skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me add my voice to the chorus of posters pointing out that, no, Python is not easy to embed.

Back in 2004 or 2005, Firaxis decided to use Python as their embedded scripting language. They used something called “Boost Python”, a then reasonably easy to embed fork of Python, to embed Python2 in their Civilization 4 gaming engine.

Soon after this, Boost Python got abandoned and Firaxis ended up having to use an outdated version of Python by the time they released their final Civilization 4 expansion.

For Civilization 5, Firaxis instead used Lua, since they wanted an actively maintained code base.

For my own “embed a scripting language in a DNS server” project, I went with a slightly modified Lua 5.1. The entire DNS server, including the Lua scripting engine, is a 103,936 byte sized Windows service. The stack was a little hard to grok at first, but I was able to fairly quickly get used to it and have a Lua script set up configuration for the server, as well as parse DNS queries. [1]

To Python’s credit, the Python2 code used in Civilization 4 is 100% compatible with the final 2019 release of a Python2 interpreter, to the point that I can run map scripts for Civilization 4 -- compiled for x86/32-bit -- on a 64-bit ARM Raspberry Pi and have them generate the exact same maps. Useful when I wanted a particular kind of map for a Civ4 mod, and had to iterate through 300 different random seeds on my Raspberry Pi to find the desired kind of map. After about a month, I had over 180 map seeds meeting my criteria.

[1] https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/tree/master/deadwood-githu... for the record
> At least there is a vast area of things not yet understood

They key is to accept that there are phenomena we don't know enough about yet. There's no supernatural, just stuff that needs a couple more hundred years of research :)
Kudos to whoever included it in the TI82's manual, it successfully tickled my curiosity when I was a kid in the 90s and played a part in me becoming a programmer.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/325928/Ti-Ti-82.html?page=...
Effectiveness of a third dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine
I like that Python let’s you name `’’.join`. I’ve done the same thing creating a linear form: `f = x.dot`.
Throughout my day, I pray in three steps.

First, gratitude, expressing my thanks for all that I have to be grateful for, all the gifts and blessings I've received.

Second, asking for forgiveness for regrettable actions, which, if I look closely, I can always find, small or large.

Third, I ask for help. I generally don't ask for specific things, but talk about general areas or people I want to help. I try make sure that my intentions and asks are well-intentioned and generally working towards increasing overall levels joy in the world.

The other crucial piece of this, where meditation practice really helps, is to pay close attention and listen for response and guidance.

Along with breathing/mindfulness meditation, I do this throughout the day, and I also find time to sit down and do a dedicated prayer and meditation for 30 minutes each.

I started meditating throughout the day, sometimes in given triggering situations, a few years ago. I started this prayer practice about a year ago and have been working on it.

I recommend trying out this practice to anyone who's curious about our reality and how it works.
So the edge of the observable universe was 6000 ly away ? Something doesn’t add up
I have been taking it for the past 7 years, sometimes a couple times a month, sometimes more, and have zero physical damage from it. It's pretty common in indigenous communities or other ayahuasca centers to give it to children, yeah. No records of anything bad happening to them. In the church I attend, there's people who have been taking it for the past 28 years with no issues at all.
Author here! I do track my gym workouts and finances using other apps - I just figured that that's pretty common and less worth mentioning. Those are both very quantifiable, so it's relatively easy to measure progress.

