skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python avoids having to rerun the import over and over again.

Suppose that you are importing a larger project. Where your one import (say of your standard database interface) pulls in a group of modules (say one for each table in your database), all of which import a couple of base libraries (to make your database objects provide a common interface) that themselves pull in common Python modules (like psychopg2) which themselves do further imports of standard Python modules.

The combinatorial explosion of ways to get to those standard Python modules would make the redundant work of parsing them into a significant time commitment without a caching scheme.

From the point of view of a small script, this kind of design may seem like overkill. But in a large project, it is both reasonable and common.
Wouldn't that mean a pile of sand on the ground or a pile of rocks in the desert are also conscious? Because viewed the right way those can be representations of arbitrarily complex turing machines (see https://xkcd.com/505/)
Now imagine there's only one cookbook left from the 20th century, and then "historians" of the year 3000 will proudly write a publication about "What North Americans Ate During the Middle-Ages (1600-2000)" based on that.

Survivor bias, well known fallacy that Historians are hardly familiar enough with.
As long as it's running, anyone can exfiltrate your key material from SDRAM. And even for a few minutes after it's running, if they can dump them in LN2 quickly enough. There are kludgy schemes to make this harder, like Schneier's Boojum, but in the end your attacker just needs enough resources and patience.

Most FDE schemes don't run crypto ops on the TPM itself - key derivation occurs there, then the results are cached in RAM ( or sometimes, protected CPU registers, in which case they may be able to inject privileged code into the kernel address space? ).

LUKS on a colo will probably protect you if you're a fentanyl distributor or movie pirate. Probably not if you're a terrorist or a high-value nation-state target.
Starship isn’t a functional vehicle yet. It’s a long way from being able to be a launch vehicle for NASA’s most expensive payloads.
I don't understand how your interesting info about China making Hydrogen from gas (that it makes from coal) supports your point that you need oil to make hydrogen and so if you ban oil (which I don't particularly think we need to do) civilization and specifically farming would collapse? Isn't that a bit melodramatic as well as wrong?

Green Hydrogen (made from water via electrolysis powered by renewable energy) is the generally accepted solution. You can find EU plans, or various corporate plans to move entirely to that over the coming decades.

There's some discussion about whether the fossil fuel suppliers are funding propaganda to encourage this move and intend to secretly just use fossil sources and release the carbon anyway, but one limit on this dastardly scheme is that renewable created hydrogen will soon be cheaper anyway, and before that governments and corporations can insist on certificates that reflect the chain of custody of the products.
If your server has full disk encryption it should be relatively safe against attacks where they just take the device, and so whatever you use to sync should be safe too?
It's nuts how widespread these ideas about EVs are, even amongst people where I honestly would have expected something more.

A lot of people I've talked to rely on two main arguments.

1) Producing EVs is far more polluting than normal cars

2) They're running on dirty grids anyway

OH, and a third popular argument

3) How are we supposed to build enough EVs for everybody when considering the environmental impact of producing the batteries?
Tell me you are always alone when at home without telling me you are always alone when at home.
> Yeah the installation requirement is silly.

Is it? From my reading, much of the GPL v2/v3 divide comes from different expectations of what GPL is intended to achieve. One camp (e.g. Linus) believes that the goal is to ensure that the freely available product is the best product, that all improvements that are distributed can make their way back to the freely available repo. The other camp (e.g. Stallman) believes that the primary goal is to ensure that end users have control over their computers. That any software distributed to them can be modified to suit the end user's needs.

These are both valid viewpoints, and both camps thought the GPLv2 fit their needs, at the time of its writing. When TiVo found a loophole that satisfied one interpretation of the letter of GPLv2, but violated the its spirit as seen by the second camp, the GPLv3 was made to make explicit what was previously potentially ambiguous in the GPLv2.

That it all to say, I think it's premature to dismiss the viewpoint of Stallman's camp as "silly".
> C++ has so many features that taking over another codebase might actually feel like learning a new language. It is an actual problem,

No; People keep repeating this as if it were a truism, but it is not borne out by any empirical evidence. Sure there is some learning ramp to understand a new style of programming but it is far more easier than trying to learn and express oneself fluently in a whole another language. This has been true both in my own experience and most of the people/teams i have worked with.

See also the comment from "FpUser" in this thread echoing the same sentiments.
Starship exceeds Saturn V’s lift capacity.
I expect that companies create larger second order effects than governments. However governments last longer than private companies so they are a more reliable target for criticism. When a company messes up it can morph it's constituent parts into something else.
Nifi, Kafka, etc...
Philadelphia is a wonderful city of great beauty and culture. What do you find so horrible?
Firefox can talk to a unix socket. In your proxy settings specify the socket.

