skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_a_point

"(idiomatic) To argue or promote an idea."

It isn't enough to just say a statement when you want to make a point. It's usually expected, especially here on HN, to put some effort into demonstrating why you believe that statement is true, something which his linked comment doesn't do. It doesn't need to be anything elaborate, even references to other comments mentioning things FAA has done would be more than enough to make the point, which gives people something factual or "real" to respond to or look into.

I don't think there's anything wrong with his statement per se. You don't always need to write a treatise whenever you want to join a discussion or throw in your two cents. Just that when he says he's made the point before, it'd be more helpful to link to something more substantial than the same statement in a different place.
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What about all other countries in the world which have borders and restrictions on crossing them? Pride + racism too?
“Two weeks PTO”, like it’s a godsend, when the EU basic law, not known for being worker-friendly, guarantees everyone in the EU at least four weeks.
> Where shall we draw the line and how do we decide?

Why does there need to be a line? As long as the package manager is part of the core distribution (even if it is itself an upgradable package) why not moving everything into packages, even if some are maintained by the core team and have the stable version at time of distribution release included with the core distribution—but perhaps installed only on demand?
If you don't mind me pointing out the irony here: this is the epitome of "woke capital" - the issue isn't the inhumanly low wages, it's that the company policy is discriminatory towards who it will pay those wages...
Can you point me to what Google’s plan is? Can’t find much concrete.
Yes. Go to http://www.leonardodigitale.com/index.php?lang=ENG. Flash must be enabled. Click on "Browse", choose "Codex Atlanticus" (not the Hoepli edition). Then for every page you read, it displays the text (in Italian) from that page in the other "window".

Screenshots in action: https://i.imgur.com/HLhnEKQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/gH81s52.jpg
One can add epicycles indefinitely to patch up any theory, but there comes a point where we have to accept that the weight of evidence favors some simpler and more general new approach.

The idea that the PIEs would develop all the advanced technology you mention and use it all for some kind of nonviolent mate-attracting display --- and that this mate-attracting thing worked so well that pre-existing Y lineages went extinct --- and that the people going extinct just passively let it happen --- well, it defies plausibility. All the historical, ethnographic, archaeological, and generic evidence points in one direction. This grasping at straws to defend the non-violence hypothesis is exactly the annoying tendency that makes a lot of modern history unreadably annoying.
Then either they won't fill the positions or the average salary is too high. (And I asked for median, not average)
Perhaps whatever the median is, it's still too low.
First impressions matter mostly to those who are influenced by them. Many scams have been successful because of exactly that.

A stupid name might do well on search engines for example (as in, those names could be easily searched)

Furthermore I don't really consider the name to be stupid. I don't quite really know of many other ways of succinctly highlighting resilience as a property in a name.
Lastly, the title of the talk can be tempered a bit. No? We all know what a leaking battery mean right? Toxic.

Come on. Python has had the 'batteries' metaphor for decades and this is a straightforward and obvious play on it. You're bringing 'toxic' into this which I suppose is technically and biochemically correct (both, surely, the best kinds of correct) but has far, far more negative connotations than the title warrants. You're having to work really hard to make a generic thing sound dreadful.
While I as European fully agree with your point of view, I think that projecting our world perspective on other countries is just bs.

Fight with racism is purely white peoples concept. Racism is a term usually doesn't even exist outside of Europe/North America. So we shouldn't try to put our mentality on top of China, as we are not the sole source of truth in this world.
Your English grammar is pretty bad - you are obviously not from US. Please don't speak as if you are an American. You create opinions without any facts to back them up.
At the same time, every nation with military service also has better working conditions for their workforce so...
Could you elaborate on the economics? My internal model has always been "1 Joule -> Water -> Hydrogen -> Fusion Reactor -> (1 + epsilon) Joules" was a money printing machine for obvious reasons, but I can see that there are lots of hidden assumptions there.
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it will be more interesting if we ever get down the costs of energy, then we can focus on really fast tech. its also worth noting that trains between philadelphia and nyc (Acela Express) go ~135-165 mph.

if it takes 6 hours and ~ 450$ to get from nyc to sf, it would be more revolutionary to reduce the cost by 50% than than cut the time in half I think.
I looked at the table of contents and I am guessing it has many handy tricks and command line examples of already public tools. Doesn't look like its should be as costly as 19$. Would you like to bring it down to one-digit costs ?
Centralization helped to mitigate some of the problems and there is no reason to think that these couldn't have been solved in a decentralized manner as well. Moreover centralization introduced a swath of new problems.

