skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If using python for large project, sure, use latest version.

If writing small tools, consder limiting yourself to system python and its stdlib / system-packaged libraries. A script which ypu can download as a single file, immediately run, and immediately make some changes in, all without worrying about venvs or other setup, is a beautiful thing.

This works especially well if you are writing internal tools and your company has standarts like "Everyone is on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04"
Not sure about AU, but in the US, Apple is a registered money transmitter[0] because of this service. Doesn't seem like they are avoiding anything compliance wise.

[0] https://dfpi.ca.gov/money-transmitter-division/directory-of-...
Sort of. But, was the problem the principle or the execution? Those "solutions" pre-dated the idea of building robust apps with native Web-idioms (e.g. SPAs). So, they tried to layer on an entirely different non-Web platform, including a completely new, non-browser native UI framework.

And, we're now delivering entire frameworks to the browser to support, essentially, a kludgy VM-based approach that just shoehorns app concepts onto the HTML document model.

So, what I'm suggesting is more of an in-browser hybrid.

Assuming the only two approaches are Flash or React seems like an industry-wide failure of imagination.
> I am simply arguing for that it is technically possible.

It's still not even remotely possible (except for games running more or less the same engine and implementing the same type of game like the Crusader Kings series). But even before we get to that, my last question remains: "And the reason game devs will do that and are not doing it already is because?"
Discharged electricity will be of higher value than it was while charging, largely compensating for the "abuse".

Deploying dedicated racks-on-land with the proper total capacity and throughput would be a nightmare, without even considering locality.

And yes, a "minimal charge-level" parameter will be enforced.

Dynamic demand offers low-hanging fruits, and then it becomes more and more a constraint... alleviated by dispatchable energy.
What changes to the OS would have prevented the kind of scam you're talking about?
>by 1971 it was probably present in a significant portion of us high schools.

That would surprise me. In 1979, right in Silicon Valley, the biggest high school district (East Side Union) had one computer in the entire district, housed at the largest school (Independence). It was a PDP 11/04 (IIRC).

Any schools that wanted to offer a BASIC programming class had to rely on Mark Sense cards submitted through daily intra-district courier runs.
This is one of the reasons why I've been seeking opportunities outside of the US. I saw my parents go bankrupt over healthcare bullshit and I refuse to let that happen to me.
Sidebar:

Science is absolutely not a belief system.

It is the product of a specific method that can yield understanding. Understanding is basically monkey do A, monkey get b. And that goes on to any monkey do A, any monkey gets b.

Knowing is a different thing, as is believing. Practicing science will yield neither.

When we do A, our confidence in getting B increases with the quality of our understanding. Should we lack confidence, we ask more questions.

Science questions everything, including science and the scientific method itself.

Where we do not understand, we ask more questions.

Where we are inclined to believe, we don't, and we ask more questions. Belief is not merely high confidence. People conflate the two, but science does not.

Where we do A and get B almost all the time, except 1/10000000 times we get C, then we ask questions.

There simply is no believing in the scientific method, which has delivered to us our current body of understanding.

Now people can choose to believe or not believe in science, and or understanding we have arrived at via the scientific method. That is on them and in no way renders science into a belief system.

Science is all about asking questions to improve our understanding. That is it.

Science is very different from creationism.

Creationism is rooted in a belief there is a creator.

Science is rooted in a method to ask questions and gain understanding.

These are entirely different basis.
A single plugin case is a kinda optimistic wishful thinking. Sure, this case happens. Sometimes.

But in real code you often have plenty of things like iterators or lambdas, and you'll have many of types of those. So the calls to them will be megamorphic and no JVM magic can do anything about it.

