skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[disclaimer: I have contributed to a couple different Python runtimes and employed to work on Cinder]

> Can CPython become faster?

Yes. There are several people (including a team by Guido and Mark Shannon) working on making CPython faster in-tree. There are others, including the folks on Cinder and Pyjion, who are working on extensions to CPython out of tree.

> Could the devs take a look [...]

It's no secret how they made their runtimes fast. It's all -- more or less -- implementations of the original Smalltalk-80 paper and all that fell out of it.

> Can the Python language get extended so that you can define the bottlencks of your code in another language?

C extensions are already available in Python, and have been for quite some time. In fact, I would argue they are a little bit part of the problem: there are so many C extensions that runtime optimization efforts don't have as much effect as people would like; the slow stuff is already in C.

> Can a new runtime take over and everybody settle on it?

There are a lot of "competing" Python runtimes that serve different use-cases. Some use PyPy. Some use Jython. Some use Cinder. etc. Though everyone seems to ask "why not just use PyPy?", people forget to consider that everyone has different constraints that PyPy does not necessarily satisfy.
Making a second separate post. As this actually made me question things I went looking down this rabbit hole. Lo and behold this looks like a google bomb of bad material[1]. I then follow this through and find a whole set of people already pointing out how the paper does not claim that the vaccine is known to cause issues and pointing our your cherry-picking[2].

If you are going to spread misinformation across the internet, please at least run your clips through a thesaurus so they aren't a few seconds of googling away to discover the issue.

[1]https://imgur.com/Dgujf3N
[2]
For a release that breaks changes, a decimal increment in version number is maybe too modest.

Was surprised to find some org-babel packages (ob-*) were being moved to org-contrib/ while others not.

The reasoning is apparently:

> "I suggest a criterium [sic] for keeping ob*.el files in Org could be that the extension is known by Emacs _or_ that the supported language is well-established."
Thanks for your help. It has been fixed. Indeed, wrong copy and paste when building site ;).
This is just pure political red meat with zero substance; it's got no business being here.
Just chiming in to share my disdain and rancor against JIRA. "JIRA shitlets" is the best term I've heard in weeks.

To paraphrase T.S. Eliot:

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with a storm of whimpering JIRA shitlets."
Writing is easy.

Writing legible, interesting, persuasive, succinct, informative, insightful, lucid, precise or revealing copy is more difficult.
One thing this became extremely visible was Brexit to me. There are really good arguments why not leaving the union is the better choice. I am critical of the EU, but not to a degree that I want to abolish it as I think reforms are possible. I am not from GB and think their critical stance was very important within the EU since it institutionally lacks a real opposition. Without that it is an inefficient and bureaucratic technocracy (those actually don't really get results at all).

People asked questions about immigration, sovereignty, participation. These are completely valid topics and asking was basically decried as Russian propaganda. Meanwhile classical EU proponents never even argued that it isn't a compromise of sovereignty and participation! Denying that was denying reality.

The thing is, if that is the wide spread stance on how to deal with "misinformation", the whole thing suddenly isn't worth it anymore and it is not even close. People just basically argue that they want a technocracy that treats them like children. This was the image the pro-Brexit group crafted.

It is similar to what vaccination proponents do. I don't know how to tell them that they are part of what makes vaccination unattractive to many. I wouldn't advocate to ban them of course.
Sometimes I wonder what the effects of increasing cultural segmentation are going to be. When I was younger, people I met at parties or shows were way more likely to share multiple cultural touchstones with me. Broadcasts like Subterranean on MTV2 created a shared surface area for indie and alt kids, basically across the United States. Later, on local levels, last.fm concert listings made it easy to find my people. That's how I met my wife.

Now, I have no idea where to find people who share the same "cultural flavor" as me. I feel like everyone's interests have become so idiosyncratic that I can no longer stand any of my best friend's favorite music, movies, memes, etc. and vice versa.

For a long time, I tried to stay on the local pulse so that I could find an audience for my music. It got harder and harder. I then had two realizations... I heard some advice from some musician, "Dont focus on being in a band, focus on making music." That's exactly the error I had been making for the past 15 years. The other week, one of my friends played a solo noise set on a bill of pop punk and emo bands. I missed his set, but apparently out of about 150 kids, only one stayed inside to watch him. He was still buzzing just from playing. I realized, even if I set up a show in the middle of the desert and no one shows up, I could still make some sounds and wiggle around and catch a little ecstasy from the ether.
> It is for a cloud hoster.

Which is absolutely where CF are headed, as evidenced by R2.

