skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile, there are many other languages which are not only performant, but which are rapidly encroaching on Python's historically unique(ish) "easiness"

What are those languages? I may have a blindspot, but the languages that get enough buzz for me to notice are either not competing with Python in important dimensions (e.g. Rust) or have a narrower focus (e.g. Julia). Elixir maybe? JavaScript and its derivatives? But these lack the scientific programming ecosystem that's helped drive Python recently.

I have no doubt that languages exist that might fit the bill of being both as easy as and more performant than Python -- there are a lot of languages out there. But I'm unaware of any whose mindshare has been sufficiently growing that it threatens Python in the mid-term.

If I'm off base please let me know. I'd love to find a viable competitor to Python that's strictly better than it.
Very typical for debug builds though. It's really surprising how big the difference is! Especially on slow hardware. The last app I tested went from almost unusable sluggish to buttery smooth when changing from debug to profile/release mode.
I would say there's a small minority of our changes that we can upstream, and eventually we'd like to upstream them. For the rest, I would say the different set of priorities for the two projects means they probably will stay separate:

- In the blog post I linked to an issue of someone trying to upstream a quickening implementation and meeting resistance due to the added complexity

- CPython prefers portability over performance, and we added a number of big build dependencies that may not work on all the platforms that CPython supports, though from our perspective it works on all the important ones

- CPython has included a number of performance-degrading features over the years and we plan to start cutting out some that are only used for debugging but still hurt release mode. I don't know for sure but I would expect resistance to backing out those changes.

There are more, but the general idea is that the two projects will make different tradeoffs. Maybe there is a world where the code all lives in the same repository but is gated between different behaviors, but the CPython maintainers have already rejected a proposal like that.
WRT performance ceiling, I'm mostly talking about things like Pandas which eagerly evaluate and which aren't amenable to a parallel execution model (multiple threads operating on the same data frame with minimal contention).

WRT poor APIs, I'm talking about things like matplotlib or pandas or etc that take a whole slew of arguments and try to guess the caller's intent by inspecting the types of the arguments. The referent isn't "some other scientific computing API" (although I'm sure there are some sane scientific computing APIs), but rather "other APIs in general" since there's nothing inherent to any particular domain that demands this kind of 'magical' API.

WRT 'hardly anyone is CPU bound'--the context is numeric computing; what are people bound by if not CPU? I've seen several projects where web endpoints were timing out while grinding in Pandas, largely because there weren't good options for taking advantage of multiple processors. Based on prototypes I did, I'm confident that other languages could serve those requests in single-digit seconds if not sub-second.
I haven't read Singer's books, though I've heard him speak in a variety of contexts. He hasn't yet completely convinced me to give up all animal products, but I now live in an uncomfortable cognitive dissonance of trying to reduce harm while knowingly causing it.
Scale PyTorch models to out-of-memory CSV datasets in cloud object storage
hmm sadly i have to agree with you, but there is hope
Features drive adoption. I might be more inclined to believe in Wayland if other secured platforms adopted similar constraints. Unfortunately for Wayland, other comparable platforms have consistently found security-conscious solutions that don't compromise on added value.
Tesla Rolls Out ‘Full Self-Driving’ Beta; Critics Apply the Brakes
> 8chan hosting is a legitimate liability concern.

Some plausible excuse can always be found.

> This is not an apples to apples comparison of businesses operating in good faith with reasonable policies and practices.

Humans are incredible capable at "reasoning" (framing, rationalizing) things to any desired perspective or conclusion.

> "If someone is able to shut down our unabashed cesspool, eventually they're going to start coming for sites that aren't cesspools!"

Those are you words, not the words someone else has said in this thread.

You did say this though:

> There are plenty of alternative platforms, which conservatives are constantly failing to lure anyone to.

The person who replied to this assertion noted some examples of such alternative platforms being interfered with - and of course, a "reasonable" reason can typically be manufactured (imagined) within seconds.

And all of this does not take into consideration that visibility of speech largely varies per platform. No, you do not have a "right" to be on a platform, but that is orthogonal to the question of whether the broadcast of certain ideas is being forcefully limited by the employees or executives of large platforms (completely within their current rights).
The problem is:

1.) Public transportation in the US is at best, tolerable. Usually far worse. Not just in terms of coverage and utility, but in terms of cleanliness and safety. People use it because they have no other choice that is affordable. Get it to a level of quality like Tokyo or Seoul and more people would use it because they actually like it. I doubt that will happen anytime soon due to cultural issues, unless people are willing to tolerate draconian levels of enforcement.

2.) Bicycles are awesome, but you have to contend with precipitation, sweat, and theft. E-bikes help somewhat with the sweat, but then you have "traditionalists" that are trying to fight tooth and nail to ban them, and they are even more inviting theft targets. And you can still work up quite a sweat on an e-bike. Rain is still a problem.

