skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve let the pendulum swing very far as to what women are allowed to say without judgment/condemnation. It will hopefully swing back one day to a more modest position where it’s a more equal ground.

If you can believe it - I get shit on constantly for wanting a woman with a serious career. It’s purely for lifestyle compatibility but everyone thinks it’s “so shallow”.

We live in some pretty bad times to be a single straight man.
Ask HN: If you were designing Common Lisp today, what would you change?
He mentions a lot of recent similar efforts. One thing I don’t see is Martin Zwick’s continuation of reconstructability analysis / discrete multivariate modeling.

e.g. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/sysc_fac/22/

> RA was derived from Ashby (1964), and was developed by Broekstra, Cavallo, Cellier Conant, Jones, Klir, Krippendorff, and others (Klir, 1986, 1996).
> The new chip factories would take years to build and might not be able to offer the industry’s most advanced manufacturing technology when they begin operations

If you start something, you might not succeed, but if you don't start it, you are guaranteed to not succeed.
Someone who buys a single family home is depriving a family of the ability to own a home. A 4+ unit complex is unlikely to fall into the same situation. Those are often rented out. You're right that it might prevent owned condos from forming instead of apartments, but the only thing that gap allows is the sale of an entire complex, and the only thing it prevents is conversion of new apartment buildings to condos. Once they are condos, a foreign investor would need to buy them all at the same time.
wouldn't make for an interesting youtube video now would it? i mean, if you thought of it...eh?
i love the fact that you can have two perspectives physical abstractions :)
I don’t know if you’re Colombian, but this sounds like Marxist wishful thinking. When I was there with my Colombian ex, everywhere we drove around the countryside had military or police checkpoints, and at every one of them the people clapped, tooted the horn and yelled thank you out the window at the guys with guns outside. We went to visit one of her uncles who is an actual farmer growing soursops, and he told us stories of how the guerrillas came to extort people years before, and if you didn’t pay to support their “revolution” they would spray oil all over your farmland, ruining it.
An important “unblocker” for me when learning Rust after decades of other languages was internalizing that assignment is destructive move by default. Like many Rust intros, this sort of glides past that in the “ownership” section, but I felt like it should be a big red headline.

If you’re coming from C++ especially, where the move/copy situation is ridiculously confusing (IMO), but also from a simpler “reference by default” language like Java, this has profound impact on what’s intuitive in the language.

For the C++ comparison, this is a pretty good article: https://radekvit.medium.com/move-semantics-in-c-and-rust-the...
Heard of sacarsm?
What determines relevance? It must do something other than page rank. Will it recognize synonyms and more subtle kinds of nearness in word-space?
That’s an even better example.
This is probably the most honest website for crypto that I have seen.
I'm curious how it would deal with the self-referential aptitude test (original text: https://faculty.uml.edu//jpropp/srat.html -- web version: http://www.drunkmenworkhere.org/170 )

> 1. The first question whose answer is B is question ...
You are just trying to figure terminology and usage out on the fly by guessing.

You should be learning, not arguing.
>Putting empty bins back on cars is much easier

Not according to the collection employees that pick up in my neighborhood. Not once have the bins ever been put back in any manner other than "just throw the damn thing where ever".
So much so that it's actually kind of a trope in the UK music industry [1]. A lot of the most famous British musicians from the 70s and 80s were "on the dole" receiving welfare before they made it big.

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/horace-trubridge/class-and-...
Hey, just so you know, the front page has infinite scroll on the content, but in order to access any content in the footer I had to open source and find the `href` that way.

For a lay user, that means they'd have to scroll through your entire database of content to access the privacy policy link, unless they have it bookmarked or have previously visited for autofill or can guess the path.
Also from north Wilts and I'm pretty sure I've heard (and used) both forms.
I'm still working on https://pagespace.app/. The vision is Github but for books with built in subscription and sale incentives for an author to continuously update a book to make it a lifelong project.

The other idea I want to work on is longevity as a service, helping folks track health metrics that have been reliably shown to affect life expectancy. Things like hormones, cholesterol (apoB, lp(A)), inflammation...
Additional TL;DR (so you don't need to go to Wikipedia):

The message was embedded as morse code into the chorus.
Are you aiming for each dwelling to be occupied by only 1 person?
FTX: This Wasn't an Accident
> no shortage of land in Canadian cities or really any western city in a housing crisis today

Adding to this: various parts of America still homestead [1].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2010/11/16/7-Towns-Where-Land-is-Free.h...
In a Fediverse thread some time back I asked Lars how many other Linux users there were when he installed it (well, some other guy did it for him) on his computer.

He replied that there was one other user at the time.

