skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How Python is dying at enterprises
The internet is pull-based. Grandparents push their experiences to their offspring.
But Shakespeare is incredibly useless. People don't even talk or write like that anymore. Any imagined benefit of Shakespeare is just fanciful wishful thinking.
McDonald's and Coca-Cola boycott calls grow over Russia
Mortality is something I have been greatly struggling with lately, and I am neither sick nor old. But it's just tough to grapple with. By all accounts, life and this universe makes no damn sense, and for the most part, attempts to understand it are futile. We carve out little things that are interesting, but that's about it. And all that is ignoring the fatal flaws of humanity.

What's interesting is that I already share most of these regrets, and I am not dying, at least in the traditional sense since we are all dying. I think for the most part, all one can do in life is to just do. Be yourself but stop worrying about what yourself is. Treat any done project, not matter how small, as a good project. Look for little successes like that. And the older I get, the more I realize that relationships matter.
>I don't why the previous account got terminated

Isn't that exactly the problem? Your previous account had "issues" with Apple. And now your account has been associated with a problematic account.
The point of the cloud was never that it’s got stronger security. Even in the early days people were constantly leaking data due to insecure S3 buckets.
The link intended: https://www.quora.com/Is-Python-being-phased-out-in-enterpri...
I am the healthiest person I know, and I got cancer
Gotta say that it’s a bit supervising that these are issues you’re still dealing with. I remember power management issues being a problem 10 years ago when I replaced Windows on my shitty Dell laptop, and I wouldn’t expect the same from a manufacturer shipping Linux-first devices.
Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring Rust Engineers and Eng. Managers
I chime in only to say thank you, because a mere upvote seemed insufficient. Nowhere else, other than from you, can I get these viewpoints, and uttered in such thought-provoking and impactful ways. Please never leave us. :)
> University of the South Pacific, which runs the DNS servers, [1] is up.

Not up from within Fiji. All government websites (and email) are down. Banks, Universities, mobile money wallets, etc.
Yeah I guess the data itself is remaining in place, maybe there’s better name for this? Copy free perhaps?
Convinced pacifists and those unwilling to become part of their army don't get to vote. Everybody who votes is expected to spend enough time in military to be shaped and molded by them. Plus, the book is clear on superiority of soldiers when it comes to making state and political decisions. That are fairly fascist ideas, very straightforwardly.

Besides, my point is about people who quote it. This book quotes are never used for anything else except ideas like this.
Where I work doesn't have anything to do with games.

I follow game development since the 16 bit demoscene days when I used to hang around with crackers, switchers and ProTracker musicians, read Hugi, then I graduate to being a IGDA member, Gamasutra subscriber during its existence, consumer of MakeGames and Develop, attended a couple of GDCE events, having some interviews at well known console manufacturers and eventually deciding that I would rather keep doing boring enterprise consulting than suject myself to game industry working conditions.

Which leaves me with a network of people that are still in the industry, naturally there are opportunities to talk about Stadia and very few of them are impressed with Stadia's track record or its owner long term commitment.
Interesting to see this being developed in Spain, I wonder if it would be a manifestation of the greater community you see in Spanish cities like Barcelona.
I've always wanted to do a mobile MMPORG version of SimAnt, in which every player is a unique ant (or villainous spider!), crawling around with the GPS, with waving and shaking and spinning gestures for digging and eating and fighting and dancing and communicating!
Would you mind saying where in the world you are?
I think the GP here means test drive the particular vehicle you're buying, not just some other vehicle of the same make & model (and possibly, but possibly not, trim level).

With Tesla, the most you can do is refuse delivery, but you won't get to drive it before you do that...

GP's not wrong, but as someone who only started driving frequently well into my 30s, I've personally never had the "I must kick the tires" mentality -- and Tesla's at-the-time "7-day return policy" helped a lot with concerns about a lemon.
Chalk has an option to use RPN
Chordial deviations add up on smaller holes.

Minimum size line segments and other things come into play on holes less than about 0.2"
You’re so right! Tech has become a job! It takes so much time to build something without bugs and with correct error management, that a new exciting feature is just yet-another-project.

And every new NPM dependency feels like installing a Russian hacker’s “free library” on my computer.
This "with vs from" distinction is almost entirely meaningless. Unless the person had Covid19 and got shot or drowned in the sea, Covid19 is part of what killed them. When you have multiple diseases, they all contribute to your death.

Otherwise, if we only try to look for the disease that directly caused your final moment, we get absurd conclusions - such as, "no one has ever died of AIDS", since AIDS only destroys your immune system, it doesn't kill you.

