jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Using setup.py does not mean "not using extra tools". It depends on setuptools, which is an "extra tools" just like flit (used in the article) or any other tool. In fact, with using only setuptools one will need a whole additional set of tools to manage things like:

* virtual environments (granted, venv is now part of the stdlib, but it's still an "extra tool")
* publishing to PyPI or another index (twine)
* dependency management (both for development and actual dependencies)

Plus the tools that are needed anyway, to manage common development actions like:

* unit tests (pytests)
* static typing (mypy)
* linting (flake8, pylint)
* styling (black)

The article is correct in using pyproject.toml, which has become the standard way to specify build mechanism for your package [0]. Even setuptools supports it in the latest versions [1], meaning that setup.py is becoming obsolete, or at least unnecessary.

Finally, tools like Poetry [2] offer a whole set of functionalities in one place (dependency management, virtual environments, publishing), which means that they need fewer "extra tools" than just setuptools.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/

[1] https://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/build_meta.html

[2] https://python-poetry.org/
No not really. More because i dont really like getting hyper and there is no job i have to wake up for everyday to unholy times. In my last real job i took amphetamines (dextro*) but that made my general mindset worse. Ritalin made me straight up dont like myself anymore. I too take l-theanin, b-stack and ashwagandha everyday these days.

I am far from a perfectly normal adult. I never tried getting there tho
Anyone should be able to lobby.

There's nothing overtly nefarious about lobbying.

Lobbying is 'telling government about something specific'. Usually in your own interests, but the interests of the people should interest the government.

The problem is the asymmetry of power and access.
I am impressed by your making that determination from a single article. That kind of decisiveness can be useful. Or maybe you have other data.
Try iamelgringo's Hackers & Founders meetup or one of the local cofounder meetups & make sure you can speak specifically about the opportunity and value you're bringing to the team.
timer + servo motor connected to blinds pull?

I keep imagining a nighttime bedroom temperature control based on a PID and a servo attached to my window-- would probably be too loud (esp with the required torque) to work while I'm sleeping, but a guy can dream, right? Maybe with some louvers...
Interestingly enough, I tried melatonin a few months ago when I was having problems with insomnia. After 2 or 3 nights with it, my sleep cycle corrected itself and I haven't taken it since. I don't know that I'd want to keep taking it every night, but as a temporary measure to your sleep cycle back on track it's great.

I find having a significant other helps a lot as well; I'm more likely to go to bed on time because I don't want to disturb them by turning in late.
I don't think we are choking ourselves. Loaning money to the US government means the government can use all its resources to pay you back. We have not tapped any of those resources yet; taxes in the US are pretty low compared to the rest of the developed world.

Also keep in mind that the government can loan money at a higher interest rate than it can borrow it at. (I am not sure how much income this generates, though.)
How will the average Joe be affected by all this?
Nothing really concrete here, so I'm not sure it's very useful. No call to action, either.
Ok, next time could you indicate that you use a restricted service in you headline so those of us who can't get Twillo can skip reading about it?
⭐ I hope 🇺🇸my comment doesn't revert ↩️ your opinion. ⭐
They have customers who cost them money on an incremental basis. More customers, less money. They don't deserve to be valued any differently than like Regus, approximately 8X their annual profits or 1X their annual revenue. In this space, net margins are approximately 15%.

That values WeWork somewhere between -15.2B and 1.8B based on their 2018 performance data.

Measured against their competitors, they're still about 5X over-valued.
No - I wasn't familiar with them. But I'm not looking to start up so much as I am to transfer / sell off.
"Say I read an anti-Semitic leaflet and then perform a hate crime. How much of the responsibility do I bare and how much does the writer of the leaflet? And how much does the printing press?"

Here is where this line of doesn't work too well with what Baron Cohen is saying: Facebook/Twitter/etc are centralized publishers. He is arguing they are equivalent to Random House, NBC, or TIME. If a hate group owns its own printing press, it's not the press' fault because they are a publisher of the organization. But if Random House prints and publishes works of a fringe group, do you think there would be push back? Why are they giving this group legitimacy? It legitimizes them if they are published by the same entity as works of literature. Sacha is saying that by allowing hate groups and non-hate groups the same publishing capability, Facebook is legitimizing them.
I'm pretty young, I just don't think cutesy pictures are an advancement in communication.
What do you run your stack on? Also AWS?
There is an infinite supply of cheap intern labor at every college in the U.S. chomping at the bit to mop the floor at google hq.
Damnit now I wanna kick back with a good drink and some paper to slowly draw a map upon and have another go at Curses.

But first I have to pick an interpreter for my Mac. The list[1] pointed to in this article is spectacularly unhelpful, what with being a series of directories with names largely derived from spells in Enchanter and no hints as to what platforms they're on, or what the strengths and weaknesses of each is.

