skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I wouldn't say that it'll slowly die given that there are many workarounds one can use to use multiple processors for CPU-heavy workloads even when the GIL is present (such as releasing it in native extensions or using multiprocessing).

So, while it's discussed a lot, it seems like it did become one of the most popular languages even having a GIL -- but I guess we'll never know for sure as there are real plans to make a GILless CPython now...
First, 20 minutes in average for power-distributed time-to-block would result in much, much higher peaks. In your chart I see 25 minutes for a block, then it will be 50 minutes.

Second, instead of two weeks to hash rate adjustment, it will take four weeks.

And if these staying with this slow bitcoin would decide to leave to more profitable currencies (not necessarily Bitcoin, there are other SHA256-based PoW schemes), that will push hash rate adjustment even further into future.
> you have criminal elements that may or may not be controlled by their government

We can debate whether the Kremlin controls Russia's criminal elements. What is apparent is it's unwilling to pursue them. So much so that they practically live in the open.
Ah, solid alternative! I really like the look of the Streamcam on my workstation, which bumps it up in my subjective view... but I can't deny that a standard USB 2 connection would be convenient as well. And some folks even think the C300 has better low-light performance.

I just wish there was an easier way to preview my perceived stream quality over Zoom from a teammate's perspective -- the preview I get in Zoom seems a little bit too perfect to be compressed.
Damn, the US measurement system is complicated. In the metric system it's called a Royall :) Ok, I'll see myself out.
You really could save a lot of time by just saying you're "anti-vaxx".

Maybe you're not familiar with the contemporary meaning of the phrase, but it perfectly encapsulates your behavior here and throughout HN.

Antivaxx is a syndrome. Some tell-tale symptoms are:

1) a scattershot litany of objections based on vague pseudo-scientific conclusions, cherry-picked de-contextualized data, and deployment of hypotheticals that, in total, amount to FUD;

2) Antivaxx denialism: that is, retreating to a position of nuanced skepticism when called on their clearly manic anti-vaccine FUD tactics, "hey, I'm just cautious/hesitant/skeptical".

3) an effort to characterize COVID vaccines as somehow nefarious or "illegitimate" versus previous vaccines because they seek primarily to prevent serious disease;

4) a relentless emphasis on natural immunity as superior to vaccines;

5) and the dispositive test that is perhaps the gold standard for an antivaxx diagnosis: deploying a range of pseudo-ethical arguments that seek to paint COVID vaccines or their advocacy as somehow immoral. This is usually deployed via vague rantings that, say, inexplicably invoke the Hippocratic Oath.
The issue is, it's faster to build a feature yourself than to coach a new hire to build it.

So if an org doesn't value mentoring and growing engineering talent, you'll end up with a few engineers doing most of the work and an org that magically can't scale.

Then you'll see the hiring side buying in on the cargo cult and trying to hire seniors with resumes matching their existing devs, then whining they can't hire them for cheap. At this point the business velocity has reached it's top speed.
Touch Bars have had a separate, physical ESC key since 2019. I'm looking at one right now.
you really hit the nail with the transient comment. Feels like the whole UX discourages longevity for "hotness".

Edit: re. the opportunity, in the spirit of times - maybe what's missing is a "headless" forum framework with a byoFE?
Opinionated Queer License
Did some recording there a couple of years back. Not a bad room but the studio itself is mostly a museum these days and our engineer had to do a bit of work to get it functioning well enough for our purposes. In the area there are a number of great studios, e.g. Fame, Nutthouse but MSS is closer to a really, really good fried chicken place!
Point taken on EVs! My only experience is using them for robot builds and it may be the quality of the battery thats at issue.

In comparison to fossil fuels lithium is obviously way better but I think long term I would prefer to use sodium based batteries due to their abundance, ease of manufacture, and potential lower extraction-related pollution. Explosion related concerns are not the best counter argument.
> It's a news story about a health patient, yet Naomi seems to expect NPR to act as Martha's personal insurer and care advocate.

