skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the target market but can't use this unless it supports all of my Python libraries like Django and Numpy.

It seems to me there is a huge demand for making Python faster, whether it be via making a more optimisation friendly subset, or ideally throwing engineering talent into improving the interpreter.

V8 shows this can be done with highly dynamic Javascript. I guess we need a big corporate sponsor or the community to fund some positions.

It's kind of crazy how few developers are working on optimising cPython, it may even be a worth it for environmental reasons.
It's unreasonable for Apple to assume they own a relationship they had no role whatsoever in establishing.
I was the other person profiled in the WSJ article they referenced. I remember when the article came out and I was like, "wow those are some impressive returns."

Sad to see that he was stealing. I think we will see more of these cases. There was a ton of very "shady" behavior in the industry. Regulators are only scratching at the surface.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoins-crashing-that-wont-sto...
Not sure what improvement Pearse made over, say, Ader.
This was a really interesting video from a business perspective
My ACM TechTalk on quantum supremadvantage
Err, conditional breakpoints are your friend.

Also, "nobody" uses breakpoints? Everyone in my team uses them all the time.
By the way, the "safer than the mean human driver" bit is irrelevant when you consider the distribution of human drivers. They need to be safer than (say) the 95th percentile of human drivers, which is a far higher bar to clear than the mean.
Which of these countries one can easily move to? Most countries have relatively strict immigration policy, and if your plan is to overstay tourist visa, they might just deport you home, despite no extradition agreement.
That's exactly what they're doing now, predicting depth without relying on object classification first. That's why it doesn't run into the pillars anymore. Obviously it needs a lot of work, but to me it seems plausible that the general approach can work. My biggest concerns are that the cameras aren't good enough and/or that there isn't enough compute on the car.
Besides the assumption about the number of holders, it's not clear how a holder contributes individually to power consumption. What if you own a wallet and don't do transactions? What if you're "hosting" it on a publicly traded company's servers?

In my understanding, there are many stakeholders when it's about bitcoin technology. Be it miners, traders, holders, exchanges... BTC is not solely a common legal entity (like: country, company) nor a widespread regular resource (as: oil, gas, water). It's more like the Internet; another protocol to exchange information(+value). Then, who is going to fairly assess the overall energy consumption of The Internet? Thus, the logic followed in that assertion is incredibly hard to understand (but unfortunately popular nowadays).
Occasionally they do (e.g. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17). Of course, no one would blame Boeing for that.
No. Paintings are three dimensional objects, that take up a certain part of your field of view, that reflect and interact with light in a certain way, that have real, physical texture.
Never thought I'd see the day where calling out a webhost known for giving shelter to white supremacist shooter manifestos and doxxing murder lists for atomwaffen would fall under 'moral panic.'
lets be real, recruiters will take notice no matter what
Australia and New Zealand would probably be considered successful withdrawals? Canada?

Less so the colonies that became the US, I guess.
Err, conditional breakpoints are your friend.

Also the GP claims "nobody" uses breakpoints? Everyone in my team uses them all the time.

Suppose it all depends on your language/tool chain, in my experience breakpoints are very commonly used by developers in visual studio.
Indonesian intelligence agency compromised in suspected Chinese hack
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but sometimes causation correlates with correlation. Can't tell which one is more relevant in this case.
"We're cautiously optimistic that these nudges will help point people towards content that inspires and uplifts them, and to a larger extent, will shift the part of Instagram's culture that focuses on how people look."

The term "nudge" could have multiple meanings. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(instant_messaging) or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory

In either case, given the modus operandi of a "tech" company, its an encroachment on free will. An subversive attempt to influence decision-making deisgned to fly under the radar. "Tech" companies already do this with their so-called "dark patterns", making choices confusing or removing viable choices altogether. There is nothing new here in this "rebuttal" from Instagram, except perhaps a new "justification" (a parallel construction) they can cite as to why they corraled a user to look at something (favorable to Instagrams 100% ad-dependent business) when the user actually wanted to look at something else. Of course, Instagram could provide users with this "nudge" feature as an option (like HN has noprocrast), but we all know they wont. That is not a choice they want the user to have. The "business" of these companies is to show advertising to users. They are middlemen. Watching and plotting.
The Soviets militarily occupied Eastern Europe, but they never really colonized it to a significant extent.
Where is this list defined?

