skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because as far as they are concerned mass deaths in poorer nations is only going to reduce the carbon emission load on our planet.

But the wealthier nations are the ones producing majority of the carbon emissions.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/worlds-r...

Seems like you're counting on poorer countries to die off so you in the the richer nations can survive when it's the richer folks causing the problem. Like the resource loss from these continents wasting away won't affect them.
There was an upvoted article on HN the other day [1] where the gist of it was:

"If you don't have a separate documentation website for your open-source project, it's not worth my time."

This is as superficial as it gets.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18150876
I used to work on the subsequent brain child of Kirat Singh et al at another big financial institution, and ditto. Admittedly we used a custom built source control system and release tooling, but also developed in Python.
You can't overcome behavourial addiction without a change in circumstances. Remove your TV, maybe even restructure all of your space to enable a habitual change. If you are really serious about this topic I would recommend the book "Irresistable" by Adam Alter to you, which is all about tech-related behavioural addiction.
Haha, good luck! :)
I used to use drupal and it was a nightmare. I switched to Django just because of python and it was the best decision I’ve ever made in regards to web development.
> if you hover over just about any text element, a little 'copy' icon will appear. I like this feature.

Think I didn't try that? Doesn't work on CosmosDB databases. Yes, for a lot of items it's true that "copy" is easy.... but when it's not easy, it's crazy hard.

I'm guessing that your company doesn't have hundreds of Azure subscriptions (and the proportional number of other resources to manage, in them). When there are a lot of elements that you need to manage/ browse through/ look for, you start to appreciate the simplicity of the AWS ui, and the fact that it prioritizes "snappy" over "fancy".

Azure might be great for an SMB, but I think for large enterprises, AWS is still unchallenged.
Well, we _could_ build a world where the majority of people:

* Live in a very well insulated flat in the city that isn't made of concrete

* Have meat and dairy only as a luxury item

* Use solar and wind power for your heat pump and AC

* Ride a bike or walk to work, or take electrically-powered public transport

* Use non-luxurious sea transport to go on foreign holidays

we'd be about there. But boiling today's young people for the sake of cheap gas has proven more politically feasible.
Reminds me of this blog post [0] about a guy who lost his Twitter @N.

[0] https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
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I can't wait until they start blocking people suspected for "online hate speech". That's just one step away from filtering people's physical speech in real time. Perhaps Google should make a pair of lightweight noise-cancelling headphones that only allow government and Google-approved speech through. What a time to be alive.
Sorry, I edited. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/26/1807522115
My bad, here it is. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/09/26/1807522115
Squats in the bathroom!
Oracle's commercial licensing department is relying on that fact.
Python is, despite its simple appearance, a much more complex language than JavaScript. A V8 equivalent for Python is certainly possible, but would require even more work than went into creating V8 itself - who would be motivated to spend that much effort on Python?

Dropbox? They seem to be the company driving Python nowadays, but gave up trying to speed up Python in favour of writing "performance-sensitive code in other languages" [1].

PyPy uses a meta-tracing approach in an attempt to reduce the amount of work required. Its speed is impressive, but I'm sure meta-tracing leaves some performance on the table.

Another way to reduce the amount of work required would be to support only a subset of the language - for example, a V8 equivalent for MicroPython rather than for full Python. I'm sure this could be made very fast, but it would have very poor compatibility with existing Python code, so what would be the point?

[1] https://blog.pyston.org/
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> I doubt any support guy could just randomly query for GPS data for drivers/users.

There was a very widely publicised case a few years back when their support people were doing just this to stalk celebrities and exes. How quickly the world moves on, I guess.
I'm going to leave https://hashnode.com/ here, because I enjoy it.
Or, of course, for British surreal comedy groups.
"Ten lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations" is relevant here. I feel that DiffEq was the most useless undergraduate course that I took for my comp sci degree. They really didn't spend enough time going into the fundamental concepts so that I am not even sure I could recognize a differential equation if it were staring me in the face at this point... much less any of the tricks that they taught us to solve them.

10. TEACH CONCEPTS, NOT TRICKS

What can we expect students to get out of an elementary course in differential equations? I reject the “bag of tricks” answer to this question. A course taught as a bag of tricks is devoid of educational value. One year later, the students will forget the tricks, most of which are useless anyway. The bag of tricks mentality is, in my opinion, a defeatist mentality, and the justifications I have heard of it, citing poor preparation of the students, their unwillingness to learn, and the possibility of assigning clever problem sets, are lazy ways out.

