skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
int, float, and complex are for different purposes. async and threads paper over each others' weaknesses, instead of fixing the weaknesses at the start. Async itself is an antipattern (technical opinion, so there) but Python uses it because of the hazards and high costs of threads. Chuck Moore figured out 50 years ago to keep the async stuff out of the programmer's way, when he put multitasking into Polyforth, which ran on tiny machines. Python (and Node) still make the programmer deal with it.

If you look at Haskell, Erlang/Elixir, and Go, they all let you write performant sequential code by pushing the async into the runtime where the programmer doesn't have to see it. Python had an opportunity to do the same, but stayed with async and coroutines. What a pain.
>Compared to 4WD, AWD, or FWD; its the worst setup for winter driving.

I don't think the person was comparing them, just stating that RWD, when handled properly, is indeed fine for winter. Having driven extensively in Canada and Scandinavia I agree with that, although 4WD, AWD, and FWD are superior.
> that has some fairly fine-grained options for what data you feed back to Firefox

I looked into these settings but I can only find 4 checkboxes. Which of the four checkboxes would this telemetry fall under? Is this a study, the result of crash report logging, or is it "data about your interactions with Firefox [..] (such as number of open tabs and windows; number of webpages visited; number and type of installed Firefox Add-ons; and session length) and Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners (such as interaction with Firefox search features and search partner referrals)"

I know Firefox collects some technical tracking, but there is no up to date overview of what tracking is actually done. Is there a list of parameters tracked like Microsoft published [1] after the outcry about their terrible tracking? The privacy policy is vague and the documentation for developers [2] contains phrases such as "opaque prio-specific payload. Like { a: <base64 string>, b: <base64 string> }" which isn't exactly useful.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/required-wi...

[2]: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/t...
In a 64-bit address space, with objects requiring more than one word to store, that’s literally impossible.
Pretty sure there are a bunch on Mechanical Turk. Slow though.
It seems like you’re not in the target market for this phone then?
They do survive a drop in a pool. iOS will also warn you there's moisture inside the charging port and will refuse to charge until completely dry.
> 442 million

Current market cap is up to 70 billion! 90% of which has been printed in the last 2 years, and wasn't even covered by the report. Looks like they're going on a last ditch printing spree
How many patients currently in hospitals are obese vs unvaccinated?
No, there's no such assumption in my statement. That statement is merely open about what we don't know. Conversely, there is an assumption in your reasoning that non-animals are never conscious, which is, well, an assumption, and not derived from facts.

This creates a blind spot where an area of non-knowledge is assumed to be known about, and rejected out of hand. I have to point out that taking the view that consciousness is a property of animals does not exclude non-animals having it.

Even then, there will be a tussle over the exact line of what qualifies as an animal for the purpose of consciousness, resulting in the need to answer the same generalizations (e.g. intention, mood, emotion) that would allow yet undiscovered but plausible forms of life to qualify as conscious.
Yooka-Laylee (a 2017 3D platformer) runs well at 1440p on the Mac Mini M1 with everything on. Seems like the GPU is at least competitive with cards from a few years ago. Not bad for a 15W? SOC.

The Anandtech benchmark puts it within fighting range of the GTX 1650.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
King Arthur's recipe collection is a treasure trove: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes
I think most people would have expected it to. Whether that's a reasonable expectation or not is up for debate. But yeah, many if not most people in the US were convinced that COVID was a threat so severe that it warranted completely uprooting life as we knew it. A sizeable minority of people are convinced that COVID vaccination is so important that people should be coerced into it by almost any means necessary. So I think understanding that we don't have a single randomized controlled trial that actually shows a reduction in all-cause mortality when given this intervention is pretty important.

It's a general principle of medicine (or at least, it used to be) that the important outcomes are the actually clinically relevant outcomes. Did people die less? Did they achieve a better quality of life? When you get into proxy metrics you get to this weird place where you can show that something is insanely effective for proxy metric X, and yet it makes no difference (or is even deleterious) in thing-you-actually-care-about Y.
Oh, I misunderstood you then. I thought you were trying to get rid of the local refcount and make the atomic one handle its job too, but what you're suggesting is a possible simplification of the logic that detects when it's time to destroy the object. That makes sense, just seems more minor than I thought you were going at and I guess I missed it.
Unfortunately, opening the docs immediately redirects me to a non-working Stackblitz page, so I can't really see it :(
Hi, I have already showed my project here but now I introduced a pretty big new feature. Now you can follow any user/channel/thread and the latest 5 posts from your follow will appear on your personal wall on the homepage.