Don’t forget that S3 was the first AWS product. It’s fitting that it’s also CF’s first real foray into cloud-land.
>Creating money doesn't create more resource

True, it only creates the promise to work in the future. Whether that promise is worth something is up to the person making the promise.

>it just dilutes the medium of exchange and changes the vector of the capital allocation

That's an odd way of saying "higher interest rates". People do investments. They pay an interest rate according to the profitability of that investment. When there isn't enough aggregate supply to allow both investment and consumption the interest rate is raised until people either stop consuming because they are getting paid interest or because there are so many investments available you only pick the best ones.

> The creation of money itself actually hurts the system where those who had previously been successful in creating wealth through performance of capital allocation or labour and now partially disenfranchised of the full right they had earned to continue this trend.

Money is a promise that someone will work for you. That's not wealth, that's a promise of future wealth. Letting people promise even more future wealth does in no way hurt anyone. You also have to be realistic. If the promise turns out to not be true, then lying to everyone that it's real just makes everything worse because people keep "investing" into a lie.

As I said in other comments. Labor cannot be stored. Simply holding onto money doesn't mean people are still there willing to work for you. Holding onto money in that sense can be self defeating. It's like that economic pie analogy. The pie has to be baked every day. If you don't eat the whole pie it will spoil and go into the trash. Uneaten cake benefits nobody so either stop baking so much cake or eat it before it's gone.

> now partially disenfranchised of the full right they had earned to continue this trend.

Well, as you can see in the pie analogy he has no intention to continue this trend otherwise he would avoid monetary savings because of the labor storage problem.
Modern relational databases are marvels of engineering. But I don't think they would have gotten off the ground if they had needed those three decades to be practical at all.
WASM isn't Javascript. WASM is a way to represent native code in Javascript that some Javascript runtimes then can use to run it as native code. If the Javascript runtime hasn't implemented a hack to run WASM as native code then WASM is ridiculously slow. If the VSCode team writes their code in C++, compiles it to WASM and then runs WASM and it is fast, then it was C++ that was fast and not Javascript.

If that is really how they got their performance then no wonder that few others actually managed to do it, because most teams wouldn't write their Electron app in C++ and then compile it to WASM. The difference is that Microsoft has a ton of C++ engineers so they could do it easily, but I doubt many Electron teams put out job postings to hire C++ people.
It sort of works as an argument if they also supply a "an we do it in this more positive way than others would" bit to the statment. But that's usually left out in silent acknowledgement that the person speaking actually is acting unethically because they don't provide any positive effect other parties wouldn't.
Thanks for your help. It has been fixed on our side too ;).
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Hey folks,
Being a dev some years now and doing on a regular basis tech watch to keep up to date, it appears to be difficult and time consuming to both manage our sources and discover new relevant content...
We are working on a beta product to solve this issue - at its time well addressed by google reader ^^
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> Sure, but what [if] I’m in the audience you say that you intend to target, but I can see that I wouldn’t use the product?

Early on, the entire target audience are customers and potential customers. The later I define as everyone that have not yet been talked to but would make the switch if they learned about the product in its current form.

Either you are a customer or a potential customer or you are just not that interesting.
I just wanted to thank you for it. Over the years it has had a big impact on all types of projects, from industrial heavy ones to raspberry-based tinkering experiments :D
But you can also use a dithered AVIF — and save even more.
Could you elaborate on the original smalltalk paper and its relation to js jit?
According to the actual study referenced:

> 65.5% of employees were at least somewhat willing to receive compensation in cryptocurrencies.

> Nearly half of the employees we spoke to had received at least one payment in the form of cryptocurrency.

https://www.skynova.com/blog/pay-me-in-bitcoin
> not to blindly just give customers what they ask for, but to figure out what they really need

Classically called an xy problem: https://xyproblem.info/
>Creating more money steals value from everyone who has traded their work for money,

Let's say I have a car that is worth $30k. I create a car coupon that lets you buy the car for $0. I have created more money without "stealing value".

Money is created by promising work in the future. Considering the huge demand for work in the future it should be pretty obvious why there is so much debt out there.
totally different back then, I suspect (just like Islington)
Hi Azaan,

This is brilliantly done. You have a bright future ahead.

A few suggestions:

1. You could add anonymous(but verified) tutor ratings.
This will enable children to find better tutors while tutors are encouraged to perform better to increase their ratings.

2. I think it's more user-friendly if you open internal pages within the same tab (e.g. the open section opened a new tab).

3. Also, I could think of many revenue models.
Example: Commission on tuition fees (better to do once you're established), Premium accounts for tutors to host learning materials, On-Demand tuition classes, private sessions, etc.

