skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As far as I can tell, even though CPython C API is in some way supported on PyPy it's really only advisable to use packages using it as a last resort for performance reasons

Yes, but so much of the Python ecosystem uses the C API that the "last resort" and the "common case" are one in the same most of the time. `psycopg2cffi` IIRC that's not very well supported. It looks like it was updated last in January of 2021 but before that the last update was from 2018. This was what prevented us from using it in 2020. Moreover, there are other packages besides Postgres drivers; that's just the one that I recall running into problems with. To be clear, I want Pypy to be successful, and the project is nothing short of amazing.

> I'm pretty sure I saw other PEP 249 implementations for PostgreSQL the last time I checked (which admittedly was a few years ago).

There was a pure Python version, but it didn't seem battle-tested and there was no indication of its quality or performance. I don't want to pull a package like that into production for something as important as a database driver. It's been a couple years since I looked into it as well, so perhaps things have changed for the better in the interim.
List of interesting papers and projects about TinyML
I really dislike this rhetoric. You are not wrong but at the same time I think too many groups hold fast to this notion that people are weak and powerless and need government to take care of them. So if you can’t move, you’re just gonna stay for the rest of your life in a state you hate? No way, live free or die. It might take longer but it can be done.
I had a similar error. If I recall correctyl, I had to copy the contents of lib/Crypto into the nuitka dist folder, and then it worked.
I didn’t see any discussion in the article of WHY. I really don’t think I’m well informed by an article that implies that the proposed change in law is A Bad Thing(tm) but fails to present the proponents’ arguments.
> In which ways such ban would benefit people living in Ohio?

It wouldn't. It's also completely crazy to assume that concern entered into the minds of the legislation's sponsors at all. See the other thread today about the nuclear bribery scandal if you have any doubts about the Ohio legislature's integrity:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27534408
Hello, fellow QOwnNotes user! A rare sighting :)
I understand where you're coming from and ignoring the Facebook aspect the Quest would perhaps be the product for me, though I can't say I see much of an advantage of it over my current system.

Cosmos also has inside out tracking so no beacons and I honestly don't mind the cables. I never really notice them when I play. I did with the original Vive when I tried it at work, though. As for the PC, I'm an avid gamer and graphics programmer for a AAA studio. My VR is set up in my home office so I have access to a more than adequate PC, anyway.

What I really do mind is a lack of graphical fidelity. Cosmos was the first option I tried which really felt good enough for me (the original Vive always felt cool but not quite there) and I know Quest has very similar resolution. But noticeable compression artifacts sound like something that would really bother me.
I was confused by your comment, but I am betting you parsed "that one" as the referer situation; I am quite confident it referred to the creat situation.
This is only the second one ever, if you go by the modern conception of the term
I paid, then they killed google music for no damn reason, so I stopped paying.
Quite Close!

As you implied it would be expensive to experience the cutting edge right now but here is what it would look like:

You would want a really high end headset, a haptic suit, haptic gloves, graphics cards and a pc to run it, and game to actually experience it.

-Pimax 8k $1500

-Research grade haptic gloves[0] $5000-$10000?

-Tesla Suit $2750

-Gaming pc and Scalped 3090s to run in SLI $10000

You could do a treadmill too but I actually don't think that tech is quite there yet and question just how much more immersed you would be at that point.

Now once your discount iron man suit is fully equipped what game do you actually play? You mentioned skyrimVR it actually has ok haptic support via mods.

However, what you really would want to play for the full Oasis experience is VRChat where with your haptic suit you could high five someone or feel them tap on your shoulder. It's also a thriving community full of bizarre worlds and avatars. Most of the hardware isn't directly supported in VRChat but you can find guides online of people getting it to work.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK2y4Z5IkZ0
It simulates the sensations not the universe. It's a mock not a simulation.
What would you say was the event that kicked it off?
Canon put AI cameras in its Chinese offices that only let smiling workers inside
I also find (thumbs up emoji) and (ok emoji) to be somewhat ambiguous. I see them as potentially sarcastic. Really, sarcasm is the biggest barrier to effective online communication.