I'd probably improve faster by taking music lessons, but improvement is really a secondary goal after having fun. For what it's worth, I do still get some feedback from bandmates and my own ear - recording your own playing and trying to mix it into something presentable makes it painfully clear what needs work!
Faster, maybe? I recall seeing a graph towards the end of the planar transistor days (maybe around 22 nm?) that FO4 speed peaked around 45 nm. Overall clockspeeds continued to improve because of lower power usage and thermal limits, but in isolation a smaller transistor is not necessarily faster; less capacitance and inductance, but also more resistance.
> Do you ever struggle with the parts of the bible that feel outdated in the modern context? I never read the bible by myself

I used to, but it becomes more practical and timeless the more I read my Bible. I read a version with cross-references in the center-line so reading slower and checking these makes it make a lot more sense. The way I'd recommend reading is Mark, Luke, John, Matthew, Acts and Romans (all in the New Testament) while periodically reading the cross-references as you go. This covers basic beliefs and how Jesus taught following the spirit of the Law, why Gentile Christians don't follow the full Jewish Law (Acts 15) and how those before Jesus aren't condemned (Romans). Then I'd recommend Genesis and Exodus to understand the Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob family line, and the establishment of the Law. Follow with 1st/2nd Samuel and 1st/2nd Kings for most of the rest of the historical side of context. Psalms and Proverbs can be read a little at a time, at any time.

> read a section of the Bible's Old Testament, Psalm, Proverbs and New Testament.

This is also the way I read, and it's super helpful. Old/New Testament for spiritual growth, Psalms for worship, and Proverbs for ordinary day-to-day advice (there's also 31 Proverbs so its easy to pickup whatever day it is).

> I went to Sunday school for 9 years and I remember struggling as a child to conciliate what I was being taught at school and at chruch, and specially ignoring the hipocrisy of the people lecturing

A lot of Sunday school is way too boiled down. There's hypocrisy everywhere and the church is no exception. People try to justify their own sin and resultant problems by ranking it against others--part of the reasons Christians are told not to judge others (especially outside the church), but instead help others in the church with their problems and be open to correction. It's supposed to be handled internally, but occasionally isn't, and I've moved to a different church when I've found it's entrenched and not fixable.
Just a nit but Atlanta does have mountains nearby. The Appalachians begin around Atlanta and there are 4000 foot mountains just 90 minutes away.
> Unionizing in global workforce is a fool's errand. Especially when authoritarian governments exist.

whats the alternative?
The death rate is nowhere near 4%. The CDC estimated the infection fatality rate in the US at 0.6% back when almost no one was vaccinated. The vaccines and other improved treatments have now cut that risk way down.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I'm not sure what you think you're responding to in my comment.
You can switch to logical view (I don't remember the exact name, "conspect"?) which doesn't apply 95% of styling and reflects hierarchy of the document + makes it easier to apply semantic styles en masse.

A big problem is that it's simply easier most of the time to hit Ctrl-B rather than select a style named "emphasis" and so on :(
The preconciliar monastic diurnal.
I study how science and spirituality meet. There's tremendous overlap between how machines work, how physics work, and how our own psychology works. Finding these overlaps where 10 different things in 10 different areas are shown to be one thing is my way of trying to grow spiritually and intellectually.

Most recently I discovered a link between the Wheeler-Dewitt equation describing time as a subjective phenomenon of entangling in an otherwise static universe, and how the corresponding models of OOP and FP work. FP is unchanging, it has no time component, but also therefore can't enact "change" (side-effects) without having some mechanism that taps into impurity (like the IO monad in Haskell).

So essentially the absolute being is immutable, but it still needs to conjure up impure beings to whom nothing is absolute and all is relative (and yes I mean also as in General Relativity where one's space is another's time and vice versa), but to those impure beings, as they explore the vast universe of all possibilities, they change. I.e. they are coupled to their own change, which we perceive as time.

I strongly believe at this point that entanglement of macroscopic objects is part of reality. We live in a multiverse, where our own actions are soon reflected in the rest of the world we experience. It's the very mechanism through which "karma" works. Karma is not simply the balance of good and evil, as those categories are subjective. It's rather the balance of all balances. What you do will come back at you at some point. And then you have the chance to judge it from the other side and decide if you were good or bad, and learn.
I wonder if it would be less confusing if we simply stopped referring to these as vaccines and just as shots.
Or maybe your kid could grow up a decent human being who sees human life as something more than petty investment and a chance to redeem your poor life choices.
I think that's true of issue advocates. This is the opposite case, though. This is a job where no issue is as important as the money. You might have to be a supporter of some position or other, temporarily, but they'll tell you what to support. Other than that, the main qualification is taking the money and shutting up.
Thanks! The tech behind it is pretty embarrassing.

