skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hum... The sea color changes a lot depending on the sky condition. In overcast days it's way more likely that it will be green than blue.

(And, of course, after it rains there is a good chance the water will actually be green, but it's a different timing and a different shade of green.)
> HN is one of the few places you can talk smack about a companies tooling and have the person who wrote it reply!

Not just that, I suspect it’s a sign of HN’s unique culture that the “smack talk” seems not to be taken personally and instead a highly nuanced and interesting discussion ensues!
I wish I could contribute more generally, but I think the PyPy project is a great cause and will put down a small amount to help with this.

I've come to the realization that, to get more performance out of python, the most pythonic way is to simply use PyPy, rather than try and hack your way around issues like attributes requiring dict lookups, access to locals() being faster than globals(), etc.
PyGame recently released a new version based on SDL2 instead of SDL. I don't know if it's actually faster but given that SDL2 focuses on accelerated rendering I'd imagine so. Worth checking out in any case.

Just in case it's still as slow as ever: there's perfectly fine SDL2 bindings for python, so if you use those at least the slowness will be your own fault.
I mostly read fiction books (particularly fantasy and sci-fi). Best for me this year was Wintersteel by Will Wight [0]. This is a progression fantasy book (think anime like Naruto, Hunter x Hunter, etc but without fillers, harem, etc). Power-ups, training and fights are the major draw of such books, and Will manages to deliver them nicely along with interesting characters, awesome humor, twists, etc.

See my blog post [1] for other books I enjoyed this year.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52135463-wintersteel

[1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/2020-favorite-fiction/
Best of HN 2020: Stories by Popularity from Jan 1st 2020 to Dec 31st 2020
I've never been able to find a good use case for pypy. Why would you ever want to run CPU bound tasks in python? I'm sure there are arguments about the huge ecosystem, not having to rewrite code in another language, etc. But most of the widely used stuff in python already has underlying compiled code for the heavy lifting. Also, given the large amount of parallelism in modern hardware architecture, and python's lackluster concurrency support, I just don't see a reason for using it.
Exactly how much money the government needs, and how it uses, is I realise a massive issue going back thousands of years, but I feel the government at some level can "invest better", in that they pay for schools, police, roads, (in my case in the UK) a national health service, etc.

Of course, it might be they could spend more efficiently, but if all purchases move online, and online companies manage to avoid paying tax to most governments, these basic utilities are in trouble.
What is the number one gamechanger for sleep?
I am fully with you, although I lost hope on the Desktop GNU/Linux, so just end up using it on a surviving travel netbook.

However I do use Ubuntu with AppArmor, Snap and whatever else that Canonical is trying to do to improve the situation.
When I started learning Nim, I did not really expect anything, but time and again I caught myself thinking, ‘This is so much like Python!’ Eventually I lost interest because I do not need a faster Python that is not Python, and I didn’t find much else to be enthusiastic about.
I think Ruby's do/end is most readable variant.

Python using whitespace doesn't allow me to mess up and have my formatter autoformat it. Js and others with {} have way too many symbols flying around for easy parsing.

Thats why I really like crystal! Do/end, low level, elegant. Wish the devs would focus more on wasm and other features that would put it more in the spotlight.
Point of no return suggests some meaningful barrier was crossed. It’s true we are further than after the first person used coal to start a fire, but today is just another step on a process that’s thousands of years old.

Various economic models of the impact of climate change suggest for northern countries we only recently left the realm of net benefit. It’s going to keep getting worse, but it’s hardly a major disaster right now. Limiting future climate change is important, going back to some arbitrary point in the past isn’t a clear net benefit.

Hell, in 10,000 years humanity might be using massive amounts of orbital infrastructure to directly control the weather and actually prefer more atmospheric CO2. Or they might want to lower CO2 below preindustrial levels, we just don’t know.
A couple of years ago we reached out to the python community about wheels and arm64 - how it should be handled and whether they plan on embedding non-x86 blobs.
We received the standard "we'll think about it and let you know".
Now that Apple switched to arm64, all communities are suddenly interested in porting things to arm64.

And of course, Apple is not investing in these ports, at least as far as I know. They just rely on what other arm64 players did in the ecosystem before Apples rolled out M1; respectively lets developers figure out the remaining porting.

As much as I hate to say this, IBM does handle porting things to ppc64 right - you can find IBM contributed code and optimizations anywhere you look. For many packages, porting to arm64 was a matter of "does it have ppc64 support? if so, it can be reused for arm64" ...

