skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of division you put is exactly what I am talking about. Most of the employees of successful companies don't share your views or think of themselves as us vs them and fall into your classification of the working class. They are pretty happy there working with a great CEO hence making great products/providing services.
It's not just memory efficiency - webtech applications are significantly more CPU-hungry than desktop applications.

> It makes it much easier to develop software

I've never seen compelling evidence that this is the case. Every time this argument is made, it seems to be by a webdev who has no significant experience with building desktop applications. Sure, if you already know webdev, it's easy to build things with webtech. This isn't particularly interesting. I'm much more productive building desktop applications than webapps, but that's because I've spent almost all of my time building desktop applications.

The real question is, given an average developer who has spent around the same amount of time on learning web development and desktop development, and both at a minimum amount of time (say, 100 hours) - which is more productive, and by how much?
I'm still amazed at what they don't cover, and even suppress.

The disparity of coverage between such as the largest antiwar protests in history, institutional imperial torture, the Occupy movement, or bank bailouts; compared to pop-stars or sports, is soul-rocking.

Many otherwise smart people seem to accept this. They see it as normal, inevitable, and even victim blame saying that the media are "just giving people what they want".

I disagree - polls all say people want healthcare, they want Bush and Cheney held for war crimes, they want clean water and a healthy planet. People want better education and childcare and mental health support. And those otherwise smart people agree with me, then go right back to turning on the bullshit; proudly voting for the lesser but still abominable evil.
definitions of middle class are very fluid here.
I was thirty when I started making "real" retirement money. I suspect peasant is an exaggeration, but there's a good chunk of highly paid folks that are playing catch up to retirement or have reached retirement but still need to build their own safety nets and cushions as the cost to retire continues to go up, even when retired.
Use a small network, train it in a local GPU
But note that Set is usually not a monad. Writing the functions above is pretty easy but they'll break the rules.

In particular, unless our Set identifies its items in a way that forces a = b to imply f(a) = f(b), eliminating "duplicates" will sometimes eliminate things which can be distinguished by some function d.

This means that map(d, map(f, set)) might not always equal map(compose(d, f), set), which is required for a functor (which is more general than monad - all monads must be functors, not all functors are monads).
Yup, it's not really about remote hands in datacenters (which of course have been staffed continuously), it's about losing 'run over to their desk' and 'shout across the office' as a viable communication channels in a crisis when literally all others have failed.
pypy in general works better, sometimes equal, sometime slower, and sometimes doesn't(library support is not 100%).
the problem whit javascript is mainly no type check in compile time making lot more mistakes if you use a compile langues, that why a lot of big project now days use typescript, and force to use types
The problem is that you are comparing a device sold to play games to a general purpose device (music, videos, games, banking, productivity, healthcare, phone, modem...).

While consumers generally don't have too many expectations from being able to do much more on a game console (though that is changing on the XBox), people expect a LOT more from their minicomputer in a phone shape. Hampering control on that device is detrimental to the consumer who paid already a LOT for that device.
I wonder now that python made it to the big league, so to speak, if there shouldn't be more high level review of what exactly it should aim to be as an language and ecosystem going forward. Is the speed optimisation problem even well defined otherwise?

E.g. tackling performant numerical computations via numpy and other such libraries seems to be a workable pattern. Even with compiled languages like C/C++ and fortran these types of computations are best handled with tuned libraries.

For other uses, e.g., API's fastapi/starlette claims to be as fast as go / javascript. Not to say that there isnt a performance issue, but who exactly is experiencing it as a generic issue? E.g., I know for a fact that some python based desktop GUI applications have performance issues (...) but it could be the implementation and in any case GUI use is a bit of a niche (and python on mobile which is the dominant user device these days is very very niche).
I fully support nuclear power, but even I have to admit that the fault line concerns are valid.

I do think we should be building a lot more nuclear power plants (safely away from fault lines).
Python is great for developing tools for infrastructure management, for scientific computation, and for small-medium web applications. Given its best in breed interoperability with C/C++, it is also good as a shell language for a top level project that incorporates other sub projects.
This is essentially another manifestation of inflation, except that instead of prices being fully adjusted upwards to balance supply and demand, we have shortages instead.
Inclusionary zoning (which I support with caveats) is literally housing redistribution. The people renting at market rate are subsidizing the people renting at below market rate. If that isn’t redistribution I don’t know what is. Especially in cities that set an IZ rate so high it drives up market rate rents to luxury levels (looks at SF).
The only solution to this is legislation. None of the politicians seem to care, I wonder why (follow the money... both sides of the isle are paid off).
And progressives generally do not call for a total redistribution of wealth but only a more equitable redistribution.
I really hope this reduces our reliance (American here) on outsourcing everything and revives manufacturing in America. I believe manufacturing know-how and national security are correlated.
Core issue for some. For others, the centralization of power is more worrisome. Would it be an improvement if, instead of chasing profits, Facebook used their power to instead suppress your favored political movement?
Get a 3D printer? So far as I can tell, printer prices haven’t changed; filament prices haven’t gone up.

