skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find information about their actual business model on the site. What could it be? The first thing Rooms.xyz makes me think of is Habbo (Hotel). The developer could sell extra features (through a subscription), premium items, and space to build in. A voxel editor and custom code make premium items a harder sell: you can replicate them if they aren't very complex and you don't care about the social status of using premium items. The primary premium commodity could instead be space: larger rooms and more rooms per account. They could also charge users for highlighting their rooms in a recommendation system, if they cultivate a community that hangs out on the site.

Edit: There is a line about it in https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/a16z-backed-rooms-xyz-lets...:

> Eventually, Rooms could monetize by selling objects for purchase, subscriptions or licensing its software for education, but that’s all very much to be determined at this point.
Yep. Sorry. It did feel like you were asking for evidence for (what I believe) is received wisdom, which is a standard tactic for trolling. If you really have not had that experience, I am truly sorry .. and envious.
Sucks goat's dick, of course. For me the 7531902468 was the only working way to grok the fourth row, and all braces are in perfect positions for me, especially while lisping. That's in addition to general awesomeness of Dvorak.
thank you very much for explaining

it makes sense that cylinders would be immune to swelling
thats a great usecase. thanks for sharing
> Exercise: try stating this without the copula.

‘The copula has many uses.’

or:

‘The copula can be used in many different situations.’

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Also, I think you underestimate the amount of variation in other words, e.g.:

> If I say "she came from school" it is clear that we're talking about relative motion today or in the recent past from one nearby location to another.

Not just recent past, but having any time near to the point of reference: ‘When she came from school after the bomb scare…’.

> If I say "her family came from Japan" it is clear I'm talking about ancestry and/or a long ago emigration, but also spatially oriented.

Or they might have arrived yesterday to visit her.

> If I say "the party is from 3pm to 5pm" then I am using "from" to indicate a temporal rather than a spatial motion.

But only because ‘3pm’ and ‘5pm’ themselves have clear temporal reference as opposed to spatial reference. For an ambiguous example, if I say ‘we drove from breakfast to lunch’, that might mean we drove starting at breakfast-time and finishing at lunch-time, or it might mean we started at a location where we had breakfast and drove to a location where we had lunch. (To more fully show that the latter is a valid interpretation, consider ‘we drove from breakfast to breakfast’: it makes no sense if ‘breakfast’ is a time, but it makes sense if treated with the sense of ‘place where we had breakfast’.)

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> The IS-A vs HAS-A relationship is entirely different. It is the difference between existential quantification (some aspect of this thing resembles/has an X) and universal quantification (the entirety of this thing is fully captured by the meaning of X).

This doesn’t sound quite right to me. In my view, both ‘has’ and ‘is’ are basically relationships, rather than quantifiers. Consider a sentence like ‘I have the keys’: this merely states a relationship between two objects, rather than quantifying over any set. A sentence like ‘The morning star is the evening star’ is similar in this regard. It is true that a sentence like ‘I have a key’ has existential meaning — but I suspect the quantification is linked to the indefinite article ‘a’ more than the verb.

> To make this concrete, if I say "he is bad" then it is unclear whether I am saying that person is an intrinsically bad man, or if I am just commenting that the thing that he is doing right now is not morally justified.

This ambiguity isn’t limited to the copula, though. ‘I like him’ has exactly the same kind of ambiguity.
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Well, at least it would explain "sheet bend": the use of the word "sheet" to mean (some) rope must be an import from 4D seafaring!
ok. will do it.
For videos without subtitles one could chain Whisper to auto-generate transcripts, though that would require downloading the audio and processing it
Did they deprecate and later remove any of the mod API features within the 2.4 branch as well?
Vi is several years older than the Ctrl+C shortcut for copy. How could it possibly have know that Ctrl+C would become a more popular choice for copying?
The feature additions already say it's not obeying semver.