While in C++ world you'd use templates or in Rust you'd use traits, which are essentially zero cost, guaranteed.
since the 70s, lights have gotten about 6x more energy efficient, boats and planes are about 2x, and computers are incomparibly more efficient. also, it's pretty clear that before we significantly increase energy consumption, we need to be able to do so without wrecking the environment. massive flooding in major cities and huge refuge crises from desertification are not conducive to progress.
First human patient injected with revolutionary cancer-killing virus
Original author here. An example would be `{ dd bs=1 count=0 skip=1234; myprogram; } < file`. This is similar to C `lseek(0, 1234, SEEK_CUR); execve("myprogram", ...);`

It's not something you'd realistically use, but it's better to be limited by imagination than tooling.
The nail which stands out has to be hammered in!

BANG!
100% this and given the target demographic, I can't believe I had to scroll so much until I found the keyboard called out.
Sounds like a great improvement! Would it be possible to contribute your code to the existing crate rather than release your own? Then we could all enjoy the benefits on the next recompile :)
Show HN: Flash - Read all your favourite tech news in one place
Our industry has been chasing the dragon of universal GUI components for nearly as long as there have been GUIs. What's different this time?
You don't need NFTs for CC0-licensed assets.

You don't need "decentralized ownership" for something that is literally only applicable in a single game.

On top of that, the myth that people clamor for digital scarcity is also the invention of crypto bros.
Wouldn't this demand be priced into existing housing prices though (and thus not be worth acting on)?
FIFA and EA Sports end videogame partnership
First patient dosed in trial to test cancer-killing virus against solid tumors
Author here. You're welcome ^^
I’m always surprised to see “beginners will need to learn it” as an argument when so much of what I had to learn once has kept paying off for years. I say give me the biggest toolbox we have.
Flash is my weekend project. It is a minimal news aggregator from different popular tech blogs & websites.

Hope it will be useful for you all tech blog readers.
Sometimes. If you're relying on a toolchain that's parsing and analyzing Python code, things like compilers and mypy will sometimes lag behind new syntax, bytecode and C API changes. Until recently mypy didn't have full support for match statements, and its corresponding compiler, mypyc, still doesn't. Same goes, or went, for full support for match statements in other compilers, as well.
This is what I was referring to: “SQLite is open-source but it is not open-contribution. All the code in SQLite is written by a small team of experts. The project does not accept "pull requests" or patches from anonymous passers-by on the internet.”

https://www.sqlite.org/hirely.html
I'm disappointed this wasn't about VIM.
David Deutsch seems to say something similar in this podcast where they address the flawed reasoning behind the "black ball" model.

Essentially, when we take out a white ball, a host of black balls are taken out, too. Incrementalism and fear-based decision-making slow down this process of removing black balls and it's only those trying to avoid the black balls who are taking those slowing steps. The people who want to blow up the world place no such limits on themselves, so why do that to ourselves?

https://josephnoelwalker.com/139-david-deutsch/
Indeed, and there AFAIK were some "tandem" (desalination+uranium) projects, however nothing appeared therefore there may be severe practical constraints or technical hurdles. Maybe later(?)
Weren't those called "lazy" quantifiers (vs. greedy quantifiers)?

Edit: D'oh, I was mixing these up non-backtracking subexpressions with lazy ones. Thanks!
To maintain this popularity he has to fight with other reviewers for the title of being the first. This means bending backwards for the brands, doing stunts like "reviewing" prototype non mobile prop cars as if they were real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eiszpuVpy4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2YLEPFa750

The game is you love it or you dont get special access anymore from us.
> despite knowing so little about art market and art history that you’ve never heard of the world’s most influential and highest sold living artists, you can probably still make a rational guess that this NFT collection is a copymint

Demagoguery

> perhaps the fact that the artist never once mentions or links to the collection from their Instagram profile acts as a hint.

So, you're basically saying that you have no idea whether either Instagram or OpenSea page actually belong to the artist and it's impossible to find out if they do or do not.

The argument "they didn't sell anything" is moot because, again, there are hundreds of thousands of digital artists producing millions of images, and not all of them are "famous minting more than a year and you know what they say about NFTs off the top of your head"
I learned in the 1980s that it's

sync; sync; sync

I feel more comfortable with just unmounting and powering off nowadays. But I have no hard evidence.