3.) Living close to city centers is abominably expensive. People can drive in, or take public transportation in. But then go back to #1 in regards to public transportation.
Stop Complaining
Latency is likely from the webhost side. I've seen expensive managed WP hosts that still respond slowly because they know the average customer won't blame them, but rather their own internet connection.

I work with a large ecommerce client that uses WP and our TTFB on an extremely dynamic page with user specific products and hitting external micro-services is still about 1 second. WordPress unfortunately makes it really easy to become very slow unless you diligently stay on top of things.
The solution to that is not to stick your head into sand, it's to merge the desired changes.
I havn't looked at the release, but in my experience, this is due to negative forward guidance.
It's surprising when people casually admit to dishonest behaviour as if it's no big deal.
wat? that is very interesting and incredibly non obvious.
Yeah, it's a class conflict and class/wealth is correlated with age. Bernie (who is old last I checked) being one of the biggest supporters gives the lie to this.
Often this is done in the name of "testability" by the the "(unit) test everything" zealots. I've met some of them who haven't seen a function they wouldn'tsplit up to test different branches or what have you independently. The resulting code is frequently a nightmare of function aliases, mocks and other problematic artifices.
Why do you think that’s fair? Why should you be expected to subsidize a co-worker who does the same thing as you but demands to live in a super expensive city?

Would you think it’s fair if you lived in the same city but your company paid more money to people with more expensive houses?
Hey - We unfortunately didn't present at last year's YC hackathaon. Maybe it was a different team, thinking about a similar / the same idea?

Thanks so much for the wishes! Would love to hear more about the social-film camera idea / if you guys are still working on it. No pressure at all, but feel free to email us at contact@heyartifact.com. Can def set up time to chat!
Real-time stream visualization of Bitcoin transactions (mempool)
Agree. But one thing to note is that many of the communication tools and features built into tools like figma or Adobe xd are not just for communication among designers but communication between designers and developers and even other stakeholders like clients and project managers.
And on the other side there is Ionic which is has no real performance issues (contrary to flutter), has the biggest ecosystem (the web) and is elegant, expressive, simple ->
The thousands of powerful web APIs, Angular and typescript
https://thenationalpulse.com/exclusive/biden-recording-spy-c...
They also seem to "dare" to disagree with major Linux distribution direction so perhaps it's not the responders opinion that's in the minority?

I mean, this really sounds very similar to systemd and pulse audio type gnashing of teeth where the new solutions added plenty of widely required features while compromising on niche use cases which had other workarounds.
That's called temporal coupling, where some code only works if some previous code set some variable earlier in time. And it's a sign that you're building an implicit state machine.
Microsoft has repeatedly announced strict changes to driver signing policy while not actually enforcing them. Like last time I checked, their docs still claim that the HLK tests are required for drivers on Windows Server 2019, but in practice attestation signing works fine.

I hope that will also be the case here.
The nag border is only visible with the desktop showing, it's not a big deal at all.
Yet another reason why centralized code signing is anti-user and a net negative. You should be able to easily install anything you want on your computer.
For a web server, it just has to take a URL and some headers arriving from the network card, and reply with some HTML bytes. All the networking of billions of nodes is handled elsewhere.
If you can't name something, that makes it a "false dichotomy"?
If you consider “safety” requiring more human input. Tesla is aiming for the car/computer to be safer than the driver.
https://www.yourstake.org/politics/report/VTXVX shows $0 for everything, but points the needle various degrees of left and right in the different tabs, and claims "Employees in your fund are Mostly Democratic".
People with a weak immune system should die and that's OK. It's called NATURAL SELECTION.
Emojis increase social media engagement
Add Covid-19 to the list, lot of people at home. Another aspect is VR which needs as much hardware as you can give it.
Ignoring the larger context, but just technologically, RAGEMASTER sounds freakin' sweet. Like that's actually amazing.
Look at the crypto trader's tax return and its 99 pages of forms and 999 pages of trade history. The government demands it!
Huh, I was wondering why Unladen Swallow faded rapidly since 2009 and why Python seems secondary at Google compared to Java and Go.

Silence and distance seems to be a common echo of failed projects.
GDPR also apply to websites that process personal data to "monitor behaviour" irrespective of whether they target or do business with EU residents as long as the person being monitored is within the EU. So your claim is also incorrect...
Well, I expect them to ship an ARM GPU with every Mac Pro, but in addition to that, also a beefy external GPU. The OS would switch between them based on the workload, live they've done before.
Isn't this basically what dreams are?

You have self-awareness and you experience what it's like to be "you", but your brain is essentially free-wheeling its own reality because it's disconnected from all stimuli.