(The thread's buried under one of my several Mastodon profiles. I do swear it actually happened, however.)

2023 will mark my own 26th year of Linux on the Desktop.
> controversial

You and jandrewrogers are using different connotations for this word. Separating compute and storage makes sense when you have already done this like the hyperscalers have. It is good for them but not necessarily for the end user.

That it is surprising to you are not doesn't say whether it is a good idea or not. If you make a statement regarding your own opinion vs an expert, then that statement is not referentially transparent, why?

When disaggregated storage gets predicate pushdown will it still be disaggregated?
Regarding you last point, I've only found a few people with the same name as mine, but one of them keeps getting arrested for awful things and having articles written about them.

It hasn't caused an issue that I know about yet, but it does kind of make me worry. Some SEO has made search results better, though.
There are semantic embeddings libraries that are fast enough to run on entire webpages in ~hundreds of millis or low single digit seconds. I've been thinking a lot recently about making a browser plugin that simply does semantic embedding on a paragraph level of every web page I ever visit, and store it in a vector database.

This would enable querying my little private search engine like "the HN story a few weeks ago that talked about ancient greek mining techniques" or "the reddit comment that had an analysis comparing Orwell's 1984 to the bible".

For those not familiar, semantic embeddings take a chunk of text and embed it in a high dimensional vector space (~hundreds of dimensions) where semantically similar texts are closer together.
Again, I don't agree with your cynicism. But even if you are cynical, consider this: if the government appears soft on real estate prices, they will lose the next election (which may be as early as this spring) to Pierre Poilievre.
AFAIK they have a 100 mile compliance car that, true to the definition, can’t be purchased in the USA unless you’re one of the few. That should count as a negative.
And the Saturn V only had enough lifting capacity because the Air Force had issued a requirement to Rocketdyne back in 1955 for an engine powerful enough to deliver the huge H-bombs in use at the time. Within a few years, nuclear weapons researchers had figured out how to build lighter weapons so the huge F-1 engine was no longer needed for ICBMs, but fortunately it was ready for use in the Apollo program. The USSR had nothing comparable.
And I want to precise that I am not speaking about Antarctica.

I don't think that Antarctica will lose its ice cover. Only probably its ice shelves, and also some glaciers will shrink, but overall it'll stay white.
Meanwhile a substantial number of Americans are envious of Canadian life and how much safer Canadian cities are. The grass is always greener.
Yeah I wish there was a strong jobs market for Rust developers then I'd feel like I wasn't wasting my time.
Actually, the page rank is really based on semantic similarity and relevance of the matched paragraph.

Which under the hood is based of a t5 encoder
I think Linus recently mentioned (probably on LAN show) that they are positioned soon to make more money from merchandise than what their YT channel generates - because of their huge drops of the new backpack and screwdriver.
Once you are depressed it's kinda hard to do anything. I usually tell myself that this is just temporary so don't fall into the negative trap. Once the mood improves I can start working on sleep eat and exercise. I thought about going to see therapy but 1) My depression doesn't hit too often and too hard; 2) Getting tired of long wait in medical system; 3) Not sure about employment but I need insurance for such therapy.
> plethora of totally valid reasons why people would be opposed to endless urban sprawl, consolidation, and population growth

Totally agree. But the counterpart of that is rising housing costs. If you accept that tradeoff, you aren't a NIMBY. This covers many homeowners. But renters opposed to development while complaining about housing costs are trying to suppress their housing costs by increasing others'. That externalization is textbook NIMBY.
What's your opinion of Etherpad? Does their roadmap overlap with your vision?
Here in Belgium we had perfectly fine winter weather in the weeks leading up to Winter Solstice, but then it started turning and suddenly around year's end it was a record high for the time of year. It's quite welcome though, considering the energy crisis.
>> You don't have any actual experience with NLP do you?

> No

Thank you. That's really the best I can hope for in conversations about NLP with skeptical people. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going to convince me. But I appreciate your honesty in admitting you do not have first hand experience with NLP.

I am not a scientist myself, and I'm not quite comfortable calling myself an "amateur scientist". However, I am very very pro-science. I consider science to be one of the most important human activities. I also value skepticism. (E.g. IMO James Randi is a hero in the intellectual life of humanity.) However, that said, this is an area where science is out of the loop. This stuff works. It's rigorous and repeatable. It's not even hard to do.

> NLP has been subjected to [rigorous study, and testing], and it has failed to stand up.

That can't be true.

I don't know what the boffins did, but if they can't replicate these simple patterns and techniques they just make themselves look foolish.
We would opportunistically hire for other roles if the right candidate showed up (underwriting, potentially COO/COS)
Over the summer I got into genealogy — my partner tasked me with finding her biological parents. I did, and afterward, I took a DNA test of my own only to discover that my mom failed to tell me something (she passed away a few years ago): who my biological father is.

