skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope this doesn't need saying, but it's the activists I am criticizing -- the majority of whom are not trans. I have no criticisms whatsoever of anyone on the basis of their gender identity or sexuality.

But yes, if the activist community fails to disassociate itself from / speak out against radicals who are harming people, then that activist community is going to receive criticism.
YC companies and startups
Is CPython the only widely-used language implementation that uses reference counting rather than tracing garbage collection?

IIRC even PyPy and MicroPython use tracing GC.
Really aren't most public and targetted killings of a politician considered assassination attempts by default regardless of the motivation? At least connotationally.

John Hinkley shot Ronald Reagan not out of some statement against his policies but because of a deranged Jodie Foster obsession and bizzare belief that it would get her attention. Granted Hinkley himself also referred to it as an assassination.
Nothing im always right
Gong.io does this if you invite it to your meeting
Cos US does useful tech while europe does nothing
Try actually tracking the time using a free service like Harvest. You'll be surprised just how much longer some things take objectively than subjectively. I'm not saying do retrospectives every week or whatever, but do at least a few, then take note of time sinks and weigh their utility against the time they take. I don't think one can build awareness of this without measurement, something the essay also alludes to.
I check my email, and it's great, because I _curate_ it. Absurd spam like scams goes to junk anyway. The more legitimate spam I quickly unsubscribe from. And I make sure no service keeps sending notifications I don't need. This way only valuable content ends up in the inbox – interesting newsletters, updates from companies I give a damn about, important notifications, and any personal stuff. Wholly recommended experience, just requires caring about good content.
iwouldsayiagree
For those not "in the know", the parent comment is likely referring to Doug Demuro, known for ranting and raving about the buttons and surfaces inside cars, or in his words, "quirks and features."

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqjHFMB_JYTaEnf_vmTNqg
May be you are right. The moment that you have a non-technical person leading the effort you are not doing agile anymore.
You can turn off crypto sponsors on brave. God cant ppl read anynore?
Note: I only skimmed your comment, so consider this about something else.

Programmers protest too much about 10x programmers. Saying there isn't a 10x programmer is the same as saying nobody could possibly work hard and improve enough to be that much better at something. But we know that every single activity we can objectively measure has far more than a 10x variation in performance. Why is there someone 10x better than average at assembling Ikea furniture, or shooting a bow and arrow, or juggling, or running, or even eating, but programmers are interchangeable cogs? Its a totally bizarre thing to even consider without very strong evidence, and that evidence doesn't exist. Seems like sour grapes to me.
perl5 uses reference counted garbage collection (since perl 5.8 - came out in 2002). They avoid the GIL by having a seperate interpreter instance per thread https://perl.mines-albi.fr/perl5.8.5/5.8.5/sun4-solaris/thre... If you want to share variables between threads, then they have to be marked as shared https://perl.mines-albi.fr/perl5.8.5/5.8.5/sun4-solaris/thre...
I worked for a relatively mundane company that had to bid on government contracts. This lying made it nearly impossible to win bids for the longest time. Government was always happy to go with someone who was lying because everyone was lying and the one or two companies giving legitimate bids looked like they were below industry standards.
I look forward to never owning an NFT in my entire life.
Sure, but anything which is open about crypto is also open in the financial system. It isn’t “hidden” away, people just don’t do the necessary studying to learn the underlying incredible complexity necessary for an actual world scale financial system.

It’s only hidden in the sense that the definition of “decathect” is hidden. The definition isn’t “hidden”, I just haven’t looked into and learned its definition and i havent considered all the implications of its material interactions with the world yet.

This notion of “hidden” will not be solved by a coin were it to become ubiquitous. People would just have to learn a completely different set of complexities—many of which will actually be hidden by the grifters who take advantage of lack of regulations.

Much of (not all, but much) of this “hidden” argument rests on people who would just prefer simple barter/exchange—but they just don’t seem to understand the complexities that scale inevitably brings. Along with this is that they just don’t understand that crypto is not an answer to the scale complexity problems.

And if someone attempts to make a coin which addresses these complexities, oops, now we’re back to a complex, messy, and steep learning curve.

All of the grifts that we’ve seen throughout society’s history with finance will be repeated in the coin sphere and these people will sadly fall victim to these same grifts yet again.