Can’t print toilet paper or paper towels but random I need a hook to hang something, or a fitting for a pipe that’s not under load, tons of stuff on thingiverse.
"Because they can?" What other reason would someone need? Every post on here could be done a different way.
Totally agree with you. The nihilists want to burn everything to the ground so they can prove themselves wrong.
I modelled the balloon in C4D, extended and tweaked the Ammo physics lib (ported from Bullet) and brought it all together with GLSL & JS using Three.js. Hope that helps
I don't think that's it. CNN is very broad. They report politics, world news, economics, but also celebrity gossip, human interest, lifestyle, opinion. That's their brand and they're actually pretty good at it. Their website hosts an enormous volume of content very reliably and without a paywall.

Hatred for CNN and other mainstream news is fed to a huge swath of the population by conservative politicians and pundits. They also heap scorn on excellent news sources like the NY Times and Washington Post because their factual reporting is damaging to their dishonest campaigns. Meanwhile, conservative media has shed any semblance of civility and just run blatantly agenda-driven stories. There's no both sides to this. It's almost entirely due to conservatives.
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I think positive rights like a right to housing(housing first homeless programs) and healthcare(people have a right to medical care) are a great example and I don't know why you are dismissing them as examples.
Areas of LA just got rezoned from single family home to multi-family homes. You just know there will be properties purchased for the sole intent of knocking down the existing structures to build apartments/condos/etc. That seems like redistribution of housing to me.
I read your arxiv.org article on Shannon Entropy:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2061

What I am amazed at is that arxiv accepted this. I submitted exactly the same argument to them on 27 Jan 2009. They rejected it.

Here it is on my home page:
http://dsw.users.sonic.net/entropy.html

Entropy is (1) the expected value of (2) the information of an event.

You might want to post a link to your answer here and see which of our explanations is more popular:
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/331103/intuitive-ex...
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@unethical_ban is correct.

> Ah, they're doing it because they're doing it. Why didn't he think of this?

No, the media does this so you don't need to come up with an ulterior motive to explain it. They see a story and they want to get a part of it to get eyeballs on their shows/magazines/podcasts.

The difference here is that a Democratic leadership is more likely to take an adversarial approach to its relations to Facebook and companies like it than a Republican leadership would. (Trump being banned from all the platforms forms an outlier to this)

Further to that...

Manufacturing Consent [1] in 1988 formed a pretty solid argument that what the media does is not support a side as much as it supports the status quo. Media moves to support whomever is in power. Trump obviously blew the hell out of that but you can go back and look at critiques of Bush, Reagan, Obama and other presidents to see that media will criticize the current leadership but (again excluding the Trump outlier) won't take an adversarial role too far since it needs to maintain its relationship with those in power to continue to get content to publish.

This is one of the main reasons why I think right-wing leadership made such a big deal of getting the Fairness Doctrine repealed under Reagan. It lead to the development of media that didn't rely on having a symbiotic relationship with whomever was in power and could instead push a single doctrine with its broadcasting.

Not all Conservatives in the US believe that the repeal was a good thing [2] but for the folks like the Koch brothers it was a prime focus and it has paid dividends to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

[2] https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/conservativ...
A satirical show on Comedy Central vs an entire news channel. You’re making my point.
> the problem with nuclear energy has always been cost.

A lot of people forget this. No matter what philosophical argument you make, economics always rules in the end.

Strangely PV is viable in california because of the PG&E regulatory capture setting a high price for electricity.

Folks routinely pay .21 to .40c/kwh for electricity in california, so PV economics works.
>There's not enough supply or labor for the bipartisan "bridges and roads" bill. There's not anywhere near enough labor for the partisan social bill.

Actually there is enough labor. What there isn't is a fair (inflation and productivity adjusted) wage for that labor.

>but worse it's going to take supply (both material and labor) away from regular businesses and people.

Isn't that a desirable trait? Shouldn't people pay more for things if they really want them? Why can't we let the "market" handle this?
I think by far the biggest improvement newbies can make is just not hanging pieces and blundering, honestly. Literally the majority of games at <1600 lichess level will be decided by mistakes. But apart from that, it's openings and tactics. I largely agree with the blog post.

