skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I think it is always good to see progress in the performance of interpreters, ultimately it is a mistake if you have something that needs to be fast and you implemented it entirely in an interpreted language (beyond just prototyping).

You have to be prepared to factor out the key parts of the code into faster languages like C++ with bindings, if necessary. Or you can virtually do this, e.g. learn more about the standard library, make sure you are choosing things that actually are implemented natively underneath instead of in pure Python, etc.

And sometimes, you find that the cause of a slowdown is far more fundamental (e.g. the entire algorithm is not good, and you see huge gains by redoing it, even if everything is still interpreted code).
> The database schema and the application should have a schema version that they expect, and rules for translating between versions.

That… is migrations. The rules for translating between versions are literally what migrations do.
Regenerative braking is specially dangerous in wet/snow conditions.

In teslas it’s even worse because it’s the rear wheels that brake the most. It’s like pulling the handbrake on the wet highway.

But it’s ok they have it as a warning in the manual “ Warning
In snowy or icy conditions Model Y may experience traction loss during regenerative braking.”[1]

So no liability for the company. It’s now the driver’s fault.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_eu/GUID-3DFFB07...
The practical lesson here is to not visit the US if you can avoid it.
While I’m uncertain of whether what I’m about to ask is proper due to the nature of these news, it’s something I’ve been asking myself for some time and I’d like to know what thoughtful people think on this matter.

Would banning guns make the USA a more or less violent country?
Oh, thanks for the clarification. I thought they were not compatible.
Those are problems in theory, but I don’t think most people are concerned or affected by them. I’m certainly not.

I never need to transfer money quickly between accounts — it’s never once been a problem to wait a couple days. And sure there are real economic problems with printing money, but again, the government does a decent enough job at keeping the dollar stable that it doesn’t affect me.

And there’s the fact that the US gov has tons of power to maintain the validity of the fiat dollar through legislation, and as a backup they have the use of force through police and jail (in the case of tax evasion, or avoiding the laws). Then there are international alliances, and there’s the largest military in the world also with a strong interest in maintaining the dollar’s value.

So I’m not worried about the value of the US dollar in the long term — at least I certainly trust it more than a purely technical solution with none of the US Gov benefits.

Faster: I don’t have any problem with speed of USD transactions. In fact, most transactions are faster than crypto via credit cards or cash.

Cheaper: there are $0 transaction fees for cash, and low fees for credit.

Secure: US laws do a decent enough job

Fraud: crypto exchanges get hacked and there is often no recourse — if my credit card is stolen, there are laws that protect me

Limited supply: by definition, that makes the currency deflationary, which is horrible for a growing economy. And it’s obvious in bitcoin. Nobody spends money today if it’ll be worth more tomorrow — that’s why everyone just buys and holds bitcoin as an investment, not uses it as a currency
Ask HN: Why hasn’t music been disrupted in the same ways movies have been?
When Netflix first started out, it was an aggregator of movies and shows not unlike Spotify for music is today. Originally, the biggest challenge was the technology parts of the business. But today, most of Netflix’s (and all of the competitors) challenges are not technology problems, but media creation problems - creating hit media. Meanwhile, all of the other production companies (HBO, Peacock, Disney) have caught up, while other technology entrants (Hulu, Apple TV) are likewise focusing on production of original content to stay competitive.

This is also starting to happen with Podcasts (Spotify as the leading example).

But why hasn’t it happened for music, proper? I think Jay-Z’s Tidal tried this but they weren’t successful. But Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, etc all have huge catalogs of music, and there is a trend of artists selling their catalogs to these companies. What’s to stop them from pulling back their licensing and launching their own app competing with Spotify? And conversely, why hasn’t Spotify moved into music production in the same way that it has moved into Podcasts? (Caveat being that they tried at some point with generic beats and piano and atmospheric music production, but those knockoffs fell flat and felt hidden).
Thirty shots fired is not random. This isn't kids shooting at bottles in the backyard.

Feels like details here are being omitted.

If thirty shots can be fired in your neighborhood without an immediate and massive police response, you should move immediately.
This makes it sound like the US is in a state of constant warfare. While this may be accurate, it does make one wonder why citizens of a country supposedly in peacetime should constantly be watching out for and dodging bullets.
I'm working through the sign-up process for SendGrid (100 emails/day for free doesn't seem too bad), but their website seems so damn slow. I had to wait about 15 seconds for the signup page to load. You'd expect they'd optimize that page above all others to get conversions?
I see so much phishing from sendgrid that I just blocked the entire domain. I don’t care if they’re trying to be legit, they clearly can’t keep control over bad actors using their platform. I’ve also done the same with Google appspot domains.
No, they're saying that the US being heavily armed isn't the only explanation for why someone gets killed by a stray bullet in Atlanta.
Yep that’s super dangerous especially cyclical industry like aerospace. Plus aerospace companies are notorious for paying late are having unreasonable demands.