No I think Wu just expects [0] NPR not to ignore relevant facts to construct a misleading narrative.

> Then Naomi would never have been given the chance to virtue signal for exposure.

Naomi Wu is hardly lacking in exposure opportunities or the ability to exploit them, so even if the basic false dichotomy you propose wasn't false, it wouldn't really be lose-lose for NPR and Wu. (NPR and Martha maybe, since the exposure, even starting in the misleading form NPR presented it, does probably make it more likely that her issue gets resolved, but that's where the false dilemma comes into play, since the story didn't actually have to be misleading.)

[0] in the normative, but emphatically not the predictive, sense of the word.
While researching what Meson was after reading this, I was amused at this FAQ entry on their site:

https://mesonbuild.com/howtox.html --- "How do I do X in Meson?"

:)
We used to have other cable's for video prior. However, today we expect interoperability across so many more devices that saying we need this to be a video cable and this to be an audio cable put us in this position in first place.

Over time I imagine we will evolve to a more standard "data transfer" cable that is what USB-C is trying to do. The transition isn't always easy and will introduce friction to various use cases.

Remember firewire? Today when I'm mobile I have a bookbag, a laptop and a small accessory bag. The accessory bag has various cables, dongles and adapters to ensure I have plug-ability.

Going back to your desk is a work problem, the office should just have those dongles in all the conference rooms and the problem you describe is entirely moot.
It's artificial* selection. The ones with husks die** more often before having offsprings, or will on average get to have fewer offsprings, in comparison to the tuskless individuals.

*) Humans are putting the pressure.

**) Are killed by poachers.
I don’t remember what Facebook had instead of a news feed in 2008, but I do remember thinking Facebook was so cool then. When messenger came out, it was amazing. It was totally normal then to message random people who you thought were cool and just have a conversation. I would even get random chats from Facebook employees. It just seemed so different then than now.

I’m just trying to piece together the evolution of Facebook, feeds, and then when I stopped caring. Like, I don’t think the feed was always like this. At one point there was nothing, sure, but there was also at one point a reverse chronically sorted log of what your friends were doing I think? That was the best. By the time my parents were on I think there was a few years of overlap before I just forgot about it.
“[Pacifism] is only possible to people who have money and guns between themselves and reality.”
-- George Orwell

In other words, you can be as “committed” to pacifism as you want, but your life and freedom, and your indulgence in your pacifist philosophy, is made possible by other people’s commitment to the defense against violence with violence, and, often, to their sacrifice.
Important question: Are the batteries serialized or will any 3rd party battery just work?
> secret messages in yogur

At first I thought "yogur" was a word from a different language, but after trying and failing to find it when searching, I have to ask: did you mean...yogurt? How does one leave a secret message in yogurt?
> Critical skepticism is an important element of science.

There's a continuum here. I guess we might say that at one end is blindly trusting whatever you're told, and at the other end is skepticism to the point of divergent irrationality, e.g. believing the Earth is hollow because you haven't personally been to the North Pole to check for a big hole leading to Inner Earth (where the meat goes on the outside of the sandwich). Of course, satellite imagery is all doctored to cover up the truth.

Interestingly, those extremes seem to curve back toward each other.

Skepticism is important, but it can be taken to harmful extremes, and it's important to examine "skeptical" impulses to make sure that's actually what they are. When you find yourself clinging to a "skeptical" position as evidence to the contrary continues to mount, squeezed into an ever-tinier corner of what-ifs and statistical improbabilities--or just cherry-picking data and presenting it out of context to rationalize your position--you have to know when to throw in the towel.

---

The above is presented as a reply to your comment about critical skepticism being important, because I think that's a line that's often used to defend irrational positions, often to the point of doing real harm when it's deployed in the public discourse. But I am not talking specifically about COVID or anything to do with it, so--again--please don't imagine that I've made any substantive statement wrt. the efficacy and/or risk profile of COVID vaccines, because I haven't.
Xorg/Xfree86 served us very well for decades. Will still continue to do so as XWayland. It feels like saying goodbye to a good employer that is retiring but will be replaced by someone more adequate for the job.