I think the reason centralization has won is because it is the way of least resistance in our current environment.
In short, no. They don't solve enough of the problems.

The big one they claim to solve, cost, is an unproven assertion based on the assumption that nuclear power plant production can follow the "industrial learning curve" model of cost reduction. There is plenty of proof extant that this is a flawed assumption.
That’s one of the most lively paintings I’ve ever seen. I suspect there are depths of symbolism of which I’m totally unaware and probably a bunch of insults to ethnic groups, but to my untrained eye it reminds me of Bruegel the Elder meets Norman Rockwell.
> badly run infrastructure and in-fighting and big egos

In other words, the same situation that exists everywhere.
A whole week off is not seen as weird in most of the US. I’ve had 3-4 weeks of vacation for decades and I’ve always taken pretty much every day. Among many of the people I’ve known that was by no means unusual.
Not all cats are unable to down climb, Norwegian Forest cats for example are known to down climb head first. [1]

We had the pleasure of housing one temporarily for a couple months. It looked huge but 50% of its volume was wispy fur. Hidden within was a lean petite frame with muscular legs. It was a very different animal from our two other typical mutt house cats, but I can't recall if the claws were organized differently.

[1] http://cfa.org/breeds/breedskthrur/norwegianforestcat/nfcart...
You’re right; you can retake the Step 1 up to six times. However, you can retake it if you fail, you can’t retake if you pass. AFAIR that’s what my friends were worried about; you can retake if you fail but if you were planning on failing why retake it. It’s the pass with a low score that sends you to a bad place.
But this only can't justify that tkinter being part of the STANDARD library.

Taking tkinter out of the standard library won't stop IDLE being built with it, if they chose to do so.
They have some customized parts.

For example, IIRC, they use a smart card to authenticate on their workstations, and also on their web applications. For that you need to customize a bit (better out of the box support for pkcs11 devices, integrate the Certificate Authorities needed, drivers).

There are a few contributions to open source projects:

A few years back, they were contributing to a fork of Thunderbird called Trustedbird for example.

There are also a few individual contributors inside the Gendarmerie, for example Xavier Guimard creator and one of the current developers of LemonLdap (SSO portal).

Also just as a side note, this distribution is used by the Gendarmerie, which is not exactly the national Police. In France you have both a Police Nationale and the Gendarmerie National. The Gendarmerie is military personel (the Police is civilian). I'm guessing national sovereignty plays a small role in that (VS using MS Windows, which is completely controlled by a US company, bounded to the US government).
But the battery tech is theirs. Tesla does some impressive stuff with cooling and power management, sure, but not batteries themselves.
Welcome to HN, where 95% of the population has an absolute conviction about the knowledge that they gained in 5 minutes of internet searches, where every problem is obvious and easy to solve, and where a basic knowledge of computers allows one to opine about everything from politics to sex to optimal routing options for oil pipelines.

most of the people posting here about this topic don’t know a damned thing about it, they’re just regurgitating something they read on the 2nd page of google search results.

The fact is that most HN comments are full of shit.
I'm paranoid enough of the numerous backdoors Microsoft has into my system as a home user. I can't imagine actually having life-threatening secrets on a Windows box, which is a reality for most of the governments of the world.
And to add to this - there is no particular incentive to get historical facts right, there might be disincentives from espousing politically unpalatable parts of history and there are incentives for the best and brightest to be doing something other than researching history.

Historians are probably reporting best-available information, but there is no special reason to believe they are right. Like economists a historian is best used as a living catalogue who can point you to examples where an idea has been tried before.
Every simulator is flawed, some are useful.
There is also the fact that intermediate operation between floats are done in float precision and not double precision (as would be the case with C). It might be the behaviour one would expect but it can lead to serious degradations of a numerical computation.
I thought you meant the forum operator so I googled notdan. I didn't realise Krebs was such as asshole, I enjoy reading his work but definitely a bit of an asshole.
Fusion reactors will be much larger and more expensive than fission reactors. Yes, the fuel is potentially cheaper, but fuel is only a minor part of the cost of power from a fission reactor. The cost of the power plant and non fuel operating costs (like, replacing substantial radioactive components of a fusion reactor every few years due to neutron damage) will be much more important.

The usual mistake people make in thinking about fusion is to focus on fuel cost and assume, incorrectly, that fuel cost determines the cost of power. The equipment has to be financed and paid for and maintained, and the cost of doing that will dominate.
Exciting writeup! Looking forward to reading this later.
I played chess at a low level for about a year. I very quickly learned to despise the Fried Liver Attack. It's the cannon rush of the Chess world: very easy to execute while relatively difficult to defend against. There's a huge, complex world of chess strategy, but before you can get to that you have to learn like every Fried Liver variation because beginners will use it over and over.
I love Chicago, but its basically bankrupt. They can raise taxes all they want, but they won't be able to raise enough to cover the problems they've created.
I have mixed feelings about this because I've seen both parts of the same situation.