Coworker dad went from being a millionaire to living in a truck this way too.
I took the letter words from the enable2k word list, and calculated the letter frequency. It is not the same as it is for all English words.
It depends on the runtime environment, no? For example, Node supports worker threads

https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html
YouTube, infinite scrolling, free to play games ... everything is designed to trap our attention span.

This is by design.
That’s unlikely.

You are yourself all the time, and either you act this way all the time, or you don’t feel safe to be yourself on your work team, which indicates an unhealthy team environment.

Unless you’re saying you’re uncharacteristically acrimonious on HN, which would itself be an even odder choice…
Ah, ok - Thank you!
Maximizing results of eng job searches in 2022
Use a named tuple. This way, you can turn it into a class if it ever becomes necessary without changing any other code.
What’s the correct breakdown of software developers by race / gender / etc? I think if we can answer that question we can then accurately assess whether or not those attributes are acting as filters. However, without knowing those breakdowns, taking any action to correct those breakdowns is wrong. We can’t accurately say there is a problem.

The best we can do is remove any bias we find at an individual level (ie a blind hiring process). Looking at aggregate level metrics is nearly useless because we cannot accurately account for all the factors contributing to them.
There's a few out there [1] if you really need one -- most include some USB-A ports as well because the cost difference is small.

[1] https://www.coolgear.com/product/usb-power-delivery-4-port-t...
Because our economics have nothing to do with science; we incentivize meme competition; brand versus brand.

Society is currently designed to force the have-nots to LARP gladiatorial combat, not enrich each other’s lives.
You give money to people who don't have it, like we do in Sweden. If they're disabled, get them pension. If they can't get a job, get them education or training. If they don't have a house, get them one.
"Why don't we just create a utopian society instead" is never a good argument.
SendGrid is hot garbage hacked together. I reported a critical bug (unsubscribed emails still receive future scheduled emails causing high complaint rate) five years ago and they told me they know about it, acknowledged it was a bug, and said they had no plans to do anything about it.
>> "I don't think that's necessarily correct. Music production software isn't as dystopian partially because of the absolute market dominance of Logic Pro - anything else can't compete with it, so the last thing those companies want is more reasons for their customers to not use them."

This is news to me. It seems like the major DAWs have each cornered a particular sub-market. Cubase for orchestral, Pro Tools for studios, Live for live electronic stuff and EDM in general. Then there are smaller ones that claim share on the weaknesses of the others: Studio One, BitWig, Reaper, FL Studio, etc. I've been in this for a long time and never got a sense that Logic Pro was more than a strong contender. And I mainly get that sense from Logic Pro users who describe it as an oft-ignored underdog.

Is your claim only an intuitive thing based on the limits of one person's perspective, or do you have some stats for it? I couldn't find anything. My view is based on accounts from people who use it. You're the first to describe it as dominant.
> I had a call with VP eng where I raised the issue again and they insisted that the requirement remain.

I would have loved for you to have followed that up with "Ok then. Do you also have particular breast size requirements?" and watch them squirm as they realise how the "must be female" requirement could be interpreted in other ways.
Because cowboys and rap music and manifest destiny.

But seriously, you don't have to look that far. Canada's gun ownership and gun crime rates are also puzzling to compare with America's.
I originally thought go binaries we’re large. Turns out they can be quite small.

https://joeldare.com/small-go-binaries
Am online now
I've heard Canada is like that. I've had similar experience in South Africa, even in private health care, but I definitely had the impression that my doctor somewhat cared about me, especially after going to them for a few years
The plural of inconsistency:

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/897e437031880139f09900...
If that’s an issue just cache the file in RAM. 500MB is still less than the system memory on a Pi (and as I’ve pointed elsewhere, the OP was reading the partition table not the application file sizes).
Eh. I don't use typing tools for most things because (and I know this isn't a popular opinion even though I believe it's the correct one) they rarely save you from real world problems. They are mostly useful for auto-complete in your IDE, so you have to weigh the time you spend annotating your code to help your IDE auto-complete function signatures vs the time the auto-complete saves you. I think that if you use this as:

def foo(bar: list):
print(bar)

that type checking will be happy.
Employees within the University of Washington information technology department are also encouraged to contact vendors who use the “problematic words and phrases” and ask them to avoid terms that come from “racist, ableist and/or sexist origins.”

The web page gives a sample prompt for employees to use when sending emails to vendors about this issue as well.

“Unfortunately, in working with your product/service we have identified language that can be considered offensive due to its racist, ableist and/or sexist origins,” the email prompt states. “Can you let us know what efforts you are undertaking to move away from this language so as to create a more inclusive product/service?”