Disclaimer - used to be a contractor porting stuff to arm64 for a couple of years.
First, she's a she. Second, Trump is allued to, if not mentioned directly:

> Without getting into tiresome politics, the “shameless” strategy also defined the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. It was shouted down by people in both established political parties, because they were used to playing by the “obvious” rules, but I suspect that in a decade’s time, we’ll look back on that election and realize that it marked the beginning of an entirely new style of politics.
That’s a lot of counterfactuals without any model and data to support such conclusions.
The problems with excel IMO are:

- large datasets are an issue

- it doesn't have some libraries without extra cost (and in my instance long winded approvals). I'm specifically thinking about linear programming libraries here.

- VBA is less easy to code in

Otherwise excel is great.

Side note - is anyone exploring Jai? This seems to try to be solving the installation and compatibility issues that mires coding these days.
Or disable cookies and js, once and for all :)
Being Brazilian, I can attest, he deserved, no matter who is behind. He appointed his own son to be Brazil's consul in US saying "If I can give my son a filet, I'll give him a filet". When he visits countries such as US came along with him several entourages, such as another son, city council of Rio Janeiro for reasons whatsoever to be in the trip, and his bill (hotels, etc) are all paid with public money. And I even started.
I also like Alpaydin's Intro to ML even though it's not as famous: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-machine-learning...
So, slightly different but here's a nice video from Steve Mould about hepatitis being spread around the world by freshwater mussels, which were contaminated when storm drains overflowed into a river, taking sewer effluent with them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGJLKhsLx18
I already use golang for work, and now I'm just doing a little toy project in nim. What I like most about nim is that it has generics, and produces binaries with small size. I'm creating a graphical program with a http server running in the background, and mixing asynchttp with UI threads is a bit of a pain in the posterior. Granted, I'm new to the language, I'm considering using channels, maybe that will make it easier to share state between threads. At least compared to golang, nim hasn't been a smooth experience yet when it comes to threads.

Anyways, I'm just voicing my personal gripe with the use of whitespace-sensitive syntax. Nim is a overall a good language to use.
Actually on the life sciences domain I worked a couple of years, I saw them adopting VB.NET alongside Excel, Python was not even on the radar.
I'm curious to see what they ultimately mean by "biological contamination". The objectives are so overly broad that they might be twisted enough to cut off colonization efforts.
Yeah, that's true.

These sentences were examples from the language creator's original book [1], and his initial idea was to use nouns as a way to ask a question, and then add a personal pronoun for an affirmative statement:

> Will you go to the theatre tonight? - Soldoremi?
> I will go to the theatre tonight. - Soldoremi dore.

As far as I know, later it was changed by the followers and the Solresol grammar [2] tries to move away from this approach, e.g

> Dore fasifa ladofa fami ladosol (I want to read this book [3])

instead of

> Ladosol dore.

[1]: http://www.ifost.org.au/~gregb/solresol/sudre-book.pdf
[2]: http://mozai.com/writing/not_mine/solresol/
[3]: https://solresol.blogspot.com/2012/07/learning-solresol-less...
At some point it might also be worth detaching the fork too in that case.
That’s fine until it doesn’t work or the journal is corrupt or you’re pulling the journal off the file system as mentioned further down the post I made. I’ve been there and the entire toolset fell to pieces in front of me.

Plain text is orders of magnitude easier and safer to deal with and easily recoverable even if only partially which is extremely difficult with journald
> and will put down a small amount to help with this

I'd politely ask you to reconsider. You'd basically be subsidising work that benefits the World's highest-capitalised company, to whom the investment in this port would be a fraction of a second's profit.
Without having read anything but your comment:

The economic impact to the attendant ('observer travelling with the goods') is not diminished by his own experience of the passage of time, but is affected by the reduction in his own ability to take on other tasks during the same [external] time frame.

In other words, it doesn't matter that he experienced the travel as five minutes. What matters is that his options were limited for five days.
Sorry, should have included that: https://developers.google.com/web/android/trusted-web-activi...

Basically: It’s a way to verify that an app represents your site and then that app can open up the PWA inside it (a bit tricky to explain, but it’s great if one wants to be in the store and/or have an existing non-PWA app that one wants to upgrade to a PWA)

More info: https://firt.dev/pwa-playstore
As knowing a foreign language is the norm outside anglosphere, I'd expect most people to understand bilingualism as simultaneous bilingualism: "Simultaneous bilingualism is a form of bilingualism that takes place when a child becomes bilingual by learning two languages from birth." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_bilingualism
She said, in reference to the women who alleged Biden sexually assaulted them:

> “I believe them, and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/us-election-2020/kamala-harris...
Punctuality does not really make difference between C and E.

In my experience, people who were not at time in school, were not at time in their jobs. And either they found a job where it did not matter or were in constant trouble because of it or got fired.

Generally, they did not acquired puntuality nor precision. The lack of either was result of general attitude toward everything around and it did not magically changed after school.
New Low-Cost Macs (1991)
> In 2008, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the party talked of growing downward economic pressure.

> The current pandemic has dealt a far bigger blow to the global economy than Lehman did 12 years ago. Nevertheless, China's leader is staying away from that phrase.

