skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, we may have instead found evidence of a new abiotic form of phosphine synthesis— I expect scientists will be working hard to propose non-biological processes that could explain these results. I also expect some new Venus probes real soon now.

This definitely could be the result of an unknown abiotic process. It also definitely could be evidence of life.

Some papers to check out:

- https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05224

- https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2017.1783

For 3 billion years, ending about 750 million years ago, Venus was likely hospitable, leaving the tantalizing possibility that we’ve detected the last vestiges of an ancient ecosystem.

Self-promotion: we'll cover this in-depth in Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com) this week.
Given that NVidia can already license designs from ARM and given that companies will trust ARM less in rival NVidia's hands then in a neutral party it looks like the value of ARM is going to go way down after the sale, effectively lighting a giant pile of millions of dollars of economic value on fire. But the literature says that that's actually pretty typical of how mergers and acquisitions end up playing out. In general they're tributes to the CEO's ego that impoverish shareholders, though there are exceptions. I can't help but think that NVidia is paying $40B for a company that'll be worth $15B to them but would be worth $30B on the open market.
A variation of this was posted above and I want to repeat: not always a great idea as it is easy to end up not having deep engagement with other business functions. It becomes heavily dependent on finding the right team.

Good options for maximizing your network 1) stay with a Faang and reach out to people internally - many of the best non tech people are inside Amazon, FB etc 2) consider consulting that blends you with larger teams or different functions, either with a company or freelancing.
You should wrap native file dialogs. Text input direction isn't that big of a deal if your rendering supports it. Tree views are somewhat tricky but not that much harder than list views.
If we could put a nuclear reactor in space large enough for this to be useful, we could use the reactor to boil water and get vastly more thrust. Or run an ion drive and get more thrust. Or just let the fission fragments out the back and get more thrust.

What this would be useful for is (by no coincidence) also the exact reason why it is considered crank science: you could use it to build a perpetual motion machine because it violates conservation of energy/momentum laws.
OK but the latest Fortran specification and compilers explicitly support all Fortran77 code and a really large amount of F66 as well.

Will there be Python 3.8 interpreters in 2100? F77 will still compile and run better than it did in the 1980s.
Always reading the dialog boxes is usually a very good idea, but I've also seen that strategy backfire.

Specifically, I was once trying to help a CS professor register a new domain name. This was at some low-cost registrar and there were 6 pages of upsells on the way to checkout. For whatever reason, he was definitely taking his time reading the entire pitch, and eventually I had to step in and click 'next' several times. "No, you don't need a new virus scanner as part of your domain name purchase. No you don't need a company to submit your new domain name to search engines. No you don't need SEO services. ..."
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> just have a look at Quake Done Quick and its sequels

For anyone else who was intrigued, I found this was a good overview of what's been going on in Quake speedrun community: https://youtu.be/43d8fICz6gM
At least Python did it on a major version release, when breaks are supposed to happen, not a minor version release.
While I can’t help with recommendations for all of your interests, for climbing I recommend Magnus Midtbo, Adam Ondra, and Daniel woods and co “mellow” channels. Usually from those three I can find high quality climbing content via recommendations.
Does anyone know how this compares to the RapidsAI project called BlazingSql?
I can't tell if the joke is deliberate.
$10m seems … relatively cheap for anything in space?
I am soo glad, I pushed back on python migration in my team until 3.6 was released. We were running large amount of django code base in 2.X and 3.6 was the only version which had some reasonable improvements to upgrade to. I sincerely hope the python community has learnt it lesson and wont break backwards compatibility in 4.X releases.
We deployed a new version. Your problem you should be fixed.

https://www.goopensource.dev/companies/scala
If you were to launch it all from Earth it would be about 100 tons of cargo for every million kg of methane.

A million tons a year to orbit (10,000 launches) equates to 600 billion cubic feet of methane, or about 2% of total US annual production.

But the actual plan would involve manufacturing the “mirrors” from moondust and propelling them to L1 using railguns powered by lunar solar panels. So you don’t need nearly so much methane.
I am involved in a lot of nodejs communities here in EUW and no one is even talking about deno recently.

In my twitter feed the only ones talking about it are those who are asking themselves why it was so over-hyped

The adoption is basically nil.
> The major reason that proprietary software is so prominent in gov is corruption.

I'd like to see more open source software in government, but the main reason we select proprietary solutions where I work is support. If more open source tools had support staff, maintenance agreements, etc. more government organizations (and businesses) would consider them viable. I may be fairly code-literate IT, but I don't understand a given product as well as the support staff from the company that made it.
for the arm unit itself, i agree. but what about the threat that arm poses to the rest of their business?