This was a surprise to me, my dad, and many others. Some of her girlfriends knew this situation existed, but never got a name.

And so I spent my summer in what I call "old lady Facebook groups" and learned the tricks and the trades to investigative genetic genealogy. One of the useful tips you can apply to your DNA matches called DNA color clustering — it's incredibly useful: https://www.danaleeds.com/dna-color-clustering-the-leeds-met...

Of course, I didn't want to do this by hand. There were some tools out there that existed but they were "old school" software packages: you know, you install it on your own device! "Worse" yet, I'd have to give it my raw password — no thanks! It started there, and morphed into a lot more, and now it's used by "search genies" and consumers alike: https://sherlockdna.com

There's a lot more that can be done in this realm by both providers and hackers. There's a niche for these "pro tools" that exist but the typical DNA test taker is not after any sort of genealogical exploration that requires substantial effort. There is a very sizable group of people who do, though, and those people, I have found, are very pleasant, kind, and nice to be around. I like surrounding myself with good people, so I'm happy to help them while I scratch my own itch.

All this, and I am yet to find the guy I'm looking for despite having invested over 1,000 hours into finding him. I have, though, found over two dozen "wanted" individuals (not in the criminal sense) and united them with their searcher — at least that part is satisfying.
The response I dont see represented is that we were more ambitious in the past. There were all kinds of negative effects, bad tools & out-of-touch architecting that was begot; we can acknowledge that, certainly. But that almost all representation of Java here so emphatically emphasize only the negatively bias, without recongizing also some of the idealism, hope, & progress is to our loss.

We were also trying really cool things with many of these java efforts. Rather than a main() routine that imperatively did everything, there were future-sightes notions that we could have a bunch of ambient systems available & interconnected. OSGI solved some thorny library versioning problems, and as a bonus allowed for a very strongly manageable runtime for modules. EJB brought objects up to a higher level, a greater management tier with more interoperability of objects across instances. We were interested in trying more, in tackling harder problems, that microservice era has masked over, deliberately chosen to ignore.

Over time we got more refined forms of many of these systems. Maven calmed much of the ad-hoc madness of Ant. CDI was a more reasonable EJB with event more competent management. JSP kept getting better component libs. OSGi actually was... decent all along, sometimes legit useful.

But the idea that Java was absurdly troubled seems to endure & be enormously popular hatred/FUD to spread. The fads of today are exactly the opposite of the better managed more flexible runtime trend, where the JVM keeps rising as a more capable, flexible, malleable, adaptable, controllable way to tackle processes than the processes at an OS level. And certainly, there's a lot of ease we've bought ourselves by doing much much less. Statically compiled binaries are an example of yet another means of doing less, of finding easy routes; powerful simplifications that have greatly eased many folk's lives.

Less is great, sure. Isolated container instances with dedicated apps is pretty easy to deal with. But there are still constant undercurrents, pushing us towards more interesting complected runtime arraingements, where virtual machines (not fully virtualized os'es but systems like glassfish or erlang, where many sub-processes are co-resident) come back. The idea of very quick very easy to spawn sub-processes allows for interesting security & modularity, where-as today services are almost all monolithic app servers that have complicated multi-user authentication & authorization concerns. We could make simpler safer software if we had more complex runtimes; it's a trade-off, and im deciding we have gone too-deep, unleashed monsters, we have perhaps too polarized ourselves against many of the great capabilities we one tried for.
Yeah, I wasn't fully clear. I'm talking about Canada, where Chinese investment is only 4%, contrary to perception that "Chinese money" is the source of our troubles. 4% is still a significant impact, but it's pretty much pure racism that singles out the Chinese as the primary driver.
Speaking just for Angular, things seem to have settled down a lot. The applicaton was originally created under 13 and has been migrated to 14 and just recently to 15.

