skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> great for some types of information (math, well-established science), but really bad for others

Wikipedia seems to be quite good on article diversity [0]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Shares-of-articles-in-ea...

> It's not accepted as a proper reference source for a reason!

Wikipedia is not a source in itself. It's even a principle of the website [1]. The sources are linked in most cases. If not, the source is null.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_not_a_r...

> teach kids to do independent research

From my own scholar experience, searching books and the web was mostly a "bad practice"; even self teaching or asking ourselves questions to conduct was misregarded.

> abandoning classroom education in favor of self-study

Successful self-teaching (self-teaching activity that leads to progress and evolution maybe) is from my experience mostly found in priviliged economic groups but with a various range of mindsets and family background (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts)
Everybody is on high alert. Being on high alert doesn't make Bernstein right.

I don't even support the premise of NIST crypto standardization, let alone trust them to do it.
It's difficult for me to take this blogger seriously when they want to give red meat credit for containing heme iron, which is suspected to be a cause for worse health outcomes.
My point is that an engine with easy onboarding and relevant functionality would address most developers' requirements and likely earn it a place in many companies' toolboxes but to address your second point, off the top of my head I believe that game would be the Sonic Colors remake.

There were certainly teething problems with the Switch version but I definitely think it's a good sign when people contracting for a company as big as SEGA are using it.

In that vein however, I ask this:
O3DE is a fork of the Amazon Lumberyard engine. Amazon Lumberyard has not been very successful with only a handful of companies using it, mostly Cloud Imperium and Amazon themselves.
How do you forsee O3DE changing this pattern?
The point about connections is important: Egencia (which I use for work travel) regularly suggests 30- or 45-minute connection times, which I think is a bad idea. A 60- or 90-minute connection time is my preference.
I strongly agree with the article's premise! I also agree with this guidepost for how we should be moving music theory past its highly entrenched and institutional attitudes:

> We should be asking: what is it that musicians are doing that sounds good? What patterns can we detect in the broad mass of music being made and enjoyed out there in the world?

I would personally add one more leading question: Can we explain music in other ways than by its harmony and chords?

A harmonic approach to analysis works fantastic for old European music, and pretty damn well for jazz too. For rock, it starts to oddly leave out important aspects of the music like rhythm, timbre, the way effects like distortion inform the harmony, vocal delivery, etc. And in the modern era, with all the advances and innovations made in the last 30 years in the now dominant genres of hip hop, pop, and electronic music, harmonic analysis is very poorly equipped to make sense of things in any meaningful way.

One music theorist who is attempting more competent analysis of contemporary music is https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos. I'd love to see more of this.
We need better terms for differentiating low doses and true microdosing. Half a gram is certainly a low dose, but I'd expect most people to feel at least some high.
Plesiosaurs from fluvial Kem Kem Group: review of non-marine plesiosaurs
Article states: "In his book, Personal Knowledge Polanyi introduced the expression tacit knowledge. Most of the knowledge we apply in everyday life is tacit. In fact, we do not know which rules we apply when we perform a task."

This is an essential realization. The author's examples (swimming, bicycle-riding) are instructive. Also consider that each of us learned to understand a human language - an extremely complex task - with little explicit teaching. Our minds somehow learn to decode the complex patterns in language. Also languages often often refer to a very complex natural environment we must also perceive and comprehend. That amazing capability was not constructed.

For a shorter intro to Polanyi's thoughts, try 1964 book The Tacit Dimension.

Not ruling out AGI as possible. The question is whether we will be able to communicate with it if its referents are very different from ours. And then there's the question: why would it cooperate rather than compete?
Why So Many Cars Have Rats in Them Now
When I refer to this distinction, I mean something like the following (which overlaps to some extent with the distinction between "wide" and "narrow" AI, and I admittedly haven't tried very hard to formalize the difference):

1. We already have AI that is "human level" or even better than human level in the "narrow AI" sense. This part is trivial to see. AI's can beat humans at chess, dividing large numbers, and any number of tasks. But this is "narrow" and by and large the program that can play chess can't also drive a car or anything else.

2. With that established, if we took AI's from (1) above and did nothing but make them more generally applicable, so that the same program can play chess, drive a car, or calculate complex integrals, you'd arguably have something that could at least come close to being called "human level artificial general intelligence".