Thank you all, devs!
Fun game, my compliments to the creators.. there is one variable for me that makes it more difficult. Anti-aliasing. I turn it off on my display because I like sharp crisp fonts without blurred edges--and in fact, the higher resolution your display is, the less you need AA.

Many "good" fonts are no longer hinted to fit to the raster grid, it is just assumed that you are using AA, period. What happens in that circumstance, is that the unhinted font looks really misshapen. Because of this in Firefox I de-select "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" and use instead a font that was designed to work well without AA (for the web, I like using Verdana).

So, for an editor's font, the best ones are bitmapped raster fonts for that pixel-perfect sharpness.

You can also use a TTF/OTF font with embedded bitmaps at specific sizes.

Regular TTF will work well also, if it is old enough that it contains hinting instructions. E.g. Bitstream Vera Sans is a monospaced font that is properly hinted for a pixel grid.
Yea, I've heard of that trap before of building and then trying to solve a problem rather than identifying the problem first and then building. We've certainly done a bit of that here.

Initially the project was primarily just something fun for us to work on together and to stretch ourselves beyond what we typically get to do at our day jobs. For that it's been good and "successful". But, we have reached a point where it'd be more fun if other people beyond us actually used it. I think that's a good point that we should step back and reflect on what the problem is, who wants it solved, and how we position ourselves so people come across our project when looking for a solution. We'll spend some time reflecting on that. Thanks for the comment!
LOL. Yes.
> Also, calling herself sexy and wearing a bikini is specifically aimed at males

Women who are attracted to women exist. It's possible to think that yourself is sexy without desiring external attention. What you're doing here is projecting and victim-blaming.
Pokémon Go scales to millions of requests
"Robotnik" is still used in Polish to mean someone who does manual labor and the like. The pejorative "robol" translates as "prole" as in "proletarian".
Oh, absolutely.

I didn't want to head down that rabbit hole, but there are a few lines of argument which lead to the conclusion that the end-stage of most technologies involves both ever-diminishing positive returns and an increased concern in dealing with unintended consequences. I call these "hygiene factors", though environmental concerns would certainly be a prime example.

One framing of this looks at the mechanisms by which technologies achieve results. I've identified nine of these: fuels, materials, energy & power transmission and transformation, technical knowledge ("technology"), causal knowledge ("science"), networks, systems, information, and hygiene. These seem reasonably well-defined.

The area of accelerating rates of returns seems specific to network / dendritic structures (physical, conceptual, or both). Even here, growth ultimately slows, probably best considered governed by a logistic function.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/klsjjjzzl9plqxz-ms8nww
Dropbox doesn't support Apple Silicon and has no public plans to
>All of the cars I listed are real street legal cars (no NEVs), available for purchase today (no concepts), that are plugin electrics (no hybrids) with a range in excess of 100 miles, with a price less than $40,000. These are viable inexpensive cars. That was the criteria. Arguing that these don't count because they're not comparable to one that costs 50% more, isn't fair.

My argument is that the cars are priced the same as Tesla. You are paying less but getting a compromised car in many respects(range, charge time, reduced interior quality/size). You are basically buying Gen 1 tech at standard price.

>The software you’re citing for Tesla is gimmicks and cruel jokes.

I think we are not going to agree on this but these days they have an excellent UI experience. You haven't actually spent an extended amount of time in a modern Tesla have you? These other cars you cite have gimped infotainment compared to Tesla so they have to be augmented with Carplay. Some people would prefer to use their iPhone as it can be upgraded, fair enough. Tesla decided to go in another direction.

But Tesla also throws in nice to haves such as Sentry mode, games etc. These are non-existant on the other platforms even as an option. Why would you value something like Sentry mode at 0$? It is a value add for some even if you don't want to use it.

