skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also a sentence constantly on my mind. It's interesting to note it's a very different type of criticism than the ones that usually balloon when something new or supposedly new becomes public.

It's the kind of criticism that leaves room for genuine acceptance of the technical excellence and usefulness of those tools, while not buying the hype in the slightest.

EWDs are a gold mine. He's an exceptional thinker and his prose is beautiful.
My (Polish) grandfather used to say that too. I’d guess it’s either a Polish or a Yiddish proverb.
Yes, it's terrible, happens all the time
Doesn’t matter. The powers a licensed medical doctor have are very different and when someone says they’re a doctor in the middle of giving medical advice, they can’t play the “but I have a PhD card” or “free speech” because the recipient of that message would reasonably assume due to common colloquial understanding that that person is a licensed medical doctor (unless the PhD somehow clarified this in a reasonable way).

The main distinction that lawyers and medical doctors have in terms of the title is that these professions talk to lay people outside their profession regularly and there needs to be a distinction between them and other people offering advice that’s not governed by the rules of the medical community and codified in law. The risk and consequence of harm would be elevated and the ability for recourse would be limited. For example, if you get bad legal advice from random Joe Schmoe, you can’t claim ineffective council (heck you can’t even do that if it’s a licensed lawyer who told you something if that isn’t your lawyer. This doesn’t happen with engineers.

Now I’m not defending or espousing any specific position here. I’m just trying to illuminate the differences and the claims. The counterpoint is that these licensing requirements don’t actually change anything, they’re over broad, they raise prices on services far more than they should, they unfairly exclude people from prestigious jobs that maybe they could do anyway even without schooling (eg an experienced paralegal for 15 years maybe doesn’t need a “lawyer’s education” for certain kinds of legal work) and they go against the principle of free speech. On the other hand, trademarks exist and inhibit free speech in similar ways. On the other hand, trademarks can’t be regular words. On the other hand the government is responsible for writing the rules of trademarks.

On the other hand, this post brought to you by Tevya the Milkman and his fiddle.
> So to be clear, you are saying my tax money should be used to house the homeless, at exorbitant rates, while I cannot afford to buy house myself.

Who says it has to be your tax money? There are plenty of millionaires and billionaires in this country, and yet for some reason the only solutions that ever get traction are to put the tax burden on literally everyone other than the people with the most wealth. Hmm, gee, I wonder why? Probably nothing to do with the political duopoly said millionaires and billionaires bankroll, right?

> I don't think homelessness can be solved by building more housing.

It definitionally can and is solved by building housing for the people who lack housing.
Just Awesome.

I would love to see a possibility to record / dump the whole datastream as such in a file. This way it would be possible to improve the video emulation afterwards and it would be a gold mine for emulator developers analysing these dumps to fix bugs and understand the process of data transfer.
I often find that too, that it doesn't work. I tried different search engines and they tend to have some advantages and some disadvantages, but overall, it does not help. (Although, some things might just be obscure and difficult to find anyways, possibly; and, sometimes, it is difficult to know what search terms to use. But, sometimes even if I know what is needed and put it in exactly, still it does not work.)
Probably the most interesting thing for me is that they used the rp2040 and based their pcb design off of the minimal design example kicad files from the 'Hardware design with RP2040' pdf released by the pi foundation here: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/hardware-design-wi... - (side note, it is so cool that they produce documentation of this quality) - I was just reading through this yesterday and was wondering how feasible it was to build on their example. I am excited to get into PCB design and this gives me hope that I can make some cool things. If anyone has any suggestions or advice on getting into this sort of thing please let me know!
What will be affected?
Actually just today I asked if for the density of silicon nitrite and to cite a source. It cave a citation that seemed correct (reference book on materials) but with completely made up authors.
As someone who wrote a very silly and small search system with an elastic search backend.. this thing is a bit complicated.

If I do exact match for single words life is easy

Once you add phrases or punctuation and tell elastic search to find the best match (text analysis) then life isn't so simple anymore. It feels a bit like magic and I honestly cannot be bothered to become a language expert to know how to tune the machinery. The docs aren't great also.

Maybe there's a missing middle ?

Of course that if you're talking about social media, or search focused companies, they likely have other interests
> now that actors don't care about proper diction

Proper diction?

Is that Mid-Atlantic accent, Received Pronunciation, or something else?
Your "source" is calling Zelensky "the Imperial Puppet" and "comedian"[0], which makes me think it's probably even more biased towards Russia than western media are towards Ukraine.

[0] https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1605389284369784832
This topic (or a variation of it) comes up quite frequently on HN.