You might ask why only 5? Turns out personal wall is not as easy to solve without significant time investment if you want to keep it performant too. Simply naively aggregating posts would be costly on database and wouldn't scale for sure and potentially wouldn't even perform on small scale. Some smart architecture with smart caching for each user wall seemed complicated for that project that is already too big for one person. But then I thought of using things I already use - mongodb and meteor.js.
My architecture is quite simple: there are tracker doc collection where document contain 5(or X) latest posts in an array and every-time something is posted this tracker is updated. Then there is userFollows collection with docs to connect users with trackers. From there I allow meteor.js to handle the rest. Once it subscribes to trackers that user follows all the posts of those trackers are shown on the front page with the added advantage that any new post if transferred right away because of meteor's reactivity so front page is "real time". I also use redis-oplog package for meteor which caches collections server side and made this pretty performant and very easy to implement. It's not ideal but hopefully it will be good enough.
Are you proposing to write anything that will need concurrency anywhere in your favorite language, or just call into the concurrent code from python? (Since comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28883990 seem to be taking it as the former whereas I took it as the latter.)
There is at least some recognition in those cases that they introduced the new thing because they got it wrong in the old thing. That's different than saying they should co-exist on equal terms.
Yup. Me too, but I'm not sad to see it go.
Ah, this explains everything. Not-young people who don't understand microtransactions thinks that young people really loves NFT's, and therefore spends a ton of money on NFT's hoping they will be valuable. But young people don't care about them at all. This is Beanie Babies all over again.
Surely they're not going to put a full-size hdmi port in them, as the article suggests. Apple is all about smaller, newer or less ports.
Imagine another possibility. The person that named their project Elf looked at the other projects named Elf and thought, "my project is more deserving of the name". Don't attribute to incompetence that which can be explained with vanity
> Just open up if you're serious, its mostly the right who'll die.

That's a surprisingly persuasive argument to convince someone on the left in advocacy of ending the mandates.
The Exhibitionist Economy
Please explain how a "charger" for a white dwarf might work! I mean, you could just chuck a huge ball of hydrogen at it; that might work, but it'd be easier to just bundle together two balls of hydrogen and make a new star.

I think I'd expect a charger to restore a phone to something like its as-new functionality. I've never heard of any mechanism that could change a white dwarf into not a white dwarf, other than extreme age, or being merged with another object.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/automatically-ge...
Poll: Will you get the 14 or 16 inch MacBook?
For those planning to get a MBP, which one will you get?
14 inch: Great for travel
14 inch: Other reasons (write in comment)
16 inch: Larger display
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There is no way they are releasing an Intel model. Why would they? The M1 chip has been an outstanding success exceeding the expectations of every reviewer I have seen. It has blown me away so much that I can't wait to rid x86 from my life. Burn the boats! This is a whole new world.
It's also (to my knowledge) how Erlang's VMs (e.g. BEAM) work: one thread per CPU core, and a VM on each thread preemptively switching between processes.
This phone has IP54. The previous had nothing. I like to think they are working on it. Watch makers have been making serviceable waterproof devices for decades. Only reason we don't have serviceable waterproof phones is because manufacturers prefer to cut corners and shave an extra milimiter of phone height than care about users.
This entire article is about removing the GIL
Before she died she supported Dave, as well.

My main point stands: criticism of his special is too vague. It's almost as if many of the critics never watched the whole thing, having formed an opinion about it early on and stopped watching. I watched the entire thing and it is a single piece. There are no standalone jokes in that special. Every single word is in support of the last words he speaks.

I even watched the special a second time to be sure I hadn't been bamboozled by Dave's wit and charm. I felt even more sure after the 2nd viewing that it's not transphobic.
As someone who has ADHD and suffers a lot from forgetting to cancel subscriptions etc this would be really really good. I used to set several calendar reminders each quarter. One to sit down and work out what subscriptions I have. Another one to sit down and work out what subscriptions I have. One to cancel subscriptions. Another one to sit down and actually cancel them. A third one to work out if I’ve cancelled them…

Now I have a bunch of automations set up that ping me and say “you’ve got this subscription… are you actually using it?”

It took me a fair bit of effort to engineer but it’s saved me a whole load of money.
You can install another OS if you want. LineageOS, for example (with or without OpenGApps). Or /e/. You can even buy a FP3(+) with /e/. They sell it. Or other OSes. Or you wait for FP4 which is out 25 October.

Fairphone 3(+)/4 don't have killswitches though.
In all fairness, trying to keep cables intact that are plugged into an overpacked rucksack and are attached to your head is pretty hard for anyone.
Having been pointed to the actual paper[0] by Someone[1], the special bit (effectivly a local-refcount-is-nonzero flag) is in the same atomic word as the shared refcount, which I missed from the description of the python implementation. The shared refcount can go negative, but the (shared refcount,local-is-nonzero) tuple can never be (0,false) while the object is referenced.

