skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Cyc has been a commercial project for a long time and is still alive. The more limited Open and Research distributions have been discontinued, though.
Interestingly though, the extent to which big corporations outcompete small business is different in different economies. For example in Europe a much larger part of the economy is driven by small/medium business than in America.
That idea is alive in well in China as WeChat. We really don't want or need something like that in the West, even in spite of Musk's attempts to recreate it.
-> And don't roll any of it back.
Start in a classroom setting. Check your local community education classes.
Something of an institution, NFB shorts were often shown during ad breaks growing up. There's some good ones out there. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f389hIxZAOc
Autonomous wingmen will help fighter pilots in the next war
While that may be true, capitalism does not concern itself with power or class or anything like that. It is narrowly focused. It is not some catchall term for anything you happen to observe alongside the ownership rights it speaks to. It's okay to use other words.
> I wish they would stop spending major money on constructing bike paths and allocating more and more of the road to bikes, and instead invest heavily in improving and expanding public transit. Since it is useful for nearly all of the population all year around.

They are, though. That’s where most of the money goes.

All the trams are being replaced with higher capacity trams. Additional trams are being purchased as well. When this process is finished, Oslo will have doubled the tram capacity.

A new metro tunnel is in construction between Fornebu and Majorstua, which will greatly reduce the need for buses on that stretch (it’s one of the most active public transit routes).

The metro signal system is being replaced as well. When done, subway trains can travel closer to each other, increasing capacity on the same infrastructure.

When it comes to bikes. Bike infrastructure is cheap. Most of the bike lanes come at the expense of roads to regular cars, not other public transport. It’s also become more popular with electric assist on bikes to help with the uneven terrain and, sadly, winters are only getting shorter.

Bikes are becoming more popular. But most of the money, and people, are still going to public transportation.
i tend to agree with you, there isn’t a free-speech absolutist who wouldn’t fire someone if that person went on a rant cussing them out at work. free-speech absolutism is absurd.

if a free-speech “consequence free” absolutist were to berate their wife and call her disgusting every day, we could ask them how seriously anyone takes their “i have free speech” as she walks out the door with their kids.
WFH either works or it doesn’t. If it works, it will happen. Outsourcing either works or it doesn’t. Short of regulation, if it works, it will happen.

Workers pushing for work from home isn’t going to change this. If in office is a competitive advantage, companies will pay more for in office employees. If it’s not a competitive advantage, no amount of workers not pushing for WFH will cause companies to pay for offices.
> Email, news, stocks, chats, IMs, web search, all just there front and center.

Yahoo tried to be that, too. Both are now mostly of historical interest.
The CSV parser for [Perspective](https://github.com/finos/perspective) uses the [Apache Arrow](https://github.com/apache/arrow) C++ CSV parser compiled to WASM. It's not currently multi-threaded but this is possible as well to my understanding.
> If you don't understand why preventing someone from speaking is different than, for example, making your own argument, I have no idea how I would convince you.

I get why they are different, but even if we are talking about values and norms aside from what is strictly legal, I feel heavily influenced by the legal fact that at least some forms of trying to prevent someone from speaking are themselves speech.

I don't totally disagree with you, btw, I'm mostly just pointing out that simply saying that "preventing someone from speaking doesn't constitute speech" is just a conclusory statement, not an argument, regarding an issue that strikes me as neither susceptible to absolutes nor settled.

> If your view was dominant, would we have ever heard from MLK

Didn't civil rights protesters in the 60's have attack dogs set against them, as well as get fire hosed, etc? Didn't they contend with the KKK? They weren't getting speeches cancelled on a college campus because of protests or something.
Serving web search results from a generic (formerly local only) search box serves multiple strategic initiatives:

1. Gives a place to plug and train the 1P search engine (Bing) or a place to sell access to a search provider (Apple wrt Google)

2. Pretty easy but flashy feature that doesn’t require any real creativity or delivery risks but is flashy enough to get people promoted.

3. Probably user research shows that computer novices are confused by the difference between a file and web search box.

Don’t underestimate the confluence of these three things: it’s easy to justify as good for the (highly technically inexperienced) user, good for the business, and a solid path to a title bump for all involved.
When can we expect a webapp? Is there something about the phone ecosystem that makes it impossible to convert to the web? Tired of apps for everything, keeps me up at night...
> but you need to be very careful how you define community. A community that is defined by who is included nearly always cannot escape an implicit declaration of who is excluded, and a community which includes everybody is no community at all. When you have an in-group and an out-group, you sow the early seeds of conflict and discord.