E.g., it is how you can more safely proxy through tor (which also can listen on a socket), with firefox running inside a network name space without access to a network interface. Things like webrtc cannot leak your real IP.
With weed having been (and in most places still being) illegal and not necessarily mainstream socially acceptable, some of its users might also have more of a need to "prove" its acceptability. With cannabis being more broadly condemned than alcohol (or at least having been so for several decades), it's no wonder if cannabis users become defensive. That might make some people want to deny any harm.

There's generally no need for anyone to prove that alcohol is normal or socially acceptable (in moderate amounts at least) in most of the world, because it already is.
Just fill out a "No interest" form with the county.

Penalty for lying would be steep.

I don't think lack of interest would be a big problem in most areas.

Yes--there will be skirters of the tax, but would it be worth a big fine?
I moved from Boulder to Florida maybe 2.5 - 3 years ago.

After a year in Orlando, I moved to Miami, so have been here just under 2 years I think.

We are seeing so many people from California and other tech-heavy areas migrate here lately, it's insane.
Because lots of less productive businesses still provide excellent products or services. I can think of lots of local restaurants, bookstores and cafes near me that are less productive than McDonalds, Barnes & Noble and Starbucks, but non the less have better food, curation or coffee than their competitors.
Suburbaniztion in the 70s hollowed out the middle class leaving just the extremely wealthy and extremely poor. Crack epidemic and the War on Drugs and the resultant crime accelerated the exodus. With the loss of tax base the city was going bankrupt, cutting back services (like police), and the infrastructure began to rot.

It wasn't all bad. Some of my favourite artists and musicians lived in the city of that era. They were paying low rents or squatting while working on their craft.

Once the disinvestment had run its course developers swooped in and bought some of the most desirable property for cheap. New buildings went up. A generation of kids raised in the suburbs discovered cities were awesome. And those starving artists either became successful or were forced to move out.

The working poor and working class who built the city, maintained the city when everyone else walked away they were discarded. Sent to live in unfashionable suburbs hours away. Rising ever so briefly as "essential workers" while COVID wrecked the economy and ravaged the cities knowledge workers.
This seems to be the fault of the Nigerian government no?

Shell is going to push its luck as far as it can with every country
In the non oil producing countries, the cost of consumption adds to the fiscial deficit. They even have huge incentive to move away, but the alternative has to be cheaper or open IP. The producers who have a cash cow, have no reason to stop production even if they agree on the environmental issues.
> What would you call the 'God' worshipped by Christians, the many by Hindus, etc., if not deities?

One diety with many names or facets.
The police riots were indeed awful but unfortunately I don’t think there’s going to be a correction- as they showed when they were cracking skulls in Washington sq park the NYPD can operate basically independent of the civilian authorities
Only if you spell it out. I've never seen it abbreviated in English, but I have seen it spelled out.

I only wish people knew what "e.g." meant -- "exampli gratia" or "free example". Folks on HN frequently use e.g. when they mean i.e. or "id est" or "that is". When you know the Latin, it rankles you every time.

However despite Latin, "data" is stuff just like "hair" in standard English. "The hair _is_ on the floor", not "The hair _are_ on the floor." And thus "the data is collected", not "the data _are_ collected". English isn't a slave to Latin, but some misuses are too egregious to be tolerated.
Thanks for the link. It seems to me that this is rather specialized, and would run into trouble with designs that have a very small base. Also, the number of parts is limited. Imho, this is closer to a printer than to a general model assembly robot.
We would have seen space progress. It wouldn’t have come for the US though.
Emergent from particular computation ≠ emergent from arbitrary computation. Plus, given your “viewed the right way” caveat, it's hard to argue that those “consciousnesses” (to concede that point, for the sake of argument) even exist in this universe, rather than existing purely within the concept-space of all mathematical entities.
We don't have the infrastructure to build them anymore, and a lot of the design wasn't captured in the blueprints because things were tweaked by hand to make them work. We could build something with Saturn V-like performance, but it would be a new rocket, not just resuming production of the older line.
It's not perfect but is still better than Slack, is free, and it so happens that my target market is in <30yo demographic so Discord is second nature to most of them (the gaming nature of it does still feel weird to me, but this is about making beta testers comfortable, not me)
I definitely see this in San Francisco. 24th street in Noe Valley is an odd combination of empty store fronts and shops selling hippy tchotchkies. There was a huge supermarket size space that was empty for fifteen years. They tried to make it into condos early on but the neighbors complained about "gentrification". Now it's a high end spa. Another win for Noe Valley.
flashbacks to my days in Japanese corps

Yeah, and by “consensus” it usually means “tell the subordinates what the boss wants no questions allowed”
It is definitely true in Christianity and Judaism: https://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-13.htm

It is absolutely, unconditionally true in Islam. It is established in Islam that anyone who denies a core established aspect of the religion (the term used is معلوم من الدين بالضرورة) is no longer Muslim. For example, you can't be a Muslim if you deny the Oneness of God.

