skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Python for machine learning is a coincidence of history.

Python is the traditional scripting language for high-performance computing (HPC) going back a very long time, as a wrapper for highly optimized and scalable C libraries. Python on supercomputers wasn't originally used for machine learning but it naturally included support for excellent linear algebra libraries, etc for various types of large-scale modeling. When machine learning first became trendy, data scientists that wanted access to mature library implementations of critical algorithms that worked very well at large scales were mostly limited to C/C++ or Python wrappers of that C/C++. Naturally, they chose Python for the same reason Python was already being used in HPC -- ease of use.

By virtue of its use in supercomputing, Python had uniquely strong support for many types of machine learning before there was a demand for machine learning. If HPC had used some other popular scripting language instead of Python, we'd probably be using that for machine learning right now.
Kyiv’s western allies boost nuclear deterrence after Putin’s threats
We need to create a bunch of photos with fake tags and fake GPS info to pollute AIs.
Pricing something beyond its marginal cost of delivery is a restriction on your freedom? I suppose it’s true, in the way not being allowed to punch someone is a restriction on your freedom.
This is still arguing from hindsight and conveniently neglects the dependence of Russia on the EU: The EU was Russia's single largest customer of natural gas and an important purveyor of machines and technology. A valid reasoning at that time was that Putin would not risk this income / trade and furthermore Russia could be pacified or kept in check by ever increasing economic ties to the EU. Unfortunately Putin decided that tanking Russia's economy was totally worth it and/or speculated the EU confronted with the specter of an energy crisis would quickly falter and let him annex Ukraine without much fuss.

Furthermore Russian gas was cheap which made the development of alternatives a rather unpopular proposition. Try to explain to the people and the industry that gas will be more expensive because Russia might pose a problem and alternative sources need to be put in place. In hindsight it was stupid to not address the dependence on Russian energy but that is precisely the clarity hindsight provides. While the actions leading up to the current situations were taken, it wasn't all that clear that the problem could become very real.

We could all have continued living in an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity in Europe, but instead Putin choose a course of action in which everyone is losing big time. What a colossal waste.
I respect that, although I wish I could claim to be a zealot. I hope you have a good day, too.

I like to work in facts, so I gave a short list of government actions I’m aware of (I could give many more) done by Republicans that restrict freedoms all within the span of the past six months. I can provide links to articles about each.

However, when engaging with right-wingers I often get zero proof of the reasoning behind their feelings. Like above just brushing it off as an inability to see authoritarian moves by the left. If you’re trying to argue they’re the same, using actual facts and data would go a lot further towards proving your point than just sharing smart-sounding but ultimately empty rhetoric.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wsujROvXg

Missile videos like the one above are common. 1996 was soon after the gulf war, tons of missiles were broadcast in the news during that time.
> Not everyone is privileged to have higher-education or have the ability to learn the entire Oxford dictionary.

That you bring up education and vocabulary suggests that you do think there's such a thing as better writers. One obvious example: compare a given three-year-old to you. You are almost certainly a better writer. Compare you at three years old to today. Same story.

Sure, you may be right that passion is required. But why dismiss skill?
It might be hard to imagine, but your charging habits will change.

I wear my watch 23/7.
It charges in the morning when I’m in the shower.

Only after an extra sporty day with a lot of sports tracking will I need to let it charge an extra 30 minutes or so extra during that day.
Many Linux command line torrent clients can be told to load "*.torrent"
Unexpected Rust Performance Learnings
> Want to be a better writer? Find out what your passion is and write about that. No book and no order of semicolons is going to make you "better" unless what you write about is what lights the fire underneath your feet.

That's fine if your goal is to become a Writer. However if writing is just the means to the end of communicating an idea or persuading an audience, then it may not be possible to align your passion. That doesn't make improving your technique any less important or achievable though.
Urbit, Dimes Square, Thiel Fanclub
That's a good point and I feel the same way about links that open in news tabs.
That theory falls apart instantly. The NTSB housed the 95% reconstructed fuselage and used it for training for more than two decades.
Cool, about 15 years ago I built something similar for PDF, Office (OpenXML) as well as plain text as part of a search engine. Commercial/closed source of course but it was super handy.
It would directly contradict the claim that a fire caused the crash
> > Here's the part of his conclusion relevant to this new development

> This quote isn't even remotely relevant to the new developments and it's extremely obvious you didn't even take 30 seconds to skim the docket.