If it's not defined specifically, it would seem the intent is the stdlib.
US Govt Fiscal Policy Alleviated Poverty During C19
That's why I love pipeline integrated scans that point out issues like excessive cognitive overhead (big fat if/else waterfall with loops everywhere) or "code smells" so the team doesn't get bogged down in munitia during code reviews. If someone needs help getting a piece of code tested to 100% or resolving a code smell they can reach out or bring it up in a standup.
A whole bunch of Computer Science is only relevant for actual computers not Turing Machines. When I was (a student) at University they didn't teach Wait-Free versus Lock-Free concurrent algorithms, but that's an important 21st century topic because actual computers today are capable of many simultaneous operations, and it's totally possible to write a program that isn't even Lock-free and may literally make no progress despite spinning its wheels.
Maybe it's also the garbage you need to do to get in like all those extracurricular activities which are pure bogus crap. In the old days you could get in by your high school qualifications alone. Now you can't tell two students apart due to grade inflation.
I would be especially interested in a comparison with Zsh, which is also very much a "better Bash".
I guess there's a kind of humor in the video. Yet, for me Linux has seen by far worse days. I can,remember how Microsoft didnt want to work with us, because we used communist software ...

Also Linux is the most common OS on two planets in our solar system :)

A 42 min video with content that could be put in 5 minutes (not well reasoned at all, as missing WSL and other systemic threats, like right wing idiots) is just sad.
I'd agree that 'body positivity' is easier to find in this climate, but is it what's being often served on these platforms algorithmically? Is it the default prior to your personal 'profile' being recorded? Does it pump the 'engagement cycle' at a better rate than these 'body negative' cultures? If not, then we're not better off in this era because-- as we've seen-- the engagement cycle is a feedback loop. It amplifies itself. And the qualities of the people it attracts.

I personally do not take issue with these cultures existing; however i do take issue with how they are propagated and promoted. These systems don't afford users the full breadth of 'response options' as we would have in real life. You can't even express simple dislike or disagreement, unlike 'love' and 'like', etc. Not to mention the black-box engines of recommendation and discovery of new content in the first place.

And though i don't agree that there's ~less body negativity in the aggregate that wouldn't mean that is has less impact. A small culture highly-addicted to body negativity could have larger social impacts than widely-held-but-less-addicted. We see it across many other domains already in our 'American' culture.
They hired Google’s head of Search and AI to run Siri and are investing a lot, so they care.

It seems to be taking time for the impact to show, but his fingerprints are all over iOS 15 with on-device Siri, contextual awareness, Google Lens features, etc.
> predicting depth

Better than predicting would be enough cameras to get a stereo baseline. But I'm glad at least that 6 years after launch they're finally maybe sort of thinking about it poorly.
This so reminds me of Barry Seals asking people to stand back everytime he started his car.
I spent about 3-4 months learning Nix/OS this past spring/summer. After some trial and error and source code spelunking, I finally got my system working according to these two blog posts, with some tweaks [1]. It was a lot of work to ramp up that learning curve, but now that I have I don’t think I can ever go back to another standard Linux again. They all feel so messy and disorganized now by comparison.

