skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Huh?!? That's totally false.

Lets see who is lying and who is telling the truth.

> Depending on the field of science it was either French or German and transitioned to English.

Charles Darwin did his work in french? Or was it german? What language did faraday, maxwell, dalton, etc use? French or german? What language did lord kelvin to give us the temperature scale? Can you point to a single scientific paper that an english or american scientist wrote in german or french?

> For physics it was German moving into English over that 100 years.

Yes I know. I'm not denying that english is lingua franca.

> In math French was a bit more of a player.

Bit of a more player? That's proving my point. French was not lingua franca. Nobody would say 'english is bit of a more player' in math, science, business, politics, etc. Lingua franca is obvious. You don't have to miscontrue it with such weasely language.

> Turing's famous work is in German.

I don't know german and I've read turing's original works on computation, AI, morphogenesis, etc. Have you? They were most definitely not written in german. What's with people who know absolutely nothing writing with such authority?

> There was a clear lingua franca.

So tell me what 'lingua franca' turing was publishing his work in. It wasn't german like you claimed so german wasn't lingua franca. It surely as hell wasn't french.

The only lingua franca in europe before english was latin. Neither french nor german ever was 'lingua franca' as you've clearly proved with turing. At best you could argue that english, french and german were major players in science, math, etc. But certainly there was no lingua franca until english took over post-ww2.
Not in principle, we're just against paying to use Twitter.

(The dynamic is very different when it's voluntary and feels like supporting a community, though, and in practice it's going to be a few whales making donations)
Something I wrote across about eight years, trying different things and never cleaning up unused parts, so the code is a mess but this is it: https://github.com/lgommans/mpgroceries

The name (multiplayer groceries) refers to the original idea of having the software assign random items to random people, so you can both go through the store independently and not get duplicate items, for maximum efficiency, but I don't think I've used that more than once.

Probably I could write a small book about all the things that you shouldn't do, like making a store layout and mapping where all the items are and then making it sort by nearest item...which, turns out, is somehow always on the other side of a wall. This routing is better than nothing, but it turns out that categorizing ("freezer", "candy", "fruit/veg") is: much simpler for the user, portable across stores, and more effective for routing as well.

I've started on a rewrite with a friend, but it's very early stages and the primary purpose of the new project is to turn a list of meals into a grocery list rather than being a grocery list that you add random items to: https://codeberg.org/lucg/MealsUnveiled The old project can also add a recipe to your grocery list, but I never wrote the code to add up amounts (it'll ignore duplicates instead)
That'll not fly at least not outside of the US.

Nobody (in power) want's a (foreign) app that can essentially ban a citizen from live arbitrarily.

Regulators are no longer asleep at the wheel when it comes to tech, as can be seen on the HN front page every other day, and in this case it might be better to have nothing than something controlled by Elon Musk.

Such an App is a political risk and the only reason it works in China is because it's basically an extension of the governemnt.
Ask HN: Anyone planning to open office in Serbia?
I was wondering if anyone is planning to open an office in Serbia. I've been working as HR/Legal expert, data protection expert for years.

As a country we have programmers with really high skill levels, presence of lot tech companies (Azure/Office/SQL related stuff developed at Microsoft Dev Center Serbia - MDCS), companies such as 3Lateral that worked on DMC face animation and models, working with Hideo Kojima on Death Stranding 2, and much more.

I've noticed that a lot of companies hire unqualified HR, when they come to my country which results in wasted money on law firms, unused ATS, no cost optimization, people with disabilities being invisible etc., no employee retention, bad reviews.

Recently, I opened consulting firm for companies planning to open office or some kind of representative office in Serbia and would love to help anyone who is thinking about it.
Is there an actual coup going on? I can't find any articles on this.
I don't know who was ultimately the upstream reseller or hosting provider. These were all dodgy fly-by-night resellers of resellers that were in the same place. Their CIDR blocks are still active and I still get bad traffic from them. Each CIDR block was swipped out to each reseller.
It’s clearly ableist to attribute one individuals dumb action to their condition. Imagine if someone said “Musk only did this because he’s white/male”—that would be racist/sexist.
x (@x) / Twitter
I think this is great at what it does. The only issue I have with it is the fact that if a targeted element is offscreen, it snaps to it instead of scrolls to it. Otherwise very, very slick.
I've seen ℙ used for probability.
In college, I studied the failed merger between GM and Ross Perot’s Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Essentially a study on egos and cultural incompatibilities.

https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/26/magazine/gm-vs-ross-perot...
Not saying I agree with a mathematical universe hypothesis, however I have given it some thought. I'd argue that any 'operator' is consciousness in that setting.