3. But nothing about establishing (2) above entails, so far as I can see, the necessity of the AGI having human like behaviors, emotions, desires, intentions, attitudes, etc. The easiest way to explain what I mean here is to think in terms of embodiment. It seems clear to me that some portions of our intelligence and behavior are tied up in the way we experience the world through our bodies. Even down to the analogies we construct and use and how we understand them. For example, we talk about "the stock market falling" or a person "falling down" (both in the literal sense or like the movie of the same name), or we say the level of a lake "fell", and I'd argue that some of the understanding of the abstract notion of "fallingness" is tied up in our visceral experience of falling. We know what it means to "fall" in a certain sense, because we have all fallen. We've experienced stumbling, being off balance, beginning to tip over, seeing the floor rush towards our noses, extending our hands to break our fall, getting carpet burn on our hands as a result, etc. And I posit that we can't really divorce those experiences from our subsequent learning and behaviors. And a (2) AGI, unless specifically built to be embodied, and to have that ability to experience the physical world, probably won't have the same attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, etc.

That's not to say that you can't teach an AGI some notion of "fallingness" without it being embodied. My argument is simply that there is a distinction between "human level" and "human like" and that that distinction is largely related to our physical manifestation via our bodies.

No formal proofs of any of this, but this general view informs my overall position towards AI / AGI in many ways. Others may or may not find it useful.
Pinned comment from the author:

> UPDATE: I've received way more interest in this project and the codebase than I anticipated and I've made it temporarily closed-source. I may release it publicly again but I really want to make sure that my work isn't used without crediting me. Thanks for understanding bros!
"causal knowledge is an important part of humanlike intelligence, and that computers cannot handle causality because they cannot intervene in the world"

wait until the author discovers robots
I think alphafold gets hated on too much. It won’t revolutionize things but I bet people are out there right now looking at different structures and motifs only seen on alphafold to get a better idea on how existing drugs bind and affect them. And then designing analogues and so on. Time will tell, I guess.

It’s kind of like anything in research, lots of small steps enable revolutionary breakthroughs every so often.
Thanks for this link. I found this a really interesting way to think about social etiquette.
But that's the point of the rant. How does knowing that "cookies are small text files" help the user understanding what a cookie is and does? That's just an irrelevant implementation detail.
What do we call the "--" part in a command like this:

git checkout HEAD -- <filename>

I find it hard to remember things unless I understand their purpose. It looks like it's specifying an argument but without an argument name (e.g. --verbose), unless it's similar to a pipe | symbol and <filename> is being passed to the checkout command as some special kind of argument?
I certainly wouldn’t want to be a current or former DuPont, Chemours, BASF or 3M executive right now.

Just today I learned that all commercial beverage bottles and cans in the US are treated with fluorinated gases and then leach these same forever chemicals to whatever beverage they contain.
I have 20+ years of professional experience and I'm using git via Visual Studio or VSCode UI. I'm not feeling ashamed of that.
Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones
Oh you have me there! Things that are boring (to me) are not fun (to me). If you find it fun then great :) This area of art has stagnated horrifically and because it is art as well as programming it should be critiqued via that other angle as well.
If you use Node.js, check out Telefunc[1] which enables you to seamlessly call Node.js functions from the frontend (in other words RPC). Including first-class TypeScript support.

Its guide "RPC vs GraphQL/REST"[2] explains you when to use GraphQL and when not.

[1]: https://telefunc.com/
[2]: https://telefunc.com/RPC-vs-GraphQL-REST
I love this article. It nicely answers the question I posed (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=lrem#32263287) in the discussion of the original announcement: is today's db good enough to be a breakthrough for something useful, e.g. pharma or agriculture? And the answer, somewhat unsurprisingly, seems to be "useful, but not life-changing". And that's a perfectly good result in my eyes :)
Choco Tacos and Remembrance of Junk Foods Past
Although I find strange the change of heart, this is the reason the author made the repo private, according to his pinned comment in the video:

> UPDATE: I've received way more interest in this project and the codebase than I anticipated and I've made it temporarily closed-source. I may release it publicly again but I really want to make sure that my work isn't used without crediting me. Thanks for understanding bros!

Maybe it's too soon to start distributing copies.
"To keep your identity as veiled as possible, we recommend not adding a publicly known phone number or email address to your Twitter account."

Companies are getting more and more insistent on the phone number. In China services are already phone number only and I'm afraid we are heading that way too.
Google refuses to search for hash-like strings that aren't well-known across the web.[0] That's why this search gives no actual results. (It certainly will in the future as this submission gets reposted, breaking the googlewhack)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31638976

(I think Bing also blocks hashes but has an exemption for UUIDs; right now it gives me results for random UUIDs but not random MD5s)

Bing and Yandex are both capable of locating OP's Minecraft account in online databases:

https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.google.com/search?...

https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www.bing.com/search?q=...

https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://yandex.com/search/?tex...