Okay but, as far as I can read this its just universally true? Respectfully, you're not making the case for it being impossible and you're pointing to something that literally exists now. If it's hard, cool, I'm not afraid of difficult challenges, I honestly believe most people aren't afraid either.

> No, this is the basis for the tribe, with similar concerns about intertribal conflict.

That's fine, a bigger circle of people is exactly why I believe that your premise I was originally responding to doesn't hold up to scrutiny. I think in the present day people are able to operate in several different tribes that are not in serious struggle with one another and there's nothing concrete to point to (as far as I know) that there's an upper limit?

In another comment you mention that "No one would choose to be a Janitor" and I think that is rooted in "At the snap of the finger we'd be socialist and that would cause chaos" kind of thinking. "Being a Janitor" is only a "bad thing" due to our present culture. I certainly don't think it's less important that someone is a Janitor as opposed to a Lawyer or something - The reason people "Don't" want to be Janitors right now is less to do with 'the job' and whatever stereotypes you have in your head but because it's one of the jobs that doesn't pay enough for someone to live comfortably. I don't think its a huge leap to believe that if you could live comfortably and with dignity as a Janitor, people would absolutely do it.

Shoot, people volunteer to be *fire fighters*...
Capitalism was an improvement on feudalism, but that doesn't mean there's nothing better.
Apparently, each coordinate is an array of 3 rational values representing the degrees, minutes and seconds, where the numerator and denominator are 32-bit unsigned integers (plus a separate field to represent the sign). That's a lot of precision.
Well if I knew I was leaving anyway then I would have just quietly fixed it on my own. And then immediately put in a two weeks notice and use my vacation time.
Like, a smartphone?
Took me way too long to learn they weren’t Canadian lol. Fantastic that they’re so well known now.
The difference between being forced to use one vs choosing to use one.

I’ve driven some real nice autos, but when it comes to a car I enjoy driving, give me a nice sloppy GM T-56 or the crisp shifts of a BMW ZF stick. They’re just more fun. It’s the reason why I don’t have a C8 corvette.

But when it comes to day to day puttering around, auto all the way, and give me as many convenience features as you have. Radar cruise control? Yes please. Nothing worse than riding your clutch for an hour straight every day.
> The termite “puppet” may help the beetle evade detection—though termites are blind, they sense one another through touch.

Something doesn't sound about right [1]. If termites are blind why would the beetle evolve to the point it replicates the look of the termite so precisely, down to the colour? There must be another advantage, possibly when interacting with another, non-blind species.

Update: Apparently another beetle has been successfully doing the same without needing to mimic the look, but only by secreting similar chemicals [2].

[1] Disclaimer: Layman comment

[2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22526-zoologger-the-b...
One of the authors is Charles Murray, currently affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and author of the book "The Bell Curve".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Murray_(political_sc...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
The POTS (plain old telephone system) is explicitly designed for discoverability. They used to physically throw a book that mapped numbers to names and addresses on your doorstep for free, and chained the same directory to every public telephone. Fighting against a fundamental design goal of a system is a fool’s errand. The features you are looking for can be easily accomplished over the internet, and they smell very similar to PGP and also feel pretty adjacent to Signal/WhatsApp with some variation. Heck if we’re limiting it to off the shelf consumer solutions, FaceTime with custom email domains matches the description if you squint hard enough.

The vast majority of people find what you are describing to be completely impractical to the point of uselessness.
I appreciate the candor there. I also appreciate a founder “changing his mind”

The old maxim of “Hire slow, fire quickly” rarely hits the C-suite it seems. It’s almost refreshing seeing it. Of course he probably has a massive parachute to cushion his landing that the rank and file usually do not.
Simple jq programs are easy to read because simple jq programs are just path expressions, and the jq language is optimized to make path expressions easy to read. Path expressions like

.[].commit | select(.author == "Tom Hudson")

which basically says "find all commits by Tom Hudson" in the input.

`.[]` iterates all the values in its input (whether the input be an array or an object). `.commit` gets the value of the "commit" key in the input object. You concatenate path expressions with `|`, and array/object index expressions you can just concatenate w/o `|`, so `.[]` and `.commit` can be `.[] | .commit` and also `.[].commit`. Calls to functions like `select()` whose bodies are path expressions are.. also path expressions.

Perhaps the most brilliant thing about jq is that you can assign to arbitrarily complex path expressions, so you can:

(.[].commit | select(.author == "Tom Hudson")) = "Anon"

The syntax is strange probably because of this trying to make path expressions so trivial and readable.

jq programs get hard to read mainly when you go beyond path expressions, especially when you start doing reductions. The problem is that it resembles point free programming in Haskell, which is really not for everyone.