[1]: Some things, notably containers like LXC/LXD, can’t work with tmpfs mounted to /var, /var has to be on disk, while the rest of / can be tmpfs.
Just wondering how much of an increase do insurance companies charge for cars with autopilot?
Surely not as fully featured, but the general idea has been possible for ClojureScript Re-frame with: https://github.com/day8/re-frame-10x
Just curious, why do you say decentralized trading is incomplete research/vaporware? There are dozens of decentralized exchanges that are up and operating, including sites like Dydx and uniswap. Obviously these are still experimental, but they do work.
I am definitely watching the entire Ory stack. Too immature for me to adopt now, but I’m trying to design with hooks and processes in mind for future integration!
Crypto is a catch-all term at the moment. Some cryptos will be more useful than others. Some (like BTC) could be the digital equivalent of gold. Some will facilitate decentralized companies (e.g. LINK). Some will likely be Ponzi schemes (e.g. dogecoin).
NVidia in particular has been painful to update on my laptop, and it doesn't work well with the rest of the system.
What about VR/AR? Its not like you're allowed to touch the painting (which you cannot do in VR/AR either).
Yes, that's true. I guess I don't oppose it because I don't care. But I certainly know many developers whore highly concerned about their pay.
Forgive my ignorance and especially how broad a surface. I am actually clueless in the grand scheme.

All our countries in some way buy everything from China, at least in the UK? Everything I have is in some way stamped with "Made in China" since I was quite young looking at my xmas toys. It seems to still be that way. The UK economy wants me to take out a credit card, get a haircut, buy a beer, then buy a sandwich and maybe stay in a hotel. If I want a TV, Fridge, Phone, Table, Standing Desk, Motor, Bicycle... It's made in China.

Over the years, I have seen information about the rise of China, when I go to my capital city, the vast majority of people I see are Chinese tourists, far more than I have ever seen American's despite being closer.

What I am just wondering is, the UK doesn't have a pot to piss in. In this country it will take decades to pay for a tiny little rail link whilst in China, they are laying high speed rail at a pace that literally blows my mind.

I can't put my finger on it but what is the point in this for spending money? America is a bag holder, the UK is involved to make it seem important, and what is the end goal for Australia? What is the actual end goal for any of us?

I need a new fridge, all my options are Chinese. But pretend that a submarine and some missles protect us? Until when? 2040 as your grandkid is paying covid while China booms?

What am I missing here?
Let's take your logic and apply it to HN.

There are some Nazis here. If you do not stop posting here you are associating with Nazis. Since you post here you are either a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer.
I mean... On one hand, I agree with your bemoaning,but then on second thought - compared to what?

I don't think plumbers,electricians,lawyers, construction workers,car salespeople, you name it necessarily have inherently better average ethics (even once and if we define and agree on what those are or should be :)
how does it improve posture?
Is there a lawsuit to make GM take back the cars? This is ridiculous.
I’d say the difference is that those territories were more or less “at peace”. The colonists had “won” the war, at least per some definition of winning.

Afghanistan was a barely held together mess even before we withdrew.

I’m not arguing one way or the other for Taiwan—I don’t want to go to war with China for all sorts of obvious reasons—but we would have the backing of the Taiwanese people, and that’s a major difference versus Afghanistan.
> The automaker told Bolt owners to limit the charge to 90 percent, plug in more frequently and avoid depleting the battery to below about 70 miles of remaining range.

Tesla's approach here would be to issue an OTA update that told your car to treat 90% as 100% and 25% as 0. I can't decide if I like that better or worse.
Those are settler colonies, a completely different kettle of fish. From the point of view of the (majority) settler population, they gradually ceased to consider themselves as British and underwent a multi-step disentanglement of legal and constitutional connections to the UK beginning almost a century ago but still ongoing. From the point of the (minority) indigenous populations, well I'm sure it varies but they may not agree that a withdrawal has occurred...
Saying that Richard Stallman has "nothing to do with Linux" is like saying that Naughty Dog have nothing to do with the PlayStation. They don't work on the hardware or OS, sure, but they do happen to write some of the most popular software on the system.

GNU software installation counts are highly correlated with Linux installation counts. A user's overall experience with their Linux system is somewhat correlated with their feelings about the GNU software on it. If people enjoyed GNU software 50% less, it would certainly harm Linux.
Ah, hadn't noticed he is on Github and has a repo too.