PS: example of an uncommon hash that Yandex finds but not the other two: the MD5 of 'Hacker News' (f3e4...), which actually occurs on the web on one site (http://archive.ph/oLgUe http://archive.today/lkyNN http://archive.ph/v3TY5)
GraphQL Performance is abysmal, because query language is completely detached from the way data is stored and encourages you to select as much as possible.
Does changing a resistor value alters what words the speaker is saying?
Why wait? Just keep doing your stuff.
Your argument stops being valid the second you realize that a lot of devs who use GraphQL started out as skeptics (e.g. me), then spent time actually understanding its nuances before coming to a conclusion for a specific project/team.

And, in general, there's no such thing as a "good" or a "bad" technology, there are dimensions and each dimension is a spectrum: utility, adoption, availability, cost, complexity (although hard to determine), etc. to compress all that down to "hype" or "it sucks" just show how little time has been spent on understanding the nuances I mentioned above.

I don't claim GraphQL is amazing or even good, it just proved to be a great way to build APIs for the projects I worked on. I'm sure someone who builds firmwares for embedded automated plumbing systems would disagree (within that context). If you decide not to adopt it I just hope you do it after a rational, unbiased review of what the tech is capable of and what the shortcomings are, rather than "oh it's over hyped".

> Did you try reading the thread? What do you mean by data?

Please don't question whether someone read the thread or not (which is irrelevant within the scope of this discussion anyway) just because they disagree with you.
I only found out about git switch recently - super handy when you want to checkout another dev's branch that isn't tracked locally yet. There's a case to be made for reserving 'checkout' for when you specify a filespec rather than a branch.
Apple really was in a dark place at that time and it would have died shortly thereafter but for Steve.
The dude may be a little handwavey but cut him some slack. It's a weird subject. Stretch your little Vulcan mind and try to meet him halfway.

By "computers are not in the world" he means that a computer is based upon an abstract interpretation of the world, not the world itself.
I'm happy that you like this syntax, but the claim you made was "no you fucking well cannot [do everything]", not "excel syntax is more fucking beautiful".

I appreciate your advice, but I don't need to watch a video on R1C1 syntax, I literally maintain a spreadsheet :)

It seems like your real claim is that you really like the way Excel does it, nobody can argue with that.
Here are some of my favorite YouTube channels, I've learned a lot from them

- The Coding Train, mostly p5.js: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

- The Art of Code, glsl: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtofCodeIsCool

- Inigo Quilez, glsl: https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez
How do you think of #1 in the context of a web app? Each page is essentially a different entry point into the code.

I guess the landing page or authentication page could be considered the equivalent, but I’m not sure those would hit your goals to understand flow of data, etc. ?
The more I look at the world the more I see how the establishment, in virtually every field of endeavor, has spent decades insulating itself from any real meritocratic consequences.

Businesses and institutions don't want to compete, because competition is hard and they might lose. So we get shit like this, and any good work that makes it through is a lucky side effect. Doing a good job is often not a competitive edge.
And even if you do teach them proper database queries, that doesn't give you a nice editable view of multiple interlinked queries and parameters, with output organized into charts and graphs. The best option down that road isn't switching to a database program, it's using a spreadsheet program that can do SQL.
HTML Priority Hints Help Etsy Ace Google Core Web Vitals
Back in the day we call this role Webmaster. Being able to manage your server, write your code and design the website was what a true developer tried to achieve.

It is strange to see developers preferring to stay in their isolated environments and not wanting to touch the entire stack.
I’m just saying academia has a customer service side too.
Your comment implies the old trop that Beta was much better quality than VHS, but Betamax's reputation for better quality was marketing spin and conflation with Betacam, Sony's pro version.

In reality, Betamax was nearly indistinguishable from VHS.
Who also sells snake oil nutritional supplements and prepper crap…
Perhaps if they try to force you to arbitration you can push back and demand proof that you agreed to their terms, which is conveniently achieved by creating an account.
This article is peppered with factual errors. While none of them detract from the core idea, they do lead one to question Dr. Janega's scholarship. Here's a modest sampling:

- Soap is given as a medieval invention, but this is stretching to the extreme both the idea of "inventing soap" and the idea of "medieval." In reality it was widely made and used at least as a hair wash by the waning days of the Western Roman empire.

- The ingredients list for soap contains a number of equivalent or derived ingredients listed as though totally separate, as if the author weren't aware of the relationships and went copy-pasta crazy from mixed sources.

- Aleppo soap is described as if made exclusively from laurel oil (rather than the correct mixture of laurel and olive oils).

- The photo shown of a light brown bar of soap with a caption seeming to suggest that it's Castille soap is in all likelihood actually Aleppo soap (cf. the text of the Arabic seal, which is rather humorously shown upside-down).

- The description of a deodorant made using "salvia and sage" is rather perplexing, as salvia is the Latin word for sage... and the name of the modern genus of plants containing common sage. A reference to salvia in the colloquial modern sense of Salvia divinorum seems unlikely in the extreme.