Does our current financial system have problems? Absolutely. Does crypto solve them without reintroducing previously patched bugs? Nope. Not at all.
So much trouble to use the internet what type of nerd got time for that?
It says it's available for developers.
depends. It could ripple into the legacy financial system. If that happens, we could see some really onerous regulations that prevent innovation.
Apple censored Quran, Bible apps in China
yeah I’d rather hire 7 skilled and well oiled Jews than an “equal opportunity” ratio mixture of 4 whites : 1 black. but there is a “civil rights act” and a lot of creative, anti-hegemonic jurisprudence enduring that my militant ascetic coding-Shtel will never be a reality. :(
> How would you figure this out without telemetry?

the way the world has done it forever... a survey?

it is concerning. if Firefox is doing it, they are all doing it. i am not going to be opening PDFs in browsers.

this is ridiculous.
The Model of Everything
How soon is other software on it is usable? Kernel really doesn't matter too much if rest is unusable...
Many of the additions to Python in the past decade have been very impressive, but am I wrong in thinking that they suffer from a kind of diminishing marginal benefit?

If I am building a project where concurrency or asynchrony are essential, am I going to choose Python? If I need to bolt these on to an existing project to meet a deadline, how much runway do I really get from these enhancements before I hit the limitations of the language, and need a new tool anyway?

I love Python, and use it a great deal, but I’ve not seen anything in my experience to assuage these doubts. Happy to be convinced otherwise, though. I’m sure there are circumstances I haven’t thought of.
Around 10usd a month using in two computers from 8am to 10pm
> If it wouldn’t disappear then it’s not a cost that can be attributed to the current financial system.

That's a pretty clear absolution.

Bitcoin might not solve this problem, but it (or I should say cryptocurrency) can resolve an existing problem with the financial system, that is, manipulating worldwide economics by manipulating money supply. Perhaps that level of economic control is used to prop up imperialism, colonialism and might makes right to some degree. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Zero Percent Market Share
Why aren’t you against both big banks and Tether doing it?
Primaries for state and national offices except president were non partisan the whole time.[1] The Democratic Party allowed unaffiliated voters to vote in their presidential primary. Unlike the Republican Party.[2] And stating a preference isn't a loyalty oath.

[1] https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/primary-elections-californi...

[2] https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-...
This isn't about vector graphics. There is always going to be a rasterized buffer, that's unavoidable. Even more so as apps are moving to newer rendering APIs like Vulkan and Metal. Apps doing custom rasterization is probably going to get even more common. The real issue there is what scale you do the rasterization at, because some things just cannot be expressed in terms of vectors. I believe Qt does support doing floating point scaling in some cases [1] but I've heard it's really broken because the apps still need to make changes to support it. You can't just take any old Qt app and recompile it with the moral equivalent of "#define int float".

This is also not a matter of "fault", by necessity the majority of the work that needs to be done here in the toolkits and apps. That's just the way it is. It's not that hard to implement this on the server side, you just don't scale that buffer when rendering. MacOS is an not a good example because that also uses an integer scale.

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/highdpi.html
Capturing Luck with or Instead of and
> This is why no one is buying and selling digital artworks, except using an artificial concept of ownership - a certificate.

You seem confused. A certificate does not grant ownership. The reason nobody is buying and selling digital images is because producing an exact copy of a digital image costs nothing, which means it's irrational to pay for a copy of an image since you can make a copy yourself for free.
I’m gonna have to stop hiding my phone in the litter box.
>>> runtime mode allows ludicrously-sized datasets

I think I am in love :-) This is what WebAssembly is supposed to for! Could it easily find the "how to contribute" if there is one please point me at it :-)
Out of whose asshole did this standard come from? That isn't how it has worked anywhere at all, period. Yet you see that talking point goddamned everywhere.
A year later, Apple’s MagSafe continues to underwhelm
You haven't stated your source, so can you clarify whether these are both pre-tax or post-tax or whether one is pre-tax (US) and the other is post-tax? thx
Do you really think non-internet users would make thr "FB is harmful" opinion LESS chosen?
My point is more about the possibility that a big chunk of future cash flow is entirely independent of engineering work, at least for some reasonable bounds for what constitutes "engineering work" (e.g. you could argue that an engineer ought to judge whether their time is better spent cold calling potential clients or finding office space to rent, but those I would call "out of bounds"). Any easy example to illustrate this would be two engineers who each develop a functionally identical app for two different startups, but at one startup the founder later embezzles company funds, gets arrested, and the whole company falls apart, while the other company goes on to be successful. Was one engineer really more productive than the other in any meaningful sense?
Improving Ruby on Rails CI speed by 5x
>This differs from using "View Source" to see sensitive information in that she was enabling someone else to hit the button?

It differs from using "View Source" in that the HTML source of websites is publicly available, viewable and not confidential, whereas the material leaked by the county clerk was not publicly available, not intended for public view, and was confidential.

In other words, it differs from using "View Source" in the way that all forms of actual espionage do.

>Isn't enabling examination of the software on the voting machines a good idea?

