skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I missed the news of Doug Lenat's passing. He died a few days ago on August 31st.

I'm old enough to have lived thru the hope but ultimate failure of Lenat's baby CYC. The CYC project was initiated in 1984, in the heyday of expert systems which had been successful in many domains. The idea of an expert system was to capture the knowledge and reasoning power of a subject matter expert in a system of declarative logic and rules.

CYC was going to be the ultimate expert system that captured human common sense knowledge about the world via a MASSIVE knowledge/rule set (initially estimated as a 1000 man-year project) of how everyday objects behaved. The hope was that through sheer scale and completeness it would be able to reason about the world in the same way as a human who had gained the same knowledge thru embodiment and interaction.

The CYC project continued for decades with a massive team of people encoding rules according to it's own complex ontology, but ultimately never met it's goals. In retrospect it seems the idea was doomed to failure from the beginning, but nonetheless it was an important project that needed to be tried. The problem with any expert system reasoning over a fixed knowledge set is that it's always going to be "brittle" - it may perform well for cases wholly within what it knows about, but then fail when asked to reason about things where common sense knowledge and associated extrapolation of behavior is required; CYC was hoping to avoid this via scale to be so complete that there were no important knowledge gaps.

I have to wonder if LLM-based "AI's" like GPT-4 aren't in some ways very similar to CYC in that they are ultimately also giant expert systems, but with the twist that they learnt their knowledge, rules and representations/reasoning mechanisms from a training set rather than it having to be laboriously hand entered. The end result is much he same though - an ultimately brittle system who's Achille's heel is that it is based on a fixed set of knowledge rather than being able to learn from it's own mistakes and interact with the domain it is attempting to gain knowledge over. It seems there's a similar hope to CYC of scaling these LLM's up to the point that they know everything and the brittleness disappears, but I suspect that ultimately that will prove a false hope and real AI's will need to learn through experimentation just as we do.

RIP Doug Lenat. A pioneer of the computer age and of artificial intelligence.
The comments I am reading here seem to imply that this is more privacy invasive than tracking cookies. Steve Gibson did an analysis on Topics and his conclusion was that this is an approach to provide targeted ads (which websites need to make money) without being invasive.

Here is a link to his podcast where he explains the specification:
https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/935?autostart=fa...

Although if you believe that being online you should be 100% anonymous and share 0% of personal data then of course Topics is not good (but then no other ad targeting solution will be either).
It’s not a good analogy. Fast food images show the sandwich, even if a better version of it. This isn’t always the case for books, for instance in the expanse series the authors stated they write the book and send it off and then the publisher picks an image which has little relation to the books plot and was solely chosen to look cool alongside the books name.
Configuring Options in Go
Note that a few dozen terabytes is also nothing. 12 TiB is about $800 on an SSD and about $250 on a HDD. Plus some overhead for the enclosure and redundancy, of course. It costs on the order of a day's pay for an engineer, at most.

I don't excuse wanton waste of storage because it's easy for sloppy practices to balloon to massive confusion and inefficiency. But that discipline should be enforced by good engineering practices, not by limiting resources.
There’s an important distinction here. Most of the comments you read. You being the general you. Most people will read a few dozen comments at most. These comments are overwhelmingly written by bots or inauthentic participants in subreddits like r politics. And they’re the most visible because these same groups also upvote them inauthentically
Yep. Even within a single VPN service it's often noticeable how many more CAPTCHAs (or outright blocks) you get via different servers
I remember the first time I met her at a Web dev conference. She chatted with me for a half hour, telling stories of browser rivalries and HTML5’s renegade group that saved us all from XHTML. We ran into each other several times over the years. She always was kind, encouraging, and genuinely interested in what I had to say. She gave us all so much. Her suffering over the last decade was a cruel fate.
When you say it allows you uninterrupted work, are you talking about overtime or have you moved towards eating delivered food during working hours?

I couldn't imagine eating takeaways during my lunch break or snacks during the workday. What sort of food is it?
I just had much more fun experience on Debian. The VM simply froze after startup as disk was absolutely full... And figuring out how to actually extend disk through all of the indirection layers took a bit of time.
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Letter count is meaningless. You can change it by just changing the way you spell things, which was already arbitrary. (For example, there is a very real question of whether that final m in nimium is pronounced at all.)

Nimium saepe valedixit is 9 syllables and, as frequently noted on the page, does not attempt to translate the entire English source text, which is 10 syllables. It was kind of surreal reading the answers, since none of them attempt to determine what the English lyric means, and it can't be considered fluent English when seen as an isolated sentence. You need to determine what it means before you try to translate it into another language.