All told, while this is an interesting read, and does contain some useful information, from a scholarly perspective it seems to be, at best, slipshod.
You completely missed the point, and ended up equating creative innovation with manufacturing.

Most copyists were not illuminators. Typing does not preclude other forms of writing (eg with a pencil, which I use almost as much as a keyboard), and typing is not a creative endeavor to begin with, unless you want to get into ASCII art.

There's a difference between generative and the merely productive. You could spend 10 years using AI picture generators, and it will not develop your ability to draw a picture on paper. Making selections as a consumer is not the same as creating something, for the same reason that food appreciators in a recent aren't halfway to being chefs.
It is strange to believe that my comment must remain accurate in perpetuity.

At the time of my writing, the user had two comments in this thread, one about cleaning practices and traditional herbs (that almost no one took issue with).

>In response to someone claiming that there were (like in medieval Europe, the topic of this post) many poor people in India in the same time period:

That is not at all what was claimed by that comment.

"No. You are the peasant. No lands for you, you aren't a lord or lady, you're a peon like 99.999% of people. Almost no middle class, and you aren't upper! You're lower class." is an ignorant statement.

>No one said India was not "self-sufficient", we're talking about peasants in those times, having a low quality of life.

You don't dictate what 'we are talking about'.

What you seem to struggle to comprehend is the linearity of time. When Kumavvr made their first and second comments, the topic was about medieval bathing.
Now it has changed as the conversation developed yet you think the comments made before the topic changed are expected to also cover the topic which did not exist at the time of their writing.
I really like the idea and would live to give it a go, but as someone who develops across web, xamarin, .netcore, docker and wants good first support for these tools so I'm not wasting time/money it looks like I would be hard pressed to swap without dedicating a lot money to the effort. Also, does freebsd run on m1/m2 hardware yet?

Happy if I'm wrong and someone can point me in the right direction. But the few times I've looked into it it doesn't seem worth the expenditure.
Attaching large numbers of thermometers, barometers, etc. could still be difficult in many regards, but attaching at least some is very doable. In fact, that's exactly what I'm working on now. I wrote a little about this a few days ago, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32310799

The idea of this project is to build an "embodied" AGI that has some ability to experience the physical world in a way that's at least analogous to the way a human does. So far I have been working on a lot of low level "plumbing", but I just finished getting the cellular modem / GPS adapter working, so now the bot can "sense" its position on the surface of the earth, and its velocity (if moving). Next steps include a 9 DOF accelerometer board for more localized sensing of changes of orientation in space, a camera, a microphone, and "other" sensors - possibly to include the aforementioned barometric pressure sensor, temperature sensor, etc.

Will this lead anywhere? I have no idea. But it seems like a possibly fertile avenue to explore.
A lot of games on DVDs still need online activation to work (e.g., The Orange Box).
Fake reviews on IMDB are getting out of hand. What's the point any more?
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/11382
CA DMV Accuses Tesla of Deception in Marketing Autopilot and Full Self-Driving
What is a well defined API to access a lot of related datasets if you have 100s of external users, using it for 10s of different types of use cases?

Compare it to a database, what if you couldn't use random queries with SQL, but only had the option to call stored procedures?
Perhaps AI is developing a sense of humour...
Fyrox Game Engine v0.27
Maybe 6 months is too much, but for example in Europe, you do need more than a month to ensure that your grid actually works even if you have low wind and low sun for that long - at least until you can over-generate so much that you have enough production on a ~14h of sunlight on a cloudy day in winter with low wind you can ensure enough power for the whole day. The farther north you go, the bigger this problem gets - places like Norway or Finland have far less than 14h of sunlight in winter per day, for example, for months.
Will they be allowed to export these? I am really hopefully developing countries can get them. Much less infra needed than renewables with storage.
I can't recommend Nature of Code enough. It's free, you can read it online and it will give you a good start

https://natureofcode.com/book/
It is a delimiter indicating the end of options:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/11376/what-does-dou...
Depression in my experience encompasses an entire world view. P.K. Dick says in Exegesis that readers have pointed out he keeps creating the same world over and over in his books, so he concludes that world must be him. That's who he is. Some philosophers create their philosophy out of their particular world view, which is why it doesn't resonate with me.

tl;dr - A depressed AI would have to create an entire world view of thought to be convincing, not just mimic what it read in comments

No one thought Tay was a reincarnated Nazi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
> and teachers prohibit students from using Wikipedia because it is so easy to use it improperly.

Prohibit something without explaination sounds like nursery or at least lack of confidence in the students, to me.

Although, I feel like professors don't teach enough the methods, I still don't understand why some students perform well in essay exams.
Coinbase CEO tells his team: APIs not meetings