In an elementary course in differential equations, students should learn a few basic concepts that they will remember for the rest of their lives, such as the universal occurrence of the exponential function, stability, the relationship between trajectories and integrals of systems, phase plane analysis, the manipulation of the Laplace transform, perhaps even the fascinating relationship between partial fraction decompositions and convolutions via Laplace transforms. Who cares whether the students become skilled at working out tricky problems? What matters is their getting a feeling for the importance of the subject, their coming out of the course with the conviction of the inevitability of differential equations, and with enhanced faith in the power of mathematics. These objectives are better achieved by stretching the students’ minds to the utmost limits of cultural breadth of which they are capable, and by pitching the material at a level that is just a little higher than they can reach.

We are kidding ourselves if we believe that the purpose of undergraduate teaching is the transmission of information. Information is an accidental feature of an elementary course in differential equations; such information can nowadays be gotten in much better ways than sitting in a classroom.
A teacher of undergraduate courses belongs in a class with P.R. men, with entertainers, with propagandists, with preachers, with magicians, with gurus. Such a teacher will be successful if at the end of the course every one of his or her students feels they have taken “a good course,” even though they may not quite be able to pin down anything specific they have learned in the course.

https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf
The definition of terms becomes critical here. "Catastrophe" is an alarming word. If 25% of the human population died, it would certainly be a catastrophe. But the planet would still be around. Humans would still be around. A thousand years from now, it might be remembered as "that really bad time"

Planet-scale change is truly Brobdingnagian. Anything in your life is insignificant compared to that. You have to frame this discussion before you even begin. Are you talking about stuff you can do that you can see the result of? Or are you talking about stuff you can do that will make things look different a thousand years from now? The first one is doable. The second one? We've had tens of billions of people live on this planet. I don't know of any that managed that. Maybe a dozen or so?

If I wanted to enact change, I would create acceptance criteria before I started. Am I in this to feel good? To change my local government to do X? And so forth. If your goal is something like "I want the world to be a better place!" then that's a great goal, but it's a feeling, not a goal. Goals you can measure. Goals have numbers and measurement criteria.

If you just want to be upset and vent, fine. That's a perfectly fine thing to do. After all, things suck. A lot of things suck. It's actually a more honest and healthy goal than any of the others I've discussed. We are a social species. We adapt through conversation and persuasion.
What processes need to fall in place to systematically reevaluate all the old arson cases? This seems like a data problem that needs indexing and reevaluating. I know it's not that simple, but there has to be a way to undo bad decisions.
As someone who does a lot of scientific computing in Python, I'd probably recommend learning Julia as the 'killer language' if scientific computing is the main reason you want to learn programming.

Pythons strength comes from being pretty good at scientific computing, and equally good at just about everything else.
>it won't last forever; it never does.

The rest of my life will do fine.

I'm sure you're right, but just for fun I'll make some counter-arguments.

All technologies follow an S-curve in their 'bang for buck' life cycle. Initial improvement and return on investment ramps up slowly, then it hits a middle era where all the low hanging fruit get picked for massive returns, then it enters a third stage where most of the easy benefits have been reaped and further improvement is incremental.

We see this with the internal combustion engine, jet engines, nuclear power, all sorts of thing. Eventually another technology might come along that supplants the old technology for many or most use cases.

The question I'm pondering is, are languages technologies in this respect, or are programming languages in general a technology? If the former then Python will top out in the benefits it provides and will almost certainly be supplanted by a successor. If the latter, maybe Python is near the top of the development curve (along with many other modern languages) and further improvements will be too incremental to lead to anything supplanting it?

But if that is the case, what technology might supplant programming languages?
>>I just wonder why the author of this page does not disclose his name...

That is a weak argument to rebut the article. The author should not matter only the facts

Either what this person has claimed about Flatpak is true, or it is not

You do not need the persons name, address, and background to form that conclusion.

The only reason to demand that is to exert public pressure on them likely in an effort to silence them. Anonymous Speech is a cornerstone of a free society
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> When getting stuff into orbit is sufficiently cheap it'll become economic to put solar collectors in orbit and beam energy back to Earth.

Can we have that before 2040 please

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-repo...
Were there less/smaller blunders of Google, those hired guns would shoot air at nothing. That is, it's Google's fuckups that counts, not how many people scream about it on HN. (In general it matters, but that's politics.)
I'm interested to learn more, could you link to some references?
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"It struck me as very unprofessional, childish and toxic."