I just listened to the song (well, the first three verses, which is all of the verses) while looking at a printout of the lyrics, and I can't determine what that line in the chorus is supposed to mean. It's very strange grammar:

This love has taken its toll on me

She said goodbye too many times before

Her heart is breaking in front of me

And I have no choice

'Cause I won't say goodbye anymore

The line in question, She said goodbye too many times before, stands out like a sore thumb for being preceded and followed by sentences that, unlike it, are both in the present tense. There is no indication anywhere in the song, as far as I can see, of what "before" refers to.

So my instinct is to essentially write off the possibility of translating the lyric with the aphorism "garbage in, garbage out".
Damn, you've pointed out the problem.. the issue isn't that this feared AI is not as smart as a 10 year old (to use TFA's example), but that there are millions of adults with less reasoning capabilities than 10 year olds.
This!

Some country side roads are very narrow, surrounded by stone walls on both sides. There are no sidewalks obviously.
IMO it's the best (or one of the best) for Windows as well - because it's so feature rich and is free and open source in contrary to TC.
Absolutely worthy!
Four Okta customers hit by campaign that gave attackers super admin control
I'm not trying to be dismissive of description logics. (And I'm not dismissive of Lenat and his work, either). A lot of things can fall under that umbrella term. The history of description logic may in fact be just as old as post-syllogism first-order predicate calculus (the syllogism is, of course, far older, dating back to Aristotle). In the Principia Mathematica there's a quantifier that basically means "the", which is incidentally also the most common word in the English language, and that can be thought of as a description logic too. But the perspective of a Mathematician on this is very different from that of an AI systems "practitioner", and CYC seemed to belong more to the latter tradition.
I think if you're going 31 in a 30, after accounting for measurement errors

Sure, it is a limit rather than a recommendation. In terms of statute, anyway. Almost every social or legal convention in the UK pragmatically treats it as a recommended speed for some unknown reason and you could even pick up the attention of the police doing 40mph in a NSL on a bad day. (I even recall my driving instructor telling me I should "do the speed limit" unless I had good reason not to!)

Getting older, I'm in support of your idea, though. Stick the cruise control on at 50mph and see how big an entourage could be mustered with no easy way to overtake. It could almost be as fun as speeding was. I've long assumed this is the way lorry drivers keep things interesting..
My first impulse - after playing some programming/optimization games over the morning - was: Is these just one kind of efficiency for a language?

For example, mandarin or japanese can be very short on the character count. However, this increases character complexity and makes the languages harder to learn. On the other hand, large parts of english tend to be simple to learn.
Good on you, then!
The Hotel Majestic
That's the verbal equivalent of the Indian head-tilt, right?
So I read the fraction of the article above the paywall, and I got certain feelings from it.

First, there are people and cultures who wish to colonize, not by physically migrating and setting up shop, but they colonize ideologically, by propagating ideas and culture into foreign countries, in the hope that these colonizing ideas will supplant the native ones, which are considered backward, oppressive, ignorant, etc.

Now the example is given -ová. Anyone who is Slavic or Russian will, of course, recognize the same patronymic suffix in their own languages, and there are plenty of women known as such, including Babylon 5's Susan Ivanova. Yes, it means "of" in a sort of grammatical possessive sense. So does -ov which is its male counterpart. So do variants such as -off and such. Polish suffixes such as -ski mean "son of". Celtic prefixes like Mc, Mac, and O' have the same function. In Iceland, -dottir and -son mean exactly what you think, along with -son and -sen analogs in the Germanic tongues.

Yes, it means "daughter of" or "wife of" or "son of", but for thousands of years, nobody took issue with this sort of possessive sense. Is it not a good thing for a person to belong to a family? A wife to belong to her husband, and vice versa? After all, they freely give themselves to each other at the wedding, so that right is given freely. It's not oppression; it's a supreme expression of love. It seems that this author wants to portray the Czech Republic as a Handmaid's Tale dystopia.

So I don't know how the 1945 law changed recently, but I fear that while the blog author's cultural outrage may subside, the West has won another round of ideological colonization against a perfectly usable system of patronymics. Shall they target Russia next?
https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-pentagon-and-cia-have-shaped-...

The Pentagon and CIA Have Shaped Thousands of Hollywood Movies into Super Effective Propaganda

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-hollywood-became-the-unof...

How Hollywood became the unofficial propaganda arm of the U.S. military

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2022...

New documentary scrutinizes Pentagon-Hollywood relationship — but is it propaganda?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/45129369

The Historical Roots of CIA-Hollywood Propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/26/top-gun-for-hir...