> His reticence is, in effect, a message to the Chinese people: Grow confident.

Fake it till you make it?

There's enormous headwind facing China's international trade. They're going to have to switch over to domestic growth sooner than later. Their rise to world dominance depends on the Chinese domestic flywheel.

It'll be interesting to see what Biden's relationship with China will be, and if other countries begin to take an even harder line.
Capitalism's relentless drive for growth and deregulation would like a word with you.

My favorite book of 2020 if you'd like to read more: https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more
Thanks Jewish subversive agenda, very cool.
How Biden didn't win this with honours is a real mystery
Significant amounts of plastics are also found in plants.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611874
All of this completely ignores reality

You have a pretty well studied use case, London

All the poors were kicked out the inner city and commute for hours a day now

And just wait till they realise you can influence voting patterns by making it inconvenient to reach the polling places just by tweaking timetables, it'll make gerrymandering pale in comparison
A corollary of this is that the individual who becomes shameless becomes free - they can do whatever they want that they don't get physically stopped from doing. Individual liberation at the expense of other people, very Prisoner's Dilemma.
What, is it against the rules to be against the evils of capitalism?
For example: try to find a deep learning framework that uses Intel's oneAPI DNN library and achieves 80% of the performance of this: https://nn-512.com/browse/DenseNet121

Tell me if you can find one
> What are the public threats that you are citing?

The threats she mentioned in her apology.

> And what is the recourse Anima has in this fight? Pedro tweets sexual innuendo about her porn habits, and truly, what is there to do?

As you suggested in your earlier post, she can choose to ignore a comment like that because it’s a silly argument.

And even if she doesn’t, his comments still aren’t justification for her behavior.
For what it's worth, I think Apple sent the Homebrew devs ARM Mac Minis for building and when the Homebrew devs asked for more, they sent more. So they're doing something, even if they're not doing as much as one would hope.
First positive tests in France are end of December [1] [2](meaning the people caught the virus days or a week before that). Strongly suspected cases based on thoracic scanners are up to mid November [3].

In Italy people were contaminated even earlier than that, apparently [4].

These are not wholly surprising because, again it is likely that the virus had been circulating for some time in humans before it exploded and was detected. It is quite contagious but many people do not experience any symptoms or only mild, common symptoms, which IMO makes it relatively easy to go undetected until it goes out out of hands, as it did in Wuhan first.

It's good to ask for proof but then you should ask for proof of all claims, not only the ones you do not like.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52526554

[2] https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-report...

[3] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/new-evidence-race-find-fr...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-...
366 Deadlines: My Year with Beethoven
Electric arc furnaces are recycling, they cannot produce steal from raw iron. Iron requires carboninzation to become Steel. Thus is done using coal both to produce the heat plus the carbon. Arc furnaces are big business because we've been producing Steel for over a century and Steel only rusts a bit. Thus most of the world historic steel can still be reused once reshaped.
The ships get the flags of small island-countries, where there are almost no laws protecting the crew and only loosely regulated laws about things like gambling, taxes and so on, things these companies misuse to garner profits.

I believe there are 0 US flagged ships that are part of the cruise industry that in the U.S.
So much effort to do UDP over HTTP ...

No wonder they need 1000s of SWEs.
The Fallen Hero – Pale Moon
"imprisioned through a lengthy and fair judicial process" - which was conducted by a judge that was Justice Minister for Bolsonaro, and left, accusing him of corruption when trying to take control of federal policy. The judicial process was not take to full extent, and with all this context is mostly likely to all charges be removed against him.
On a side-note, it's customary to disclose the author's connection with his own submission.

I understand that it's a bit on the nose to see user account sudhirj submitting a link to sudhirj.io. However, disclosures are also a clear indication on where to post questions and/or remarks directed at the author.

Anyway, my 0.02€.
Aaron Swartz did far, far less, but took his own life because of how draconian the CFAA is.

I agree: these people should be prosecuted. I'd also argue that Ticketmaster in this case was acting as a criminal conspiracy.
> Either we get sufficient money, and maybe support, and then we can do it quickly; or PyPy will just remain not natively available on M1 hardware for the next 3-5 years

Out of curiosity, what is a ballpark, a rough estimate of the "sufficient money" for a project like this?
Maybe they need the distribution part and not the scale. But I’m curious now too.
What is disaster isn't self evident either. I, for one, consider the effect on various wild life systems as disastrous already.

Edit: surprised to be getting down votes.
For references, Apple's piggy bank (Braeburn) currently has about $250E9 on the books.
Someone who does not use Excel nice will probably make spaghetti code as well.
It tells us how to judge it, but not how to make it.

How you come up with ideas and directions is a mystery. It's luck but not just. Kinda like investing.

Feynman also just described that step as "Guess it".