Just reword it as an article with the headline "Don't Be a Hero". Suddenly it's valuable career advice.
Humans are the ultimate adapters. Heck, we can survive in the vacuum of space, the highest peaks and some of the lowest parts of the ocean. We live in deserts and rain forests and tundra and remote islands.

Humans will survive. They will adapt. It may not be in the same numbers and lifestyle as today, but the human race will likely be here for a very long time.
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Disclaimer: I work for Red Hat

I strongly oppose these kind of attacks by people hiding their identity. No matter how valid the criticism might be, this goes against all the ethics of Open Source.

Just like the Devuan folks that vigorously attacked systemd and Lennart.

This must not be tolerated.

Yes, I’m very upset.
I've lived without a car for more than a decade. I have a medical condition that is supposed to require at least $100k in medical care annually just to die slower with no hope of getting well. I have gotten off all drugs and I manage it with diet and lifestyle. I got healthier while homeless, sleeping in a tent for 5.7 years and being treated abusively by an awful lot of people who don't find my story credible.

My oldest son has the same condition. I have been supporting myself and my 2 special needs sons on under $20k annually while all of us get healthier.

I also appear to be the only woman to have ever spent time on the leaderboard of Hacker News. I hit it a month and 2 days after I got myself and my kids off the street. I then changed handles cuz reasons.

I'm quite confident I really get it. I'm quite confident I actually know useful information that could make a real difference if people would actually listen to me instead of screeching at me about what a nutter I am.

But it is generally pointless to assert that. It just causes people to more vehemently ramp up the dismissive personal attacks and assertions that I'm an idiot whose point is invalid while they run screaming across the stage flailing their arms like Kermit the frog.
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I’ve done chin-ups in the bathroom before, when the cubicle door frame is suitable
This is horrible advice.

If you have the discipline to do that, you have the discipline to complete the task.
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I use Netlify for website (https://www.primative.net), which is generated thanks to Hugo.

The ability to be able to publish using a simple `git push` and let them do all the work (including assets minification and bundling) is nothing short but amazing. Their dashboard is also really cool. Having the possibility to test a merge request without disrupting the live site, lock a deploy to a specific commit, or see the deployment live. It's simply amazing.

And their customer support is also great. Just yesterday I had a problem with Hugo not compiling my SCSS on their hand and I had two people trying to help me super quickly.

Netlify is a service I can't stop praising because they're just great on all fronts.
A lot of people actually. English has a lot of dialects, people have different styles of communication, and Google tries to search across all that. It tries to guess at intent and match that to their index.

Does this help? I have no idea, and at least nowadays it offers to include that word explicitly with one click.
This is more a business issue than a tech issue. There are two dominant RTI systems providers in England (where my bus knowledge comes from), and only a few more in the world. If they start providing an open data feed of real time locations, then they are giving a leg up to competitors who would potentially be able to leapfrog their predictions, as well as undercut them on price. This would threaten their ticket machine business (the ticket machines incorporate the GPS tracker - something like 98% of buses in England have GPS). Having spoken to all of the RTI suppliers during my work for DfT in the UK government, I am convinced that they will not release these data unless legislation forces them to.

And that is basically what is happening early next year.
There's an ngram search through Google Books, that might help you with this.
The timing is too amazing. I can't help but wonder if my experience somehow contributed to management's decision: https://medium.com/@david.liedle/is-machine-learning-at-goog...
Wikipedia — which you chose to suggest as a source — Does not at first glance provide citations for other locations. Can you please do so?
>Countries currently plan to reduce their emissions, but none are planning to reduce their fossil fuel exports. They just hope it will show up on another country's emissions balance sheet.

That's not how markets work, at all. Oil has an extraction cost, and once the price falls below the profitable threshold, the production will absolutely shutdown.

This highly visible with the boom/bust cycle of the more expensive extraction areas (dakotas, canada, etc).

So as demand continues to drop due to competition from cheaper energy, oil supply will start to collapse as well because none of it comes for free and taking it out of the ground will become a money losing proposition.
I remember working in retail here in the UK and having occasional customers who thought that the mystical incantation "trading standards" would have us trembling in fear and bending over backwards to give them anything they wanted. We just laughed at most of them.
IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming
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I haven't tried Julia, it sounds like it could be better in the long run but I'd be shocked if the ecosystem is equivalent already.
What is this?

The author mostly self-quotes and his articles are published on either vixra.org ("arxiv" reversed, in case you missed it; Physicist Gerard 't Hooft writes, "When a paper is published in viXra, it is usually a sign that it is not likely to contain acceptable results. It may, but the odds against that are considerable" from [0]) or in the - as it appears - questionable Progress in Physics Journal [1]. He even cites news sites.