Those upgrades were quick and painless. Some new features come with each update, but aren't required to implement them and the existing code runs fine under v15.
The thing that a lot of people tend to get confused about is the difference between an innovation that can delivery some sort of ROI for a farmer and a venture-backable opportunity.
It is true that there is a lot of misunderstanding on the ag and tech sides, but also a lot of mis-application of 'templated' thinking - we've written quite a bit about it - one key piece is here: https://tenacious.ventures/notes/how-silicon-valley-set-agte...
Also, it is important to understand the difference between genuine innovation in the agrifood value chain, and on-farm efficiency improvements. As has been pointed out here, farmers are only part of the story, and whilst they are often the user of an innovation, it is often the case that others downstream of them are the true economic beneficiaries - this can only really be solved with business model design, not just technological innovation. There is a tendency to confuse the user with the beneficiary - https://adnause.am/notes/confusing-user-beneficiary-messy-mi...
In terms of how we review investment opportunities from founders, we need to see both elements of technological innovation and business model innovation. All the comments about the challenges in providing solutions for agriculture are valid and often present major challenges for adoption. But in my experience, adoption at scale is more often a business model problem, not a market or technical problem.
It is definitely the case that many problems that are present in the agrifood value chain aren't inherently 'venture scale' - and often that can be a big challenges for founders who can't self fund. Creating and running a profitable, self-funded company is a great endeavor; possibly very rewarding and impactful, but that is not the same as looking for investment for a company that hasn't yet solved their own venture-scale business model challenges.
Reminds me of some early Bungie games, which would have files called 'DONT_EVER_READ_THIS_FILE.txt", or something to that effect. The files, of course, were the readme files, named that way to trick people into reading them.
Zoning laws limit where and what you can build.

Who sits on these boards, lobby, and vote on zoning regulations? Homeowners in the area.

The first thing that happens when a company announces a new building projects, is that they get deluged with protests from the neighboring homeowners. Sometimes this process will take years and years - there's no worse sin than taking away sunlight from neighbors, "visual pollution", and what have you.
When chatGPT first came out, my first thought was to replicate it myself. But then, I have too many missing skills or lack the time for backend, frontend and deployment. So I found LAION started an initiative for open-assistant.
https://github.com/LAION-AI/Open-Assistant

So I just join them, so far its quite an active community working on pushing out the initial 0.1 version.
Sorry, I don’t understand the relevance of this to the question above. Maybe I wasn’t clear. Let me try to rephrase that question:

Above, 'PragmaticPulp wrote that:

> I visited a friend who lived in a high rise and barely saw anyone else come and go from the building the entire week I was there. From the windows we could see into other nearby high rises, most of which were empty. Empty not because they were for sale, but because they had been purchased as investment vehicles by foreign investors who had no intention of ever living there.

And my question is how they knew that those apartments were empty because they were owned by some foreign investor (who presumably also wasn’t interested in making money on rent)?

I don’t understand how rules about conveyancing answer that question.
Small business prospers removing confederate statues
That sounds like prostate issues tbh
It seems to me some of this whimsical creative writing might have been for copyright protection purposes!
I think some of the current work on encrypted databases might wander into this territory.

I can't recall if symmetric ciphers are commutative or not. Specifically if:

f(f(x)) = x
g(g(x)) = x

are there cipher systems where

f(g(f(x))) = g(x)

because that's essentially the problem here. Any other encryption method would require Alice to know Bob's key, or is more easily solved with public key cryptography, where Alice just encodes the secret with Bob's public key and sends it to him.
It should be slightly better than connecting it directly to sound card, as in "the chip might fry first", but doesn't look like there is any optoisolation in it
FWIW I wasn't offended.
Hah yeah these complaints are pretty similar to other luxury markets. I've always found Stiizy products to be more brand than actual substance. I'm also into coffee and roast my own beans and the same things apply to the coffee market. My home coffee roasts are similar quality to 3-4x more expensive bags of coffee at specialty roasters. I can even buy cups of coffee there which is still 2-3x more expensive than a cup of coffee I can brew at home with the specialty beans I bought already roasted. It's just how luxury works, it's some mix of quality, branding, and finding a customer segment willing to pay the markup to not do it themselves.
These are unfortunately limited to a tiny subset of SQL.
And that allowed us to move from a society in which only those who had money could make music and join groups, to a society that can express themselves artistically and musically in a much more democratic way, because many more people can have the means to produce music in their home. People can discover new music and share it in real time with their micro-communities online. Creating possibilities for artists who don't live in big cities to become world wide known. I'm glad he was right.
Very good explaination!

hundred of millis is what I experienced.
There aren't many full Rust jobs but there are a whole lot of companies with ever expanding bits of Rust in production. Probably the best way at this point is to push it internally and put together a convincing case for using Rust for new projects.
> The other bad pseudo-privacy idea is time-limited posts ("stories" or snapchat or whatever).

That one addresses a real threat-model - someone who was your friend and whom you trusted at the time you sent the post, but has since turned against you. That is quite common among teens, which is the main demographic these social networks are targeting. Rather than them having a permanent record of all your online interactions since you met including embarrassing photographs, it just becomes he-said-she-said like it has been for ages, unless they were actively subverting the program to archive content while you were still friends, which is rare.
No, their whole thing is they are riding the coat tails of regressive mouth pieces that stupid people throw money at, so they are there peddling services and taking a cut. It is all a grift. Snake oil salesmen. CYA troll.