The other thing is that jq is very much a functional programming language, and that takes getting used to.
Just noting for my own reference that the TH1520 is well within the interesting range.
It sounds like this problem may be simpler with Brios than Duplos as Brios only require 2 curves to turn 90 degrees vs 3 for Duplos, but.. my solution to this has always been to use the grain of the wood floor as a guide (which they have in this picture, but aren’t aligned with) - start your track aligned with a floorboard, and then every set of 2 (Brio) or 3 curves, check that you are either parallel or perpendicular to the grain.
I cycle like 1,000 miles a year, in UK, and last winter broke a few bones. Not sure I am doing that again.

I feel cycling advocates get some strange tunnel vision, we can have other mobility solutions. Perhaps one that is more stable on ice. Current EU law is stupid - if it has pedals, it’s a bicycle even with 4 wheels, but a small scooter is an illegal motorised vehicle.
> It turned out that architectural improvements really did matter

Transformer (2017).
NET based Diffusion (2015). Score based diffusion (2019). DDPM (2020). Uses unet (2015).
Clip (~2021) uses Resnet (2015) + ViT (2020). stable diffusion also uses Unet.

Yes, deep learning is easy. Throw compute, you get the answer.

Those with insights on the old problem are now churning papers because they throw compute and deep learning to the stuffs they understood well.

You can look into any paper and see inspiration from old methods. Applying deep learning is hard, deep learning itself is quite easy. If it were really hard, it wouldn't have been popular at all! Nowadays most of the people don't even bother with architectural gains.

Sure if better architecture eventually comes up, people will throw new ones into the compute. I don't believe in bayesian stuff either. However it is worth learning otherwise you might miss insights on a lot of papers!

Whatever you do, just having the idea to understand problem matters a lot. Then later comes the part of deep learning and throwing compute.
It's not easy, but it's doable. You have to cultivate the business you want to run (going solo vs with a team). I never personally outsourced much work other than bookkeeping/financials, and instead opted to do things myself. Some things can be slow as a solo founder, but you will find that you can move a lot quicker i.r.t. to product development and support in a way that can give you a real competitive advantage.

For me, talking to users happens daily, throughout the day via email. I try to be as responsive as possible, without breaking any flow state. I do product development when I feel like it (which typically looks like a sin wave otherwise I tend to burn out), or when it's required i.e. bug fixes. The rest is marketing and just sitting there thinking about next steps (some may call it vision).
Other stories closer to the source on this from the past day:

NYTimes: New York City’s Crackdown on Airbnb Is Starting. Here’s What to Expect

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37404522

Wired: The End of Airbnb in New York

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37400973
It was, but that has nothing to do with name "grammar school". In the liberal arts tradition that goes back to the ancient Greece, you studied grammar, logic, and rhetoric to learn to think and argue properly. Those were considered prerequisites to learning anything real. Grammar was considered the most fundamental of the three, which is why it was taught in the lowest-level schools.
The PDF download seems to fail... Can it not be hosted under the same domain as well? I don't expect huge download numbers -- and getting it into a format other than PDF would be useful.

It's curious that this is a domain name dedicated to this specific critique as opposed to part of another organization (eg journal).
A smartphone would be near the opposite of that. Having to figure out what app others are using and install, and keep switching between them. With AOL if you wanted to contact someone, it was just IM(AIM), for example.
This feels like the new AWS UI change. They went ahead with it despite (I assume) years of negative feedback. Now they continue to display the "Use classic UI" toggle but it does nothing. I can't tell if its incompetence or they actually think users are so dumb that they'll flip the switch and not notice they're still using the new UI.
Agree to disagree on the first point. I think if something is enough of an atomic unit to be a good commit in the trunk, then it is a good candidate to be its own pull request, which can be discussed independently.

> If you demand that each PR must be a single commit you just force the human to make that decision earlier and more manually.

How so? I think you may be misunderstanding the suggestion... The pattern is that people can have whatever commits they want on their own branch, but when that branch gets merged into the trunk, all those commits are automatically squashed into a single one. I don't see how that is "forc[ing] the human to make that decision earlier and more manually".
Doesn’t this information get stripped from photos, at least on iOS when you share them. Seems to be what I recall experiencing.
any (concept not keyword) is useful when you NPM install something without types and just do a define module in a local .d.ts. You are implicitly any-ifying that package.
https://www.aei.org/profile/charles-murray/
I interviewed with them in 2018 and at least at the time (much much smaller company of course) everyone there was very focused on the tech being an enabler for the logistics people. Their claim at the time was that all of the projects they pitched as possible work were driven by feedback from the front line people. Maybe that wasn’t true then, or maybe it’s changed, or maybe it’s still true but it’s not enough?
what i learned from benchmarking Dekkai, is that simply "being in WASM" is a poor indicator of actual performance if you ever need to pull the values across that boundary into JS...especially strings.