Again, really well done. I wish you all the best!

Cheers!
I don't knock street smarts, and I do believe in living by your gut. I think people without formal education or much numeracy will - left to their own devices - come to very sane conclusions about viruses and vaccines if they're just given the raw data to work through. What they don't have is the armor to repel false arguments. The premise of telling someone who's never read a medical text to "do your own research" - by reading conspiracy sites online - is just so ridiculous that you know whoever is telling them that is laughing up their sleeve. I live in a deep red area so I see this all the time... when people say they did their own research on the vaccine, I think, wow. Research is a big word.
This is different from having a gut feeling that something is wrong and you don't trust the government. It's almost like the in-group of pro-vax, pro-science liberals has deliberately organized and promoted a mass display of ignorance by the skeptical country folks just for the purpose of pointing and laughing and delighting in their ignorance. And yet, the antivax fever that's swept over the red states is still ignorant, and even more so if it plays directly into a concerted plan to make them look like fools who are prolonging the pandemic.
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I don't want to discover anything

I don't want to spend more time on YT than necessary to see the video I want to see

I don't want to teach their recommendations system
Microsoft is partnering ( as well as being an investor ) with Ampere. And Google is going with AMD EPYC offer vCPU as single CPU Core instead of a thread.

I mean Amazon has been preparing for this since 2015 when they acquired Annapurna Labs.

Considering TSMC somehow increased their planned capacity for 5nm by 50%. There may be a chance you will will see that going to Microsoft of Google coming in 2023.
Thanks friend for your feedback and encouraging words.
You have been very helpful :)
Cpp.py: Implementing C++ Semantics in Python
Is there some sort of third quadrant effect, like might be seen for a triac?
Yes, I used it, generally, on JS platform, the performance is not so good to do FTS, especially when document is long and the data getting huge.
India squad, schedule, date, time – ICC T20 World Cup 2021 – SportsHal
I just re-did my borg list commands again - it's now at the same speed as a couple of weeks ago. Strange.
I wouldn't object to getting part of my salary in some crypto currency, but given the option I probably would not take it.

I prefer the stable pay check I know I can count on. The reason is because I already invest a small part of my salary in crypto whenever I see the market opportunity, and I prefer to keep it that way, instead of letting the pay roll manager take care of it.
It's not an equal trade, but it's as close to proportional tactical/theatre level nuclear retaliation as US can get, PRC simply doesn't have many overseas bases / vunerabilities for US to target. Vast majority of PRC forces are on the mainland which is... basically the top of the escalation ladder, and opens up CONUS + territories for proportional retaliation.

Otherwise, SCS bases are substantial forward deployment positions for PRC. Conventionally neutralizing SCS bases would require 100s of ordnance from naval platforms in a mostly secondary theatre - substantial amount of what US can concentrate in region. The bases serve missile sinks by design. So in a sense, taking them out via tactical nuke versus expending significant in theater munitions is an appropriate trade.

>public message

There's a lot of (declassified) literature on nonstrategic nuclear weapons and scenarios, war plans for theatre level use in Europe and Asia. Here's a report from this July.

https://sgp.fas.org/crs/nuke/RL32572.pdf

Public messaging is going to play up MAD, but nonstrategic nukes has never been off the table. PRC has no first use, but one never knows. Especially since the engagements are likely maritime over empty waters, which has different escalatory potential than scenarios of nuking NATO/USSR buffer countries during cold war. It's not that I think it's likely, just the chances are less non-zero than what's publically presented, i.e. the 2021 report exists in the first place because US wonks are at least discussing tactical nukes which are not subject to arms control agreements.
The Art of Linear Algebra [pdf]
The point is that there is nothing inherently wrong with blind peer review, you're proposing the classical solution to a nonexistent problem. The problem is that too many reputable journals were lured over to big publishing houses and these want to use them as a perpetual money-printing machine. To fix the problem, you create free, voluntary-based reputable open access journals with triple blind peer review that will (slowly) replace the expensive ones. This is happening.

Maybe you should consider that you're the stubborn one who links to blog posts from open access journals with a strong bias to reform the peer review system as evidence. Plos journals have this agenda because they don't have good enough pools of reviewers, which is the problem of all new journals. However, it's not as if scientists all over the world and funding authorities haven't thought about the topic. People should not withold judgement about these issues, that's an odd request and would weaken the position of scientific staff towards political decision makers who certainly won't withold judgement.