So, what will be the inclusive name for a "grandfather clock"?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30032072

A very similar discussion from two days ago about google producing a similar list
The people who move stock prices significantly are usually the ones doing it by volume - i.e. institutional investors (ex: Cathy Wood). Retail investors are a recent phenomenon when in aggregate.

The question still remains, where are they going to park these profits?
Why did you leave off Netflix?
I recall talking to people who worked at a company that competed w/ Sabere/IBM

There was a project they did not want to do. To avoid saying "no" and risking the relationship they quoted what they thought was an outrageous price, expecting to loose. The customer said yes. They had underestimated how much IBM had been gouging them for so long.
>it is absolutely self-evident that this is the best and most productive of all possible economic systems.

It isn't very self-evident from my perspective, could you please explain how?
What, no. It's not GNU/Linux if there's no GNU software present.
> time is a necessary convention for virtually any complex society

It wasn't that people in the "unclocked" regime have no precision or scale in their use of time and synchrony, it was that the very nature of the (subjective) world changes when you change your (subjective) structure and orientation in time.
Psychological models of time vary between cultures and individuals and have a deep and pervasive effect.

For example, some people organize their past and future along a line going left-right out in front of them (the past goes to the left, the future goes to the right, the present is in front) while other people have their past behind them and the future spreads out in front of them.

That simple difference, having your past and future in front in a line vs. being "inline" on your past-future timeline, has a profound effect on psychology and culture.

These are just two common styles, there is a vast diversity on how people organize their subjective structure of temporal events.
But the thread here was talking about a slum dunk case of contract breach.
Federated, hashed data stores in zero-trust environments is one (though this isn't the best or only way to approach it, and blockchain is almost always unneeded), where you don't want to share the underlying data but want to provide enough information to support reporting requirements. Public health, taxation, etc. come to mind.
It's unfortunate how those results are presented. The worst result on the pybenchmark link is comparing a numpy based implementation to one that doesn't use numpy.

If the latter can't use numpy or would be slowed down by it, that's a fair comparison, but it looks like they are just at different stages of optimization.
Um, LCOE for utility solar and wind is under installed coal and Almost under installed nat gas.

That means a power company is losing money by not building solar wind for coal and keeping an old coal plant running.

Nat gas is probably going to hit this level this year. Certainly with reasonably accurate carbon taxes and if we removed shadow subsidies for fossil fuels.

Soon nat gas will only be useful for load balancing.
I don't think you would have time to know or feel anything after being shot. If this is a joke, it seems in bad taste to me. Nonetheless what a terrible waste of human life.
> Quota-based hiring / candidate selection is one way to solve this problem.

Quota based hiring is explicitly illegal in the US (Gratz v. Bollinger)
World First Analog NFT
“Super important” — more like “super nice-to-have.” Hospitals don’t have any single person on staff who stays attached to particular in-patients. Who knows you? Your chart.

Yes, of course, hospital care would be better in many ways if we did have somebody who statefully understood particular patients’ needs.

But what I’m saying is, the GPs in hospitals could be replaced with stateless diagnostic AI without making hospital care any worse than it is now. And hospital care is a large part of the medical system, so only replacing diagnostics there (while leaving primary-care GPs alone) would still be a major optimization, freeing many doctors to provide better care, go into specialties, etc.
If you replace with the cells with the same type, it probably won't notice the difference.
There's already progress on that from a different angle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29005573
The funny thing is, that in the United States we give up the day to day security of living in a society with fewer guns and much less gun violence because of the freedom citizens have to own guns.

I am not saying it really feasible to change the approach in the United States, but it's not really honest to claim that widespread firearms ownership does not have costs. The simple way to think about it is that it decreases the marginal cost, and increases the impact, of many things like suicides, and senseless rampages.
Not necessarily, Switzerland & Finland also have high gun ownership rates.
What needs to be done a real education in terms of firearm handling, more restrictions when it comes to ammunition and get out of the culture that firearms are for republicans, rednecks and hillbillies, and be over with the cult of guns.
Maybe. I think you need something with the syntactic flexibility to work well with different types of data. I would have to look closer at Clojure and Scala.
Train an open source language model with Argos Train (tutorial)
I am not. You can claim that Shell and other oil companies are either amoral (they are not moral entities, their decisions are not subject to moral considerations), which is what you were saying; or, you can claim that they are immoral (they are moral entities, and have been making the wrong moral choices).