There's some quote out there by some famous mathematician or hpyscisist along the lines of "it appears the operations themselves act as if they were conscious"

Even then, how we think of operations symbolically is just an emanation of a universal that we can't see in that sense; but in another sense, we are also emanations of that thing too in the sense that we (humans) are extensions of measurement and operations.
He is an investor and marketer who wants to be a seen as a genius techie, which he clearly isn't. Hence his fake titles such as "Tesla Founder" (he wasn't) or "SpaceX Chief Technology Officer" (he isn't) or "Technoking" (I'm sorry?)
How do you, as an investor, make money with oxygen?

But you still breathe, right?
Seems fitting - Twitter is like X window system right now: not quite there yet, but surely heading towards being obsolete.
Eh, it's simpler than that - X.com was his first company, that became Paypal, that he was ousted from.

This is just basic old man 101: trying to regain the glory days of your youth.
It’s only the five cities listed at the top, right?

(I initially thought they were just bookmarks/shortcuts to some good demos then I realized they influenced the traffic sources checkbox at the bottom so they had to determine what the map showed rather than merely index it.)
Check out seqdiag, part of blockdiag [1]. It's python-based and uses graphviz (AFAIK) to generate sequence diagrams in SVG. I've used it several times and found it very good.

1. http://blockdiag.com/en/seqdiag/index.html
It's the "New Coke" of websites.
That was 4 years ago, long time before he buy Twitter.
I wrote these explanations because many people do not even see the difference between the things mentioned above, although there is definitely a difference. Not noticing the difference leads people to false conclusions.
Absolutely agreed. And I'll just put this here:

"You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?"
- "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett
what is your idea of a well-established standard?
Those boards alone cost half a MiSTer.
Mathematical universe is obviously true yet uselessly ahead of its time in the same way as Schrodinger asserting heredity was controlled by an "aperiodic crystal" a decade before DNA was discovered.
The risk in a reengineering project that comprehensively replaces the mainframe is enough to discourage most people making that decision. It could be a $3M project that pays pack in 4 years after scrapping the mainframe and running out the maintenance contract, or it could go over budget and take forever to pay back. Your IBM rep has undoubtedly run the numbers.
Relevant post right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076

He can keep throwing darts at the board as long as he maintains his ability to rope other rich people into his delusional self-confidence. Twitter might just be what breaks the spell.
China Dominates Solar. – Does the U.S. Stand a Chance?
https://archive.is/VUaCa
What does RLHF do then? I feel like you completely ignored the central point of GP's comment.

RLHF is the difference between GPT-3.5 and ChatGPT, and it's the whole reason why LLMs are suddenly such a big deal. ChatGPT demonstrated that it's possible to give language models a goal beyond just "complete most likely next word" and that they can actually be somewhat competent at achieving those goals despite not being explicitly trained for them.
The idea is very nice, useful for example when looking for a flat that isn't too far away from work. However it doesn't really work. My computer is powerful, and yet it lags so badly I can't really get to use it. I also did not manage to change the starting point.
Probably a better example than WiFi would be the on-chip SDRAM controller. It's always somebody else's IP and there's a blob in the boot firmware that's just binary register settings. Like so:

https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/arch/riscv/dts/...
Microsoft stopped developing IE because they were under intense anti-trust scrutiny having been found guilty of anti-trust violations and bound by a tough consent decree that made them timid for the first time ever.

That minimal Firefox market progress was about a quarter of the entire Web, and enough to see the content of the Web so dramatically transformed over a decade (that even Safari claimed to be Gecko) to a standards based platform with minimal reverse engineering all the IE-isms and documenting those for others to follow, and in so doing opening the playing field for standards compliant browsers.

Your summary, presented as fact, is quite poor and I'm gonna assume you have no particular expertise here and were instead sharing some opinions you picked up rather than sharing any actual history from experience, right?

I was there, a part of almost all of this for 25 years now, so there's my authority. What's yours?
The point of a "useful model" in that sense is that it makes actual predictions, not that it was fun or even illuminating to think about. Aether was not a "useful model" because thinking about it led to its own repudiation. Astrology fails this test.
Have there been any machine learning related deployments on a modern mainframe? Would there be any value in doing so?
Many of them really just suck (depending on your workload)
This goes against everything I'm familiar with around budgeting.

One of the big tricks to getting your budget in check is to pay cash so you can see the money leaving your wallet. Swiping a credit card makes that all invisible
> Then 1/100 chance to get lucky. Do it 3 times (1/100)^3?

It’s easier to do when you can be bailed out by friends and family after the first failure, compared to people who end up sleeping on the street. Considering that even succeeding once is a rare event, it is not that surprising that the final population is heavily skewed.

> Maybe the general idea was nor bad and he got lucky in recruitment? Recruiting young people believing in his idea and getting overworked to reach them?

There is certainly a bit of that. And to be fair, it is the best strategy: a single human has only so much bandwidth them handling all the aspects of a large-ish company is a recipe for disaster. Not to mention, a single point of failure, so the company’s dead the moment anything happens to them. It’s been the same with Jobs, one of his talents was to hire the right people.
I've been mostly ambivalent about the Musk-era at Twitter—mostly because I just don't care enough to have an opinion.

