opinions the Wire reports, but at least in the region my family is from they've been pretty even handed reporting on abuses of power that have occurred. W/ regards to Outlook I was debating whether to add them to this list, but I have read some quality articles from them on occasion.
Yes. As a researcher, I have a number of such projects, and use a number of such projects (fortunately, it seems, on Github). In some cases, the repositories go for over a year without new commits, issues, or comments, but they do get downloaded, used, and cited, and comments tend to get made privately. In others, they're simply niche research code that can go for some time without being used, but does end up being useful later. In one case, a niche repository of some personal code I put up on a whim, with 3 commits, no comments, and the latest commit being made in 2014, had a graduate student find it and adapt it for their use a few months ago.

With package managers that pull directly from online repositories, it's also possible to have a repository of something small and stable that has no activity other than being cloned often.

I realize that I probably have the ability to get a free premium Gitlab account as an academic, but one of the reasons I ended up using Github instead was that Github's process for that was very simple and almost instant, whereas Gitlab's was frustrating and had weirdly pushy salespeople involved to the point that I abandoned the process.
You've appealed to me. I'm continuously learning to become better. My next self goal is to add sharding and replication into SQLite.

Question - Can you share an example with me - how would you teach someone to use OOPS (inheritance/composition), design patterns, and SOLID principles - to better structure code for maintainability, enhancements?

One of my personal philosophies is to write less code, but still achieve as much if not more.
Thank you for the detailed reply!

Random thoughts: I personally would not mind requiring Protobuf payloads so the proxy portion can stay dumb — keeping proxies up to date sounds no fun. Losing inspectability (not having JSON) is a minus but not a deal breaker. Requiring servers to use a new library is a big lift for people, and hard to sell if what you have works. Having a proxy you can drop in the meantime, while getting client streaming at the same time, seems nice. In any case, having the shiny Typescript friendly libraries that can easily switch between gRPC-Web and Connect is nice, so thanks for that.

For what it’s worth, our servers are C++ and use Arrow Flight which why I’m even interested in client streaming at all (its DoPut method has a streaming argument). My current solution is to add a regular gRPC method that behaves similarly to DoPut but is a unary call for browser clients. Not terrible, but it’d be nice to not have to do that.

I may well take you up on filing an issue/pinging y’all on Slack.
Approximately nobody used the federation capabilities because approximately nobody used Google Talk... LOL

In more seriousness, I know of quite a lot of people who chose to use Google Talk specifically because they could use it with their client of choice. (It also had a very wide reach for a while, thanks to its Gmail integration edit: and federation)

I honestly don't know anyone else who used Google Talk (other than whenever they checked their Gmail they'd also see any messages in it).

In other words, Google killed off the two reasons why people used it (edit: reach and choice of client). Since then they've "replaced" pieces of it with multiple different apps (Hangouts, Chat, Allo, Duo, Meet), some of which they're finally deciding to merge back together, and in the process all they've ever done (and all anyone expects them to do with this merger) is remove features. Usually exactly those features which were the only differentiation those services had from the competitors. Which means there's no difference from a competitor with a wider reach (Zoom, 100 different IM apps, iMessage/FaceTime, etc.). Which means it's doomed to be terminated (and probably reincarnated) by Google again in a few years.

(Maybe there was even a third reason to use Talk: it was the IM with Google accounts. I don't think there's been One IM To Rule Them All from Google at any point since then.)
> They are using Hydrogen instead of light

Yes, why? That’s the first question.
Interesting, thank you, I'll look that up.
All correct, though there is also the part about burying a lent talent and returning it without "interest".
Wow, it actually lets me discover interesting things.