Homosexuality is absolutely and clearly prohibited in the Quran and many Hadiths, e.g.[1][2]. These things are not open to interpretation at all.

> None can claim to be the only one to stick universally to the prohibition without playing No True Scotsman

Attempting to apply a fallacy to where it doesn't apply is a fallacy in and of itself. I'm sure you won't entertain when a flat earther or antivaxxer applies the no true scotsman. At some point, we have laws and clear cut texts that are not open to interpretation. The prohibition of homosexuality in Islam is one of them. Anyone who attempts to deny it can be trivially torn apart because the texts are so clear and unanimous. Those "groups" you're referring to are laughable, and have no understanding of the basics of Arabic, let alone Quran and Hadith knowledge, Arabian history, scholarly consensus, etc.

[1] https://quran.com/26/165-166
[2] https://quran.com/7/81-82
Once upon a time, alcohol usage among college students--regardless of age--was something that a blind eye was mostly turned to, including most local bars and the like to say nothing of the college itself. From what I can tell, this has mostly changed a lot.
How Science Lost the Public’s Trust
I lie awake at night and wonder, what if valve made competitive VR hardware, instead of the steamdeck?

It's clear the r&d is heavily in oculus's favor, and nobody is showing up to play. Even valves new headset is marketing fluff- "reading brain waves" doesn't work how they advertise it.
I must be impatient due to everything moving at internet speeds. The idea that this probe won't arrive until 2030, then it might identify a landing spot for an actual lander that will need to be budgeted, built, launched and travel to Europa for another decade is a little disappointing.

I understand there are huge technical challenges, vast distances but sometimes it feels like things are moving very slowly. On the other hand I watch SpaceX cycle through revisions on a crazy fast timeline and I have hope that we will have some breakthroughs in spacefaring technology sooner than expected.
Edtech is a blight. Hopefully the US follows suit.
The evolution of cuisines in recent history bares no resemblance to the evolution of cuisines in the late bronze Age to the late antiquity. For one, information was slow to travel, and influences were much further away, and besides that, most agriculture was subsistence farming: families owned land just about enough to feed themselves and sell a bit of surplus, if nothing went wrong). Recipes were passed down generations before any changes would be made by the introduction of new ingredients to the local agriculture. Most families lived on the same ingredients for their entire lives so things were a bit more stagnant than you'd imagine if you're taking recent history as your benchmark.
Though that's not how JS's new module system works, which I would say is also elegant in its own ways, but juggling two different systems is less so
I'm dubious that economic standing isn't a better criteria than race in most situations where affirmative action would be desirable.

Providing programs to help those in a weaker economic position more directly addresses the need, results in programs that everyone can feel that maybe they or their family might benefit from, and avoids perpetuating raced based discrimination and the resulting resentment.

If when economic equality isn't the inequality you're attempting to correct it's so highly correlated that it should be sufficient-- after all, a big part about why we care about the lasting effects of historic racism is that it has produced a lasting weakened economic standing.
It's definitely a matter of what the commenters view as "right". Obviously everything affects everything else, to infinite degrees. But assuming an American perspective, hedge funds and developers are both dealing in their own private assets, that being their reserves of capital and valuable labor. So whatever they do with those things is... primarily their business. Of course most reasonable people accept some small intrusions to this situation, but the overall perspective remains the same.

Whereas land use regulations and the like are a public commons, and everyone is entitled to a say and should have their needs meet. So all the ramifications of any public policy like this are of great significance and the affected feel they have a right to be heard.

Private actors with very strong claims on things like their labor and capital can just do what they will, and the second order effects aren't discussed because they are not relevant to the stakeholders. Everyone is a stakeholder of public policies like this.
This emergent quantum phenomena view implies there are a set of basic models transmitted or generated at conception. What we do know is the DNA genome is transmitted, so from a quantum computational perspective, there are plausibly cognition and consciousness models encoded in that.

If you have bred animals for ability, the folk wisdom is the sire throws certain traits, the dam attenuates them, and then develops others through socialization. This qualitative unscientific view obviously overlooks the dam genome, but through the lens of DNA molecules encoding models to run on a consciousness via quantum operations, the metaphor I would use is DNA encodes compressed model data.

In this view, the consciousness evolves over its runtime until it ceases to cohere information, but anything past the basic "lift head, solve for food, security, reproduction" models that run on a consciousness may originate at conception via genes.
>Are people really that stupid to give some mobile app company access to their contact list?