I agree with your observations. Google search seems to completely ignore search terms in quotation marks. It's like the search favours showing somewhat relevant results instead of nothing at all.
We also have some national security zones that are off limits to development.

Nevada National Security Site, for example.
You can always choose to dedicate your work to the public domain via a grant like CC0.
> MIDI 1.0's failings ...

I generally agree with most of your points, although I'd prefer to call it "limitations".

But even with those limitations, MIDI 1.0 has been used in numerous practical applications that have transcended the original use case concepts. From GM to MCU to MPE and many other things people have done at smaller scale or even just in their own custom setups.

Sure, those are "hacks", but especially on this site, I'd consider that worthy of praise, rather than ridicule.

To this day, thanks to MIDI 1.0, I can and do cobble very different pieces of hardware and software together to effectively create a highly individualized and therefore creativity boosting music making environment.

> MIDI 2.0 has addressed all of those, but it's a bureaucratic monster of a protocol and I suspect it's not going to be popular. -- We could really have done with a MIDI 1.5 ...

Yeah - MIDI 2.0 gives me a a vibe somewhat analogous to IPv6. But it's early days, so I'll wait how it plays out ...
Elasticsearch or a functionally equivalent competitor is a straightforward commercial-off-the-shelf solution for text search. Default settings for it include fuzzy matching and returning "relevant" results instead of only exact ones.

Pretty sure there's nothing more nefarious going on than a bunch of different engineers and different companies plugging in COTS text search solutions with minimal customization.
Are you confusing copyright with patent rights?

Patents have a dual purpose:

- they force exclusive access to a technology for a while, promoting innovation and profit; but!

- they also force you to publish all the internals of how that technology works, promoting production of cheaper copies after the exclusive period has passed.

I'm not aware of copyright having any such function.
I agree you have choices. It's just that those choices are easier, and simpler, the more money you have.

Incidentally the drug choice is less aligned with poverty. Middle class and rich people take plenty of drugs, including expensive ones like opiods and cocaine. Drugs more likely to be used by the less affluent (weed) is more actively enforced, including well understood disparities on racial and socio-economic lines.

But we digress, this is not about drugs. It's about the ability of people to succeed. And the playing field there is far from level.
In theory, Tesla’s stock is valued so high because of expectations of future earnings. It is however hard to say exactly how much is actual expectations versus “hype” and momentum. We are in a exceptional period of time in regards to how some stocks are valued which I think will be studied in textbooks of the future.

Ford and GM are behemoths which realistically don’t have much room to grow their market share/revenues very much. A win for them is not being eaten alive by competitors.

That being said, Tesla’s valuation (especially at its peak) was so high they basically are/were valued at at level where the “expectations” of the market is that they’d be the only vehicle manufacturer left on earth who will nearly capture the entire market. I think most will agree that is pretty far fetched and a lot has to do with hype/inflation/momentum/FOMO (it always goes up!).
His book "The Algebraic Mind" goes into great detail about connectionism (neural networks), symbolic systems, limits of connectionism and proposals to integrate neural networks with symbolic systems (hybrid systems).

The "deep learning alone is enough" camp (especially LeCun) has abused him for years but now slowly coming to the realization that we need to feed neural networks with explicit inductive biases to attain AGI which is exactly what Marcus has been saying since the 90s. LeCun, for some reason, refuses to call these explicit biases as symbols and that's the only disagreement between Marcus and LeCun these days.
Your judgement seems misguided towards someone that may have been incentivized to take risk on an investment property, or someone that bought a home and had to move due to any number of circumstances, but was not able to sell.

I agree that homeownership is becoming less and less viable for the middle class and below due to a lot of speculation that has entered the market in the past few years, and this should be nipped in the bud with regulation. But without knowing much about OP, it feels like an over reach to make assumptions that they are the problem.

On the credit history, I don't know if you have rented out a place before(sounds like maybe not), if you get a bad apple as a renter...everything gets massively more complicated and remedying the situation is not a clean maneuver. You wouldn't buy a vehicle off one picture, so why would someone rent out something that is 10-20x more valuable without proper due diligence?
> How does this argument not apply to everything?

Well one hypothetical way it wouldn't apply is if the US federal government backed 3M's move and banned Chinese and other foreign companies from unfairly competing with a company that is choosing to avoid intentionally poisoning their customers.
For me, Docker and Terraform. Packaging software easily and swapping it without too much hassle has saved me hours of pain.

Same with Terraform. The provider ecosystem is so extended that you can just grab them and make infrastructure rapidly, instead of using some cloud-specific language and syntax
> Copyrights aren’t only serving movies, they’re serving artists and musicians and magazines and websites and many other industries too.