Source data is Stripe (profit), Toggl (hours) and a tiny amount of manual accounting for expenses. I manually dump the raw data once a month into a CSV file, and then have some Python scripts that do intermediate calculations and transform the output to JSON. Then a tiny bit of JS to wire up the charts. So, in short, not automated at all, but takes ~10 minutes a month to keep up to date!
Our (the US) government, primarily the law making arm Congress, has been dysfunctional for so long it erodes various functions of society. For examples look at how the US doesn't have Federal bank accounts for individuals, or expanded services from the US Postal Service, proper simple taxation, straightforward immigration, digital identity management without the need for elaborate expensive physical identity documents--there are a range of issues that speak for themselves. Both of the prevailing parties have effectively the same problem, the Republican one has simply become so excessively backward and activist that it's more distracting, sort of a shiny object. Just consider gun rights and how there's no effective sense of responsibility associated with that right. Or that there's no Federal ballot mailing program for all locales and States (for example Puerto Rican's cannot vote for even the POTUS) despite there being high security and USPS services providing a solution with excellent scalability.
Haha I did this too. I wish I factored in line breaks.
As a religious Jew, I (am obligated by my religion to) pray three times a day, morning, noon and evening. The longest is the morning prayer, 45 minutes approximately.

The prayers are a mix of gratitude, humility and supplication.
It's expensive to be poor, not just in Nigeria, but in the US as well. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ji5cDa...
these are available in the US. they retail for $20-30 for a pair. they were easy to get from October-ish through mid December and now they’re sold out everywhere because of people testing for holiday gatherings.
You may want to look into Othernet, which does satellite broadcast data distribution to rasp pi based terminals. But they only have 2kbps to work with, so it’s largely the day’s news and some broadcast messages.

But it’s free and it works!

I understand some Canadian arctic cities want to do what you say because they depend on x$/gb satellite links, but not big enough for a Netflix or whatever appliance. But every time there’s an iPhone or windows update, everyone is downloading it independently. It would also make sense to load a box of SD cards with their supply flights and put them on-net. Dunno if a formal system exists for that.
> Heartbleed (and all the other serious memory exploits) required a great deal of skill and a lot of luck to exploit, and in return you either don't get a remote execution, or you get a very tiny chance of a remote execution.

Heartbleed wasn't about RCE at all. It was about memory disclosure -- memory that contained secret signing keys. The fallout was that keys needed to be revoked and rotated.

Reading out memory and extracting the secret keys was actually pretty simple. There were multiple POCs available.
The constant struggle to control what other people can consume. Outside of things like CSAM (which I have zero desire to view) I don’t need a nanny telling me what I can view
> recompiling it and running basic unit tests on it

And this is CI/CD done right. As soon as they commit a bug fix, the very next customer can use it.
I have fond memory of playing those "buddy" apps on my iPod when I was younger where you would throw staplers and chainsaws and whatnot at little virtual guys who were trapped behind the screen. Mildly sadistic? Sure, but I really wonder what was going through the head of the reviewer who allowed all 15-some iterations on that idea to get put up on the App Store while finding a picture of boobs in your app is carte-blanche means for removal.
The only reason Covid vaccines for young children are seen as so important is the absurd politicisation. To be fair, they're not harmful on balance - they just don't seem to have much benefit that justifies them. The UK government actually failed to convince the independent vaccine advisory board here to support them even for over-12s for that reason, and ended up just ignoring their advice and going ahead anyway for essentially political reasons.
There's something poetic about the biggest threat to our species being the smallest thing imaginable. Pathogenic viruses seem to serve the evolutionary role of culling overpopulated species. It's like nature's way of maintaining biodiversity, for better or worse. I think we are close to winning this battle, but the war cannot be won.
No.