Apparently you cannot use emojis on HN.
Is anyone surprised with regard to the U.S. progress in rocketry thanks to the groundwork laid by the Nazi military?

I agree with your first comment but just found your second one a little strange.
No, until a couple years ago there was the expectation (hope?) China would become more liberal and closer to the West. A lot of economic concessions were made with that expectation in mind. Turns out we were wrong.
Charlie Munger on “Invert, Always Invert”
That argument breaks at this step: "But if energy became arbitrarily cheap, someone could buy all of it"

We have lots of critical materials in our industrial processes where the total production is less than the wealth of Jeff Bezos. One example is water. In many places it's so cheap that it's not metered. So theoretically somebody could "buy all the water". Another is something like Palladium. Insanely valuable, but we use so little of it that you could "buy" a year's production for $100B. But of course you couldn't because the act of doing so would spike the price.
I dream of the day legislation is drafted using git and the public can see the pull request from Comcast Corp. lobbyists adding the language to a Senate staff member's fork of the draft and track it being merged up the tree.
If you accept ads, you accept the concept that some parts of your screen will be devoted to things you have not chosen yourself, so what exactly is the issue here?

It probably makes sense for tiktok to advertise to people searching for Spotify, either they feel that is more efficient that placing ad when you search for "tiktok" (because you'll get tiktok in the list anyway), or they're just advertising everywhere. Either way, it's not "deceptive". Nobody will mistake the tiktok card for Spotify.
QR code based Wifi setup is extremely handy for guest networks with obscure SSIDs and long complex passwords, and makes it easy for visitors to reconnect when the password changes.
Browsers Fundamental Speed Problem
Why would it be a surprise to anyone that a major corporation is optimizing for shareholder profits rather than anything else
Hello, World! Welcome to the Offbeat Computation Club!
Oh yes, this. In every small Iowa town they have private ISPs/ cable service. Hurray free enterprise! But they're all monopolies, given by the city to some favorite son. The biggest house in any midwest small town, is the cable guy. Gouging the highest prices the locals will tolerate.

That's what Republican 'free enterprise' looks like.
Those are the mundane fundamentalists I noted. They're not the sole bearers of power throughout history. Probably the minority, since they're usually responsible for reductions in their own power, and the power of the people they rule.

Not even Christian philosophy began with Constantine.

edit: My comments may sound muddier than I thought. I'm saying that human cosmological theory and understanding did not go from Holy Bible -> Science.
Is it a multiplayer game? I know eg. Battlefield 2 took screenshots for game server admins to look for cheaters. In the good old days where I wouldn't suspect the screenshots to be used for big data spying ..
I said this uptopic, but I've tried to love OneNote a few times in the past partly out of interoperability / possible collaboration and partly out of popularity, but I just can't get there.

One of the key things that kills it for me is that I really need my notetaking tool to be smart. I tag lines as "to-do", and my tool of choice can assemble an agenda of items i need to accomplish in a metadocument, even if they're spanned across multiple files.

OneNote, frustratingly, HAS a way to tag something as a Todo, but it's just decoration. There's no provision for showing you all the Todos in a document in a summarized view or whatever, or at least none I could find.

I'm willing to admit that my need here to comingle todo items and notes is perhaps idiosyncratic, but fortunately it's not TOO niche because it's basically the foundational idea of Orgmode.

(....and that's the story of how Ubermonkey became an emacs user.)
Agreed. I’m no software historian, but Smalltalk has always fascinated me. I even spent a fair amount of time in the Pharo community as I was learning to code. Eventually I left for Python and Django and the robust communities they have.
On the contrary, I think Internet access would be even more important in that kind of situation
A lot of muni broadband is the government owning the cables/fibre (OSI Layer 1/2) and then having ISPs sell IP (Layer 3) to those connected.