I used to be quite good as a kid, winning championships and whatnot, and I'm actually glad my grandfather didn't teach me opening theory so much, so I could be trained to think more than memorize. Sadly at the highest level, you do just have to memorize the best opening lines which makes it a lot less fun so I'm not too bothered about not being the best I could be. I think games like Fischer random go some way to addressing this and it's a shame they're not more popular.

Some really entertaining Chess youtube channels I like are:

GothamChess:
https://www.youtube.com/c/gothamchess/about
I think the number 1 on YouTube these days. He explains games in a high level, really entertaining way. He also has other playlists like guess the elo, etc. He's a really entertaining guy.

https://www.youtube.com/c/agadmator
I think he number 2 and used to be number 1 most subscribed until very recently. He explains lines in more detail than Gotham, and has quite a few funny meme-able phrases like "captures, captures, captures", "hello everyone!", "bishop pair fully operational", etc. I enjoy his playlists about e.g. the Morphy Saga, AlphaZero, very much.

ChessBrah: Kind of broey funny with house music, challenges and whatnot, and actually very high quality chess from GMs too
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvXxdkt1d8Uu08NAQP2IUTw

There's some others I don't watch so much but which are also liked by many too, like the Botez sisters, GM Hikaru, Eric Rosen, etc. It's quite a nice community (barring the usual drama all such communities have).
> I’ve just either switched to cheaper options or just stopped buying them at all.

Same here.

Several years ago I went through a period of bringing in 1/8 of my previous income over a stretch of two years. I had to tap into deep savings to stay afloat. In that stretch, I realized how much money was wasted on things that had absolutely no positive impact in my living situation.

When the pandemic came around, I was blessed in keeping a stable job and continued to earn a comfortable wage, yet I found myself going back to a simpler mindset.

And you know, I’ve been a lot happier. For example, I used to eat out all the time because I never had time to cook. Once that changed, what became one of my favorite meals was (apparently) a depression-era staple. Go figure.

We’re so conditioned that in order to be good Americans, we have to be good consumers. The problem is, it’s gotten to an extreme level, and now we’re seeing how our out-of-balance lifestyles are actually problematic. Sure, there’s been ample profit, but these habits exact other costs we don’t see until it’s too late.
Read it again, it doesn't stop them, it puts them on record.

Not comparable to silencing speech of citizens.

Choose a better whataboutism in your defense of censorship, not just Marco lol.
2015-2016 was the breaking point for me. Not an ounce of impartial journalism, they just wore their political ideology on their sleeve with no shame and did everything they could to support their position. They weren't reporting news, they were just pushing whatever propaganda they needed to prop up their ideology. I haven't watched mainstream media a single time since sometime in 2016, and don't plan to again. They lost my trust and I assume it would be many years and would require fundamental changes before I'd consider listening to them again, they're completely corrupt at this point in my mind.
Yeah seems to be a few models don't like to play ball with GLTF/FBX models, apologies for that, and thanks for the heads up
> My retirement fund benefited enormously from the Q3 2020 crypto market gains, which would not have been possible without my LLC.

We probably shouldn't encourage the general public to gamble their retirement funds in a casino. I understand many believe this is an "asset class", but there is ample evidence crypto has no place in someone's retirement asset mix. Such investment in a taxable account is reasonable compromise.
I mean the home covid tests in the first paragraph are potentially made in maine

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/us/abbott-covid-tests.htm...

not really a global supply chain issue is it
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If you wanted to do something like "OK Google" with AssemblyAI would you have to transcribe everything and then process the substring "OK Google" on the application layer (and therefore incur all of the cost of listening constantly)?

It'd be cool if there was the ability to train a phrase locally on your own premises and then use that to begin the real transcription.

This probably wouldn't be super difficult to build, but was wondering if it was available (didn't see anything at a glance)
Sure, Rust too for some of the desktop app components. But the takeaway is you only need to do that when you're operating at mega scale and actually hit these bottlenecks.

In a ton of cases you'll be completely fine serving a few million monthly page views of your SAAS app on a single $20-40 a month server using Flask, Django or whatever Python web framework you prefer. Performance will be really good too. Just talking about most apps where it's mainly reading and writing data to a DB.
Redistribution of wealth creates a redistribution of "everything" as a byproduct.
Yeah I corrected myself to "so called progressives". They are really nihilists instead.
Pip now checks this, but you usually use something like Poetry to give you a concrete lockfile with the correct transient dependencies locked in.
This seems to me like you're talking more about your background and particular bubble rather than give any sort of "overseer" insight about a phenomenon whose various aspects and manifestations you seem painfully unaware of.
Well, we have both Pipenv and Poetry now. It's a just a matter of people using them.
Same exact $ amount as in a 401(k). This is only about power and control.
And I suppose you can't pay someone to watch your kids?