But I don't think there is any way to see them as moral (as in morally good).
Doing a similar analysis on the enable2k word list comes up with a slightly different order:

s e a o r i l t n d
But we are free people now. We do not want to be Russian colony again.
It used to happen a lot with me while I started coding and was learning the concept of OOPS. The concepts were just so abstract and I never could think in abstraction. I used to sweat and run around the room a lot because everything used to go over my head and as you said "Create a mess in my head." But I still kept going at it even when things were not making any sense. My goto was youtube and reading about the same topics but from different sources and understanding any immediate pre-requisite which was required to understand it. Then after like a month or so the concepts just clicked.

I still feel lost sometimes when I encounter something new but now I actually have the confidence that I would be able to understand it if I keep going at it and have a pen/paper with me.
> It's obviously a hard problem to solve.

Or maybe that is not the problem they are trying to solve. They optimize to sell as much as possible, not to get you the best experience.

It's like asking for the most shopped articles that are the ones farther away. Is it difficult to design better supermarkets? Or are they just optimizing for you to spend more time and money inside?
Give yourself full permission to interview your future managers back
Add counterparty risk to that too: if things go south and Big Corp decides to sue, small corp may go bankrupt in the process.
Interesting. Any chance you're accidentally transcribing the en sound as "n" instead of "ŋ"? This is an easy mistake to make, and perhaps one we could recognize proactively to display a more helpful error message.

To double check: if you type the word "blank" into the text entry box at the bottom of the screen, you should see it automatically transcribed (i.e., automatically "blæŋk" should appear in the grid).

FYI, the underlying JSON file derived from CMUdict is at https://github.com/jmandel/heardle/blob/main/words.json (it's, uh, 10MB, but it's hosted from a CDN that supports gzip encoding so "only" takes one megabyte to send over the wire.)
Yeah I think the idea that the first self-replication was RNA-based to be really really dubious.
> To carry a firearm in public or outdoors (and for a militia member to carry a firearm other than his issued weapons while off-duty), a person must have a gun carrying permit (German: Waffentragbewilligung, French: permis de port d'armes, Italian: permesso di porto di armi; art. 27 WG/LArm), which in most cases is issued only to private citizens working in occupations such as security.[6] It is, however, quite common to see a person in military service or a sport shooter to be en route with his rifle, albeit unloaded. The issue of such exceptional permits are extremely selective (see #Conditions_for_obtaining_a_Carrying_Permit).
Well, right. Which is why I asked the question. Appreciate the answer!
Because the Alberta tar sands focussed the various political playbooks of the oil companies for a decade or so and now they have their fingers in the Canadian government.

These are companies that topple nations if they want to, and basically own US Congress.

Their power is waning only because their stocks are collapsing.
I appreciate your effort to reconcile me with the current world. I know I’m probably missing something when seemingly half of the world is loosing its mind. Maybe I am loosing my mind. But I can’t help getting infuriated with pseudo science commercial bullshit that turns out praised and making trillions of dollars. Hearing that other automakers are claiming the same 1 year ahead full self driving makes me wonder if they feel like they have to make the same bullshit claims to survive the next decade. Would Tesla have succeeded if they were marketing as electric cars with the usual driving assistances? I think the false claims of fully autonomous driving thanks to Super intelligent AI together with Elon cult of personality played a big role in Tesla success.
Regarding the latter, its not the subsidize chance to take a risk, its the subsidized chances, plural. There is a selective evolution towards already wealthy people because everyone else gets one chance and is shut out for the next decade or so working for wages, and god forbid they pursue or get involved in any relationship rite of passage over that next decade, greatly reducing the probability of being able to take a risk without consequences to the relationship.
I'm a big fan of the GitHub Pages + Jekyll + Cloudflare "stack" for getting a fast, cheap (free, usually) website or blog up and running.

If you're strong in a particular ecosystem you can switch Jekyll out for something like Hugo, but Jekyll continues to be rock solid for my purposes, and there's usually a guide or plugin for additional features.
His name lends a lot of credibility to anything he does with Python, and that's why this effort is notable. He is the founder and longtime BDFL of the language, and presumably knows what he is talking about when he says he can get big performance improvements.
I see this.

Netflix had a wide catalog of content licensed (or used permissionless in disc form) from many studios at the beginning. Eventually (1) Netflix found it was cheaper to own than rent as they got bigger and (2) studios wised up about the value of streaming.

So streaming is fragmented and the real action today is in things like Disney+, Peacock, etc.

For music there are many streaming services (say Apple Music, Amazon Music, …) that have basically the same catalog.

It sounds like you are asking why Sony doesn’t start a streaming service for just the music they own and other record labels follow suit. Is that right?
> why are the convalescents not treated the same as vaccinate?

Two reasons:

1) people with natural immunity are still better off if they get vaccines;

2) allowing natural immunity to count as a vaccine is encouraging and rewarding potentially dangerous behavior -- like trying to get Covid and/or give it to your family