In certain situations, I've been working with a python interpreter on a RHEL machine where pip was not installed (and I was not allowed to install it as well as make other modification: the machine was owned by the client and I had to work with what I had available).

- having some basic functionality in the core libraries was a godsend because I could work with that, even though it was not "ergonomic"

- not being ergonomic, it was a "poor experience" (and certainly not optimized or anything nice to see).
Do most array structures have a pointer to last element? Or similarly useful do they track length?
Depends, do you consider IDLE part of the standard library? (it's separated in many distributions, but documented in the standard library documentation, so it's a bit mixed, but it's probably okay to not consider it part of the library, but just the standard distribution)
> A whole week off is seen as weird.

Hang on. So even if you have paid leave, is a yearly week or two's holiday really not usual in the US? You know to go spend a week hiking or skiing in the Rockies, or fortnight camping, or whatever is your thing.

Not being able to take a week or two straight to get away from civilisation would have me clawing the walls going stir crazy, and I'd probably find myself divorced. Quite apart from the practicality - a long weekend isn't going to work to visit Europe or anything remotely long haul. Even a weekend break taking in the Grand Canyon if you happen to be on the east coast barely works, it certainly isn't going to leave any time to chill and unwind.
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I agree with these 2 points especially Jerry being easy listening. His commentary on one minute lightning chess tourneys on lichess is phenomenal esp. when Dr. Carlsen is at large.
Uhm I think you misunderstood the problem. I already understand Unicode, and I can handle Unicode just fine as far as the facilities are there, in both Python 2 and Python 3 -- individually. The places where I have trouble are (1) where either or both languages do something nonsensical, (2) where the facilities just don't seem to be there (sys.argv?), (3) where there are bugs (try writing binary to stdout with IDLE open), or (4) where there seems no reasonable way to write code that behaves correctly in both languages without making your own little translation layer. Like as an example for #1, "a".encode('unicode_escape') == b'a' makes no sense. Why should escaping a string suddenly turn it into bytes? I never even specified an encoding for those bytes. And similarly why should "a".decode('unicode_escape') be an error? It makes perfect sense. What they did looked nice in theory (no implicit conversions between bytes and strings etc.) but IMHO they practically completely wrecked strings in Python 3.
I apologize (sort of) dang. I believe social and cultural change is far more important than the technological. Even SV is belatedly starting to realize this in the Trump era. Gaining a broader perspective, and more honest self-perspective, are critical to our progress as a society, as a species.

You might tell me that even if true, it's not what Hacker News is for. But people in technology are having an outsized impact on our culture, and many people question whether this impact is ultimately good. Where else should people in tech be exposed to thoughts outside the SV bubble?

Note that when I made the comments above, the ones I was responding to where at the top of the page. I felt compelled to counter.

I'm not arguing with you. I barely post on HN anymore, since it is clear such discourse isn't really welcome.
What a lovely comment to read. Thank you! Netlify has taken the pain of maintaining a server away.
Here is a previous HN thread on the subject : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6585828

I believe the main pain points still apply.
Whenever these kinds of things happen, it usually doesn't seem to stem from the engineers themselves, but has far more to do with the organizational culture above them in management. I think we especially feel this in software, where people outside of software development have no idea how complex and hard it is to build these big systems and what can go wrong, and have crazy expectations and sell things that aren't possible to other people who also have no idea about software development with crazy expectations. Engineers, no matter how conscientious, can only do so much in the face of business requirements that are often out of touch with reality, where deaths or other problems are often considered a footnote or just another business expense.
My recollection is that Apple did in fact ship a 64-bit HIToolbox library, but they didn't allow the general public to use it. I thought Adobe was one of the few people who were allowed to use it though, as a temporary measure until they rewrote Photoshop to stop using Carbon. I could be wrong though, that was a long time ago.
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Not in C and similar languages, but you already need to know the length for the bounds check.
We already do that, and those nuclear power plants (and other thermal plants) already have to shut down under certain climate conditions to avoid damaging the local ecosystem by overheating it. [1]