Economy of scale, friend.
I guess I disagree with your definition of redistribution. That seems like increasing supply to me.
Correction: they actually tripled their subscribers and hired more staff from 2016-2020, not quadrupled.
My correction is for static prefixes from an ISPs block, I don't see that as an unreasonable free request. No peering, they just static route that block to the IPv6 address they assign you.
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going from 2100 to >2250 on lichess in a year, I can confirm woodpeckering is the way to go for me.
It means that for certain functions you need people on site, so someone can physically get to the server or router that is causing the problem. It doesn't mean you suddenly need everyone on site.

It may also mean that you need more decentralization. They put all their eggs in one basket, so they took down Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp as well as Facebook, as well as their internal network, their building security, everything. Seems that they need to look at redesign to create more resiliency even if some efficiency is lost, so they don't lose everything again at some point.
USSR tried putting workers and peasants before the entrepreneurs and elites. Didn’t turn out well
So the claim is that no one group can be singled out as a cause of division? That means one would be unable to ever say that some person or group of people is divisive, which means there's no such thing as divisive speech (since labeling anything as such is apparently itself so divisive that one becomes a hypocrit).
Except for "companies exploiting their employees as much as they legally can and often even more".
Wes of Watch Wes Work[0] constantly complains about multi-month lead times on previously common car parts.

I've noticed plenty of products that I used to order on-demand now having multi-month lead times - like my contacts. My doctor gave me ten lenses, but said I might not see my annual order of lenses arrive for six to eight weeks. I guess I'll get used to readers :)

0: https://www.youtube.com/c/WatchWesWork
Still works with GPUs though
As long as you write compilers for all of the platforms which currently only have C language production quality compilers. That includes porting the whole development ecosystem for those platforms (like libraries) to whatever NextNewShiny language you deem worthy.

We'll wait...
For millions, the WhatsApp outage could have been a matter of life and death
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Are you referring to the current state of affairs, or the state of affairs on a hypothetical world without 230? In the world with 230, Facebook is not considered the publisher because they are a "provider" of an "interactive computer service", and the content they are showing is "information provided by another information content provider." Therefore they are not treated as the publisher. That is what s230 does.

In a world without s230, whether they moderate or not, they'd be liable as a publisher for anything their service shows. They would have to dramatically restrict the spread of information to limit risk of litigation, e.g. in the case of people who might sue them for an individual user's slander. Note that this same issue would apply to anyone running newsgroup servers, website hosting, forums, wikis, etc. Republishing UGC would probably become economically challenging.
Pixi is only used for the preload screen. I used GLSL, JS + Three.js for the rest
a lot of python code has subtle race conditions where they assume some operations like dictionary access, manipulation, etc. are atomic and the GIL makes it all fine. remove the GIL and there can be a huge explosion of subtle and difficult to find bugs in even simple code. people have been working on trying to remove the GIL for a decade or more now and I don't expect any magic fix soon.
But, now, if you have a widespread defined benefit pension that's largely independent of employment, don't you now have effectively a shadow version of Social Security?
I agree with this, but when it comes to scaling, making things faster at the language level is only one option. And while, as you suggest, the Python/static_lang gulf has narrowed, I would guess the gulf between "what needs to be done in the language itself" vs. "what can be done by some external system/database/process" has also narrowed.

What I'm getting at is, let's say you have some system where you need highly performant real time processing of some data. Perhaps 10 years ago, you might have needed a complex multi-threaded java/c++ app to handle it. But perhaps now, you use, say, DynamoDB, kinesis, kafka, lambdas, or some other collection of services that you're basically gluing together with... python.

I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just wondering, if you could truly factor in the costs in both developer time -- developing multi-threaded apps is usually pretty tricky after all -- and infrastructure costs and whatnot, where the boundary between "python is adequate" vs. "we really need go/java/c++" lies, and in which direction it's moving.

In retrospect, I guess it's sort of a silly question, since at the core, the services we'd be gluing together are no doubt written in faster languages. Perhaps a better way of framing it what % of problems can be adequately solved (cheaply) by just using language X, and how has that changed over time?
> The plan is clearly to incrementally erode freedom to a final state of dysfunction under the guise of gaslit improvements and false switches.

That's quite the accusation, and completely baseless. about:config was removed from the stable version on android to prevent users breaking their installations. It's interesting you mention privacy.resistFingerprinting, as it alone is the cause of countless bug reports and support tickets from users who don't understand the implications. If you're confident enough to go digging in about:support then you can run beta or install a fork with it enabled. There's no alterior motive.
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