Which is why I wrote "give them like five years of protection" instead of a few months. That ought to be more than enough for most if not all to make their money back and then some. Maybe 10 years at the absolute most.

Certainly not this lifetime plus 70 years insanity.

> there’s no question whether things are messed up. They are, I’m not arguing with you there.

I'm happy you agree.

> I’m just not sure that tossing out the baby with the bath water and raging against the machine is going to be fruitful.

I'm sorry, it's just so hard for me to watch the copyright industry just destroy the computers I love so much because they harm their rent seeking. Every year it's some new DRM bullshit with new ways to usurp control of my computer for their own ends. They have such immense lobbying power they made it illegal to break into and take control of my own system. It just feels so hopeless. I really don't know what else to do at this point.
I'm failing to see the problem with that. Sure, $80k is less than $90k, but it's a hell of a lot better than what the vast majority of Americans currently enjoy.
AoC 2022 in TensorFlow: 5. strings, regex, variables with no shapes, nd-indexing
I'm calling it, if you want GoreTex or similar clothing, get it now, in five years it will start to get banned, and in 10 years you won't find it anywhere.
I agree. I actually want literal search most of the time. Not the smart kind.
YouTube in India
When I first saw the title of this post, my first thought was that that this was a letter written by ChatGPT pretending to be Djikstra. So I guess there is something to be said about hype ... not sure exactly what though.
Accessing a varint length isn’t free. In fact, one of the main performance advantages for capnproto / flat buffers if avoiding varint encoding. It may not matter in all cases, but it would in the ones that absolutely needed to access the length frequently. Probably better to just eat the four bytes and do a small string optimization instead.
Elon Musk’s Twitter lays off engineers days before Christmas
It ain't a license, true, but I have a much harder time blaming the one lashing out due to suffering than I do blaming the one inflicting that suffering in the first place.
This is how red heads are not oppressed anymore. We literally forgot they ever were. This is the goal.
Indeed, as it has been doing globally. There's no doubt that a pauper today lives like a king compared to just a couple centuries ago.

Perhaps by statement is better said as "we can't raise the standard at the same rate for everyone."

This isn't a universal rule though. Many countries have raised the standards of the poor in proportion to the rich. But you'll see fewer billionaire yachts or private jets in those places too.
They exist because of capitalism. You've talked a lot about how capitalism works but seem unfamiliar with the negative effects capitalism can have

Let me illustrate how this happens. Walmart enters into a small town. They bankrupt the local groceries by undercutting and using economy of scale. They become the sole grocer in town. Healthier alternatives cannot exist because Walmart quickly crushes them.

Next, Walmart leaves because they've squeezed as much value as possible out of the town and are no longer seeing growth. The jobs and grocery that the town relied on vanish, and no other grocers can enter into that space because of the bootstrap costs.

This location is now a food desert. Nearest grocery access is a few towns over, or you get lucky and one of the dollar store chains enters in to help.

This isn't just an illustrative example. This is something that happens [1]. Constantly. [2].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/09/what-happene...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-closures-leaving-sma...
They completely ignore the explicit instructions we are giving and prioritize their “suggestions” instead.

I suspect it's deliberate. They're more interested in giving you what they want and trying to coerce you into that direction. I absolutely abhor it.
That this post is flagged is outrageous.
I believe this was a marketing strategy of some boots maker that went viral
Sure thing! Message me on twitter or email me at gmail so I can contact you back.
But makes passing around the type challenging to do efficiently. I agree it was probably the wrong choice in the end, but given the information available at the time, it’s not clear to me there was enough data / reasonable way to predict what the consequences would be and which approach would be better.

It’s more clear today but that’s because we’ve had 20 years of data of various experiments and ideas like small string optimizations on modern architectures that didn’t exist 40+ years ago.
Good question, because it is indeed the default behavior.

But you can always tweak settings to run the 3rd party sync app always in the baclground, and override the battery optimization setting for that particular app.
We should stop taking the pans, one-time use containers, etc, but a GoreTex jacket costs $400, not $40, and even the "cheap" GoreTex knockoffs cost $200...
And you don't have to be a conspiracy theorist who thinks that the heads of Twitter cynically tuned the algorithm to reward anger. If it's human nature to love a good fight, then unguided ML would generate a black-box model that promoted angry posts.
They’re saying the database has the same name as the company, not anything to do with the familial naming connection.
It's 8.7M actually.

https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount
The humans making the cost/benefit analysis are largely the ones whose cost is actually external. I certainly wouldn’t do the same math, but I’m not casually enriching myself by making people sick. The people who buy their products are largely their victims, not their accomplices.

