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From the rhai Engine docs: `Currently, Engine is neither Send nor Sync. Use the sync feature to make it Send + Sync.`

Over the past 2 years I've been writing Rust services for my own startup. Some were straightforward CRUD, some advanced language parsing and ML services. Some thoughts: - Rust tend…

Location: Los Angeles, CA Remote: Yes, or in person in the LA area Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Javascript/Typescript, React + ecosystem, Node, Postgres, AWS, so muc…

I would love to see some exploration of the ECS pattern being used for web development. A couple years ago I wrote an experiment[0] using ECS with Web Components to make a simple c…

Haha, thank you, and yours has a great name too! Both our projects are ML-adjacent. I don't want to cause any confusion, and will start thinking of some alternate names for my proj…

Just a note to say that even though the name "Sematic" is the same, this is not the same open source project as mine that I posted to Show HN about a week ago here: https://news.yc…

Hey HN! I would like to share the project that I've been working on for the past six months. It's called "Sematic", and it's an NLU API that parses plain english so that devs can r…

Ah, sorry, I should clarify that when I say "talk", I didn't mean it in the literal sense. I've only worked on text as a source, though Speech-to-text shouldn't be too hard to inte…

> Having used various things that claim to be natural language, I find that to use them effectively, I end up needing to learn their particular structured language. This makes sens…

Ah, copy that. Not enough input is, well, not enough. Appreciate the clarification.

English->SQL is very much a thing, and has a good amount of research going into it. It does have a few weaknesses though: 1. It is ML based, and the best results I have seen put it…

Not yet specifically for this; It is an excellent point. If I may, was there any particular phrases that you remember that were "too much"? It would be great to talk more about you…

The Symantec link is fascinating, thank you for that!

Ah, yes, Maybe I should clarify who my intended user would be. I agree that if you are technical, you are probably better off using other query methods. I'm always surprised what f…

> That comment doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Are services not valuable? Stripe and Twilio seem like really helpful services and that seems...OK to me? Services are totally val…

1990's huh, wow. I totally believe it. It almost feels like a solved problem, but when I tried to find an API that parsed text to a degree that was usable by an average dev, nothin…

> Trying to map english to formal logic is a fools errand. I don't disagree, but this would not be a 1-1 mapping, if that matters. >From my experience, what keeps non-technical peo…

For the past 6 months I’ve been working on a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API. Essentially the request would contain a plain english sentence, and the response would includ…

I've never used it, but I've heard good things about Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri

I've been experimenting with ways of using Web Components with the ECS (Entity Component System) pattern. I'm not sure it will ever become the preferred way of writing web apps, bu…

I believe this is the first use of WebAssembly that I've come across in the wild. Very happy to see this!

Experimenting with JSX has introduced me to two language constructs: the Pragma, and the Macro. I know that these might seem a bit pedestrian to most folks, but they opened up my u…