The IFDB page for Curses[2] that this article links to points me to a page on another site entirely[3] for interpreter recommendations. Its suggestion for Windows, Mac, and Linux is Lectrote[4]. Which is an Electron app that binds together no less than four different adventure game interpreters. I am generally adverse to Electron apps for the usual reasons (CPU/RAM hogs that consistently break OSX's built-in spellcheck/text expansion on all their text input fields) but somehow, contemplating the teetering pile of virtuality that running a Javascript Z-machine with an entire web browser strapped on the side entails, I feel like this is entirely appropriate in this case.

I also feel like the process of digging through this twisty maze of web links, all different, may have made my score go up.

1: http://mirror.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive/infocom/inter...

2: https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=plvzam05bmz3enh8

3: http://brasslantern.org/players/howto/tadownload-c.html

4: https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases
I am all for giving everyone in the right, a number tattoo so we can keep them under control, and maybe put them in specific locations around US and the world so their influence in a normal and joyous society won't be a problem for us common folks.

What do you think?
A for-profit corporation like Apple shouldnt be the arbitrer of what constitutes good-faith and bad-faith political debate
But the thing with these sweeping generalizations of "them" as being violent and damaging is - who gets to define what is violent and damaging?

Glenn Greenwald, who I respect a lot and was instrumental in breaking the mass surveillance in US by intelligence agencies recently spoke about these very issue:

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My insistence that we look at the other side of the ledger — the costs and dangers not only from such attacks but also the “solutions” implemented in the name of the stopping them — did not come from indifference towards those deaths or a naive views of those responsible for them. It was instead driven by my simultaneous recognition of the dangers from rights-eroding, authoritarian reactions imposed by the state, particularly in the immediate aftermath of a traumatic event.
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and then this:

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It has long been clear that, in the post-Trump era, media outlets looking to keep viewers hooked, and government officials looking to increase their power, will do everything possible to center and inflate the threat posed by right-wing factions. I’ve said this more times than I can count over the last year at least.

Like all inflated threats, this one has a kernel of truth. As is true of every faction, there are right-wing activists filled with rage and who are willing to do violence. Some of them are dangerous (just as some Muslims in the post-9/11 era, and some Antifa nihilists, were and are genuinely violent and dangerous). But as was true of the Cold War and the War on Terror and so many other crisis-spurred reactions, the other side of the ledger — the draconian state powers clearly being planned and urged and prepared in the name of stopping them — carry its own extremely formidable dangers.

Refusing to consider those dangers for fear of standing accused of downplaying the threat is the most common tactic authoritarian advocates of state power use. Less than twenty-four hours after the Capitol breach, one sees this tactic being wielded with great flamboyance and potency, and it is sure to continue long after January 20.
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When Cabrini Green came down, I remember seeing a bunch of articles about public housing, which portrayed these high-rise projects as an outgrowth of the optimistic attitude of the time. There's a strong cognitive dissonance there, because the projects were just as much an outgrowth of the powerful segregationist attitude that also characterized the era.

I'm quite excited to see the move to what will hopefully be more integrationist attempts at public housing. I really like the idea of Section 8 (we had Section 8 buildings in Streeterville where I lived in Chicago) and would love to see it extended to wealthy suburban neighborhoods.
Work on something you like. Don't care about money or fame.

Use your side project as your playground to learn new things by doing mini projects within your side project:

- Want to learn about testing? Add test coverage.
- Want to learn about webcomponents? Find a way to integrate it.

You don't have to finish all the mini projects. Dropping something is fine, you still have the experience and knowledge!

What really helped for me in keeping steam is publishing the source of my side projects on GitHub. The idea that someone else uses your code is very satisfying. Once some traction comes, the pull requests and issues start coming in and it gets even more fun.

And when you get bored? No problem, just switch to a different side project or think of a new mini project.
Given that he's shipping physical goods, it's difficult to imagine that it's all profit. He could well be counting on those funds to finance his supply chain, which could leave his business dead in the water if he can't get access to the money he's earned.
So you say you've sent them tracking numbers, and they say you haven't? Are they lying, mistaken, or what?
Yes, mayhem. The world as we know it will end!

Or, well, some people won't be able to tell everybody else what they're eating for dinner, or they might tell everybody 10 times.
Wonder why Google needs to contact your buyers for confirmation? I thought they are the middle man should be transparent in the purchase process.
If I was at my wits end, I would start calling in to Google corporate until I got someone who could actually help. Don't get irate, be pleasant. If you must talk lawsuit, do so without threatening. Also, re-read the fine print of the Google checkout contract before calling.
This happened the other day as well (probably on a shorter timescale, I'm not sure). I'm not sure if it was a 5xx error code - it seemed more like connections were hanging.