Hardly ever user more than one USB drive same time, so not sure whether there could be side effects with powering off one of them. Well, USB being USB, nothing would surprise me too much.
Can I send US$ to someone in a different country? How does that work?
One of my cousins got in to a fight with the neighboring HOA over something (think the developers were trying to force them to sell to own the whole track) so they set out to be as annoying as possible — pink plastic flamingos, broken down cars &etc.
No, it was fine this morning and suddenly it changed. I was fine with default size.
The resolution is very small anyway, I don't think people would be able to see the title. Besides that, the screenshot (or other track) can be trimmed by just unselect the track when upload the profile. (The default does not contain track of other sites)
That is not even close to "in other words".
The Apple M1, ARM/x86 Linux Virtualization, and Boinc (2021)
Ofcourse it will reverse. Sure, the P/E is on the high side and so the expected returns won't be as good as they can be but hey, you're already 20% down (or more in real terms). If we we're going to see 8% inflation over the next few years then sitting in cash is going to see your money get erased. Bond rates are still way too low. Housing is somewhat inflation resistant but it has also been terribly inflated. So stocks look like the best option right now, if we go more down they'll be even better ;)

EDIT: Just to be more specific, I'm pretty sure that in ~5 years you'll at least maintain your real value and in 10 years you'll have a decent real return. Pretty decent probability anyways. In 10 years you'll beat the 10 year bond and the housing market (or gold, or cash or bitcoin). I'm sure some sectors will over-perform and some will under.
Just so we're all clear, the racism of prohibitions on intergenerational housing --- which is what BLM is talking about when they talk about the "nuclear family" or whatever it is they said to spook the normies --- is racism, not disproportionate impact. Single family zoning was designed to keep specific ethnicities out of "white" neighborhoods. It's not an accident.
I’m pretty certain that’s included, at least with some versions.
There is enough projects to create a list of hello world programs, not sure yet another one is meaningful. And the languages are so old in my brain I would not be able to make them any more :-)

RPG III?, STOS, GL Basic, Assembler for Atari ST, seems to have forgotten the fifth again...
It is possible to have SQLite in WASM and use indexDB as a filesystem
Please take note of the number of graphs that lack a zero on the y-axis[1]. Please explain each graph; otherwise, the wiggly lines are fascinating.

Reference:
[1] Huff, Darrell. How to Lie with Statistics. Reissue edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993.
Awesome reference.

I wish I could upvote you multiple times. This interaction with you has been most enlightening. Thank you.
>> If something is used once, ignore any abstractions.

>

> This is a terrible advice. According to this, a classic program that loads data from a file, processes it, then writes the results to another file should be a single giant main() that mixes input parsing, computation and output formatting. Assuming file formats don't change, all of those would be used only once.

I broadly agree with you, but devils advocate time: not all abstractions are at the same level.

Writing a static function `slurp()` that takes in a filename and returns the file contents isn't an abstraction in the same sense as having a `FILE *` type that the caller cannot look into which functions like `fprintf()` and `fscanf()` use to operate on files.

I think an opaque datatypes (like `FILE`) are "more abstract" than static functions defined in the same file you are currently reading.

IOW, "Abstraction" is not a binary condition, it is a spectrum from full transparency to full opacity.

Static functions in C would be full transparency (no abstraction at all).

Opaque datatypes in C would be full opacity (no visibility into the datatype's fields unless you have the sources, which you may not have).

C++ classes would be something in-between (the private fields are visible to the human reading the header).
Simulating the internal structure of a black hole
Link to clinical trial:
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05346484?lead=imugene...
It’s not a static image. It gets rendered into an iframe they swap in, which is only possible because they control the html rendered given the constraints of the amp format.
To their credit, I've used these kind of machines in a dusty environment and had to stop work to clean the radiator out. I definitely think it's a cool idea to reverse the fan to clear some debris out.