> we are at the very frontiers of the explored Universe.

Explored.
I live in Toronto. Ontario enacted those laws targeting IT professionals in the 1990s to attract "IT companies" by making things flexible for them. This was before the current acute tech shortage. As somebody who entered the tech field circa 2003, I saw companies take advantage of some of these early on (especially related to overtime). Nowadays, I can pretty much dictate the terms of my employment.
> I'm not sure what you think you're responding to in my comment.

A direct question would be easy to answer. As it is, I'm sorry to hear about your confusion :-)
Can't find a source for that recollection, and http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/pubs/2017.02.VLSIintegration.Tech... seems to contradict it, so take with a supersized grain of salt.
> If you got HIV from unprotected sex, should we shame you?

This is already a matter of medical, policy, religious, and national history, and that story has not yet concluded with the many lives already ended. And if you knowingly expose people to HIV, that is generally both a criminal and civil matter. Meanwhile defiance of masks and avoidance of free vaccines is political patriotism — a brave defense of liberty itself.
Just tell your children. They will pick it up and spread it amongst their friends.

Their's no authority, it's a living thing and changes all the time.
What device is significantly cheaper than and quality equal to Raspberry
Which arm device is significantly cheaper than and quality equal to modern Raspberry?
as needed to fulfill all/most coding accomplishments ~91-95% as capacity as that of being done in average good laptop ?
The method presented by the author is the only method I've ever known. It was both simple enough for me to understand as a kid, and fast enough that I could plot the results within a minute using HiSoft BASIC on my Amiga 500.

Just to add the curiosum, the method as it was explained to me as a kid: "Plot a pixel on any corner of the triangle. Pick a new corner on random and plot a pixel halfway between there and where your last pixel was, then just repeat."
My experience as a professional sales consultant for SaaS startups is that it is not the this cohort is "not good" at selling, it's that it has very little idea of what to actually do. Being a bad salesperson is a different ball of yarn to unspool than not being a salesperson at all.
If that's the concern, then Apple needs to deliver a parental controls API that apps can use to check whether or not the app needs to use filters. Otherwise, their complaints are wholly their fault for not having the functionality to let people discriminate between safe and unsafe content.
Fellow outlier here, perhaps we should begin to meet regularly to discuss our shared beliefs and how to proliferate them?

I wouldn’t expect us to be outliers here to be honest but it’s always interesting to see what other replies there are in this crowd.

Nature is king. I don’t think it’s just because I’m more into it but there really does seem to be a growing trend of recognising the importance of being in nature
Incredible. My favorite line is the last: "they're both tools that do nothing more than show me the results of my own decisions."

I've unsuccessfully attempted various implementations of life logging for years and I wonder, how much of those failures were due not to poor system design, but rather a poor relationship with myself throughout time? I have some theories to test starting in a few days.

Some questions I have for OP and anyone else with similar habits: Do you journal regularly alongside / in addition to your activity logging? How are you recording emotional variables like stress? Any plans to expand your data capture to encompass more signal?
A lot of this is dependent on what “prod” means. If production applications, you are largely just retrofitting devops processes to incorporate model apis. Nothing really changes from how you deploy/monitor your systems.

Now, production models probably means some advanced domain-specific use case. The problem with all these MLOps platforms, or model serving services, is that they are abstractions for general use cases. Capitalism effect, I wouldn’t buy into these quite yet.

To serve production models, you’re going to need to get low-level, especially if performance is a feature. You’ll need to figure out architecture designs that work best for your use case.

Eg, I serve NLP models to augment a complex enterprise search engine. These are large TensorFlow models, with large embedding spaces.