They could adopt it, but that'll mean the next release is 2.5, and if a feature is added, 2.6 after that.
I agree with some of your points such as trucks should switch from ICE but this will happen, you see company trucks start to advertise that they are hybrid and the buses are being switch to hydrogen buses. But Tokyo is hardly an industrial hellscape. You’re kind of describing traffic right near a major station but usually a bike commute to a major station can mostly be done on side streets, and in many areas you can do your shopping in shotengais (pedestrian only shopping street). It’s funny you mention gyms and dry cleaners because there are thousands of these in Tokyo, and small neighborhood has one. Your nearest one is unlikely to be a major station unless you live right next door to one.

I actually like the no sidewalk small streets, they have no parking and while some are sketchy they are more often like a mixed use path where pedestrians clearly have the right of way.
it looks like a good tool too. Why dont you compare which one gives best answers
idk

"In the Earth's crust, aluminium is the most abundant metallic element (8.23% by mass)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Earth
i dont think openai shares user data. i used tella.tv to record it
Reminds me of Solana Portals. https://theportal.to/
This person is talking about a revelation and habit changes that they did… yesterday. It’s easy to make major changes that last a day or two. The trick is finding a way to change your daily flow in the long term, something that consistently feels right, indefinitely. I’ve created new habits and approaches to my daily schedule that lasted a day many many times.
That would signal "we are alive." Does it have any other practical purpose?

On the other side, who remembers the version of Chrome, Firefox, Thunderbird or even the Linux kernel since they started moving fast? They basically become versionless, we just upgrade to the latest one prompted to us by their autoupdates or by the OS.
Exactly!

The first obvious risk that comes to mind is that nothing can be made that correctly takes into account everything it might some day be required to be able perform, so it can easily be done wrong and would probably need to be very flexible / loosely coupled.

And while the distributed aspect adds complexity, I feel that involving different devices, not all of which will on, or online, all the time, makes it a necessity. Not accounting for that would doom it.

But yes, that's a big part of it.

For the interaction / capabilities discovery part, I've lately been drawn to some sort of declarative interface, akin to Apple's "App Intents", dynamically exposed depending on the system's state. It also reminds me of how REST APIs were supposed to be discoverable.

But I'm not sure, and it could be a dead-end.

Another thing that comes to mind is Bell's Plan 9, and how someone who used to work there said that when he would come home, he'd just open his computer and everything would be there, just like he had left it at work. It's not enough, and the goal wouldn't be to have the exact same interface replicated everywhere, but this single distributed state, with each device just being a window into it, feels like a start.

Not that "it" would be an operating system. That too would be a doomed effort (many people can't change their OS nowadays, and most people who could wouldn't do it just to use a product or service). It would have to a paradigm, and perhaps a framework, or a language.

You've got me thinking again. I'm not going to be able to get anything done for days now.
For me YMMV, but writing is thinking. I journal my computer software ideas everyday in the open on GitHub.

Write down your ideas and practice ideation. Go create an "ideas" repository on GitHub and every day in README.md create a markdown heading of a thought you're having. Make it private if you're worried people shall steal them. Please use my ideas but point people towards my repositories, as I want people to try things out and see them in the world.

I don't get obsessed about a single idea for more than a few days. I just try keep myself open to inspiration based on what others say and I focus on what qualities I want (elegance, beauty, efficiency, preferred capabilities, intuition)

if you want inspiration, there's also halfbakery
https://www.halfbakery.com/user/chronological
Book Review: Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Nice work!

I keep wondering, there a reason everything isn’t just based off treesitter these days? If I were tasked with writing tsserver, my instinct would be to layer it over treesitter. Does anyone know if there are practical reasons that doesn’t happen, or is it just legacy?

The neovim world is slowly converging on using it for syntax. This project for formatting. I personally use it in neovim for things like highlighting and formatting sql within strings in python.
From what I understand the general idea is to lower the temeperature and keep it lower to prevent the reaction that prooduces the oxigen (and thus allow the burning and the re-ignition.