Even assuming this was a reasonable interpretation of QAnon's motives and intent (it is not,) a violent political cult that believes the Democratic party is secretly a cabal of satanic pedophiles who conspired with Chinese communists to steal the Presidential election is not the group to be trusted with such a responsibility.
I'm not sure about newer requirements but tricks I've heard of include exploding material costs after the fact, or exploiting some less tracked pressure relief in the contract that exists to eat up cost overruns.
I used to change the display brightness with one keypress, now it takes three and I have to look closely. Company paid extra for this.
You mean like many cryptos are pushing? A pub key and private key...
The question is how to create something like that without it being susceptible to regulatory capture.

Everything is so partisan now that the article reads like "beloved pro-science institution destroyed by hidebound anti-science Republicans" while also claiming that the Office was 50% Republicans and created during a Republican administration.

It would be interesting to have, instead of that, some information on what it was that caused the Office to become a partisan battleground, if we want to avoid it happening again.
I am secretly controlled by the state because they force me to pay taxes. We are all IRS assets in their quest to build a global American tax-base imperial seat of power.
Don't hold your breath. If you can't stand the OS upgrades and want to stay on Intel chips, you might as well leave Apple now.
The comparison is a bit misleading. As someone that has used both nomad and k8s at scale --

- Nomad is a scheduler. Clean and focused. It is very fast. I was an early user and encountered a number of bumps, but that's software. The people at Hashicorp are super sharp and lovely.

- K8s is a lot more. It includes a scheduler, but in the simplest sense, it is a complete control-plane based on the control-loop pattern. You have an API, a scheduler, a db, various controllers, etc. Forget for a moment that most people use it to orchestrate containers -- it's really designed to orchestrate anything. Its API is extensible, you can add and compose controllers -- there are many possibilities once you wrap your head around it.

This is all opinionated and includes a lot of capability. It's just very different.

You can stitch together nomad, consul, vault, and various glue to create a container orchestration system... but when you start wanting to manage the control-planes as though they are the "kind" (the container for example) with meta-control-planes, and you start wanting to orchestrate network, storage, and other dependencies... all while doing this in a multi-tenant environment, then things get interesting.

-charles.
> Furthermore pretty much everybody in every non-western country is a TERF.

Not everyone outside the West is a feminist, much less a radical feminist, trans-exclusionary or not.

(Though, to be fair, most people accused of being “TERFs” are at most moderate bourgeois feminists rather than radical feminists, but still even that is pretty unusual in lots of non-Western countries.)
>reclaim their ancient understandings

hopefully not the human sacrifice though, there are some indigenous traditions better left in the past
so when google releases its 13th chat app, that’s really the CIA doing it? Netflix’s chaos monkey program is ackthuallee an intelligence scam to attack your distributed systems from within?
> How many hundreds or thousands

Hundreds of millions. That's how many you need for mainstream apps to be built.

Even Microsoft couldn't get past that hurdle and money is not a problem for them.

Android compatibility might help somewhat but it will undermine the usefulness of the open platform by introducing the very things it fights against. The OS is not the only problem. Apps can still datamine the Android layer then. You won't be much better off than with a privacy focused Android fork.
Uno, Avalonia, Maui, whatever! It’s probably better supported than JavaFX!
No harm was inflicted in the comedy. It was a joke. Jokes can offend. Some people are extremely easily offended, some laugh at the harshest joke at their expense. Get over yourself.
Next up: legally requiring stores to operate in high-theft areas?
When I ran it on my X200 it was simply unusable with GNOME, which isn’t giving it a fair shot yes, but it’s fine with GNOME on Trisquel and Arch.
This very situation shows it's not fine.
"Can spell doom" sounds like a statement of correlation, not causation, to me. Much like rats fleeing the ship. It's important to not conflate correlation with causation... but getting one's knickers in a twist about reported correlation isn't useful.
This is super interesting. How does async approaches work across different Python libraries? Are there any assumptions about usage of asyncio?
All of this just because they don't want to teach evolution, and face up to a history of slavery and discrimination. Jeez.
No new rumors on the Apple Monitors? I want iMacs screens as a separate device, and the rumor mill from this summer was sounding pretty promising.
I have no idea who is telling the truth, but wouldn't it be fair to say that people working for the city do have more of a motivation to spin this than Walgreens?

If Walgreens is doing what the city claims, then Walgreens doesn't need to blame the city. They might anyway, but there's no big incentive. If they have a lot of stores that aren't closing, wouldn't it even be potentially harming their business for no reason?

Whereas, if the situation is what Walgreens says, then the city does need to blame Walgreens.

I have never been to SF and don't have any idea about the facts on the ground. Just, coming from ignorance, it seems logical to me to bet the opposite way from you.

One response to a decrease in reported theft and an increase in viral videos of theft is that the number of videos is misleading and "the numbers" prove it.