It showed me the danger of working on someone else's platform, cue warning story:

I had something that queried Twitter in php (Curl) but it never really occurred to me to time out the connection (this was ages ago, I forgot about the project till the other day). For some reason I assumed the host would kill long running PHP scripts..

Apparently not because my whole account got disabled for too many open connections.... oops.
Politely keep doing what they've asked, but have your lawyer draft a letter, and prepare to send it when you've hit the frustration point. If that doesn't solve the problem, prepare to sue.
$126,000 in two months...good work!
I can't imagine anyone being happy with 1. That's 5 days of complete unresponsiveness. They don't know that they will blacked out for 5 days and neither do you. And even worse, what happens if at the end of 5 days you realize you took a wrong path on day 2? Now you still have to talk to them after ignoring them for a business week.

Personally, if I got blacked out like this there better have been a death in the family or I'll never work with this person/agency again and will heavily recommend against having anything to do with them.
Seems like some people are missing the point. He loved it when people enjoyed tech for the pure "creation" and "exploration" aspect. Not the money money money that it has often become. I also disagree with him on this point. I see a huge amount of new ideas and work from people who just like to create, but it tends to be at a more grass roots level like the Arduino community, or the hackerspace groups. So I say to him "Your love not only still exists, it has grown to encompass the whole world". Just don't look for it in Silicon Valley.
Can you own and register a vehicle through a business without purchasing commercial insurance?
Pipes was _awesome_. I built many personal services with it - (and even a few low traffic production services!)

Really tragic they killed it, that's when I knew the Mayer era of Yahoo would be nothing more than a hatchet job.

I wish they made it F/OSS as part of the shutdown. Nothing has filled the void.
I hear you, certainly. I have cameras on my front porch, but you don't need to worry about the footage ending up in the hands of the police unless you actually commit a crime against me or my neighbors. And you don't need to worry about it being sent to Amazon in any event, because that's not going to happen, ever.

But I don't know how to give you the guarantees you're asking for without harming my rights, and ultimately yours.
It's about the same as Boston, marginally colder than NYC, and substantially warmer than Montreal. :)
It is missing acceptance.
I'm not familiar with Axios, but this article had a rather strong taste of propaganda to me.

"The bottom line: Opposition to higher minimum wage laws is increasingly based in ideology and orthodoxy rather than real-world evidence, economists say."

I also see little acknowledgement of the fact that this sort of analysis is extremely complex, that there are many variables in play, in ways that are not terribly obvious or easy to measure.

Whenever I see people characterizing people who are increasingly suspicious of experts as ~stupid, I feel the urge to ask them if they believe this style of narratives-presented-as-facts plays no role in the phenomenon, and whether they've ever considered the idea prior to my question.
In the context of disliking people from other countries, xenophobia.
Try out sysdig, it has many more features for domain specific tracing using what they call “chisels” and it can do stuff like inspect threads and flows attached to a container or kubernetes resource.

Strace is still a very good tool, but also don’t forget about perf to monitor kernel threads, print details when a c symbol is seen in execution, and more.
I don't see that happening until at least 50 to 70 percent of users use IPv6-compatible connections.

One way to accelerate their adoption, though, could be throttling IPv4 transfers: have, say, youtube or Netflix faster at an ISP that enabled it. Or less lag for online games.
It sounds like a great idea. I did notice a carveout in the privacy policy for "if we get acquired, they can do whatever they want with any information" which seems... undermining, given how getting acquired by one of the worst data brokers is generally assumed for any successful social media startup.
They're definitely required for at least some scenarios, as a raw deploy didn't work for me, they're called out in the help docs, and I had a chat w/ their CEO on the topic a few weeks ago.
Privacy is great; however requiring everyone to login adds frictions, which kill engagement.

Anyway, it is always good to see someone challenging the status quo. Good luck.
It's also missing adhesive transfer tape. Just adhesive between non-sticky layers. Unobtainium.
Good idea but doesn't seem to work on iOS Safari. Tried all the tools, none draw.
In many comic books too. He thinks of himself as Batman, not Bruce Wayne, and never feels entirely comfortable without the mask.
>And, in Germany, publishing of the real-world information is mandatory.

thankfully, nobody outside Germany has to give a fuck about German laws
> if with Telegram "the privacy, security, and governance story is not great though", why would you migrate from WhatsApp to Telegram in first place?

A lot of people use WhatsApp for a lot of reasons. If security was foremost on your mind, you'd probably have already migrated away from it. On the other handd, plenty of people are using WhatsApp right now to talk to their grandmothers, and switching to Telegram is not an obviously bad choice. :)

OP listed some apps like Discord that suggest he's not laser focused on privacy and security, and perhaps is mostly just wanting to to steer clear of large corporations in general and Facebook in particular. Telegram checks those boxes.
I would to believe this but after spending many years of with SEO and PPC it just doesn't matter if they do to be fair. One way or another your GSuite account is linked to your personal account and that's where things get back on track for the big G and their data.
> Is Matrix a good alternative to Signal?