To give you an example of what is being done by funding authorities, at our university we are required by law to publish every article in openly accessible format. Otherwise they do not count at all towards our salaries, they will be ignored completely. There are public open repositories for that. The only thing that bothers everyone is that big publishers like Elsevier only allow draft versions in those repositories and there is sometimes a 1 year mandatory delay until they can be put online. That needs to change and EU authorities are working on it.
in context, it would've been _much_ funnier if it had been jobs@apple.com instead of steve@apple.com
LOL. That's bullshit.
Any suggestions on a good Macbook pro charger? I try to find a GaN-based one, with all the necessary certifications, but my search hasn't been successful so far. e.g. [0]

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>In the comment they replied to there's a clear phrase describing my meaning. You are being ridiculous.

What's ridiculous is asking for a thing, receiving that thing, then proceeding to lament the thing you asked for isn't what you wanted.

>I win the argument…

You win nothing.
How is what you're describing (paying someone a salary to provide value to the company) different from "employment"?
The bureaucracy kills a lot of idiotic ideas from the popularity contests that promise the world but break the bank, though.
> but there are hundreds of millions of people in India who have been taking Ivermectin for significant amounts of time.

Misinformation. Anti-vaxx groups are sighting India because a tiny state(Goa) with a population of 1.59 Million included Ivermecitin in their home isolation medicine kit along with zinc, doxycycline, homeopathy etc. and also announced that adults in the state would be given Ivermecitin.

A fraction of their population actually received that kit, Of which negligible population actually consumed those if any. Ivermecitin, Zinc, doxycycline were removed from that kit in Goa after federal medical authority asked it to do so and it was even removed from the treatment of COVID-19 patients in the hospitals throughout India.

So, No 'hundreds of millions of people in India' never took Ivermecitin and is no way related to the drop in cases of COVID in India. But Anti-vaxx groups are using this misinformation as an ammunition at unexpected places to further their agenda[1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210924045611/https://github.co...
I think the poster is using the content of the article to make a joke.
again the scanning is implemented on the phone. That's what matters for me. I have some code on my device that works as snitch against me. That might just be a feeling and irrational, yet I really don't want that.

I know how it works. I don't use google photos. I don't WANT to use icloud ... Maybe I'm just too stupid, yet I enabled iCloud several times by accident due to updates/new devices.
That won't happen with my grapheneOS nexus5 :)

If you care about privacy and security, you need to leave iOS as quickly as you can ...
2 days ago:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5gan4/apple-still-investiga...

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
I saw Belew give a lecture in 1986 and remember being just mesmerized by his “avant dobro”.

https://youtu.be/UD-GrAMUzO8

https://youtu.be/24DKSkOQzm8

https://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/adrian-belew-and-t...

Then there’s the whole Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch thing.

https://toyahwillcox.com/toyah-roberts-sunday-lunch/

WTF... and yet. Such intensely creative and talented people. Wha’s like them? Damn few.
I think GP mixing up Stream Processing with Event Sourcing [1]. Event Sourcing is usually used in complex business domains, Stream Processing in simple domains, but with large amounts of data (i.e. IIoT).

if you use a timeseries databases like kdb+/q, TimescaleDB, InfluxDB, QuestDB, etc., you don't even need to order by the insertion timestamp.

Unlike RDBMS/SQL where rows/tuples are unordered, in timeseries databases they're usually ordered by the insertion time, more similar to dataframes than to SQL tables.

--

[1] Martin Kleppmann — Event Sourcing and Stream Processing at Scale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avi-TZI9t2I
Changelogs are for developers, not users.

They're a bad way to communicate specifics because they're literally a long list of changes, most of which are boring/irrelevant to most people.

If you're releasing new features you need more ceremony. Maybe an email with targeted specifics, or at least a section on your website which highlights big important new features.
You've never had a bank take your checking account assets and freeze them on a payday because they suspected "Fraud."

The bank is Judge, Jury, and Executioner -- and I'm still fighting with US Bank, over a year later, to get the 40K that they have of mine, but, I'm honestly at the point where I don't think I'll ever see that cash again.
I hear this argument quite a bit, and I wonder if you have ever tried to use a discussion group that has been overrun with spam? Because that’s what you will get.
This is my experience as well. If you have any issue, you just start a chat and they will find an explanation. So very different to the other dominant payment processor I won't mention that is trying its hardest to keep you away.
I ever researched this lib, I haven't any data to support my opinion, but I don't have too much confidence on it. Also, this repo didn't update for a while.
To add to the previous response, for your wallet you can create multiple sub-accounts or sub-addresses, that can be used to specifically track payments. You can also use integrated addresses, which tags an encrypted payment id to go with it.

Additionally the sender can prove they sent a specific transaction output to you, without exposing information where it came from.
How do I do that Gus?