Not to mention, Covid19 is not only a pulmonary disease, it is a blood disease, and as such it has hard to measure and predict effects everywhere in your body.
Gas went from $3.50 - $5 overnight where I live. I guarantee it will not drop back down to $3.50 that quickly. Did my income rise to cover the extra $45 it now costs to fill up my truck? No. Same with everything else. Prices are going up like gangbusters, but my income is static. Those rising prices MAY come down someday, but probably not back to where they used to be.
Cool to hear that Chrome is faster than Safari, but that's not why I'm going to stick with Safari.

I use Safari because of Chrome's memory bloat, Safari's text message MFA auto-fill features, and Safari's cross-platform (iOS/macOS) password manager.
SQL will always be faster than Hadoop and MapReduce. The main reason to use those other slower services is developer are not use to SQL or declarative programming, and insist on having the code in Procedural way.
The world would be more peaceful if NATO hadn't expanded to eastern Europe.
What's missing in these kinds of propaganda takes is that:

a) The cost of fuel is currently so low as to be practically zero. Fuel cost does not materially affect the cost of a nuclear power plant.

b) The basic reason for this is that they use so little fuel, because the fuel is so incredibly energy dense, last I checked > 1 million times more dense than fossil fuels. This is essentially impossible to grasp intuitively, which is one of the reasons there are so many completely wrong takes on this topic. See: https://xkcd.com/1162/

c) One result of the fact that fuel is so cheap, practically, is that we currently throw away 95% of the fuel after use. Because it's not worth the effort to actually use all of it.

d) One upshot of throwing away most of the fuel is that we also throw away the fuel that current reactors generate in production. Alas, those are also the nastiest fission products. This is not some far away technology, we have been doing this to get fissile materials for atomic weapons for almost a century now. And we have been repurposing fissile material from nuclear warheads since at least the early 2000s (might have been late 1990s).

e) So if we were to simply use all the existing fuel, we could do "this" for another 20x 100-150 years, so 2000-3000 years. The reason we are not doing this is that it's not currently economically viable, fresh Uranium is just too cheap, and since the political landscape is so irrationally negative there is no incentive for investing when current fuel reserves are sufficient for the current reactors.

Fuel supply and waste are political problems, not technical ones.
I use mine to 3d print parts and then cast them in metal. They make special resins for this process, works great. I can go from Sketch - Fusion - Slicer - 3d Print - Cast in about 18 hours depending on the part size (long time to print complicated / big parts). If you're interested look in my bio there is a link to my youtube - watch the "casting gold balls" video - it basically runs through the whole process (albeit without explanation).
I would expect lifecycle costs to be largely underestimated for solar.

Regulations are way more relaxed to dispose panels in comparison to nuclear waste, for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, panel disposal is still expensive, we're just leaving the bill for future generations, just like with nuclear, unfortunately...
Only Belarus and Syria.

You cannot trust Russia right now. But the worry is that Russia can use nuclear weapons.
Thanks ! There were so many things to say that I was afraid nobody would read up to the end. GUI is only the visible part of the iceberg.
Number representation (to keep exact values), accuracy, interval arithmetics... are hard to introduce in the first place.
It's not a matter of stupidity at all, it's purely self interest. Giving up nukes is irrational when they're such an effective tool.

The USA and Russia reduced their arsenals primarily as a cost savings measure. Keeping the weapons systems operating is shockingly expensive. Modern delivery systems are more accurate so we can now ensure MAD with fewer warheads.
Awesome. Got lost in the long article, so missed that.
Then it isn't a solution worth spending any time on.
I'm not sure how much he actually accomplished, though. His experiment ultimately had to end prematurely, and his technology isn't be developed. In fact the mainstream is going in a more non-invasive route that could potentially be about as effective. I love the spirit of it, but honestly it is a crazy risk to take and as a researcher his brain is probably more valuable undamaged than as a research subject.
It’s a study wether vitamin D prevents cancer and cardiovascular diseases:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01169259

The results are negative:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30415629/

What you see here is that combing through the data to see wether anything shows a publishable correlation. It’s better than a correlation in the general population, but can be also spurious.

Here is the article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35082139/
It’s important to observe that “omega 3 fatty acid supplementation with or without vitamin D reduced the autoimmune disease rate by 15% (not statistically significant)”. If vitamin D reduced autoimmune diseases you would expect omega 3 + vitamin D to have similar results than just vitamin D
> One of the top cloud companies who everybody assumes are supposed to have security and security experts beyond what you can deploy, which is one of the main reasons given for why you should move to cloud deployment,

I’d say your assumptions are wrong there. Security is not one of the main reasons for moving to the cloud. It’s not even _a_ reason to. Delegating responsibility for security might be cited as a reason but that’s not the same as saying the cloud is “more” secure. That’s just saying you are you don’t want to pay for security yourselves. Which is a whole different thing to what you’re claiming.
I think this is a misleading impression: tabloids represent the views of the british establishment, which is atavistic, racist, and generally awful. I don't think the general population is so bad.
Should be “due to” including economic effects. Ask someone in NYC how they liked living through it.
As the predictable discussion unfolds below (above probably?), using the best subset you can means your analytics workloads can potentially scale from sqlite to bigquery, going through spark or over to clickhouse.