To a certain degree I'd say this is apples vs oranges.

Before you shoot me down, let me explain. The reason I say that is because of the core focus of the different platforms.

Signal's priority-one use-case is clearly person-to-person IM and communication. The UI, setup-process and entire architecture is optimized for this one use-case, with all other use-cases being shoehorned in to fit whatever was built for that.

I'd say Matrix (for the moment disregarding a key feature, bridging) has as its primary use-case to be a discord/slack/IRC alternative, to handle "channels", long term group chats and basically persistent online collaboration workspaces.

Sure. Technically speaking, Matrix has a full support for E2E encrypted person-to-person IM and communications (even phone-calls and audio!), and you can use it for that. But this was clearly not the primary use-case Matrix was designed to solve.

Therefore IMO Matrix person-to-person chat has this slightly shoehorned-in feeling, so you may have a somewhat lesser user-experience when using Matrix to do these things than other platforms which had this as their primary goal.

Disclaimer: Happy Matrix-user, running own server, bridging both FB, WhatsApp and Signal into the matrix-verse.
https://github.com/ptx2/gymnasticon/pull/12

I've already done this.
Back in October another hacker and myself spent some time figuring all this stuff out as well and made a more practical application of the results here: https://github.com/ptx2/gymnasticon/pull/12

You can already use a rPI and a RS232 USB device to pull metrics off the bike and transmit those signals via BT.
Holy crow, the feature where you can move the cursor by swiping back and forth on the spacebar is AMAZING. Seriously, I have always struggled with moving the cursor in text on either android or ios. This is great!
Are you referring to the Red House? You believe that a fenced in house that was sometimes called an 'autonomous zone' (as far as I can tell, most often by people outside - the mayor of Portland for example apologized for calling it such) was closer to an insurrection than people seeking to overturn the legal results of the election entering the Capitol building while congress was in session?

Even if the people defending the Red House did call it an autonomous zone, their only real demands were to protect the livelihood of one family. They did not seek to expand, they did not try to gain political power from it,they did nothing that I would actually view as a significant attempt to challenge the authority of the state beyond a very specific case.
Are there 100-year events associated with 100 square-inch plots of floor? No... But there are with coastlines, cities, dams, forests, deserts, islands, volcanoes, etc.

Of course there are other compounding factors. Not all events are one-in-one-hundred; some are one-in-ten, others are one-in-five-hundred, and with increasing scarcity by order of magnitude.

Another compounding factor is that the borders for "geographical areas" are fuzzy. Does a one-in-a-hundred year event that happens in Vermont also qualify as having happened in New Hampshire? Probably depends on the type and the specific measurements and the expectation according to history.

And what about aggregate events? E.g. "It's been five hundred years since we've seen this many tornadoes, which tend to happen once every ten years."

And in the opposite direction of the 100 square-inch plot of ground, there is blurring in the other direction: What do they mean in aggregate if they are fewer than expected at a global scale?

So my original comment was just a simple way of taking the average of all of these competing factors and stating a general truth that's somewhere in the middle. If you have X things that are expected to have 1/Y probabilities, then the probability of you experiencing any of them is not 1/Y, it's more like X/Y. (As in very likely.. that's more than 1 so obviously not mathematically correct.) But we often don't think about rare events this way - as no specific event being probable, but some collection of improbable events being almost certain. We perceive them all as 1/Y. It's just a very local way of thinking.
Actually here is where I got it originally from:

https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-coronavirus-di...

Google Translation:

# New study: Hardly any lives saved with lockdowns

The total lockdown during the first corona wave saved almost no lives in Europe and the USA, according to the results of a meta-study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, which became the most important data source during the pandemic. However, masks for employees in companies or shops and the closing of bars and restaurants had a clear effect on the number of deaths from Covid-19.

The researchers examined more than 18,000 global studies on the consequences of the pandemic and only filtered out those that deal with excess mortality from Covid-19. A total of 0.3 percent fewer deaths is the balance for times of total lockdowns with exit restrictions. Masks for employees, on the other hand, have reduced the number of deaths by almost 24 percent, and closed bars by another 15 percent.

The order that only a few people are allowed to meet counts at three percent, as ARD correspondent Arthur Landwehr in Washington also reports from the study. Closed schools, on the other hand, had almost no effect, namely 0.1 percent, and the researchers were unable to measure any effect at all with closed borders.
Would you consider this person part of the "eligible IT workforce" if he was unwilling to move where the jobs were?

Would you say the same of a finance person who wasn't willing to move to NY or SF?
> Who makes 10k a year?

A lot of employees in developing countries in which IBM has a presence.
Not necessarily - it assumes they're more interested in short term profits than long term growth.