0: https://sci-hub.se/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3243176.32...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28883218 (seriously, upvote this; it should be higher in the list of responses, since it actually properly refutes my original comment)
Maybe a bit more information?
Not with branches, which is what half the population wants.
Some of us touch-type. Since I have learned to use keyboard properly quarter of century ago I have never needed to look at my keyboard.

I tried to give it a chance. But it is breaking my flow by having to look at the keyboard which is a big productivity no no.

And lack of function keys is a problem. On Linux I am already running out of possible keyboard shortcuts. Touch bar effectively drastically reduces number of shortcuts that I can assign.
Seems like Redux with extra steps. After switching to MobX State Tree, I can't go back to anything that doesn't provide runtime typechecking.
The same is actually true of a GMO Cavendish.

Currently the Cavendish has some genetic diversity through random mutations. That’s going to drop to ~zero with the first GMO Cavendish that’s cloned.

It might not seem that important for seedless varieties, but GMO is inherently a genetic bottleneck.
If cryptocurrencies were a better solution, they would have been widely adopted. Instead, they have been adopted by people who can't use real money for one reason or another, e.g. criminals. Which tells us they are a poor substitute for real money.
“ Experiences of being you, or of being me, emerge from the way the brain predicts and controls the internal state of the body.”

I don’t know about you other beast machines, but I rarely ever think of the internal states of my body (trying to adjust beating heart, pupil adjustment, etc.). To think that consciousness is required for these rare moments of internal state reflection seems a stretch (considering most life doesn’t require it).
I don't even have a Facebook account. But with my relatives that do, this stuff leaks in from seeing their coworkers' & acquaintances' posts and escalates over time once there's even the slightest hook with the algorithm. Any reasonable political opinion they might have in thumbs-upping some innocuous content eventually routes into the algo feeding more extremist content.

Most people don't outright block offtopic material, they just gloss over it, and it still ends up with influence because that's what Facebook optimizes for. Plus people will still take the occasional click of curiosity to see what some posts are all about, even if they're not really into that content.

Yes, if you do have the discipline to take a zero-tolerance personal policy and immediately block even inoffensive things that just touch into the realm of polarizing, you can probably keep your feeds clean. But most people (eg, non-HN types) don't understand what Facebook is doing and don't think to actively defend against it, and just absent-mindedly consume the feed with no click discipline.
$371m was seized by Poland: https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/news/bitfinex...

Haven't heard much specific about the rest, but there's supposed to be some tied up in Portugal, UK and USA.
We Got Here Because of Cowardice. We Get Out with Courage
The Last Viridian Note (2008)
Which cloud providers don't? I'm only familiar with AWS and GCP, and they both have a base hourly charge per-cluster.
Christopher Lee on the Last Unicorn and Acting
The article mentions a 10% improvement to single threaded runtime on average.
I've been excited to see a growing movement by indigenous people to reclaim their ancient understandings of identity in general, and gender in particular now that colonizers have lost the energy they had for suppression in past decades and centuries. A lot of it is just gone, but the nice thing about a living culture is it can rebuild and recover and build new concepts in the gaps.
>They make better sense when fewer of them are not modal.

I love vi but not on the dashboard while I'm driving! :D
Given all the little issues MacBooks have had over the past few years, the departure of Jony Ive, the move to ARM, I'm expecting this one to be a seriously impressive iteration. I've seen the "leaked" images already and it looks about how you'd expect but I think performance numbers will blow people away.
I've seen a 1990 Japanese car with GPS, and a graphical interactive map.

It also... spoke to you, in a very creepy high school girl voice.
Every time multithreading and the GIL comes up, I wonder why there are so many out there that are against multiprocess. In addition to solving the GIL problem by simply having multiple GILs, it also forces the designer to think properly about inter-thread data flow. Sure, it can never be quite as fast as true multithreading, but the results are probably more robust and as a bonus it doesn't break all the existing Python libraries.
What was the touch technology used in those days? Is it capacitive, or something else? Is there a film over the glass screen?
And still do.
I actually have a great experience using that rather than dealing with concurrency hell. My use case is typically brute forcing this or that, for example a quick implementation to crack a key on some ctf challenge, or a proof of concept to crack a session token for a customer demo. Just spawn a few processes, each gets 1/nth of the work, not a big deal. But I could see how, if you want to have (e.g.) sound and UI rendering in completely independent "threads" (thus needing multiprocess) it could be a pain to link it all up. What kind of use case are you thinking of or did you run into where it was a really sucky experience?
“Epic Games Store will welcome games that make use of blockchain tech”
I wish there were better wrappers for it too. One of the projects I'm still quite proud of that I made as a student was a react wrapper around PDF.js used here https://boardbook.kent.edu/ (though since they no longer seem to be using it I guess it will probably go dead at some point), but the fact there wasn't really a good open source one and as you say the docs were pretty lacking. My favorite discovery was that the performance was much worse unless I registered a particular scroll listener. It's been years now so I only vaguely remember, but I think registering a listener for `wheel` would cause scroll events to be treated as blocking and this made the whole scrolling experience less janky.
> What do you think about Adobe locking ppl in with subscriptions…

I'm old school, I think it's evil and predatory. But also I grew up using pirated versions of Photoshop, I understand their motivation and the advantages to the customer. So, nothing new to add to the discussison.