SQL is everywhere and it is fast and kinda portable. I have done sqlite analytics jobs over 4-6GB databases on a desktop machine 10 years ago to generate really complex reports. It worked wonderfully and was the shortest time from raw data (xml, html, csvs) to useful results.
Yes, that is exactly my point.
Found this link on LinkedIn and felt like sharing to more readers. One of the best Cancer stories I read recently. Very informative!
Chalk is kind of robust, I am surprise you hit a bug at first use. Go to <https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/chalk-contact.php> for bug reports
Anaconda is a bit of a dark horse here as a C package manager. Eg, in scenarios where you don't have root, or working on windows.
What's the point of checking for those if the bar for fully functional isn't met?
crossing my fingers for any hope of unlockable bootloaders >_<
It would be nice, albeit a bit tricky to implement, for downvotes to be optionally augmented with a choice from capped list of reasons. Among them, "it would be better if..." and "i have a different opinion", in addition to "this is badthink" and "this is offensive to me".
NFS is such a pain in the ass for this use case. If the client crashes, everything’s corrupted. If the server crashes, everything’s corrupted. You can’t even atomically write 4k with O_APPEND. Why anyone would choose to build distributed systems your way is beyond me
A lot of articles I read about snowflake involves data vault which is a massive turn off. And when their tech lead (Kent Graziano) is a prominent figure in the DV bullshit...
It's a good question, and probably has no good answer.

As it is, a current corrupt European military is constrained to a single nation, and would have to coup that nation before conquering the continent. There would be no such natural constraint for a unified EU military.
Most people rarely seem to encounter anything well defined enough to use math or any kind of formal reasoning on, except stuff that has an app or a professional service for.

Maybe it would help them not get scammed by keto diets and unsafe drugs and such though.
Not sure whether it is allowed to work on iOS, but Chrome also has cross-platform sync of passwords, tabs, history and other settings.
> When someone stops being able to tell the difference between fantasy and reality, they join people suffering from psychosis in being vulnerable to delusions and hallucinations.

Sometimes, sure. But how do you explain differing opinions perceived as facts (ask some people, they'll tell you!), or the common scenario whereby people speak as if they can read minds or the future (pop into any culture war thread right here on HN)? If one has these symptoms while in (or after) a drug-altered state of consciousness is this psychosis, but if one has them under normal consciousness is it not?

> It's often said that psychedelics mimic schizophrenia. I think we should not overstretch that analogy, but the attitude of some that artificial 5-HT2A agonism somehow grants your brain access to some deeper fantastical truth is worrying.

Do you believe that it does not grant your brain access to some deeper fantastical truth, at all? Do you believe that this belief is true?
I found Lex Friedman's interview with Nicole Perlroth discussion of hacker culture and the mechanics of creating and selling 0-days to nation-state actors interesting.

https://youtu.be/hy2G3PhGm-g
The bad economic effects were mostly caused by drastic, irrational government overreactions to the disease.
The control group was allowed to use reading lamps and adjust lights and seating position to their liking.
Probably some of your co-workers are members of churches that believe in young earth creationism and you are unaware of it.
Offshore Finance Renders Swift 'Sanction' Minor
> They are not a benevolent actor but a business who ultimately only does things to improve their own bottom line and their reach over the internet.

Google has interests, just like you and I. Neither you, me or Google are “benevolent actors”.

I don’t at all mind when less-than-perfect entities help people — regardless of what else they do that is right or wrong.

Google, as a group of human beings, does both good and bad. To claim that it’s problematic to accept help from people who are members of a group of people who also do bad things means we would also have to deny help from e.g. well-meaning Russian citizens.
Not a generic tool as such, but Winter CMS has a INI parser / renderer built into the core: https://wintercms.com/docs/services/parser#ini-parser
Angular 13 Latest Features
"I wish I had watched more TV"
Which over generalization is that? Is it an error in assumptions or an error in methodology?
It's such a deep issue with the C and C++ ecosystem that it's probably what will finally lead systems programming to other languages. It wasn't an issue until the Internet, and still isn't an issue if you are linking against binaries, but definitely is a problem now.