It's completely relevant, because it characterises the motivations behind the filing of a time-wasting, straw-clutching lawsuit by those desperate to believe some conspiracy.

The singular problem with any of these endeavours is that they completely fail to even attempt to show how their theories account for the actual damage and crack patterns seen on the wreckage pulled out of the sea. We have a very good, consistent working theory for how the observed damage came to be, so if anyone's going to take an alternative theory seriously, it has to also account for that.

> They've obtained significant new evidence through FOIA litigation that shows the Navy's Aegis missile system missed its intended target (a test drone) and hit TWA 800 instead.

The new evidence doesn't show this. It suggests it may be a possibility, but that possibility contradicts other, hard evidence.
What's easier: writing set of rules to drop language features or educating 10k engineers? It's difficult alone to have those engineers follow the style guide (even with help from linters etc).

Average engineer, in any company, doesn't care about the language they use. Just wants to get stuff done. And that's how it should be.
Eyewitnesses have been saying they saw a “rocket” fly towards it since the event but this filing indicates there is additional evidence of this known to the government.
In a situation where you can't escape a strike - let's say plains with a single tree in the middle - I wonder if it would be better to stick near the tree rather than venture out (if you go far enough from the tree, you become the best path to ground)?

I feel like there's less risk from ground current than there would be from a direct strike. There's probably a certain compromise; you don't want to be too close to the tree (otherwise lightning can jump back onto you from the tree), but neither too far away where you become the only path to ground.
Sounds like you haven't worked in an environment where this happens. You get regarded as 'the expert to deliver a good outcome' sure. But you're ALSO expected to deliver an aggressive roadmap of a while load of other stuff that people already committed to. Someone's something's got to give
What are you talking about? Homebrew flat out refuses to work under sudo.
It’s about the people working for them. Not the organization itself.

And what would be gained?

Here’s the problem is conspiracy theories: when you divorce yourself from needing any evidence to draw a conclusion (nothing that could go before a court of law or a scientific paper), then anything is possible. No means to confirm or refute it! Why not claim that actually the CIA agents are working for Cuba and trying to reduce moral for the rest of them? That’s equally plausible as a generic psyop, but would at least have a more clear outcome. And I just made that up… or did I? Maybe I’m working for the CIA! I mean Cuba! No Russia!

Once you go down that rabbit hole, you throw away everything. So the baby goes with the bath water. You’re totally ungrounded, and at that point you’re totally manipulatable to whenever wants to create a conspiracy for their own agenda, even if that agenda isn’t very clear or sophisticated (eg aliens are doing X).

A healthy amount of skepticism is important. Too much and you’re wrong most of the time yet no logical argument or lack of evidence convinces you. If this happens at the societal level, it’s devastating.
Yea, because we need more harder problems to solve. /s
> I played with nim, ziglang and Rust, but it's hard to use them for real product developments at this point for me

What made it hard? For example, Rust seem to fit your bullet list.
> The part about renewables requiring trillions in investment to replace nuclear I didn't get at all - they're the cheapest possible solution.

The problem with renewable energies in Germany is that we do not have (or can't get?) enough water power plants. Solar energy doesn't really work at all, because energy is also needed at night and wind energy is also not very reliable. To compensate for this you need even more wind turbines. The assumption here seems to be that these are really better for the climate, but I don't see that either if you have to use that much resources to build these to compensate for miniscule amounts of basic electricity load.

> My guess is that renewables will continue to be a huge winner, especially in this crisis.

Winner of what? In Germany we have thousands of thousands of wind turbines and still we are sliding into an energy crisis. Sure, some days they probably could produce 100% of the electricity demand, but some days they barely produce any electricity. The idea was to compensate with gas power plants ...
> overwhelming evidence (including the recovered fuselage) that nothing collided with the aircraft.