This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed.

Twitter has had such a solid brand for so long. It's accomplished things most marketers only dream of: getting a verb like "Tweet" into the standard lexicon is like the pinnacle of branding. Even with all of the issues, "Twitter" and its "Tweets" have been at the core of international discourse for a decade now.

Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish.
One thing this hypothesis has going for it, from a purely armchair metaphysics perspective, is that it gives some kind of answer to the question 'why does anything exist'. If mathematics (or the underlying 'thing' that math describes) is objectively true or real, then it could have a platonic existence by power of its own self reference.

It also explains why all physical laws are mathematical and all physical properties are quantifiable ('mathematics is the language of the universe' as Galileo said).

I still don't believe in it for several reasons. But I believe that it is the only logical conclusion of a purely materialist worldview.
You seem confused. It's pretty common in English, particularly when discussing simple plurality voting, to use "majority" to indicate "plurality" instead of absolute majority. It would also be possible to claim that a vote is antidemocratic absent an arbitrarily chosen supermajority, but that's not being advanced here. I decline further semantic arguments as being non-substantive, as well as puerile. Your inventions about my character are nakedly intended to be offensive; probably you shouldn't post like that here.
Israel was recreated in one day. As prophesied.

"Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children." Isaiah 66:8

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation on the same day.[1]

[1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/creation-isra...
Yep the only cities that are supported are on the list at the top: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, New York, and Paris.

Adding support for other cities is a pain in the butt to find the corresponding GTFS, upload the vector tiles to postgis, etc.
See also:

* Schmid, J.C. Stage One of the Aristotelian Proof: A Critical Appraisal. SOPHIA 60, 781–796 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00835-7

* https://philpapers.org/archive/SCHSOO-8.pdf

Which Feser responds to:

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/07/schmid-on-aristotel...

Also:

* Oppy, G. (2021). On stage one of Feser's ‘Aristotelian proof’. Religious Studies, 57(3), 491-502. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412519000568

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Oppy

Oppy and Feser had an online discussions / debates:

* Can We "Prove" that God Exists? | Graham Oppy vs Ed Feser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoVDutpB4Cw

* Are There Any Good Arguments for God? Ed Feser vs Graham Oppy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-80lQOlNOs

* After-Show Q&A with Graham Oppy & Ed Feser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoEGIfrJzEE
Or GPG, or Veracrypt (hidden volume)

Though I agree it's best to speak IRL. Ideally away from voice activated, smart devices
Much of the Fediverse operates under a “pay what you can” model, and it seems plenty sustainable to me.
also Germany: https://social.bund.de/ and the Dutch: https://social.overheid.nl/@minbzk
We can compromise by switching to mathematic.
This blog is only having an LLM assess what column it should run a query against.

Why is that necessary? Why have an LLM guess where the facts are?

Put all of that data in a place where it's normalized and ready to vector search.
I've been using the homeassistant shopping list integration but I'm planing to switch to "Specifically Clementines" [1] it's not as complete as grocy [2] but that's a feature. My partner will add to a list, not use an inventory managment system.

1. https://github.com/davideshay/groceries

2. https://github.com/grocy/grocy
I realized that owning an office floor, condo style is unusual. My point is that I've known of several small businesses that owned their own buildings outright.
Do you support PostGIS? This seems to be an issue with a lot of solutions I've seen...
consciousness is just a real-time continuous representation of time/space, i.e. of the parts of the universe in front of us (and some of it already within us, i.e. memory and imagination).
Step 1 : find something everybody wants.

Step 2 : prevent them from getting it

Step 3 : create an exclusive access channel

Step 4 : profit

I can think of a few instances where this model has been implemented in our society.
In the event of bankruptcy, wouldn't ownership pass to his creditors, i.e. the Saudis and others?
as a multi-decade user of the various forms of Dragon, it's not a miserable product. The company is a bunch of ass holes now owned by another bunch of ass holes. But for day-to-day use, it's not bad assuming a Windows environment doesn't mess with it.

Most people go south with Dragon when they expect to be of the speak the keyboard or expected to be a perfect transcription. The reality is, it's like dictating to a good typist with a little bit of hearing problems. And like this hypothetical typist, you get worse results if you yell at it.

From what I can tell, Dragon, and I suspect most other speech recognition environments work best if you use them for dictating text and have enough commands supporting text editing. Dragon did a good job with what used to be called "Select-and-Say". It was a form of editing that worked with speech model and not some bastard grammar hack Forcing the editors keystroke commands to do a given job.
Apple features famously taught in hacker news comments.
Why do people like cotton candy?
Pressure is okay here. Is it supposed to work like pressure washer?
Ding ding ding!