The gasket sealed steel case may offer some sort of mechanical protection from the flames, and very likely allows to gain some time, but it seems not like it will prevent or extinguish the fire.

And maybe there will be the need of a pressure relief valve, like those on pressure cookers to avoid the possible building inside of too much pressure, or possibly in case of fire the gasket will melt and let the case leak.
I'm Czech and use the UCW layout which works exactly like US English, but allows me to enter Czech letters with AltGr. It's so much better than the traditional Czech layout.
Yes, but I'd say this further supports my assertion, given that rain is unusual on the Arab peninsula despite it being surrounded by warmer water
It is still flagged, most likely because someone did not like the title, still it has quite an interesting discussion.
I think here we can assume it's not someone completely ignorant in the field(they did mention "outsiders in analogous fields"), so it's really about someone with a good understanding of an adjacent field, whose skills and knowledge can often be applied to the field in question, like bringing a computer scientist to robotics or biology, not like asking an accountant to design a rocket.
Just because I feel more people should hear this early in their career, that’s perfectly normal. I fairly routinely answer questions about how long a piece of work is going to take by saying I’m going to need n days to work out what needs to be done, after which I’ll be able to give an estimate.

That sort of exploratory work is really good because you’ll end up reading relevant documentation, then actually trying to use whatever it is you’re learning about. Often I’ll throw together a hacky version of what we’re aiming for, but ignore anything but the happy path. No error handling, no UI beyond the bare minimum, just the very core of what’s being done.
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I'm not well versed in AI, as a disclaimer.

That said, as a user, the moat between ChatGPT and say, Bard seems as wide as the Pacific.

Put another way, in my tests giving both coding questions, I'd probably hire ChatGPT as a junior or intermediate developer. I'd probably tell Bard to choose a different profession, if not recommend classes for the mentally challenged.

If all of this were so fast moving and cheap, why is Bard so far behind?
Having worked on a Baas type offering, this is all very familiar. Over the years, I've come to believe the approach of trying define a service layer with these magic abstractions is fundamentally flawed and will always lead to the problems in this article: poor performance, poor local development experience, no transparency in to what is going on under the hood. They are great for fast proof of concepts, but not sustainable, long term product development.
Other than inline Assembly, what low level hardware details does it actually expose?
Os.js
This works when the value you get out of shit-posting is just the trolling.

But actually fake accounts and propaganda bots are used by parties to which misinformation is a huge system of power and money. And those are all over Twitter now, and they won't stop.
Do you know a good way to wrangle access logs into anything resembling metrics? Uniques etc?
Tell HN: OpenAI's billing features and customer support are barely functional
Thought I'd give a small warning to people thinking of paying for ChatGPT Plus.

You're forced to use an intercom chat widget to open up customer support tickets, but the response times are abysmal. Currently I have this[1] issue, where an account doesn't get upgraded after going through the payment flow. It's been over a week with no reply. I paid money for a service that I'm not receiving. When/if they do respond, I have no idea if they'll reimburse the days I paid for nothing, who knows, there's no comms about it on their page.

Note that it's a known problem, given they have a dedicated page for it on their help docs, and there's a massive thread[2] about it on their forums.

Their refund policy[3] goes through the same chat flow, so one could end up paying for two months before they're finally issued a refund.

I know they're scaling up, but I'm shocked at how bad this is, especially given they're using stripe for payments. Normally, even when in a move-fast type environment, billing logic/flow is one thing you have to get right before shipping a product to prod. They're breaking all sorts of consumer rights (especially here in Australia where they are strong).

Between broken billing and their recent IAM issues, right now I'd jump at a competitor that can deliver these.

1. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7232905-why-is-my-plus-s...

2. https://community.openai.com/t/paid-for-chatgpt-plus-but-sti...

3. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7232895-how-do-i-request...
FAANG jobs still require less schooling, less knowledge, pay more and don't require you live in awful places.

Lots of us left the field or retired. Call us when semiconductor companies start paying real money.
What part do you find horrifying?