We use kubernetes, ssd optimizations for fast embedding retrieval, and custom compiled TensorFlow container images. We then have sort of a demux architecture to custom-batch every request into sub requests (100s-1000s) that fan out for inference across kubernetes. Almost every api is in Golang, and we replaced Python with Go to run the models. Flatbuffers for every request and to spend no cost in serialization as we turn every user request into 100s that return back as a single request in ~1s. Some CPU optimizations along the way, and now we’re happy with the current prod infrastructure.

AFAIK, no MLOps tool could’ve done this for us. The major new thing we do is capture every piece of metric we can, and incorporate UX as part of ML research and retraining.
> It is very likely that most Qualcomm customers like Starlink have access to the source code of the Qualcomm proprietary Wifi driver for the QCA wifi Access point SoCs

No. They are jus that hard to work with.

MTK, Qcom, BCom are all terrible with software support, no matter who you are.
For reference, this is one specific type of test available in the US, there are other more common tests which are electronics-free.

There are some valid reasons for tests like this to exist. To quote later on in the linked Tweet thread [1]:

BTW it's easy to say this is wasteful, and it probably is, but just like with the pregnancy test, you should consider that there's three main problems that can affect the accuracy of lateral flow tests like this:
1. inconsistent lighting
2. incorrect timing
3. human error

having a 2$ computer chip and 50 cents worth of plastic & lenses removes all those sources of error.
And making it bluetooth removes a source of e-waste! it means it doesn't need to have a screen, it can just talk to your phone.

for example, consider that a bit more than 1 in 12 people have some kind of colorblindness.
Having a computer say "POSITIVE" or "NEGATIVE" is going to be easier to see then the uncertainty of "is that stripe red? can I just not see it?"

[1] https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1475254812816019456
The theological ramifications cut even deeper, given that said saviour is predestined to "die for your sins" - yet billions are to die just for his general announcement to happen.

The story's narrator is not a sudden unbeliever - he was obviously very religious, he does not apostate, he "falters in his belief", he realizes his blasphemy even - yet he feels unable to connect such a horrific, monstrous act to the message of an ultimately all-loving deity (and if you put it a bit further - the fact that deity choose to let them find evidence for this). In many ways, that story follows the classic catholic trope of the "Temptation of $holyperson".
Most likely because FDA required it.
You have fallen into the trap of “it’s not like this for me, so this person is lying”
According to Wikipedia she was Ada Lovelace's Maths tutor, strange I missed that I must have read about Ada Lovelace several times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville

And there I was, wondering if they had ever met.
Fedora and Arch are literally the early adopters of systemd, long before GNOME 3.8. GNOME 3.8 made hard dependencies on logind because it was default in Fedora - Arch similarly was working full tilt on implementing all proposed things from systemd long before GNOME 3.8 release (I know, I had lost my only on-hand system due to one of those changes applying badly and making it unbootable)

As for supporting configuration format - it's an obvious move, though more as "import" rather than only source of truth (different internal data models), and the format... is not exactly good (mostly due to lack of sane defaults that start to hit you once you wander beyond functionality that can be summarised as "SysV initd plus dependencies")
Bank cards have many disadvantages:

- there are fees and commissions for using a card, and there are limits on how much cash you can withdraw daily/monthly

- bank also charges the merchant and it makes prices higher for everyone

- bank knows what and where you buy, collects this information and can resell it

- your name is written on the card and encoded inside, so when you pay the merchant can identify you

- cards have a magnetic tape that is unencrypted, can be easily copied. It seems like the only use for this tape is to allow criminals to copy the card.

- new cards include RFID label that allows reading data about you and charge your account

- if you are suspected to be an "extremist", then the bank will allow you to withdraw only about $150 per month. And you can become a suspect if you post something wrong on the Internet.

Cash is obviously better.
Our main business is not fighting Apple, although we support the open web quite a bit by leading the WordPress project https://www.protocol.com/matt-mullenweg
I noticed that too. However there is realtime translation by volunteers, and they seem to do a good job.

https://c3lingo.org/