The dark unspoken part? They don't need to worry about you distributing it domestically, because anyone using it domestically is subject to extralegal rendition and rubber-hose cryptography without a warrant.

That's been formally legal since the passage of the PATRIOT Act (and from the infinite renewal of the NDAA), but even Lincoln ended Habeas Corpus on a whim when he found it convenient.

We don't live in a constitutional democratic republic, we live in a totalitarian surveillance state LARPing as a constitutional democratic republic.
I have been running it on a couple PI Zero W’s for three years running nodejs controlling LEDs. Probably not too write heavy, but no issues.
Musk didn't even have the vision of spacex. He bought it from the original founders and strongarmed the founder label on himself in the legal dispute.
The important difference is that psych frameworks are a description. And astrology is a predictor.

If you’re not a Taurus, the elements of a Taurus are not supposed to relate to you. that part of the framework is theoretically irrelevant.

If you think you’re an INTP you likely are. If you think you’re a Taurus then… doesn’t matter.
Obviously it would be very foolish to use an AWS storage backend for an application that was not also in AWS.

That said, it is not at all clear to me that the TCO of a maxed-out IBM DS8900F is less than $30 million/year.
Yet the brand page still shows the bird.

Elon (as well as the wider tech space) seems obsessed with the letter X. I find it to be even more of a cliche than "One" brandings.
I think you might be seeing criticism where there isn't because it's about Elon Musk. I agree with the sentiment that you don't need to "diagnose" everyone and everything, but I think that's also a symptom of our tendency to want to apply labels to everything we see.
Just wanted to say the landing page is excellent. I love the 1-2-3-4 steps with instructions and screenshots. It shows how easy it is to set up and avoids the classic marketing focus on bold headings, "personas", fancy icons, vague features…

The "Send 37 emails" button which triggers an animation is a nice touch. Foreshadows the actual experience.
X-genius throwing a brand in the toilet.
There is really nothing new in this over intro.js, shepherd or the other 10 competing modules.

If someone wanted to offer something new in the product tour space, make a fully frontend-only tour that has the convenience of the cloud-stored ones. (Aka be able to click on HTML elements to attach steps).

I think this would be a nice product nieche for the companies who don't want their product to phone up a random third party API for a product tour.
I don't abuse kids whether or not I watch CP. Please provide evidence if you are making serious accusations.
What I see is a man who has done some great things, but who seems to be having some mental health issues that are getting worse over time. If he isn’t already, I hope he gets some help.
I'm no branding expert but this sounds like a bad idea, yet given Musk's whimsical decisions, I'm not entirely sure he's serious about it rather than trying to reap the benefits of keeping Twitter in the news.
Given the curse of dimensionality, I actually think most humans could be exceptional at something--just that something might be incredibly specific, like "washing dishes while hopping on one foot and having fifteen people tickle you with feathers."
That is not how statistics work. We are talking about odds, not certainties. If people from the working class are 10 times less likely to end up CEOs of multi-billion corporations (which does sound very generous), you’d still expect to see one every so often.
I almost died due to sepsis after a wisdom tooth removal - interestingly the bacteria smelled like butterscotch, and my long term chronic paroxysmal hemicrania went away.
They are investors and emotionally detached from the company. I don't think they care about what happens to the company after they hand it over.
... and thus some Christians claim the six day chronology in Genesis is really a six thousand year chronology... which still doesn't square with science.

To say nothing of the fact that 2 Peter was written centuries (if not longer) after Genesis, and there's no evidence the Hebrews themselves interpreted the account that way. The existence of the Sabbath falling within a single week rather than multiple millennia suggests they interpreted the six day chronology as... six days.

And the context of that verse clearly describes time from the human perspective relative to God's promises. The author isn't making a declarative statement about the way God experiences time, but pointing out that God doesn't operate on human timescales. That God may lay plans that take a thousand years to unfold.

That particular retcon doesn't make Christians look any better, it actually makes them look even worse.
What the hell are you talking about? Lecturing someone on racism because they asked about astrology is not the same as abolishing slavery.
This gives me Steins;Gate vibes :D
This analysis is a little bit scuffed,

https://hackernews-insight.vercel.app/user-analysis

I know for a fact someone else did something similar recently but I can't find the link... but it gives an idea of what happened.

And recently there was the Reddit exodus as well, which for a few weeks you could tell that there are a lot of new users on the site asking questions and stuff.

But this might also just be a normal thing and a natural side-effect of having more users on the site.
Oops! I was only able to test it on my iphone and the devices in the Chrome browser simulator :(. If you're willing, what phone/browser are you using?
At high doses of psilocybin you experience the loss of ego. It's a weird feeling, where "you" are not there anymore. There is no "I". So it's definitely possible to be conscious but feel like "you" or whatever the idea you have of a self just isn't there anymore.