See Utopia in UT for example:

* https://www.utopiafiber.com/isp/
When you tell people to "vote with their wallet" it means that money equates to will/democracy and there is a far far far larger "warchest" of dollars from Comcast, Verizon, and ATT.

Does this mean Comcast is the will of the people since they have the ability to spend more? I'd sincerely hope not.

I know what you meant by your comment, but the "with wallet" part has been irking me lately because there is substantial corporate interests that has more money than us but they don't have more votes than us (not yet at least).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Fun

"You will be happy, and you will like it." Definitely not toxic positivity.
I don’t think that’s entirely realistic, I was able to do it when I worked at McDonald’s and they actually pay better here relative to rents than they did at the time. There a certainly people in that situation but it’s a relatively small %.
As a pedestrian and ocassional roller blader in any major Metro City i visit, I'm actually far more afraid of bicycles than of any car.

My only times I've near-collision or actual Collision have been with bikes. this is invariably because they far exceed the speed limit in some sections that are really close to pedestrian traffic or because they bike near a curve full of parked cars where he cannot have enough time to break for incoming pedestrian traffic when the bikers going to ~30 miles per hour.
What I don't understand about these scams is: It must be quite difficult and expensive to create shrink-wrapped modified devices. But the letter itself is so full of spelling and grammar mistakes that it can't be taken seriously. How is it possible that you can create these devices but you're incapable of having someone proofread the letter!?

> sent you a new device you must switch to a new device

> this *kinda* breach

> there is a manual inside your new box you can read that

Seriously?
Specifically, using these numbers (50 cents and 200 cents), as long as only 5 % buy the more expensive item instead, they still make a profit even if this type of profit engineering turns away you and 15 % of users like you leading to no purchase at all.

In exchange for a small chance of selling a more expensive item, it can actually be worth running an even greater risk of losing out on a purchase of a cheaper item. (It sounds obvious when put like this, but people I've talked to have been surprised by it.)

Of course, this is all about short term effects. There's a cost for your brand and reputation if you become the place where it's hard to find what you're really looking for.

----

This is is hard. I work with providing product search for online stores and our service is one of the better in the business, going by a solid track record of controlled experiments against competitors.

But like -- how do you know you're better? The user making a purchase is a really strong signal. Many people would be envious to have such a good signal as "person opening their wallet." It's about the gold standard when it comes to assessing the opinions of people without asking them directly.

Except... as stated here -- what if they didn't actually find what they wanted, only we managed to figure out something else they might as well buy while we were at it? Is that success? Partial success? How can one tell the difference?
There are actually a lot of mom and pop ISPs. Mostly wireless (WISPs).

https://www.wispa.org/what_is_a_wisp.php
I'd go with option 1. People can learn skills, especially at the level required by an early stage startup. But trust takes a lot longer to find.

You don't sound extremely risk averse, just like someone who's been through a startup and wants to make different mistakes.
Agreed. Also the mediums of old are what drove classic ads. When you can only fit so many full page, expensive, color ads in a magazine... yes putting more time and money into it makes sense.

The closest remaining "old ways" are Super Bowl ads.

This article-ad also doesn't show how junky newspapers used to look with the 90% of "other" ads. Or how about old magazines like PC Magazine absolutely stuffed with low quality ads (though I kind of miss that).
Probably everyone know “ standing on the shoulders of giants”. Every new discovery is based on knowledge acquired from previous discoveries. What is achieved by USA is also standing on the work of previous great civilizations. Indeed all the knowledge USA today have is built on top of knowledge brought in by those immigrants from their respective society, culture and place.

China is not the only country trying space missions. European Union, Japan, South Korea and India has also been trying for years. Besides Russia, USA now China is 3rd country to successfully launch a space station and then take crew to it, despite the sanctions and constant blocking of technology transfer (indeed forgetting the basic tenet of standing on the shoulders of giants).