I don't believe in dystopia. As a child I enjoyed going through catalogue and picking things out that I wanted. I enjoyed package holiday brochures.

I don't know how you maintain a very high standard of living for the cheapest possible cost for a large group of people.
Show HN: DevToo: A Dev.to Article Recommendation and Search Engine
Based on OpenAI Text Vector Embeddings of Article metadata, finds related Articles to help you explore the topics you are interested in.
Implemented using Prisma+PostgreSQL and SvelteKit.
I got nerdsniped and made a small library to test this concept. Might maintain

https://github.com/crubier/opov
Oh I'm happy to continue this conversation here, although it's late where I am and I'll be going to bed soon, and HN threads are ephemeral. Feel free to email me if you'd like to actually collaborate on this.

> Looks interesting… where should I start reading?

IIRC he did some graduate summer schools that were recorded online and have attached lecture notes. Those plus the referenced papers would be a good place to start. The one in particular that I'm thinking of is, I believe, the Summer 2014 topic of "Integrating Montague Semantics and Event Semantics." That marriage of Davidsonian and Montague semantics into a single framework is, I believe, a universal theory of semantics. [It should be noted that he makes no such grandiose claims.]

> Personally, I’m not sure if ‘unambiguous meaning’ is possible or even desirable

By 'unambiguous meaning' I mean something more specific than the words alone imply. [I am aware of the irony.]

In computational semantics, the goal is to transform a parsing of a sentence into a logical statement (or in the case of a question, a query) about the world. For example, the sentence "every dog barks" would be translated into a logical statement of the form "for every dog there exists at least one barking event with that dog as the acting subject." Or rather a mathematical statement to that effect that I don't know how to render on HN.

But unfortunately in natural language even when a language is correctly parsed in terms of syntax--which is all Lojban seeks to accomplish--there are still many different possible semantic implications. For example, the sentence "Spot didn't bark" could mean

1. There is no event in which Spot has ever barked, or
2. In the case of a specific event, Spot did not bark.

English doesn't differentiate without clarification, e.g. "Spot never barks" or "Spot didn't bark that time." Lojban has universal and existential quantifiers, but their use is not mandated.

When I say I want unambiguous meaning, I mean something very specific: monoparsing of sentences to logical statements/semantic formalisms. There ought to be a one-to-one mapping between sentences in the language, and logical sentences in this universal formalism. The claims of those sentences could be as broad or narrow as desired, but there shouldn't be any ambiguity about what is being claimed.
I think you're exaggerating a little when you say "site:youtube.com" doesn't work. If I search 'site:youtube.com apple watch' I get 143 000 000 results, and if I search something more specific like 'site:youtube.com "Featuring Dr James Grime"' I'll find exactly what I'm looking for. But you're correct that it doesn't seem to search video comments, only titles and descriptions.
I'm not so sure. I've seen particularly the Chinese have real issue that's not rote drone-like work. In the research department I've seen chinese exchange students perform back to back tests for 10-12 hours per day like a machine. However, if you'd ask them why and what they're testing you'd find out that most of them are effectively just shotgunning until they find something that is different.

Having a good work life balance keeps your mind fresh, allows you to think more thoroughly and more creatively. Doing the right work will beat doing all the work until by accident you did the right work every date of the week.
I personally don't like having to use a whole browser engine to edit text, and being reliant on a greedy user-hostile corporation for it.
Ask HN: What is your experience using Bard compared to ChatGPT?
From what I experience, I believe that ChatGPT is still a better choice. The responses generated by GPT are notably more pertinent to the prompts we provide.
What's missing from this history is the origins of Apache httpd 2.4: as I see it, circa 2009 Nginx started growing. Apache's market share was like fresh snow under foehn (from 75% at this time down to 20% today). Nginx was much more performant and its configuration was saner. Apache had to change or it would gradually disappear.