If so, black-box consciousness seems like a harmless, if not completely pointless, curiosity.
Off topic but regarding language design, what are some pros about swift that Kotlin hasn't?
> I don't know what you are talking about

New details emerge about forced Windows 10 upgrade -- and how to block it https://www.computerworld.com/article/3029613/new-details-em...

Microsoft’s latest trick: Clicking ‘X’ to dismiss Windows 10 upgrade doesn’t stop install https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/229040-microsofts-latest...

Microsoft accused of Windows 10 upgrade 'nasty trick' https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36367221
This focuses on the party preference in donations.
While that's valuable to know, I'd also be interested in seeing some measure of how total donations compare to market cap or revenue or some indicator of size. I.e. which companies are maybe lobbying too much?
I dont think this is a given. Not a perfect source, but man this was depressing

https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=422
Lower air quality in some Chinese cities points to iPhone 12 production surge
Binance also offers a similar card:

https://www.binance.com/en/cards

Their related FAQ articles:

https://www.binance.com/en/support/faq/c-5?navId=53#/5/53
Leading YouTube usage reasons according to users in the United States
No, not when it comes to TC. L5 TC when I left Google was just under $500k once stock and target bonus were counted (for new stock grants not counting appreciation). Zurich TC was like $250-300k USD for L5s in my same group.
this is the most hilarious thing i've seen on HN and your comment made me roflmao more
In both the “capabilities” and “ease of use” section. Cadillac wins all the others because it has a camera watching your eyes.
Project Veritas? This Project Veritas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCgTvFPcv0E
Tried to like TTS, but with nontechnical friends learning the basic functions and interactions (on top of learning the board game) made it a painful experience.
Show HN: Voice Controlled Robot
Windows doesn't require a list of unspecified kernel flags to get a UI, it just gets one.
Looks great. Thanks.
Also China would probably move heaven and earth if necessary to get things done. Quickly. Maybe not so perfectly safely though.

In the US, getting approval to construct a 10'x10' dog park requires moving heaven and earth to get permits signed off to even start planning, and then come the lawsuits.
There's no NV license on this. Note however that the carrier board is non-production specification and its warranty applies to development use only.
So for some reason they can't just use Android as the base OS /Display Manager and use Flutter for Android so now they have to use X11 or Wayland? They may have their reasons but I skimmed over the PDF and it doesn't address why.
Are there any examples of where the issues that fall under network neutrality have resulted in unavoidable censorship (higher charges would not apply, since the option to pay higher fees does exist, regardless of whether it is "fair" or not).
I think we should acknowledge many people have grandmas who build desktop operating systems, so this is perhaps a source of misunderstanding :b

What kind of global hotkeys are we talking about that casual everyday users need, as opposed to people who build their own desktop OS from parts?

We all tried the universal frictionless global hotkeys thing. It was a really bad idea for a general audience [1]. That's why we have MPRIS for global media player controls (Firefox supports it now, which is awesome!), and stuff like the keyboard shortcut inhibit protocol for VMs and the like. It's unfortunate for the building an OS from parts thing, but unlike cars and smartphones, at least it is still all open source.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging
Spend fiat, denominated in crypto.
The taxable event occurs because the IRS sees crypto as property rather than a currency. Let's say you buy $100 worth of Bitcoin in the past. Now the value of your coins is $120.

If you decide to send $5 worth of bitcoin as payment for something, they consider that a taxable event. You sold X amount of bitcoin, which appreciated 20% value from when you bought it. That X amount was worth $4, now it is worth $5, so you would owe a tiny amount in capital gains tax on $1 you gained.

Edit: This exact same scenario happens for Foreign Exchange, but the government excludes most transactions under a certain amount because it's too complicated for travelers. Also, the rate of USD to EURO doesn't fluctuate as wildly as crypto can, so the gains are minimal anyways.
Dorsey (and others) repeatedly presented Twitter as neutral and effective at keeping in line with their polices and the law. Taking away the context of mediation for political reasoning (IE because it works against Biden), Twitters cause for action was breaking the rules on hacked data. That in of itself was proven to be false. As was stated by both Dorsey and Zuckerberg, they had and have no evidence of Russian Dis-information or that the data is hacked or illegally obtained. They also acknowledge there is no evidence that the allegations were false. There were no Fact checking procedures leveraged. In the case of Dorsey, he then said they were wrong and that they have since removed the block for sharing of that information. Which as stated previously, was false, and would amount to lying under oath.

To prove partisan bias and hypocrisy, the follow up question of why didn't you block or ban discussion or distribution of Private Tax returns (which is a federal offense) was important. Their responses and handling show that they do not treat data equally, the do not treat context equally, and have and will likely continue to apply selective biases.