Top Gun for hire: why Hollywood is the US military’s best wingman

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/dude-wheres-my-privacy-how-a-ho...

How a Hollywood star lobbies the EU for more surveillance

The European Union debates a new law that could force platforms to scan all private messages for signs of child abuse. Its most prominent advocate is the actor Ashton Kutcher.
I've been a fan and user of trackers since Octamed on the Amiga :) Renoise is an amazing DAW and my favorite piece of music software.
Depends on the car. With a V6, it’s pretty negligible.

My SUV gets better mileage at high speed cruising due to the gearing. As long as you’re not constantly accelerating/decelerating and going with the flow.
The US government is responsible for its track record of completely failing to provide constitutional rights as part of its justice system to people in snowdens position, and Snowden has every right to not subject himself to a broken and corrupt system
Bunch of issues:

- security (now improved but historically very problematic)

- accessibility (confusing for screen readers)

- responsiveness

- scrolling

- usability (for example if something in the iframe wants to display modal with backdrop covering whole screen)

But I agree that Netflix catalog UI sucks
I thought he did say he was hearing it from advertisers?
> Interesting! They had the foresight to understand that cars would become uglier,

Hah!

TBH, I actually like the outer design of this car (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Ford_021... )

very retro take on the iconic Cortina Mk2 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/1967_For...).

Better than looking like a blob of unconstrained jelly, like all modern cars.
There is a mood useful especially in certain types of fiction for which German is a perfect fit. Because the most important verb in a sentence tend to be at the very end in German, it naturally creates a sense of suspense.
When a senior engineer comes to that person and says. You can stop paying hashicorp money. We found a free alternative and are no longer using their product. That person will happily and joyfully jettison the contract. I've been that senior engineer before and the CTO and CFO have never pushed back on the idea that they don't have to spend any more money. Especially now when cutting costs is a concern everyone is being forced to care about.
"The cat" has different information in it than "kot." That same sentence also translates to "A cat is on the table," but no English speaker would say "the cat" and "a cat" have the same meaning. In fact, I can't think of a context where both sentences would be interchangeable. The listener either already knows which cat is "the cat" or would be confused. "A cat" implies an unknown cat. If you walk into your house and say "a cat is on the table," the assumption is its an unknown cat. If you say "the cat" it's most likely a pet. In some contexts that matters and some it doesn't, therefore you can't just say Polish compresses better.
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>> x =- 5

I think you mean: x -= 5, which indeed is different.
I think it's been here for much longer. Back in the day, IP addresses would just get blocked; fail2ban was a recommended tool for any web server back in the day. Getting flagged as a bot sucks (I've experienced it for a few days myself) but the modern CAPTCHA solutions are a lot better than the "server did not respond" days from before.

ISPs still failing to implement modern networks and sticking with broken workarounds like CGNAT are as much to blame as the bots tainting their CGNAT IP addresses.
It doesn't really capture the intent of the original sentence either. To convey the same idea you'd have to say something like "Za wiele razy mówiła żegnam"
And push a new minor update at least once a week that moves something in the UI around for no obvious reason.
As an European I can only agree with that.
I don’t think referring to dissolved gas in water as an impurity is all that uncommon. To quote wikipedia:

> Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids, and gases from water. The goal is to produce water that is fit for specific purposes. [1]

Other sources list carbon dioxide, oxygen, and nitrogen as impurities that can cause corrosion in pipes [2], or can form bubbles in systems where there are major changes in pressure or temperature, blocking pumps, fine tubing, filters, etc. [3]

So it’s a bit context dependent, but there are situations where it is totally reasonable to view dissolved gases in water as an impurity. And this context - the discussion of what makes ice clear or cloudy - is one of them.

How can you claim so confidently that “no one thought” something, or that the parent is “using a word much differently than basically anyone else”? If you honestly think that you speak for all 1.35 billion English speakers in the world - or even all the people reading this thread - the best I can say is speak for yourself.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_purification

[2] https://www.watertechnologies.com/handbook/chapter-01-water-...

[3] https://www.elgalabwater.com/dissolved-gases
In Germany a speed limit of 130 would save a billion euros each year[0]. It would also save fuel, i.e. carbon and particulate matter emissions

[0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180092...
> "companies are using your reading history to target ads"

Keep in mind that this is also:

* "Companies are using your reading history to build a profile of you, including political stance, age, gender, location, religion, group affiliations, network of people you know" and a host of other things.

This data is then used to target ads and campains. This is no big deal if it's trying to push you to buy a bit more Mountain Dew, or to figure out that you can better the dental healt in Jefferson County, Idaho by showing up there in a van handing out free samples of toothpaste.