>The state with longest average commute distance is New Hampshire at 46 miles.[0] Even if that’s one way, that’s only 100 miles a day. Assuming you can only charge overnight, you’ll never use that extra range. You'll never even go below 50% if you can charge at work.

This is Gen 1 EV mindset. You are paying ~35K for a car that can't go long distances/cannot fast charge? The Mazda cannot even match the 2012 Nissan Leaf. I was researching the Mazda as a potential vehicle since I really like their cars but this is not something I could fathom paying for and not feel ripped off. It is not fast, not really luxurious, has short range. It has no redeeming qualities other than it is Mazda's first EV.

[1]:https://insideevs.com/news/452551/mazda-mx30-dc-charging-tes...

At that point you are not getting 35K worth of value out of these cars. A basic gas car is more competitive at this price range. The collection of people who would pay 35K for a 100-150 mile EV but not buy a gas car or pay more for a viable EV has got to be quite small. In fact I'd wager that the car shortage + Carpool lane access in some states + aggressive incentives is whats driving any sales of these cars. In the case of the Mazda they are only selling in CA from what I understand.
The only reason to enable an IOMMU is if you have applications in user mode that are directly accessing hardware and you want to protect the system from them. It looks like it is disabled by default, so if you enable it, you're likely to have to do quite a bit of debugging to get it to go, which is problematic for off site hardware.
> The movie could probably have used a bit more teen angst

So glad it didn't, teenage angst is the most uninteresting thing in the world
If Windows continues in the direction it is headed, I will likely have given up on personal computing entirely by that point.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29011847
> Except it doesn't.

Ummm, yes it does.

> Those libraries are being used in Chromium, and thus need to be maintained for use in Chromium.

And they certainly are... by the originators. The Chromium team maintains a few patches here and there, which is why they're in the repo to begin with friend.

> It...did?

No, I said it didn't. All of the things you listed are not originated by the Chromium team. Also, Google can't just take them away so anyone who wants to use them can. Nobody has to re-invent the entire wheel here.

> Now we're speculating.

We're using logic. Did you see the new Brave search engine? You think they can't build a store to host extensions? That's rich.
The first gen MBP (which was basically a PowerBook with Intel) had this. I remember pondering whether to buy one.
Great job implementing the Blind Match feedback. One issue with it - when Blind Match is enabled the choice buttons still show the font name - all other labels are anonymized.
$2000/track sounds about right for that.

I played with a regionally popular band around the same time and we were able to record a 5-song EP for $7500; it sounds like we got a similar level of attention from our producer (who had a few "oh yeah I know them" acts on his resume but none as popular as Avenged Sevenfold).

$40k would be extortionate for what we got, but there are producers out there who are worth it. The Beatles got a good deal no matter what they paid George Martin.
> If the MacBook Air is a better value-for-money proposition than the MacBook Pro to begin with, and customers do not actually like the Touch Bar, then why would they start switching to the MacBook Pro?

The psychological effects of the word "Pro".
Maybe it just works fine in terms of hardware compatibility, but there are lots of background stuff like CompatTelRunner and WaasMedic that ruins interactivity by using up all disk IO at most inconvenient times. I haven't observed things like that on Linux.

Perhaps the fundamental difference is that Windows is more compatible because it enables more things by default (that are difficult to turn off), whereas Linux is more efficient because it has less bloat by default (but is difficult to enable what you need).
Ask HN: Starting kit for an aspiring software developer
Is that time of the year when I have to buy my landlord's kids presents in exchange for him buying me Romanian unhealty food and booze :)

The youngest one, about 11, seems to like robots/computers. I want to get him a starting programming kit of sorts. Myself I started with a ZX Spectrum clone, that came with a booklet with some stuff I could do with the computer. So I was thinking to get him something like a RPI with a keyboard and preinstalled dev environment he can play with. Anything like that?

I don't have lots of time atm to do it myself, thus I'm looking for an already made solution.
Thus another surveillance tool is born.
What feature did they “break” by adding HDMI and an SD card slot?