To your point, I think charging money for the ability to reverse the fan is criminal, considering everything is already built in.

I'm really curious how much they charge to unlock that feature once the machine is already purchased.
My pre-internet 16yr old ancient self (late bloomer) who had to read books in libraries and bookstores who lost first girlfriend by not kissing her and second girlfriend pinned me down and started sucking my face off while growing four extra hands... Kudos. There's an art to the kiss and so much more, a worthy field of study for a young gentleman. Next do the non-actual-sex parts of the Kama Sutra and the art of sensual massage. There are more appendages and nerves than one might think of....
They're paying (at most) 2.5x what they paid in 1976 (1.02 ^ (2022-1976)). In the grand scheme of things, that's not far off from 1976 rates, given that many properties have appreciated 10-20x.
Original author here. The intended point was that `dd if=.. | something | dd of=..` is just as useless as the two cats in `cat .. | something | cat > ..`. People sometimes mock the latter while still believing that the former is necessary.
Some standards come with test suites. For example, if you design a CPU from scratch under an ARM architecture license there’s a comprehensive set of tests provided by ARM that must pass.
Heyoo – An Open-Source Python Wrapper for WhatsApp Cloud API
> Curiously, while folks sometimes complain about breaking up a system into smaller microservices or smaller classes, nobody every complains about being asked to break up an essay into paragraphs.

They would if each paragraph of that essay lived at a different domain/url.
That's true in theory, but in practice I don't think it works that way. The executive and popular opinion can put pressure on the fed, and even absent that the fed does in fact care about the stability of the nation more broadly than that mandate suggests. I agree with the parent that the fed is very unlikely to raise rates to double digit levels given the high level of government debt. More likely we'll have an extended period of high-but-manageable inflation, and inflate away some of that debt (and some of everyone's savings).
Some popular packages are Python version dependent. For example, I was using Python 3.10 early and no Python wheels for 3.10 were released for PyTorch back then. The only thing you can do in this case is to either wair for the publisher to provide these packages or use a lower version Python interpreter.
Not quite sure what the parent comment is referring to either but it made me think of Lennie from Of Mice And Men.
Lennie just likes to pet things on the farm
The Democrats would have put a Prop 13 repeal -or- a split-roll property tax system on the ballot almost anytime in the past two decades without a single Republican vote. All it takes then is a simple majority of voters in the next statewide election. Ask yourself why that has never even been attempted.
You forget very expensive crop failures caused by environmental degradation and global warming, too. India just went from promising wheat to fill the supply gap left by Ukraine to banning the export of wheat within the span of a month. Queensland's drought and now flooding is a separate disaster. It's not just too much money chasing too few microchips or cars because of logistical issues or covid shutdowns; it's too much money chasing shortages of highly inelastic basic requirements for survival, like bread and milk. This is the sort of thing that contracting the money supply can't fix, because it's not excess consumption that can be discouraged away. Considering inflation in the UK just hit 9%, EU 7.8%, even Japan going from deflation to 2.5% inflation, it seems probable this is a long haul global problem. It's a really lousy environment when the dollar is inflating and strengthening against other currencies at the same time. Higher interest rates will tamp down spending on discretionary goods, but much less so the inelastic ones we're seeing shortages of; nor will they drive investment to create more of what can be created.
I think you’ve gotten things a little confused. A governmental “high tech panopticon” already exists, and it’s used to target activists.
Can SRE Bring Governance and Compliance into the Future?
> when they're actually one.

They are not. Apple Cash does not require the user to have an Apple Card.
Ong this mf need to touch grass.
Co-founders of DeepMind and LinkedIn have raised $225M for their A.I. lab
Well, yes, you are right.