It’s a big achievement for China given they were blocked from ISS and need to re-invent the wheels. Hopefully they will be able to show same innovation and operational capability in space as they have shown in fast speed bullet trains.

Personally I hope that humanity can come together to have more collaborations on space, given it will be the only hope if something happens to Earth.

Docking of spacecraft with crew is a win for science and another feather in understanding space. Congratulations to all the scientists and people involved in this project, they deserve an applause for the this feat.
Show HN: Create your own password-protected download links for free
But the emails mentioned here is very interesting..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxoVFZwMYw
Levy Flights and Walks
You can do this with Org-mode in emacs! It will look something like this:

* project
** DONE investigation
...
** TODO implementation [2/3]
DEADLINE: <2021-06-21 Mon>
:LOGBOOK:
CLOCK: [2021-06-17 Thu 13:30]--[2021-06-17 Thu 16:03] => 2:33
CLOCK: [2021-06-17 Thu 10:30]--[2021-06-17 Thu 13:04] => 2:34
:END:

do X and Y, be careful about Z

- [X] part 1
- [X] part 2
- [ ] part 3

And you can quickly show the time spent on each entry:

#+BEGIN: clocktable :scope subtree :maxlevel 2
#+CAPTION: Clock summary at [2021-06-17 Thu 16:06]
| Headline | Time | |
|--------------------------+--------+------|
| *Total time* | *7:40* | |
|--------------------------+--------+------|
| project | 7:40 | |
| \_ investigation | | 2:33 |
| \_ implementation [2/3] | | 5:07 |
#+END:

There are obviously all sorts of key shortcuts to manage this, see the wiki [1] for details.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Clocking-Work-Time.html
When Republicans say they are pro-business they actually mean they are pro-entrenched corporate oligopolies.
Could you speak more to the part about PCI compliance? My experience has been that you can provide an AOC for provided services but it doesn't make someone's PCI obligations go away entirely. Even a PCI recognized point to point encrypted solution doesn't completely remove all PCI-DSS obligations. Maybe for folks that do a SAQ it would largely make issues go away but a larger entity doing a full ROC/AOC I would imagine would still have a fair amount of work to go through. Do you also happen to work as a merchant acquirer in such a way that you can remove further PCI burden?
Rust Language:Governance
Good point, scotty79!

In fact the [Gödel 1941] proposition I'mUnprovable does not

exist in mathematical foundations.
https://www.cnet.com/news/best-vr-headsets-for-2021/

Oculus Quest is the least expensive, competitive, standalone headset. Least expensive option often pairs with ad-supported.

We bought a Quest before Facebook bought Oculus, and we're very disappointed with that turn of events. I think most people would be better off opting out of VR until there's a non-Facebook standalone headset under $400 (like the original Quest once was.)

EDIT: Correction - we did not buy the Quest before it existed. We bought it a bit before the announcement that you'd eventually need to use a Facebook account with it.
Do you buy Apple products or Samsung phones? Not every for-profit company is so myopic. For broadband companies to be orders of magnitude worse in _the key performance metric_ than public offerings should be a wakeup call.
They would still have 2 Senate votes.
The fact on the ground is that if you visit a tiny 100 foot waterfall in Pennsylvania, there will be a parking lot, a $25 entrance fee, a gift shop, a show every two hours, and security rails around the path. The travel distances between sights most people would want to see are vast, and hence the crowding.

Go to Niagara falls, and there's literally an amusement park.
Thanks to gerrymandering, most people can have their shit together and awful stuff will still happen.
Many Companies Want Remote Workers–Except from Colorado
I was a big fan of Notational Velo, and then nvAlt, and the discovery of Deft mode made my migration to emacs/org possible.

I wouldn't worry about Apple deprecating Notes or its sync -- both have been part of the iOS ecosystem since day one, haven't they?
Looks like a great article, I will have to spend some time listening, though I've already listened to tons of Miles Davis over the years.