Its not clear at all that our institutional organized science process (grants, papers, academic positions and evaluations) correlate to better success at finding out stuff.
While true that price controls create dead weight loss, the failure of neo-liberal economic policy shows that dead weight loss isn’t always a bad thing and that economic efficiency at the expense of people can have terrible consequences.

Supporting domestic industry, when cheaper global alternatives exist is a form of dead weight loss, but it prevents your middle class from being hollowed out and keeps your society healthy. The same can be said for living wages.
Barbarian Days probably, it was recommended on here as on from Obama's reading list. I love the sea and surf and it brought back memories of travelling.

From last year (but even more relevant this year), Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh. I must have read it over 20 times when I was going through hard times.
When I was at uni, we played a lot of drinking games, and sometimes (when we didn't have cards or anything) played a mobile one called Picolo. It's just like if you took the rounds out of games like ring of fire and truth/dare and turned it into an app. Only problem was it had some super buzzkill questions, like "What's worse, slavery or war?", and I thought I could do a better job.

Very simple app really, had a list of questions to run through, stuck peoples names into the question etc, but my issue came with the Android store. I called it "Beercules: Drinking game", but even after months (and a rating between 4 and 5 stars) you couldn't find it in the store unless you searched that full name. Searching Beercules or Drinking game didn't even put it at the bottom of the list, it just didn't exist. Oh, and then they updated the ToS and took the game down due to me not having a privacy policy, and gave no guidance on what that even is, never mind how to complete it, so i just gave up on it.
I never expected it to be super successful, but I'd hoped it would have been given a chance.
Same here. Even for "institutions" of journalism. Even the BBC and the NYT. They're all awful.
The Harris business is extremely disappointing, but Russiagate-related charges to Trump associates were proven in criminal court and people went to jail for them. The only thing that wasn't proven was a direct link to Trump himself.
> 7. In the end, the shameless individual is the most free. Shame is an ugly emotion, because social norms are often ugly and limiting. The sensitivity to shame is a strong character flaw that must be overcome. In the end, if you are just a host for ideas as mentioned, why not pick the path of self-affirmation.

I guess this idea isn't particularly new and has been thoroughly researched by many. For some reason Nietzsche comes to my mind. And Dostoyevsky. E.g. from "Crime and Punishment":

"I wanted to find out then and quickly whether I was a louse like everybody else or a man. Whether I can step over barriers or not, whether I dare stoop to pick up or not, whether I am a trembling creature or whether I have the right."
Well, those mobile platforms are yet to mature.

So the “mobile Firefox” there isn’t really a mobile Firefox just the desktop browser used in a mobile context? Or does Mozilla support such platforms in any official way?

Even the Android Firefox app just got fairly recently rebuilt, mobile isn’t really Mozilla’s strong game after they shut down Firefox OS (which though strangely lives on as KaiOS)

Also: Both Android and Jolla are also Linux based
You are, but it's way too far from enough. The onboard crew department that is part of the HR tried to organize things weekly for the crew, however most of the time you can't make it as you will be working.
> was caught in a wiretap last year complaining that Bolsonaro's government was too harsh on them

Yes, that indeed happened. But, of course, the person responsible for that harshness was already expelled from the government, and it's on the process of undoing all of his modifications.
Or put another way, the talent need not follow the money types to Texas. There are plenty of cheap places in California where you still aren't compelled to sell your soul to your employer - and salaries suggest that talent in tech already had plenty of leverage before remote working even entered the equation.

I see a sad pattern where government officials often conflate free markets with sound markets. They certainly overlap in many areas but non-competes are a classic market failure.
The best thing that happened to the business the last 20 years was the end of flash. I am not sure why is this even a discussion.
No words were deleted : the author is comparing a statement from 2019 to the one from 2020. Disingenious.
Uploading propertiary data to a cloud is a big no.
> I appreciate some of the above is also possible in VBA, but if you're writing an entire model in code and not really using Excel at all, my view is it's better to use a more sophisticated programming language.

Which is why many VBA experts eventually adopt VB.NET instead of jumping into a complete foreign language, with the benefit that is actually compiled to native code (JIT/NGEN), if performance is ever an issue.
I've done it for one-off data munging scripts - processing archives of one format of data to another, etc. Python is easy to write and for these tasks, you can get PyPy to execute at twice the speed for basically no cost.
> However, you can not trigger an installation prompt like on Android.

You can't trigger a native prompt automatically, but you can detect if your web app is installed as a PWA. With that information you can show instructions.
What are the benefits of Snowflake compared to ULID, which already has Rust implementations[1][2]?

[1] https://crates.io/crates/ulid

[2] https://crates.io/crates/rusty_ulid
I imagine that PyPy is way too obscure for Apple to care about it. Amazon would probably care a lot more if they're planning on adopting more ARM in AWS.