Additionally, Dorsey was asked why Trump was censored or labeled as non factual over 65 times, when no other leader had been was intersting as well. His response on why they wouldn't block the Ayatollah and others was that they had a duty to distribute their messages freely, yet when faced with clear evidence that they broke Twitter rules, he had no response. Further, when it was pointed out that Twitter isn't even available in those countries, he had no statement either.

You can argue both sides, and thats fine. Break it down to the single argument here though and it is clear, there is a bias amongst these firms.

Now the argument is what should be done and what does that impact.

You don't have to like it, but the reality is this sets a dangerous precident that needs to be addressed.

All is fine with the above until it impacts the other side. Then all of us end up with excessive rules and controls that ruins it for all of us. The argument here is simply apply the rules equally. They're choosing not to do that. Twitter, Facebook, and others ultimately made their choices, now they have to explain and defend.
> you could transfer liability to a government entity

That sounds like a good idea. Legislate a fixed payout schedule and manage it centrally. Society in general benefits and so it makes sense that society in general should be responsible for the harms.
Well the company is based in Raamsdonksveer which is in Brabant but, if my wiki-walking didn't mislead me, used to be part of Holland until fairly recently - 1815 or so. Could be good enough to go with "Vliegende Hollander" on historical grounds :)
Building a Functional Email Server
New Global Data on Political Parties: V-Party
Who would have thought the ear icon mutes the sound.
Masks imposes such a hurdle on spreading that, even in the (incredible improbable) event that some virus strain gained a 20% more effectivity of transmission through masks, the mask itself would be restricting 99.99% of the spreading. Overall it means that in place of 1 transmission each 10,000 contacts with mask you'll have maybe 2-3 transmissions of this super-virus even with masks, but 5,000 transmissions without masks.
The interests opposed to actual change are the oil+coal industry most obviously, but also the rich more generally who are opposed to the redistribution which is necessary to make real climate action politically viable. (We will need to reduce certain forms of carbon-intensive production, and without wealth redistribution to compensate for that, the resulting society will be unstable.)

Unfortunately we can't wait for the coal industry or the rich to die, they reproduce themselves.
Estimating the Impact of Training Data with Reinforcement Learning
What’s misleading about it? A system that is inherently designed to deal with the unknown, and not rely on hardcoded world info is bound to be much better. And safer.
WWW, RSS, email are not platforms. They're protocols/services that many platforms are built on. That's a really weird comparison to try to draw between them and Twitter/Facebook.
Do you mean Google's support will likely not continue or that the project will not continue if Google pulls its support.
I had the same feeling, like there are not enough people to bounce ideas off of. I am hesitant to reach out to people in my inner circle (old friends/family) because they are just not developing themselves the way that I want to, or are not pursuing fields that I am interested in.

Do you have a specific topic in mind? I made a group called The Polymath Club (thepolymathclub.com) to collaborate on world problems/ ideas. The purpose of building the group was to get input from many smart people in cross-discipline fields. We currently have 8 members. You are more than welcome to join our meetings, you can even ask this very question you posed and we can discuss :)

Cheers! And best of luck in case we don’t get to talk later :)

-Jane
You'll want tensor cores, so I would stick to the 2000 or 3000-series Nvidia cards. Not to mention the headaches of using AMD cards with any ML framework.
Yes? RHEL 6 uses kernel 2.6 and RHEL 7 uses kernel 3.10. Both are actively maintained and supported.
It's easier to forget about it and wait for them to fine you. Unless you're buying lambos, it probably won't happen.
I don't think so:

* It seems there was not a single commit in the past ~6 months which by itself is already a deal breaker.

* Documentation is lackluster

* You need to use Keras, I use PyTorch. This is not a deal breaker, but a significant annoyance.

* Major features are still lacking. E.g. No support for quantization (afaik), which for me is fundamental.

* Most importantly there seem to be no major community around it.

It feels a bit bad to say that, because clearly a lot of work went into this project, and some people have to start adopting it to drive the momentum, but from an egoistical point of view, I just don't have the courage to deal with all the mess that comes with introducing an experimental layer in my workflow. Especially in ML where stuff can still appear to "work" (as in, not crashing) despite major bugs in the underlying code, leading to days or week of lost work before realizing where the issue is.
Google did not hire Rob Pike with Go in mind. Go did not even come around as an idea until Pike had worked at Google for a while. [1]

Don't forget Rob Pike created Sawzall at Google first (2005). [2]

[1] https://golang.org/doc/faq#history
[2] https://research.google/pubs/pub61/
> and I think by that comparison, Flutter wins hands down.

I'd be interested to hear your experience about why that is.
In my experience, it's almost never actually about how much time but how you spend that time. TV doesn't count, doing dishes doesn't count... Walks, talking, mutual hobbies do.
They have more powerful versions if you are willing to pay more than the $60 https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-agx-xavier-deve...