Another note on this 10 years anniversary is that, though Apache 2.4 was released in 2012-01, it was a rushed release and some features were still lacking. In my opinion, the most important was that mod_proxy could not talk to unix sockets. It made Apache 2.4 hard to use in many cases. This feature only appeared with 2.4.7 in 2013-09.

Nowadays I rarely see Apache installed on web servers that I work with. In one case, it was because the sysadmin was used to it (though 2.4 broke the compatibility with 2.2's config syntax), he didn't consider changing and even kept the awful Apache prefork engine. In other cases, it was because of some modules (e.g. shibboleth) that were packaged by the OS for Apache, but not for Nginx.
> Feel free to email me if you'd like to actually collaborate on this.

Emailed, though I’m not sure how much time I’d actually have available to collaborate.

> The one in particular that I'm thinking of is, I believe, the Summer 2014 topic of "Integrating Montague Semantics and Event Semantics."

I’ll have a look at it, thanks!

> When I say I want unambiguous meaning, I mean something very specific: monoparsing of sentences to logical statements/semantic formalisms. There ought to be a one-to-one mapping between sentences in the language, and logical sentences in this universal formalism. The claims of those sentences could be as broad or narrow as desired, but there shouldn't be any ambiguity about what is being claimed.

OK, this makes far more sense. I still maintain there will be a lot of ambiguity, purely because the individual words themselves are ambiguous, but it’s an interesting goal nonetheless.
Oh! Thanks! It's interesting. I'm not familiar enough with closure, and I can't tell how well it handles distributed states, but I'll try to play around with it. Thank you!
I've heard this "4D chess theory" before, that he bought Twitter to build an AI. It's clearly nonsense, retroactive justification, because:

1. He kept trying to get away from the deal of buying Twitter.

2. He only stopped OpenAI's Firehose access after ChatGPT blew up, months after he bought Twitter.

3. He only started looking for AI researchers after ChatGPT blew up, months after he bought Twitter.

If he had a plan, this is not the order of events we'd expect. ChatGPT surprised him. In his mind OpenAI were dying without him, and doing nothing of value.

I also have serious doubts he'll be able to ship a competitive AI at this point. He's too much behind, and he'll have difficulties hiring top talent because he's erratic and unreasonable manager. And panicked.

Oh and also Twitter's not paying its bills and rent.

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Real ways in which Twitter goes "deeper than anyone expects", however, are this: countries like Turkey, India, China bought themselves Twitter compliance by getting entangled with SpaceX and Tesla. But this doesn't go deeper than I realize, because here I am talking about it. It in fact goes deeper than Elon realized before he bought Twitter. Conflict of interest is his modus operandi now. But this won't save him.
Really unfortunate.

As far as benchmarks go, nginx is much faster using less memory.

Apache2 could save energy on the scale it is still used.

I stopped using it for 7 years now
Something also happens to regular polytopes. In 2D there are infinitely many regular polygons, in 3D there are 5 regular polyhedra, in 4D: 6, but for >=5D there are only 3.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_polytope
Nice work. You could encode the text, load this into a vector database and allow semantic search.
Sadly, but the goal of those UX research is not a user's satisfaction.
Wolfenstein ;)
Forgive my lack of imagination, but what possibilities other than printing a message "User X has logged in on System Y"
> When you say paid Netlify is as fast as Cloudflare do you mean the Pro plan or the Enterprise plan?

I was on their £19/mo plan, not Enterprise. And those websites were as fast as the ones on pages.dev.
My household of 3 is off-grid, running off a 15kW PV array and 24kWh of LiFePO4 batteries, with 100% electric appliances and hot water. (Location is mid-latitude Australian, plenty of sunlight most of the time)
No offense and agreeing on the there's too much "optimizing everything", often even in a misguided way going on, but reading both:

> I didn’t read the whole article because it had too many words.

and

> Maybe I’m just a long winded old fart but honestly attention spans have gone to shit.

was a bit funny. Or did you mean the attention span in general, including yours, has gone to shit?