These are more red flags than one should reasonably need to think it's BS, imo.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViXra
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_in_Physics
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Yeah sorry, I was pointing out that the original title was different than the posted one (due to the HN guideline as explained by ibotos). Also it included the name of the acquired company.
Author here.

I can say that this has pretty much gone as I'd expected.

Microsoft have 80,000+ developers. Their partner ecosystem is absolutely massive. I've watched them hire hundreds of developer advocates that talk at events. It's therefore quite hard to write anything online that's critical without at least half of the comments coming from a biased source.

It is interesting to see the gap between views in the comments here.

Edit: I watch this comment go up and down a lot as the vote battle between those with an agenda and those without click against each other.

Weirdly, I did criticise AWS a bit for their EKS offering in the blog but I've not had anywhere near the toxicity from people about that.
> You join because you want to make a real difference in people’s lives, in a visceral, real way.

What that difference may entail varies greatly though. For one, it might be not being blown up by that IED. For another, it might be being bombed to bits at your cousins wedding, along with the other 40 members of your family, by a drone operator in Nevada. Very visceral indeed.

If you think that working for the military is "doing good" and the US is oh so innocent I suggest you watch the excellent documentary The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Untold_History_of_the_Unit...
Shame everyone doesn't get this benefit. It's strange how being covered on all of the big gaming news sites suddenly makes "technically impossible" things (like reinstating access to an account) possible again.
“Banking is no longer boring, it’s all about cool payments”
If he "believes in his own instincts," he should be fired and not given a job that requires any level of intelligence or acumen.

Gut feelings almost invariably lead to witch hunts. Garrett was the witch this time around, how many others have also been hunted by this guy?
These tricks work sometimes but ultimate solution is to control your brain, through mediation.

Then you will be one who is in control, not the other way around.
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Let's not forget, returning the polar opposite of what you are searching for. I'm an adult, let me search for what I want!
I've tried to buy PSN Plus about 3 or 4 times in the last 2-3 years. Every single time the web interface threw some kind of error at some point during the checkout process. Sony is such a giant mess, but there is no alternative because there are so many PS exclusives.

Have to say, every time it worked flawlessly from the console itself.

Can't speak for the mess of Microsoft, but regarding features Sony was ahead of Microsoft for several years. But the last 1 to 2 years it feels like Microsoft is actually ahead. Things like making X360 games backwards compatible is a huge plus for me. If only all of my friends would think like that and move to the Xbox as wel :/
You can't address them later if you've forgotten where they are.
Maybe there is no time "now".
I have my shares in Somali pirates sinking coal and oil tankers.
Nuitka is awesome. I used it to compile a Python command line tool recently and it worked fine. In fact, it worked so well that I added a Nuitka build script to that project... But Nuitka is written and maintained by a single person [0]. I think for such a huge task (with so many edge cases) it needs more attention/support in order to become mainstream.

[0]: https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/graphs/contributors
A lot more details about carriers and L, and LW1: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/valhalla-spec-experts...
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Oracle has a limit on the number of parameters in a query, not just in the `WHERE IN` clause. So you'd need to insert them into the helper table in batches of 1000.
The OP talks about the QC20 - which are "Acoustic" noise cancelling in-ears. That is, there is no active noise cancelling, it's just "plugging" the holes around the earcups.

What he really needed was the QC25, which is an in-ear with active noise cancelling much like the QC35 has.

EDIT: The author said QC20 but then he talks about ear-muffs - so seems he misquoted the model number I guess.
Some anecdata:

I tried to submit a patch once (https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/660921/) - which to me felt exactly as you described. I didn’t get the reply to my questions questioning the review comment (maybe I didn’t understand it completely so was not worthy of a response?).

In any case, luckily that was not in a critical path for me and then I have moved to a different project so I abandoned it - just seemed like a not so productive/happy use of my time.

And now I feel actively disinterested to ever attempt contributing again.

I can see the other side of the coin as well - the need to maintain the code quality, and probably the burnout of multiple “stupid” questions/patches. I can imagine how it gets tiring especially if one does it in their spare time.

Do I have the right to say “they need to be more patient/welcoming”? Probably I don’t - but equally I don’t fancy being someone’s emotional grounding.

So I will rather stay on the sidelines.
Really? Stock Postgres is faster than a well-optimised Mongo deployment, in my experience.

(Apples to oranges, sure, but Postgres has the capability to be a great document store as well.)

> Especially if your data model is document orientated.

You shouldn't be using MongoDB for anything but documents.