These articles are always missing a ton when they're written by a non-musician. That seems to be the issue with jazz. It's really really hard to tell what's going on if you're not a player, and jazz is not an easy thing to understand and learn even when you are a player.

I took Music History as an elective in college and it was really tough as a non-musician to understand a lot of this stuff. I made it a goal to learn an instrument and actually learn to understand this stuff as an adult as a result. And Jazz of course comes up as something very tricky to get your head around when you're trying to play it. The "aha" moments when you dig deep into a piece trying to play it/studying the score are what makes it special, and these kind of treatments of famous musicians completely gloss over that, as if it doesn't even exist.
Based on the accounts in The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality[1], I don’t get the feeling Facebook had to “pose solely as another kind of company”. By the point Oculus was in conversations to sell to Facebook, their shadiness was already a concern.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34017056-the-history-...
Representative democracy works when you remember who you voted for, and track whether they work on fulfilling their promises because of which you voted for them.

In the US, people mostly remember the president / vice-president names, because they are so widely publicized, some possibly remember the name of their Congress representatives, or can google them up in the rare case when they need to write to them about some issue. AFAICT very few people even remember who did they vote into the state legislature.

This is very sad, and certainly disfunctional.
Any good reads on how to design online communities, social networks etc.?
Looking to learn more about the critical features and structure / thinking that goes into designing and building a social network, online community, discovery marketplace etc.

Any good reads out there or people to follow who are especially good at thinking about this?

My product is similar
Each binary runs on a single operating system, but you can easily cross-compile in Go. This is strictly better than the compiled Python case--either you're compiling Python to native code in which case you have the same problem and none of the easy-cross-compile benefits or else you ship a zip which inevitably contains lots of C dependencies that are also specific to one platform and you still can't easily cross compile.

> so all you've accomplished is going from O(n*2) files to O(n)

You go from N*M*2 where `M` is the number of target platforms to M (no need to use big-O notation as far as I can tell).
Interestingly, the same is true of waking life. Our perception is only loosely representative model of the world we operate in. We see, hear, and feel a tiny fraction of our local environment, and most of what we perceive is filled in by our imagination, and/or highly post processed.
DSL, Cable, 4G, wifi, starlink, GEO satelite.

There's plenty of options
I think it is easier to use Common Lisp in a product than Smalltalk. I work on a Common Lisp package that just builds into a command-line application, the user can't tell what language it is written in.
And some people do not have cars or children in schools or use the food banks or go to community college.

Not everything is about the individual cost/benefit, and individuals can benefit from society wide benefits.
>we are now full blown in a cold war.

American FDI in China even under the last administration went up, and both the EU and the US were busy signing free trade deals with China. I don't remember Apple building computers in the Soviet Union. Follow the money, not the news headlines. There's going to be no second cold war because there is no ideological competition and China is deeply integrated in just about every value chain on the planet.
Probably everyone know “ standing on the shoulders of giants”. Every new discovery is based on knowledge acquired from previous discoveries.
What is achieved by USA is also standing on the work of previous great civilizations.

Indeed all the knowledge USA today have, is built on top of knowledge brought in by immigrants from their respective society, culture and place.

China is not the only country trying space missions. European Union, Japan, South Korea and India has also been trying for years. Besides Russia, USA now China is 3rd country to successfully launch a space station and then take crew to it, despite the sanctions and constant blocking of technology transfer (indeed forgetting the basic tenet of standing on the shoulders of giants).

It’s a big achievement for China given they were blocked from ISS and need to re-invent the wheels. Hopefully they will be able to show same innovation and operational capability in space as they have shown in fast speed bullet trains.

Personally I hope that humanity can come together to have more collaborations on space, given it will be the only hope if something happens to Earth.

Docking of spacecraft with crew is a win for science and another feather in understanding space. Congratulations to all the scientists and people involved in this project, they deserve an applause for the this feat.