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2012-08-20-ct-met...
Though OS packaging may frequently obscure this because OS packagers break up the language distribution, Idle is part of the language distribution, so (unless you expand the distribution to include core packages outside of stdlib, as with Ruby’s gemification effort) it has to be built with stdlib alone. Tkinter, therefore, needs to be part of stdlib.
It's not at all obvious to me that the noise from the pressure levitation system of a hovertrain is louder than the noise from drag, which the hovertrain and maglev both share. Do you have a link?
Sure, but whoever set the trap obviously did so to control him, not to expose him, or they wouldn’t have waited so long. So there are more corrupt parties to expose.
There are few VPS services for $1/month, but if you pay slightly more, like 2-3 USD/month, or have patience to wait for a campaign, or are prepared to pay two years upfront, you will get a high quality vps service, and can expect the same uptime as the major cloud services. If you can afford another 1-3 dollars per month, get an additional VPS on another network, and set up round robin DNS for load balancing. Which for 2-6 USD per month gives you almost close to 100% uptime. And 1-2 TB monthly bandwidth. 1-2 vCPU cores and 256 MB memory is more then enough to handle a static web site.
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Because codebases are rarely even consistent amongst themselves. Getting good examples would be harder than just making the decisions yourself the way you like them. There aren't that many structures to consider.
A while back I read a text by DaVinci describing the process of drawing (if I can find it I will add a link) and his description seemed to me almost like he was describing how a ray tracer works.

This 3D sketch of his makes me think that if computers had existed, he could easily have been the first to have coded a ray tracer:

http://codex-atlanticus.it/assets//2000/000R-710.jpg
> This is both true and mind boggling to me.

We all come into this with a lot of context. However, America has I think something like the highest average and median wages outside the Nordics [0, 1]. And the Nordics are potentially a statistical aberration.

If somebody "gets" 2 weeks of paid time off, but at the end of the year their average salary is (50/52)% of someone who gets no PTO, are they really being paid for time off? It doesn't look paid to me.

The real benefit would be a culture where you can take unpaid time off then return to the same job later on. The per-hour pay is likely to correct quietly via ye olde market forces, and everyone enjoys the best of all worlds. High pay if they want it, time off if they want it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income
yeah exactly. The privileged already know that they can fail often and fail fast. The point of being vocal about it is to help the slightly less privileged also adopt that mentality (because, honestly, they'll probably be okay too), which theretofore was one of the unspoken ingredients of success for the privileged.
Imagine if the internet was owned by one company. Or email was owned by one company.

Instead we have a non profit set of standards which divide the internet into different layers. So you can have your ISPs, your web hosting providers, your websites etc. There is a healthy demarcation which prevents consolidating of power.

Maybe the way to breakup twitter/facebook etc is to create a set of protocols and divide them into layers.

For instance I should be able to register a username for tweeting like how you register a website name for DNS. Once registered you have a choice to store your tweets in any data hosting service.

Then a number of aggregate readers handle the front end user interface.

Each reader can have its own content filter and discovery algorithms. So even if your content is found offensive in one reader, you can just switch to another. If one is really addictive in a negative way, switch to a less intrusive useful version.
+100

> As an aside, why doesn’t the Python standard library extend/replace features with code from successful packages like Requests?

It is possible (ie. asyncio was separate package). It is slow process though.
It is unusual that there is no mention here of the theory that the sound was actually caused by crickets: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/sound-ha...
I switched because I've done a lot of WordPress development over the years and I wanted to learn something else. Liking it better is because it's a far simpler set-up for me: no database, write in the terminal, don't have to worry about comments or malicious log-in attempts. WordPress is great, don't get me wrong, but using the same platform became boring for me.
Both PPC->x86 and x86->x86_64 had (temporary) migration paths. The x86->x86_64 path was pretty easy; x86 apps were still supported for a rather long time. The PPC->x86 migration path wasn't as clean, but they did ship Rosetta for a couple of years before ditching it.

If they do Intel->ARM they'll need some sort of migration strategy. Would that involve a Rosetta 2.0?
Probably because it does not fit the narrative of the author.
thank you. Skimming through this now and seeing how clearly it maps to recent conversations we've had that have turned into customers vs conversations we thought would and never did
Ha, didn't get that right away, thank you ;)
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My guess would be that it's easier to get tech support for windows than linux.
I bought an international edition of a text in college because it was priced significantly cheaper. And indeed, it had all the same problems, but they had been re-arranged, so when the professor assigned problems "5-15", I needed to know the mapping from the US 5-15 to the international version's numbers. Which, by quickly thumbing through another student's copy, I could generate pretty rapidly, but boy was that annoying. (I might have reconsidered purchasing the international edition had this been disclosed at the time of sale…)
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