The other repository README needs to be updated.
The argument is easily dismissed when you understand why owning art is essential. It’s not holding it that matters. The value of an asset gives incentive to collectors, but it’s not the point. It’s supporting the artist who created it to enable them to make more and sustain a career. Because without that, we simply don’t have art.

Personally I prefer the patron model for creators of all sorts, including artists. It lets me support the creation of further art without the pretense of someone claiming ownership over a string of ones and zeroes.
There is a offline solution if you are looking for, the app is Calibre. It is basically ebook manager & extra. It can convert the PDF into mobi and customizable based on your preference. They have a preset for Kindles. Also it can works with DRM'ed files via DeDRM plugins. And Calibre can export it directly to your Kindle. A fair warning, don't use Calibre if you structured your ebook folder. The app will import everything and keep it within their own database folder thus doubling the space size.
Thank you! I agree with so much in this, it really strikes the right balance of clean code vs productivity.

One of my peeves is a review that points out a bug/incorrectness without offering proof, or suggesting the fix/correct way. The reviewer might observe a code smell, but it's so much better dealt with a question-comment, e.g. "did you try?" vs "this looks wrong".

I generally aim to make every comment a question ("can we..."), and not make assumptions that the author didn't think of something already. Unless I just stating an objective fact that is clearly unknown e.g. "this duplicates library function x...".
Golang: How to Update APIs for Generics
Care to explain why you think uniswap isn't decentralized trading? The contracts are immutable, 100% on chain, and can be interacted with without any help from the uniswap web site.
Withdrawal from Malaysia and Singapore went well.
Saying ‘leaving or being fired’ implies that those are happening at a comparable frequency. Staff are incredibly burnt-out because they’ve been in emergency mode for a year and a half. Hospitals can’t get enough staff.

Firings have been extremely limited, and have only really happened to frontline staff who refused to get vaccinated. It’s almost nothing in comparison.

Hospitals could certainly add more physical beds, but they don’t have the people to care for those patients. You can’t fix that overnight.
Whales depend on new money entering to keep the price from plummeting. I used to think of crypto’s as a decentralized ponzi where all the participants are incentivized to bring in as many new participants as possible. They’ve cut this part out and just decided to go with making fake money out of tether to prop up the price.
Yes, they really ought to dramatically upgrade their cameras. No argument there. Their stereo baseline is too small and the cameras have different lenses so it's unclear if they can even get any stereo information at all.

The problem for Tesla is that they already sold FSD on cars that have the existing camera setup. I think there's a good chance that they will get to a point where they realize their existing cameras aren't good enough and will have to either come up with retrofit kits or refund owners of existing cars with FSD.
This is good solid math that I encourage everyone to think hard about, and that death rate is only going to go up.
>> Has anyone ever actually met a COBOL programmer?

I've met quite a few. I spent a year in a mainframe team in Amex and I worked in COBOL, JCL and REXX. I preferred REXX, but COBOL is not that bad. JCL is a horror. I worked in that team in 2016. The median age in the team was around 40 ish but there were a few outliers, including myself and a couple of others. I was also acquainted with many dozens of third-party contractors who worked for Amex programming mainframes.

If you haven't met many COBOL programmers yourself, the reason might be that a) you've never worked in a big financial corp and b) you don't hang out with programmers from big contractor companies a lot.

To clarify, most of my career in the industry before and after that I was working with more modern languages, like C# and Python.
They've already done a recall. This is a temporary measure until the batteries can be replaced, however this article does mention they are buying some back apparently.
Really Pissing off China
Mass Murder
Nuclear Fallout
> The entire crypto world is like this.

