HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

simongray

2,057 karma · joined December 8, 2014

submissionscomments
simongray··on Semantic MediaWiki
The key word in my comment is "integrate", not simply producing data. We're using it for language data in my field, e.g. currently I'm integrating the Danish WordNet with the English one + various other datasets.

If you check out the common ontologies in use you will get an idea which areas are covered: https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov/

simongray··on Semantic MediaWiki
> But had they been adopted for what they are: well defined metadata according to vocabularies and ontologies that following accepted, interoperable standards, the development of ground truth and knowledge graphs would have been much more advanced that the current state.

Yes, this is very true.

As an addendum, I think many people in industry don't quite realise how prevalent RDF and RDF-based ontologies are in academia. They're one of the main ways researchers integrate data. No one cares about lofty ideals, it's about the usefulness of RDF graph model and the various associated standards built on top of it.

simongray··on MacOS X 10.1 (2001)
Thank you!!
simongray··on MacOS X 10.1 (2001)
> Also folders can be browsed as a series of menus when placed in the dock. http://toastytech.com/guis/osxhddoc.jpg

That is more useful than the icon view it has now.

simongray··on What happened with ASUS routers this morning?
My Apple Airport router also crashed yesterday and had to be restarted. I wonder if this is related?
simongray··on Vacations in the Soviet Union
> And from what I understand, most European Union countries get unlimited sick leave, and 4-6 weeks of vacation both.

Yes, this is correct.

simongray··on Vacations in the Soviet Union
He's getting the literal minimum paid time off required by the EU (20 days + national holidays). Maybe in the US this is considered too much time off, but this amount would just be a basic right for any worker in Europe. Maybe you are the one who needs introspection?

Personally, I get 6 weeks + national holidays + 2 family days here in Denmark.

simongray··on Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspecting Clojure
That is called Morse code, not Morse.
simongray··on Datomic is Free
Clojure has records too.
simongray··on Datomic is Free
This is the benefit. Languages like Clojure have excellent support for manipulating maps and I'd wager that something like 40-60% of Clojure code is similar-looking map manipulation stuff for this very reason.

If you need that validation, you just validate the map? You can use established methods like Malli or Clojure Spec for this. If you need to use a record with a fixed schema, just use a record instead of map. In Clojure, you can use most of the map functions for records too.

simongray··on Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013)
This is actually the case in the game Alpha Centauri, only it is the planet in that star system (where the game takes place) and not Earth.
simongray··on Gamers 50-plus are a growing force in the tech market
You're basically me, except I'm a year younger and you need to switch out GTA 5 and Diablo with the Hitman trilogy. I feel exactly the same way as you do about gaming.
simongray··on POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
No, it isn't. Maybe RTFA?
simongray··on Why Janet?
Many Common Lisp users unfortunately have this tendency to refer to other Lisp dialects as "not real Lisp" and often don't bother to explore the value propositions of the newer dialects, particularly Clojure-inspired dialects such as Janet. At least, this has been my experience as a Clojure user for several years now.
simongray··on Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
Eternal Terminal works better.
simongray··on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux
The M1 Macbook Air is such a good machine, even several years after its introduction. So nice, in fact, that the M2 version really isn't all that enticing.
simongray··on There's something off about LED bulbs
I'm sorry, but to me you mostly just sound like an audiophile talking about how vinyl sounds better than CDs...
simongray··on There's something off about LED bulbs
This article and comment section is bizarre to me. It's like travelling back in time to the 2000s.

We've only used LEDs in my country for, what, 15 years now? They are perfectly fine, no issues really, much cheaper than incandescent bulbs of course. We just buy the ones in IKEA and they haven't really failed us so far.

simongray··on Apple passwords deserve an app
https://forum.winworldpc.com/uploads/editor/82/fnzv4nyssemk....
simongray··on Gallery of Minimal Design Websites
I don't think it even fits that description. Most of the examples feature copious amounts of highly unnecessary animations. If you take a snapshot it looks kinda minimalist, but if you see it in motion it doesn't really feel like that.
simongray··on Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?
If you click the feedback button it lets you make a correction.
simongray··on GPT-4
Did you skip the examples with vision?
simongray··on Hype on Hacker News and Silicon Valley (2016)
[citation needed]
simongray··on Self-Host All the Things?
One of the main reasons I use Docker is being able to run the exact same Dockerfiles locally and in prod, with virtualisation taken care of automatically on e.g. Mac.

Is Nix a viable alternative to that?

simongray··on Tilde.news – A Link Aggregator for the Tildeverse
Thank you! That is a nice addition to my lists of feeds.
simongray··on Dansk and the Promise of a Simple Scandinavian Life
Until recently, JYSK was also called Jysk Sengetøjslager (= bettenlager) in Denmark. I think the rebranding to JYSK was just about making the name shorter and the same everywhere.
simongray··on Apple orders entire supply of TSMC's 3nm chips for iPhone 15 Pro and M3 Macs
There was no iTunes music store at that time. Apple was advertising how fast iTunes could rip music from a CD and in my experience it was definitely optimised for that.
simongray··on Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
It's been growing ever so slightly all this time if Maven downloads are to be believed, but it has also been on a downward trend in the hype cycle for the past few years ever since Rich Hickey stepped back from the limelight.
simongray··on Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)
Several Clojure/Datomic design decisions are directly inspired by RDF.
simongray··on Introduction to Datalog
There are many open source alternatives in Clojure using this query language: https://github.com/simongray/clojure-graph-resources#datalog
← PreviousPage 4 of 19Next →