Almost every social media startup in the last 15 years was bootstrapped this way.
Isn't self-hosting usually forbidden by most ISPs? I've read countless times in the ToS of ISPs that running your own server is against their terms.

Also: if you suffer from frequent power outages, you have to have a server that 'bounces back' and survives the outage, with all the necessary services up and running after a reboot. Good luck writing scripts for that scenario.
Despite using python for the past 4 years, it still takes me several tries to set up packages and imports correctly when I make them myself. Honestly, I wish that python had an import system similar to JS (where you can just say “I want this file” <insert path to file> and specify the exports yourself). For me, it just feels more intuitive and less “magic”-like when dealing with custom scripts you want to import.
Here’s a blog series about rewriting some classic C in Rust, first unsafely and then safely, and getting some performance wins along the way: http://cliffle.com/p/dangerust/
Lua does the same thing as JS. It's basically "dofile" with some indirection and extra path resolution logic.
>> I wonder how advanced technology would be today if the Greeks realised the potential of this mechanism at the time.

I'm pretty sure they did, at least the ones that were aware of it- otherwise, why would they make it?

>> * 200 AD: the industrial revolution.

>> * 300 AD: cars, the radio.

>> etc.

Yes, but why? Why would the ancients want to start the industrial revolution in their time, and what tells us that cars and the radio would inevitably follow suit? Maybe the fact that they didn't start an industrial revolution should tell us that their goals did not align with the goals of the era of the industrial revolution.

As to technological discoveries taking a predetermined path, one after the other, exactly in the order in which they happened in our times, there's no reason to assume this. How do we know what obvious things we haven't invented yet that are well within our technological capabilities but we simply haven't thought of? Everything is pretty obvious with hindsight and with enough obviousness everything looks inevitable, but in reality nothing is.

Here's my favourite example: the Australian aborigines invented the airfoil many millennia befor the Wright brothers. They could have at least made gliders to swoop down upon prey from above. They never did. Why?

Because who knows how ancient people thought? All we know is that they thought not exactly as we do, and so they did things different than us. There's every reason to suspect that the ancients would have done things differently: they did.

Edit: Oh. Wait. Was that a "whoosh" sound far above my head?
Yup. Seems like they walked back the forced migration for existing users, but new Oculus users must sign up with FB it seems.

https://www.oculus.com/blog/facebook-accounts-on-oculus/?loc...
One theorem that gets little discussion is John Conway's Free Will Theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem

IF our choices and actions are free, quantum particles' behavior is free in the exact same sense, assuming three postulates, FIN, SPIN, and TWIN. Neither random nor deterministic, but free.

I take its lack of being discussed by the usual heavy-hitters in quantum physics as a sign it is not well received, but there is still a lack of discussion for being a theorem developed by Conway and Kochen, both very highly regarded.

"Free choice" is so visceral, and it is hard to imagine how experimental outcomes would be determined in heavily contrived ways such as the 9182nd word in a some book chosen by some other contrived way, and so on and so on to choose which spin axis to measure. And all done after the particles are spacelike separated
Rather than a sliding scale, why not something like x% of the 12 month average asking rent? If x is high enough that should be a great incentive for landlords to find and stay at the market clearing price.
I think the code could be easily re-written with Python.
Yes that was not very subtle, sorry about that.

It might be iridium flares, although it looks like he got slow moving sats, so higher in altitude. Either way, they all look like that, fast straight moving lights, not pulsating like stars, not red/green like planes.

You can see the ISS very clearly when it passes above. It sometimes disappears mid-pass when it is late and the shadow of the earth is obscuring half your sky. You can also see the SpaceX sat train (60 sats in a straight line) passing by just after a launch. This will freak you out though, it looks like a straight comet trail moving half the sky in 1 min.
They still haven't legalized cannabis, meaning police can go intimidate ordinary growers and users. Same is true in South Africa.
Because congress forced them to use Space shuttle components and NASA can't go to the open market and find other components. Space shuttle suppliers are fleecing NASA.

Here's an example: The SLS/Space Shuttle RS-25 engines are $125mm a piece when they could buy RD-180 engines for $25m a piece. There are 4 engines on SLS and they are expendable.
I’m not proud of it, but when the reporting on Pegasus came out last week I was thinking “I wonder if this could lead to a Jailbreak on iOS 15.”
“We did a transport experiment on some fractal structures and therefore consciousness and quantum mechanics are related.” Come on.
Circular imports in JS matter when the imported code is being called immediately at import time. If a file defines functions that later call functions from another file (and vice-versa), but those symbols will be populated before the function actually gets called, there's no problem
> Unless anyone knows of magical tools to help solve import issues?

Topological sorting? Always wondered why programming languages can't do what package managers do.