Windows shouldn't be treated like a freak, something too outside the norm to support compiling on.
I get eating lead pencils or paint chips isn’t good

But I do wonder if these statics are in like the moderate coffee/red meat/alcohol studies flip flopping between good and bad because of weak methodology and statistic calculations
There is one problem that I have not seen mentioned. Statistics might be much more useful but except for the first chapter (discrete probability) they are much harder. As someone who wanted to work in data I have tried hard to understand probability distributions, I have watched 10s of videos by different professors, done exercises and sure I was able to pass but the truth is I never really understood it. The intuition behing statistics is non trivial. Sampling is very hard to understand. Even on HN during COVID there were mathematically literate people trying to make some back of the enveloppe probability calculation and all they were able to do was show their misunderstanding of how statistics work (to be fair I would not have been able to do the task myself but I could feel something in their reasoning was wrong).
Can someone explain to me why it took 26 minutes for hadoop? How can 7 machines be that many times slower than a single machine?
Top of the line smartphones certainly have gotten lot more expensive.
RPN is just an option (provided by Chalk). The "minimalist" GUI is just the introduction of the full article. You have to reach <https://chachatelier.fr/chalk/article/chalk.html#toc-36> to go deeper into numerical problems of usual softwares.

Once again, Chalk is not the best software ever, it is just what I have to build myself to fix the problems I usually encounter. Not to say that all other softwares are equally bad, but to my knowledge, none of them will address as much limitations at the same time.
> My country is run by crooks like any other, and I am not about to go die like some dumbass.

I don't understand how you can look at the development rate in Baltic countries and decide "it's run like crooks".

From a distance your crooks seem to be quite effective at managing the country.
I recall a study that estimated ~2/3rds of all cancers are due to uncontrollable factors outside of lifestyle choices - genetics, random mutations, etc.
>The race to the bottom was absolutely Apple's fault.

The trend had been in that direction already. The marginal cost of software is pretty close to zero so prices were always going to be squeezed towards that. It probably did accelerate the process though.
Just a zip on the web page
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It does work on iOS. It can do system wide password management.
If it's interfering with your quality of life, it may be more than "just" perfectionism, it may be worth looking into whether there is some underlying cause that can be worked on.
You’re hired. When can you start?
> Well racism...

No these Ukrainians here are actual war refugees, while a lot of people from middle east / north africa are just economic migrants. The obvious difference between men/women ratio in these successive waves is a demonstration of that. With economic migrants, women stay in the home country while men try to go look for opportunities in the west. This isn't a opportunistic wave here.

It's only racism for the people who want to see racism everywhere.

Germany welcomed more than 2 millions people during the 2015 refugee crisis, but altruism never enough for some here, who feel entitled to everything under pretense of victimhood.
You can achieve that, this is a preference of Chalk about what should be the next input
>> The man is not without his defects, but literally consider his life accomplishments; PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, tunnel digging because why not, solar panels, residential utility scale battery storage, 30000 "gas stations" around the world.

So, let's check list, shall we?

Paypal, wasn't him (at least not even close to the level of what people think)

Tesla, there Elon had to sue to get the title of founder

SpaceX, at least as much Shotwell than him

Tunnel digging, well ever herd of subways?

Solar panels and residential solar, one isn't even noticeable in terms of market share, the other had to be bailed out by Tesla (did I mention some strange corporate governance and financial links between tesla and SpaceX around that time? And that the bailed solar company was owned by his cousin?)

30k "gas stations, impressive... Just ask BP or Exxon how many they have. Credit where credit is due so, Tesla did build the first true charging network. The first, not the only one.

And let's not pretend SpaceX will be the first to reach Mars.
Ask HN: Why hasn't Mary Meeker published an Internet Trends Report since 2019
Mary Meeker hasn't published her "Internet Trends Report" since 2019. This use to be the industry's most anticipated summary of current and future trends.

What happened?
XHCI is extremely buggy on Linux with recent stable kernel versions. For example I plug in a USB3 DAC into front panel, and all my USB devices shut off. XHCI will spew error msgs in dmesg during this.
Which ones? I'm not aware of any that has only checked exceptions, at least in the mainstream ones.
I think it's easy to argue that, specifically, milk from the breast of your mother, as an infant, is not in conflict with any possible interpretation of veganism. It's of course not plant-based, but it is a very special case, as essentially as an infant you are not entirely a separate entity from your mother, even after birth.
The nature open protocol makes it easy for companies to join. They could invest and insert itself somewhere in the ecosystem to add value, and once they dominate, they could evolve and close it up.

Web sites with fantastic content are still out there. We just can't find them because Google search doesn't list them anymore and web sites don't link to each other.
Try setting the screen to greyscale. For me personally switching to greyscale immediateky makes the device less rewarding to simply look at. When it is colour I am mesmerised by the beautiful colours and end up reading the text without actually taking anything in.
Link failing because of some TLS/SSL issue on my side.
This doesn't look like it will archive in a useful format. It would be good if when sites like this shut down, we got a useful format data archive on archive.org in addition to all the pages in the wayback machine.
Chrome starts with different options for different users to try out new features. They state which features they ran the benchmarks with in the fine print below the article:

"Data source for Mac statistics: Speedometer 2.0 comparing Chrome 99.0.4812.0 --enable-features=CanvasOopRasterization --use-cmd-decoder=passthrough "