And supporting features forever and backwards compatibility explains why there are a million hacks in Windows and why MS moves so slowly.
>The hard part is creating a viable alternative culture that can make collective choices about technology use.

This alternative culture is impossible under capitalism, where the tendency is for any and every technology to be acquired and applied in the service of the already rich and powerful.
It's not like evolution detects this. If you kill off all the blond headed people in town, all the babies next year will be born with brown hair. The tuskless variant was already in the population at some proportion, but due to tusks being a target of poaching, those that carry the tuskless variant are more likely to survive and have offspring, who are also going to have this tuskless variant. Over time, the population will shift and this tuskless variant will be present at a higher proportion in the overall population.
The "switch/case" statement is now in too (or match/case here, even though it goes beyond a simple case statement).

It had been rejected by Guido before (see: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3103/#rejection-notice) but it seems it made its way in this time.

Approved: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0634/
I only played around with it on OpenAI but it's the same model as far as I know. It's pretty good at regurgitating algorithms it's seen before. It's not good at all at coming up with new algorithms.

It's very good at translating between programming languages, including pseudocode.

It can write a lot more valid code much quicker than any human, and in a whole slew of languages.

I haven't had the urge to use it much after playing around with it constantly for a few days, but it was pretty mind-blowing.
Just to be clear, it leaves as hydroxide to Japan or Korea mostly.

> It’s actually really crazy but your green vehicle battery has to go from Australia to China to Japan to Nevada just to got one more place for final assembly.

And then might get delivered back to Australia or Britain or whatever.

This is also why one of Musk major focus on Battery Day was 'how far does a battery atom have to travel' is a major measure of success for them.
Byrne Hobart on the financialisation of everything
How Josh Simons launched Vampr and grew it to 1.1M users
Then you don't know what normal academia is like.
Right, but the word "Pro" existed before the Touch Bar, and as far as we can tell customers did not actually like the Touch Bar.
What I always wondered is why they didn't start with a $999 base model (like the original iBook) that was cheap, but big and slow. if you wanted premium performance/expandability/ports/screen, you could pay $2K for the Pro model in the same form factor. If you wanted portability, you could pay $2K for the Air in a smaller form factor with the same performance as the iBook. The cheapest model being the most portable is bizarre.

Then again, the iPad Mini is more expensive than the larger iPad, so obviously there is something going on I don't understand. Perhaps the cost of engineering the motherboard and battery in an integrated package are so high that they can't afford to split the line any further.

The 2021 14" Pro is the first truly pro model in a while. I hope they keep it up. The keyboard is actually usable for extended periods, it has ports, the screen is great (to be fair, all Apple retina screens are great to varying degrees). Did I need it? No. But I wanted it. The last Mac laptop I bought for myself was the 2015 13" MacBook "Pro", so they're getting more money out of me this time around.
Superstition really seems to be one of the largest factor when it comes to animal hunting/consumption. It's ridiculous and a little bit ironic that something supposedly to bring good fortune will result in wide scale killing of animals, living earthlings.
> lured into taking a car loan with the promise of high returns

Sounds like college in the US :)
This all stemmed from the CIA (and white colonizers) involvement in creating the Mozambique civil war.

The civil war was then partially financed by selling ivory tusks. Hence the culling of the elephants with tusks. The tuskless went untouched and managed to reproduce in larger ratios.

https://www.africanexponent.com/post/4981-civil-war-in-mozam...
The key thing to remember is that the screen is larger than it used to be, making this tradeoff understandable: when you use compatibility mode — which is the default — a full screen app will start below the notch, giving it an uninterrupted space which is still taller than the previous version's screen.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Anyone who needs every last bit of width for their menus can set the NSPrefersDisplaySafeAreaCompatibilityMode flag in their plist, as well.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/in...
We could send hundreds of robots to Mars for the cost of one manned mission
what about wife and kids?