"acquisitions diminish value of thing being acquired" may generally be true but "acquisitions can be a way to stave off a threat" i believe may also be true, though to your larger point this may lead to less value in the market overall.
is the evolution of humanity an oscillation around 1-2 std dev ?
I have not undetaken a serious analysis of AresDB; and on their part, Uber has not - to my knowledge - published any in-depth design description or benchmark results. I definitely see some key useful concepts mentioned in that blog post, but there are others which I don't really see presented (or that are associated with what's described as future work).

I realize it's FOSS, but - I can't just go read their sources.

My intuition says that they're probably doing a decent-but-not-optimal job for their own use-case and are not planning on developing it into something more general. Specifically, the fact that they only accept their own query language is fishy.

I also note that the public repository on GitHub has not been updated for about half a year.

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Caveat: Ares might be brilliantly designed and implemented, I can't really fault them for anything with any certainty. Just speculating here.
How is the test of this not just to put one in space and see if it moves in a controlled manner?
I see batteries not getting much cheaper at all, and likely hitting some plateau in cost reductions. It wouldn't surprise me if it is followed by cost increases as demands for sustainable production and recyclability increase.

Hydrogen is not just cheaper than batteries, but fundamentally cheaper in a way that batteries can never match. For instance, underground storage is at the cents per kWh of storage. So batteries can never get there. In 20 years, I suspect FCEVs will have taken over, with BEVs mostly abandoned as being too expensive to justify their existence in most circumstances.
No, they should have made the breaking changes more slowly, piece by piece, with a couple minor versions depreciation cycle. Python 3 was too many changes simultaneously. But it also coincided with dramatic changes in the size and variety of the programming community. It was hard to anticipate the troubles, of course easy in hindsight.
Now draw the rest of the owl!

A key point of a shared UI toolkit is that users can bring their knowledge from one app to another. A standard Cocoa table view or text view has tons of advanced behaviors: type select, keyboard shortcuts, etc. It's worth the user's time to learn these because they work in every app.

But apps where these don't work feel discordant and frustrating.
Awesome. They seem like a good choice, only a little lower capacity than alkaline and seem to hold capacity well. Much better than those old NiCd batteries.

The main downside is that the NiMH chemistry is 1.2V instead of 1.5V like alkaline. Same kind of issue as with the older NiCd batteries where they just didn't seem to put out as much juice. They just have a lower voltage.

Personally I'm not really sure how to do that best. Ideally you'd design electronics to run on a lower voltage to start with and always use rechargeable batteries but if they were going to do that you'd figure there'd just be a Li-Ion battery in there already. Must be primarily for cases where energy density or weight is the only consideration and waste is a very secondary concern.

My roomate used to work at A123 and one of his jobs was literally to drive nails through their lithium batteries to make sure they wouldn't explode. I think it's just a natural human drive to do things like throw batteries into a fire or drive nails through them or put them in a blender. We're a very strange species.
It's also "Go one point ten" and "Go one point fifteen". That's a minor version update. Backwards compatibility is common between minor version updates - in fact, it's part of a major version update that backwards compatibility breaks.
Presumably by auditing all the prime brokers.
"What did the researchers find?

Simply put, a gas that shouldn’t be there, and on Earth is considered a conclusive biosignature: phosphine, a very stinky gas. As far as scientists know, there are only two ways to produce it, either artificially in a lab, or by certain kinds of microbes that live in oxygen-free environments. Since it is rather unlikely there any alien labs on Venus, that leaves microbes."

Or it reveals, that we still don't really know what is going on on venus, which chaotic atmosphere and vulcanic activity might very well result in the specific "lab conditions" to create phosphine.

So, it is a very interesting find, worth investigating, but I just for the existence of a gas, I would not shout "proof of alien life", yet.
No it's clear that you have not read the case at all. The Pystar case is not an antitrust case, it's a copyright infringement case.

Antitrust cases are filed by the government, not other private parties.
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Parental leave is for taking care of your baby.
You'll be lucky if you manage to do anything else during the first month.
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Code is a liability. Teams which can encapsulate complexity for others are an asset.
You sure he didn't get out? Have you paid attention to the news since 2001?
I've heard people at the wafer manufacturing facilities in South Portland, Maine refer to that little cluster as "Silicon Tundra" but I don't think anybody from outside there calls them that.
It's not that nobody knew it's going to be EOL-ed, but I haven't met anyone taking it seriously. I've only seen a circular logic of "Python 2 is just fine, and nobody uses Python 3, so no rush". I've seen companies started and intentionally built on Python 2 after the original EOL deadline.