> do you see the industry moving to

I have no idea. I don't do 2D stuff. I see studios moving towards cloud providers of software and hardware. But slowly. It's all business. So, if it becomes profitable to do so then everyone will jump on board. Already there's Deadline and a frothing market of cloud providers for turnkey 3D digital studios. Time will tell.

> Can Davinci Resolve Fusion replace After Effects?

They're different tools. So, no.
What’s the most performance critical alternative? Pickle is tied to the VM, so it’s not a generally good persistence option in a prod setup, but it can mighty convenient.
Algolia is insanely expensive. Stay far away unless you have very few customers, hardly any data, or no plans to scale. They also offer zero protection against bots, so if someone decides to scrape your site, you get to pay for that privilege too.
1. Patreon exists, this seems like a far safer way to support the creation of art (and a lot of artists already use it heavily).

2. The monetization of art is a heavily controversial topic and a lot of artists rightly think that patronage is a much better system to exist under since it provides a more reliable and stable income.

3. Paper is pretty immutable generally speaking. I don't think NFTs will actually significantly impact issues around long term art providence with both laundering and forgeries still remaining prominent. Additionally, almost all of the art world already supports publicly anonymous transactions to protect purchaser privacy.

4. I think there's some interesting stuff in this realm with interactive art - but I think there are ways to accomplish much the same thing with conventional sale processes.
Insurance is only ever a good deal to those with bad habits or are unlucky. Truly Accurate insurance premiums become bad for everyone, as in a perfect information insurance system, you always pay in more than you take out.
"Design docs take _much_ longer than you think. Code reviews take longer than you think also."

I work in medical devices and this is so true.

A thorough design doc or a thorough code review takes a very long time. It actually may take as much or more time as the actual coding. Somehow we never account for this time in planning so either things are rushed or the project will be delayed significantly. Add to that the fact we don't have good tools either for writing docs neither or for code reviews.
WordPress Latin1 and UTF-8, Part 2
What is the difference between a financial empire, a military empire, and a resource empire (eg petrodollar) ? Each aspect reinforces the others. If the US didn't have the military, it couldn't enforce financial laws outside of its borders. If the US didn't have energy, it couldn't run its military. If the US didn't have a reserve currency, then it wouldn't be able to obtain as many resources.
Wokeness as Saddam Statues: The Case of the Tesla Elevator Operator
A sobering reminder that hurling accusations targeted at an ethnic group using social media goes far beyond clout accumulation and may translate into real world violence.
You are building the assumption that the thieves are super-poor and starving.

Food distribution is already very good for the poor and hungry.

It is possible some of these thieves are just down on their luck. But when there are zero consequences to stealing, many folks will just steal in order to get more stuff/make more money.

You seem to believe the world is populated by nice, well-meaning people who would never steal were they not hungry.

They aren't hungry at all. Your view is just incredibly naive.
Wouldn't not pressing pedal to metal at green light indicate a driver with very poor reaction times thus potentially higher risk in executing effective braking? And thus someone deserving higher premiums?
The short version is: they don’t want to. The whole of facebook’s interaction model is to keep you on Facebook. They want you to discover in Facebook, engage in Facebook, and share in Facebook. They do not want you to leave Facebook. Being able to select text and copy it is giving you a method of getting something out.
A computer is only an emergent phenomena if you assume humans are (with no free will).

Would a computer form with enough time and without consciousness from random interactions and the precise laws of the universe?
Perhaps Silicon Valley should not be in the business of curating rural Ethiopia news?
It does seem quite out of character for Apple but I believe a schematic leak in April showed a full size HDMI port among others.
This is my personal taste. QuickJS is simpler and more lightweight than Node/V8. Some developers like me prefer software they can comprehend. No JIT, small code base, clean code, easy to extend. With QuickJS I think I can build anything. Author of of QuickJS has long track record. Again, that is my personal taste.
> That's different than saying they should co-exist on equal terms.

I'm not sure who is claiming that. Here's the OP we're replying to:

> They are techs with different trade off, and life is full of opportunities.
Family lawyer confirms Brian Laundrie and his parents camped out at Florida
Right, in my view HSBC laundering scandal was 100 times worse and they are still operating all over the world.
the evidence of mental illness number one your honor.