It is however a bigger deal when it's used to sway your opinions on political, legal and social matters by feeding you lies.

It's a deal when it's used by one country to target individuals in the neighbouring country to leak government secrets by pinpointing local groups and geographic areas where you have a good chance of recruiting such agents.

That's why certain countries, in this case Norway don't want this data under contrl of other governments, the U.S. in this case.
(While Meta/Facebook owns this data, it's in effect under control of the U.S. government judicially)
US AGs: We need law to purge the web of AI-drawn child sex abuse material
How to Build a Web4th App
NYPD’s New Labor Day Tradition Involves Drone Surveillance of Private Property
Sure, sometimes, maybe. Or you get fired before that. Or the work that made you visible will dry up. Or people that could reward you will move elsewhere or are fired.

There are few small companies where this could work, otherwise dont rely on it, you will end up very sad.
This reminds me when I asked my teacher why is the orbiting electron not crashing into the proton in the core of the atom.

It seems everything is very weird.

Honestly, black hole electron sounds extremely exciting :)
Ask HN: Which open-source editor would you choose to build something like Notion
Imagine you are building from scratch a Notion like editor with React, what would be your top choice today?

Some options to consider:

Slate: https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate
Plate: https://github.com/udecode/plate (this is built on top of slate)
Tiptap: https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap (this is built on top of ProseMirror)
Novel: https://github.com/steven-tey/novel (this is built on top of Tiptap)

Which one of these would you choose? Are there other better options.

In my opinion Slate seems more flexible but is quite passive in terms of improvements and maintenance. On the other hand Tiptap seems very active but a bit limited due to using ProseMirror under the hood.

What are your thoughts?
Just make life harder for singles but way better for married couples especially those reaching having children stages. Higher taxes for singles. No subsidies for expensive homes. No benefits. Reduced healthcare.
I downvote it because it’s been repeated a dozen times and there’s a lack of intellectual honesty to say that a prediction that Russia wouldn’t invade is the same as spreading Russian propaganda for deliberate and malicious reasons. I can’t be bothered to explain it more than this because any ability to not see this means I’m wasting my time explaining it further
is that 94 USD or 94000 USD?
That's 1 million kroner per day, just fyi
Never happened to me.. You'll still be able to login, free up some space to get the services up again, and then resize your disk if that's needed.
In the general case you're right, in this case where the optimization is related to the usage of uninitialized memory I don't think that you're correct.
Of course this means that the programmer must 'think like an optimizer' and rewrite
is-member(i):
return sparse[i] < n && dense[sparse[i]] == i
as
uint sparse = sparse[i]
return sparse < n && dense[sparse] == i
otherwise the compiler would generate two load instead of 1.
Who's to say they're not the same? We know for a fact that the government uses the "ad targeting privacy" to ingest data on civilians. There's countless articles on resale of those data via data brokers. Conflating the two doesn't minimize the argument IMO. As a counter perspective I would surmise that it would piss people off more if and when a government uses that data against its own citizens. People seem to be grasping the concept that having all of this data in someone else's hands is a bad thing. And while I don't feel the urgency is where it should be, I do feel as though we've made some progress.
If you want people to obey the speed limit, pay them more money. You don't need to speed to work or home if you live within a reasonable commuting distance of your office. You don't need to speed to go to some recreation activity if you make enough to actually enjoy your leisure time.
In the Netherlands highway limits have been 120km/h for several decades. Around 2010 it was raised to 130km/h (a pretty pretty popular measure by most accounts). In the last few years it became clear that the country as a whole was emitting many nitrogen compounds in the air, so as an emergency measure in 2019 the maximum highway speed was lowered to 100km/h. But only on specific sections at specific hours of the day (6:00-19:00), which keeps confusing me on the few occasions when I drive on a highway (a few times a year). So I just default to always 100km/h on all highways.
"The cat" is folksy/chummy in a similar way to "the wife".
The Swiss limit seems about right to me, their autoroutes have more hills and bends than those in the surrounding countries.
> don't think that the public is very good at paying attention to two things at the same time

This is a regulatory proceeding. The public isn’t involved.

It’s bad strategy to go all in at one point on the front; you’ll be flanked. Focus entirely on government collection, as the U.S. did, and you’ll find companies not only running free but then turning around and selling their data to the government you thought you were on top of.
Your edit in TL;DR: "source: trust me, bro.".

It's not implausible that the mostly liberal tech workers decide to not boost "right wing" content, but I'm not going to go down rabbit holes to find out, especially Breitbart rabbit holes where some random HNer said at the door "what you find in this rabbit hole will be true!".
I agree, I use it on Windows and it’s an amazing piece of software.