It baffles my mind, because I've lived through PHP 4→5 switch. It was a major breaking language change that affected every object assignment. It felt like it was dragging on forever, but in retrospect, compared to Python, that was a quick and successful upgrade.
It helps that UTF-8 was a 1992 design choice... made by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson!
The job market is exceptionally tight right now, so don't take it personally. I doubt anybody is giving good answers to stupid questions.

The quizzes and puzzles style of interviewing is terrible. Don't stress about it. Just be yourself. A good answer to most questions is, "I'd look on stack overflow and some blog posts to see what other people are doing." If they don't like it then you probably wouldn't enjoy working there anyway.
I don't remember the details, it's been nearly 30 years, but ... I had to fix Fortran-II (1960 or so) programs so that the fortran-77 compiler (on the same IBM VM/CMS 390 system) would agree to compile them. The changes weren't big, but they were needed. (I didn't write the original - I was just the maintainer at the time)

I also needed to change a lot of things porting the same program a few years later to an IRIX based machine whose name I don't remember right now (Octane, perhaps?). And that was a well behaved program that did not try to change the value of 4.

Python 0.9.1 programs (Earliest I used) required much fewer changes to run on 2.7 -- partly because I never used stuff like field access control (which was luckily dropped from the language). Python 3 requires a few more changes, but I suspect I can still compile Python 0.9.1 on modern hardware and run the original code.
GPUs are highly specialized CPUs, especially good at some types of number crunching. In analytics workloads, they are used to run queries that can benefit from that specialization. This is not for your typical GPU graphics based use (games/graphics). Has nothing to do with what you see on the screen/frame rate.
There are entities out there with support contracts that stipulate Python 2 support for a while. Red Hat is one such entity[1].

[1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4455511
Not "by desiring to become a good person", though - instead, "those who love God", which isn't exactly the same thing.
What are you trying to say? You come over as being threatened by either Deno or parent comment or both. What are your thoughts on Deno then, besides that people around you are not talking about it?
You can understand the customer backwards and forwards, but I think you still need a business person who both knows how to court funding, and is willing to spend all their time doing that.

One example, from my past, abandoned self-funded startup: my co-founder (customer domain expert) and I (all-in-one engineering) didn't want to be the ones courting VC, but we were also too slow to seek out a startup business person. For maybe two reasons:

1. We had a couple outside-the-box approaches, which would only really resonate with users because we weren't doing something in the way every other CEO in that space did it.

2. We were busy, and didn't know offhand where to look for the kind of CEO we needed -- who we'd trust to embrace the approach, not twist it before launch, nor (ethically worse) bait&switch our users afterwards.

Maybe some kind of incubator would've helped us launch and get far enough for the right CEO to come to us. But we didn't have time to jump through the hoops of something like YC, for a small chance at a small amount of funding. And the process still seems oriented towards founders who want to be doing all the business stuff.

PG might've sought to mold technical founders into business people -- but some technical people already have some idea what business is about, and know they'd rather someone else (trustworthy!) do the business parts they don't want to do much of.
People shouldn't be allowed to develop on devices they can't afford?
We have line of business code (not python) that still runs in production that was written over 20 years ago.

Hell Larges parts of Windows is still code that is decades old...

This "well you had plenty of time" shows just how much many modern / web developers do not understand Enterprise code, code that goes into manufacturing or other long running processes where "new" machines are 15 years old
I use it every time I am going somewhere new. Where is there parking? Am I turning left or right to get there? Is there a protected left turn? How busy does the street look... is there street parking, or a parking lot?

Maybe this isn't as important outside big cities, but I like to have a plan of what I am going to do before I get somewhere. Otherwise, I might end up on the wrong side of the street without the ability to turn left, or I will be stuck in the wrong lane without a chance to crossover traffic by the time I see the turn in spot. In the city I am in, this means circling around and probably adding 15-20 minutes to the arrival time.
I've thought this before as well.

Doesn't seem like there's a solution.

If you think about it, human beings corrupt any system they're in.
Nvidia isn't known for being cheap, i wonder if apple will back out of going to arm now?
Kind of relevant to the topic, but I am unable to find a technical co-founder to work with me on my pet project that might or might not take off. I am a software developer but it is a two man job, because I lack knowledge on mobile department.