i'll take a look and see if i can incorporate Perspective's parser into the bench, thanks!
If AOL didn't exist, something else would have killed this fragile defense-less network.
IME you don't make $56 million by being the type of person who is looking for a neat hobby to try for a year. It's not about the money for these types. If it was they would've retired long ago, before they became top lieutenants.
They aren't saying it is simple they are saying it's crazy it's still so hard.
Unreal Engine 5.3
Não acho que os leitores aqui costumam aceitar submissões em idiomas além do inglês, pelo menos sem tradução.
Oops, replied to the wrong comment here. Too late to edit or delete. Oh well.
This is textbook definition of hypocrisy.

ISP does whatever they want without any qualifiers about contract and without any need to go to court.n
Comparing Code Llama Models Locally in 3 Lines of Code
Yahoo had a lot of the same features, but never did it as cleanly as AOL. Perhaps because AOL provided an actual native client whereas I believe Yahoo was always just web based, which marred the experience quite a bit.

I guess the ultimate takeaway is that there's not a lot of money to be made if they're all gone now.
Dear GitHub/Microsoft, I'm open source programmer, I feed on stars
Today I logged in my Github account to discover that Microsoft evicted my feed panel where I was able to see the stars random user gave me and news about repository of my friend with just another bad imitation of twitter / tik tok to step further into the dystopian social nightmare we live in.

Now, dear Microsoft , I do program for free and that programs also make your fortune because you monetise them in your AI stuff so I find very annoying this your irrational attempt to deprive people like me even of the little pleasure and satisfaction given by reading the list of stars given to them by people around the world, people appreciating my job.

So be kind and move back our little star fee because we feed on them and if you are "social" ambition, build a Twitter clone that works like the old twitter, I think now is the time.

P.S. Apparently the old feed is still reachable at https://github.com/dashboard-feed, for now.
Yahoo was great for that. But apparently it wasn't popular enough (except in Japan).
Wilcox named his property Hollywood in 1887, long before movies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood,_Los_Angeles#History
One of the things I really miss about the 'net in the early days was the tracking of users in order to sell targeted ads.
> We know we individually are conscious because we experience it.

I think if you unroll "experience it", it may well be obvious that NNs also "experience it".
> Part of the original promise from these providers was that there would be a 90%+ reduction in supporting work, when we all know the reality is that you become specialized in solving issues with Heroku/AWS/providerX

For all but the most simple setups, providerX solutions are still better than maintaining your own bare metal solutions with their associated hardware / software / datacenter vendor relationships.

Also, it’s not hard figuring out how to stand up a datacenter if it comes down to it and you want to pivot at some point. What’s actually hard is _growing_ and _distributing_ your datacenter to meet demand / legal requirements.
The war has also affected air travel, which puts a lot of water vapor in the sky and seeds cloud formation in some conditions.
Do woodworking. The whirling blades are pretty apparent. Wear a dust mask while sanding, and take comfort that Jesus was a carpenter and didn't die of respiratory illness/failure.

Don't do your own rigging or wiring, and you'll probably be fine. I do much of my own on both and I'm still ok.

Watch the tommy bar on your vise, and mind your marking knife. The apparently harmless things will get you because you pay them less mind.

Source: am a furniture maker. I still have 10 fingers. Haven't died of respiratory illness yet. Nor have I burned my shit down or crushed myself moving machinery. I have definitely made an unplanned trip for super glue after slicing myself with a marking knife.
If you can't see the magic in existence itself, in many natural phenomena, then I guess that's your problem.

There is magic even in things we understand. Gravity, magnetic forces, the ability to feel emotions it goes on forever basically.

What I've actually come to realize is the phrase, "nothing is magic" is actually nonsensical because it's a paradox. Things can be understood and still magic.
To put it in perspective for US folks, -20 C is -4 F. It's manageable, including ice, with studded tires. With that said, I don't push it on my friends. I'd rather encourage them to make riding in nice weather a habit before taking the plunge. Also, there's more to it than even cold and ice. The roads become effectively narrower due to piled up snow. It gets dark during commuting hours, making it more dangerous if car traffic is involved. Road salt makes a mess of bikes, so it helps to have a dedicated winter bike that can take the brunt of it.
Are you stealing peoples content or are the articles submitted to you?