These are actually two steps: Melt everything into the "Black Mass" and use Hydrometallurgy to extract the metals afterwards. I think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XylDkcrJgTw gives a good overview (although the voice is somewhat hard to listen to).
I agree. It seems both naive and ironic that we'd be capable of fighting fire with fire - which is what the man is proposing. I can't think of a single institution that hasn't self-corrupted. Governments, religions, NGOs, and et cetera; there isn't a single entity manned and driven by men that hasn't turned itself into shit, and such an apparatus would do just that, with outsized implications. Scratch the activist boogeyman, anybody operating this would be the moral authority and there is no individual or institution comprised of men that has ever inspired confidence enough to rightly espouse the view that either a holistic surveillance apparatus or global government would be any better.

This guy is so naive it isn't even funny though, total charlatan. Can't wait to finish dissecting this shit.
We were looking at internationalization and translations recently and I was happily surprised when the guy who is normally a strict stickler for everything being perfect just said "No, we really don't want to do that."

Our software deals with scientific stuff and safety stuff, and even a minor mistranslation there could have a big (and potentially very bad) impact.

So even though technically we could allow translations, we don't, and there's a very good reason for that. Human languages are messy, and every time you switch from one to another, there's a good chance of something getting lost along the way. And sometimes, that kind of loss is just not acceptable. Even if it would be a little more convenient.

Drawing the limits and knowing when to say "no", even to what might seem like a 'simple' thing, is important.
From the FAQ: "send and receive money in Messages or Wallet. The money you receive appears on your Apple Cash card in Wallet."

Can I get the money out of Apple Cash, except for spending it via Apple Pay? Can I withdraw the money to a bank account? If not, I find it a bit limiting. If someone sends me money via Paypal, I can transfer it to my bank account and withdraw it from an ATM, or use it to buy stocks, or donate it to some organization that doesn't take Apple Pay payments...
> it always comes back to the same argument: crypto is bad because

No it always comes to the same argument: crypto bros argue that traditional finance is bad and their claims get refuted again, and again, and again, until they fall back to the same old tired "but what of the unbanked?!"

No. Crypto will not save the unbanked.

> also please lose the ad hominem, it is not needed.

There was literally no ad hominem.
Let’s not pretend that American problems apply to the rest of the world.
Thanks for sharing! It brought back to my mind this project of mine (more like a "wish" than an actual project) to build the current technology tree (like Age of Empire's or Factorio's) as a sort of wiki.
And of course the wonderful essay by Leonard E. Read "I, Pencil".
Nah, I’ll take your 50 line main() every day over those 10 files with 10 lines of boilerplate and one line of working code each. But at the end of the day you just need to roll with the style of the org you’re working with.

I drop in to Java shops from time to time, and am more than happy to port my simple class structures that make sense and do things into the 18 level hierarchies described in the article. I just assume there is somebody there that is really invested in all those interfaces, adapters, and impls and I’m not here to start silly fights with them. The code will still work no matter how many pieces it’s cut into and how many unnecessary redirections you add so no worries.

But for my own stuff I like to keep things compact and readable.
Thanks for the link, the discussion there is good :)
Yes, you can transfer it to your bank. Works just like Venmo or PayPal
>Prop 13 for non-primary and commercial property should be repealed.

Agreed. The Democrat legislature could do anytime without a single Republican vote. All it takes then is a simple majority of voters in the next statewide election. Ask yourself why that has never even been attempted.
I would not have guessed the name was French.
"I can probably figure out how to do what I need to do with [Key-Value] but"

It's key/value.
The link to the 'Apple Cash setup support page' is a 307 temporary redirect to the Apple Pay page for me. Not sure if this is due to locale, I don't have Apple Cash in my Apple Wallet settings as well...
Which is like saying vim is useless, 90% of what you'll do is covered by nano.

Well, it pays off a lot to know a complex tool and using it for easy stuff gets you in the habit of using it, reminds you of the arguments etc.

dd is really really useful.
Willing to bet a human being would get sick of they ate 200-400 cloves of garlic as well
Making the metaverse: What it is, how it will be built, and why it matters