Nearly everyone does NOT own the means of production, and the few who do know exactly what’s wrong and keep on doing it to everyone but themselves until they’re forced to stop. Maybe someday we’ll realize that too.
Oh it’s the engineers who think they know better than the common man/woman. Elitist, snobbish etc.
I'm no more shutting down the conversation than someone equating offensive words to uttering threats. By declaring words violence you make sure there can be no conversation, I'm just making sure it's true about everyone's words instead of just what you're comfortable with.

If you think that's unreasonable maybe judge you own behaviour - your words can be violence and every time you open your mouth to declare other people' words violence, you open the door for it to happen to you. so I did it, and you had nothing to say except to declare it bad faith, which I agree with, except I think your argument about assault is also in bad faith, and treat you the same.

You talk about plans like I control you or other people. I don't. I can only show you a mirror of yourself and hope you snap yourself out of the anti discourse patterns you exhibit but dislike in others. The plan is only to treat people who decry words as violence the same way they treat others and hope they learn the error of their way by having to contend with their own ideological weapons turned against them.

If words are violence why does anyone need to listen to anyone? I didn't kill discussion - your opinion decries discussion as violence. How can we have reasonable conversation in a framework where one side decries the other side's words as violence? It's not possible. It's not a framework for conversation, its just a tool to shut up people who you disagree with.
But given that this needs to be displayed in a browser eventually, why not use libraries like the d3.js that are mentioned anyway?
Seems a lot less complex?
So I'm a bit extreme.

I'll either write quotes from a book by hand or type it out on some word processor. But there are times I've typed out or written out entire chapters from a book. And one book I almost transcribed pretty much from end to end.

I think it's pretty inefficient. And I definitely don't recall perfectly. But it does help a lot of the info lodge in deeper than just active reading. Might just be a belief I hold, and I don't really recommend others to do it because it's definitely a lil kooky and time consuming.
The Wikipedia entry for this could legit be a book, it’s so detailed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System
The tricky part of this is macro nutrient diversity and satiety.

Let’s say $2 for 8 bananas vs $2 cheeseburger

Assuming normal size bananas, that’s about 800 cal worth of banana. From what I can tell about that cheeseburger, 415 cal per serving. So banana almost twice as good?

Not quite. Those 8 bananas are pure carbohydrate. You’re gonna digest those very quickly, and you’d still need a source for protein + fat, both of which you need to not die.

The shittiest cheeseburger, on the other hand, has tons of fat and a decent hit of protein. Way slower to digest. Also way easier to do stuff after eating. Eating that many bananas is a rough deal

10/10 times in severe poverty, I’d save up for for the cheeseburger.

I say though, the banana is still a very good additional carb source on a tight budget when combined with other foods. I ate, and will continue to eat, a boatload of bananas.
remember Flock?
My guess is that if you do user research you'll find that for the vast majority of people exact token matches are not what they actually need or appreciate.

People run searches on their phones with typos. They don't have a good mental model for how search works, or how best to use it. If they search for "can puppy eat pork" they're actually looking for results about if dogs can eat ham.

As an expert user of search this infuriates me too, especially when tricks like double quoting don't get me what I'm looking for.

But as someone who often implements search engines I'm spending a lot more time thinking about fuzzy matches and semantic search (things like searches that use vector embeddings generated by language models).
No, its not okay either. You basically made a cartel that follows a government like structure
Never heard of Height. What it does better if compared to say ClickUp/BaseCamp?
Arguably an important lesson, though. Just because you might have to steal to survive doesn't mean you have to be a dick about it. Likewise, if someone's stealing to survive and not being a dick about it, that leaves less motivation for retaliation and more motivation for compassion.
I'd say it's a bit dry for a young person but you could find them instead a beautiful rendition of his own manuscript. This would be a lifelong treasure if you could find something very well made, or a simple cheaper poster.

https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item104654.html

Eg. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1302262260/johann-sebastian-bac...
> So to be clear, you are saying my tax money should be used to house the homeless, at exorbitant rates

Yes.

> While I cannot afford to buy a house myself

Affordable housing should be a right to everyone. Anyone, including you, should have the option to live in affordable housing that is nice, ideally with amenities and gardens and common areas if they cannot afford to pay for that on their own. Public housing, like it is in some other countries, should be not a stigmatized fallback but the normalized default. And that’s what the property taxes on the home I currently own should be paying for, so if — for whatever reason — I can no longer afford it or no longer want it, I can move into a dignified public housing accommodation too.

> Not sure if you have lived near homeless encampments before

I have. And my conclusion doesn’t change— they should have housing. Nice housing and the help they need to get back on their feet. We all should.
First time I hear about port knocking, that's funny and pretty cool.