Any ideas?
Yep I learned the skills of how to take better care of my children! It improved my bond with them massively. Use the leave for that. It's what it's for. If you waste it 'learning' you won't get it back.
I worked in Kenya in 2000 for few years, & we used to go to a hotel in posh area of Nairobi for weekend getaways, on some weekends, for pool, food & relaxing. In 2015 I tried to look up Maps and Street View to see the hotel. All I remembered was that it was in a corner of a small roundabout, it had a pool in half arch & square joined, had a grass field & the entrances from street. Did not remember the street name, just the neighborhood name.

I remember myself sweeping the Maps Satellite to find the pool, field in 2015 & many times after that, but no luck.

Just yesterday I scanned the whole neighborhood, about 10kmx5km for pool torquoise spots in Satellite view, found my pool in 5 minutes, & then spent next 20 minutes walking around virtually in Street View as well as internal panoroma shots, was amazing to revisit while on being the poo seat. Also looked at various roads approaching to it, where we used to drive.

Of course I starred the place in my list for future.
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Yeah, J.T. had okay food but there's not much going on, almost everyone I went to highschool with is still there doing min wage jobs at one of the fast food places or few stores that Walmart hasn't put out of business. Also, doesn't apply to everyone (obviously) but my experience was probably quite different because I'm part black - select experiences include being called N*gger while walking around town repeatedly, almost being run off the road by a guy with a confederate flag covering the back window of his truck, and having rocks thrown at me by schoolmates. To be clear, I'm not one of those people who care that much about "microagressions" and think I generally have pretty thick skin, but there were some situations where I felt physically unsafe because of my skin color. Also, if you have kids, they are not going to get a good education. Graduation rates were awful, I personally knew 2-3 kids in my class who committed suicide... Beautiful place from the outside and nice views with lots of space, tough place to live in reality.
I would love to have a business co-founder! I'm a solid dev, worked for many years at a FAANG company, and MVP is done. Feel free to reach out (email in profile).
Sure, but it could become a big problem for one street or neighborhood without becoming a big enough problem for google to care.
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You can mimic native behaviors. But these are different between say browser and native cocoa apps anyway.
I feel the same. An app shouldn’t be too complicated especially if you used different similar apps in the past and can sense the complication is unnecessary. Why spend energy and effort on something that is stupidly designed and which would probably be a one time use anyway?
What political agendas have you had a problem with in other projects?
Oh right, keep safe then! Hope the situation gets better soon.
Who knew this comment would bring out all the closet racists of HN. I have learned much from the sane comments though.
It depends. How does Cocoa handle arthritic users?

It's not baby with the bathwater, the second you want something cross platform, your choices are electron or qt? Neither is that great of an option.
I'm getting a ´name not resolved´ error on the article link. Here's a mirror:

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Get it classified as a military installation.
Why would you worry about that for Python? The community learned their lesson. I'd worry more about other language maintainers who haven't had the learning experience.
I don't see why you are arguing with me here. How is my argument affected by these claims?

Let me try putting it in a way that is (hopefully) freer from legal nitpicking: It's possible to create a system where consenting adults can engage in whatever consensual activities they wish, even when (gasp) money changes hands between them, and still not legalize objectively evil behavior like slavery, negligent homicide, etc. Further, I'd argue we don't even to make new laws to do it, though this part seems to be surprisingly controversial.
What's the confidence level that the detection of phosphine is not some sort of false positive? I read the majority of the google cache and that aspect seemed to be glossed over.
I agree with that. I was heavily involved on the other thread someone linked to about Java's checked exceptions. Until that thread, I thought I was the only one who didn't accept that they were a mistake.
On a similar note, both Java and C# made an early and mostly incorrect decision to support utf-16 in the native string and char types. This choice also made some programmers to believe that every unicode character fits in one char, causing bugs, etc.

Yet, I have not seen a rush to "fix" any of them the Python way.
"leaving the tantalizing possibility that we’ve detected the last vestiges of an ancient ecosystem."

According to the paper in your first link [0], PH3 gets destroyed by ultraviolet light-related chemistry, and so has a short lifetime in planetary atmospheres (section 2.3 on page 7, though that's specific to Earth's atmosphere). I assume this means if they've detected phosphine, there must be an ongoing process generating or replenishing it.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05224
It was supported for a while but just ended up
being more free bits for fingerprinting, Firefox spoofs it if resistFingerPrinting is on for example.
Finding little evidence of learning transfer feels like a massive blow to many methodologies.

Of course, I think I'm just bemoaning that my industry seems so opposed to situational training.