I've heard that there are a bunch of companies in the space paying their blockchain engineers minimum wage (when their salaries should have been at least 250k), and instead compensating them by letting them insider trade on their press releases. The reason the people in these cases rarely get fired when found out is that it's literally their compensation package.
“regulatory arbitrage” is a pretty hilarious way to spell “extremely profitable crime”
You are saying the same thing
> Canada, Australia

Ask the natives about it.
At this point the exact posts are just shared around platforms. Tweets posted on HN. Tweets posted to reddit. Facebook memes on instagram. Ticktock posts to instagram and reddit. Doesn't matter what platform you go on, the same fodder ends up everywhere.
http://trimread.org/articles/1603
Bitcoin resource consumption is bounded to demand for secure settlement - large, but not excessive. I would expect long-term Bitcoin resource consumption to correspond to less than 1% of human productive output (but probably more than 1% of power generation). How much of human productive capacity is spent on banking right now? Bitcoin will probably consume some fraction of that. It should be a net productivity win (assuming it sticks around).
Yes, unfortunately they continue to stick with proprietary, what seems like afterthought, linux drivers that must be manually installed.
And you have to re build and sign them every 7 days, as opposed to the "install the APK once and it's there forever" of Android
If someone wanted to make the case that Facebook is a net-good force in the world, I'd read that. But I haven't seen anyone even try to lay out evidence of Facebook doing any good things. I like pytorch, prophet, and their decent job policing the pedophiles on the FB platform, but what else do they do that's good and responsible?
And this is why humanity will always suck.
Your value prop has to outweigh the potential negatives or there is no value prop. What OP is saying is that you can't have unregulated markets in this space the incentives to cheat are too great.
As long as it included messaging and an admission of fault, that seems significantly safer for the general populace.
I think there's the 5 second cool factor but after that novelty you're probably just as disgruntled as the fact that you lost 35% of the range for your car.

I hope the Chevy bolt is a rare case and stories like this don't pop up with the other upcoming electric vehicles. The new lightning F150 looks very attractive.
Wait, no, I was wrong. Matter and Energy are the same thing. Only nothing has no energy or matter.
You may have a point in theory, but the harsh reality seems to disagree.

Kicking out stupid people may be all good and dandy, but I'm very wary of the people who are harsh proponents of the kicking, whom they represent, and what they stand for.

Oh, and what/whom they suggest the "stupid" leader X should be replaced with. Usually their thinking doesn't go that far.

The usual pattern I see is: employees at large corporations attacking people who don't have a big corporate affiliation. This may not mean much, but it makes me start thinking about this big picture.

And then, I haven't yet seen an open source project where the long-time leader went away because of burnout of some kind or was kicked out, and it started growing, prospering, and kicking ass in general (Python doesn't count, since Guido never really went away). I've seen stagnation at best, and disuse, lack of maintenance, and a fall into obscurity in the vast majority of cases. In other words, there is not enough laissez-faire in "the community" at large to keep the tragedy of commons at bay.
The output is hacker.thoughts.page
GM issued a recall for all bolts a month ago.
I did a lot of COBOL in the U. S. Army in 1967-68. Wonder if I could get a reasonably paying job doing it now.
That's a hell of a stretch there. Anything in the tax code can be a loophole if viewed from the right angle. I don't see anything unethical in taking advantage of a LAW that trades early risk-taking for some later tax break, for the benefit of small business creation. Anyways, we're getting dangerously close to Godwin's law territory here, so I'm bowing out of this thread.
So criticizing PHP as a programming language is "actively participating in the exclusion of women from STEM"? That seems like a big leap to me.
Covid: The lives upended by Australia's sealed border
I don't understand. To see the article I guess you need to visit:https://bit.ly/3hDQdOJ
From memory, Romney was close to even to win.
Newsom Claims Victory: See How Los Angeles County Voted
And do not taunt your cars, or they may blow up.

Tesla has had a very number of problems but imagine if this is where we got with them after a few years out in the market. There might not even be an EV industry right now.
> Flash was originally called FutureSplash

So had the renaming taken place now in stead of twenty years ago, it would be called F7lash in stead of just Flash.