Another is that people aren't reporting theft as much because it's either out of control or perceived as such due to the videos. And/or the authorities have ways of manipulating the statistics.

I don't know that one or the other interpretation is correct, but if someone presents the first one as obvious without delving into why it is certainly true, then I tend to distrust them overall.
This looks amazing but I can't seem to find any information about whether it's compatible with standard VR headsets (Oculus / Vive / etc)
Yes, that says each has good and bad points and you should weigh them against each other in the context of your application, to figure out which one to use. I.e. equal terms.

Zen would be: pick one of the two approaches, keep its strengths while fixing it to get rid of its weaknesses, then declare the fixed version as the one obvious way to do it. You might still have to keep the other one around for legacy support, but that's similar to the situation with applying functions across iterables.

This is what Go did. Go has one way to do concurrency (goroutines) and they are superior to both of Python's current approaches. Erlang has of course been in the background all along, doing something similar.
This is more about making parallel python easier to use. It's already fast if you know about the current GIL workarounds. It'd be nice to not have to monkey patch, for example.
Soviet and USA didn't share much culture during the cold war

They certainly shared patriarchy which has been around a lot longer than the cold war. You haven't provided much in the way of numbers being 'the same' but the comparison would also be skewed by these countries' significantly different gender ratios, on top of many other factors.
Branson trailing Bezos in space tourism; SpaceX competes in a league of its own
It's not strange at all -- using headphones while charging is a daily situation for some
> our web servers and batch workers have throughput limited only by CPU and RAM

Are you able to fully utilize a multicore processor? I'm not familiar with gevent.
Just because something is built upon fraud doesn't mean it will face imminent collapse. Usually it's events that put notable financial pressure on institutions that reveal their underlying flaws. The extent of the fraud notionally influences how easily it will end up collapsing. Hence why Madoff was able to keep up his scandal for quite a long time.
I would have to agree with with your assessment, referencing the link in the above tree and this isopenbsdsecu.re .

Not to imply I don’t like OpenBSD, I love their first class support of old architectures.
I’ve had issues with various external displays over various MBP models forever, particularly waking from sleep. My current display had no problems at all with my previous 2014 15", but when that one died I replaced it with the first gen 16" and all those problems came back.

That said, I stumbled on a solution that’s been almost totally effective: I only ever wake from sleep with the TouchID button. I suspect (not very educated hunch) the problems with this newer model have something to do with timing of wake/power signals being sent before any other device data while waiting for the T2 to unblock.

Anyway, you might give it a try. I think I’ve had to re-plug all of 2-3 times in the last year (whereas failure rate waking from my external keyboard was close to daily before, and required a reboot at least a couple times a week).
Thanks. This explains it a little, but still seems like a huge gamble to give up one's citizen ship to the largest superpower in the world.

I'd rather just use a VPN and lie to get around the bullshit if possible.

You're literally not doing anything wrong by wanting to keep the money you have to support yourself and your family... the laws are just stupid and extremely unfair.
I guess "it can give, and does give such feedback more often than in peace time... if we are able to receive the feedback"

Anyway I hope I was saying that war is not necessary for us to learn to organise better.

And I would say that the Nazi "organisation" was so fucked up that anything that did not fit the internal psychosis of the Party was never going to make a difference.

Which I guess is the point.

A democracy has its blind spots - we should build a more perfect democracy with fewer prejudices and blind spots - and if we do we will I hope see a better society and more technological progress to boot.

Double down on democracy is kind of what I am saying.

(Strategic bombing seems to sit in that weird area of psychosis in military planners and politicians. See acoup.blog recently for it but it has never worked - London, Dresden, Tokyo, all made population more determined, drones killing people at weddings or roadsides is never going to make people give up. But we keep doing it.)
No, and you raise a good point. Someone with a trust fund or other form of inherited wealth, or just with sufficient passive income, doesn't need to be productive. That person can claim as much leisure time as they want, when they want. So the argument the author of the post makes, that productivity is a necessary precondition for leisure, is really not true at all. In our society we may find that money and income are preconditions, but there's nothing inherent about the need for productivity to have those.
Hmm, I thought 78s were made from pretty strong stuff, and that the needle was the wearing part when playing those old discs? Why would you worry about harming them when playing?

Modern vinyl, I understand is softer and will wear with repeated plays but the old 78s should hold up much much better?
Rails dev. Did a long pair-coding interview at a company that had all JS for their backend. Tried out the JS ORM.

Most of the day was me: let's do <this easy, normal thing in the ORM.> Them: well, this is more like a half-baked rails knockoff so things like that aren't there.

So, they knew it was lousy, but picked it because it was JS? Sigh.