Anti-aircraft missiles don’t necessarily collide with the target. They can spray sharpnel/fragments at the target. Only a few of those in the fuel tank or engine would be necessarily. So unless they recovered all the fuselage parts, it might be hard to discount the missile as the cause.

Wonder if anyone who confiscated those tapes from the Navy would be willing to come forward after these years and explain why they did it that.
Has there been any progress on self hosted alternatives to Google Photos in the past couple of years? Last time I checked there was great systems for individuals, but the main reason why I use Google Photos is so I can have shared albums with family & friends where anyone can add their photos.
It seems pretty damming that the evidence was withheld in the first place.
Anymore. Google used to contribute quite a lot to libc++ especially, but have found that the language is going in a direction that doesn’t meet its needs.

Not sure why Google would continue to contribute under those circumstances.
For what it's worth, some percent of people enjoy the taste of NyQuil, myself included.
seems streamlit sends a redirect when connecting (at least that what I see when I try with curl), which the HN server follows, so you should either talk to streamlit to fix that or post something on your blog and link to streamlit from there.
Sure, it’s just a different frame: “you developed doing this thing. Now you’re saying we can’t do that same thing.” Why should The West “get credit” for the ocean’s CO2 dissolution capacity just because they industrialized earlier? Either way, we have to lift everyone out of poverty. Again, just a different way of framing the problem.
> And why was it a suspected terrorist attack?

Because when a plane explodes with zero warning, or indication of fault, it's the first thing people suspect.
The Russian president’s nuclear warnings are “a matter that we have to take deadly seriously,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CBS on Sunday.

“We have communicated directly, privately at very high levels to the Kremlin that any use of nuclear weapons will be met with catastrophic consequences for Russia, that the United States and our allies will respond decisively, and we have been clear and specific about what that will entail,” he said.
Well, no shit.

The point is that adobe is so incompetent that they couldn't build their own product in their own industry. So wildly incompetent that they went and overpaid by quite a lot to make sure the deal went through.
If you have a gasoline car you can charge in that from the starter battery.

A starter battery is about 1kWh.

Or just keep a lead acid battery around charged up and connect a ciggarette lighter socket to it.
“C++ Crash Course” by Starch seems to be such a beginner’s book, can’t recommend it enough. Although, I was learning C++ mostly for hobby projects.
Not great reading material, patronising and sort of mean.

Reminds me of that "we paid a freelancer to say a thing you like is dogshit" meme, this has all the hallmarks of being written for the purpose of generating hate clicks no matter which way you feel about the issue. An ugly profession.
> "I did all this hard work, so I should be rewarded" is a pretty natural thing to think.

Is it really? I rolled a boulder up and down a hill all day, pay me.

"Nobody asked you to do that and nothing productive was accomplished. Nobody will pay you for that."

But I worked really hard! Labor creates value, therefore I am entitled to payment.

Whether you're rolling a boulder or writing a book, your labor hasn't created value unless you've actually produced something other people subjectively believe to be valuable. The subjective theory of value is common sense. The labor theory of value is obvious bullshit. It might fool children but for an adult to believe it requires brainwashing.
Fully agree. If we're committing to multi-month crewed missions I think we should be planning for boots on the ground and setup of barebones support for long term habitation. In that situation you can send and land several loads of supplies in advance of the crewed mission, significantly improving chances of success. Landing the crew is risky but that's always going to be true, no many flybys you do.
But that is just one country, one source. There already are other sources, Russia supplied ca. 55% of gas used to Germany, not 100%, and less to other European countries. And in the Middle East UAE is just one of the countries Germany is in talks with, and the UAE is not even a big producer of LNG thus far. According to recent headlines it's actually the US who is supposed the most important source of LNG (German article: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/usa-wohl-bald-wichtigster-...).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/21/how-reliant-is...

Also, they did not buy gas alone, there also were agreements for thigs like Diesel. Then, the new approach is to have many sources instead of only some large suppliers. So, UAE is just one stop of many.

Those 137,000 m^3 are delivered this year - which is better than expected because thus far we were told we could get zero LNG from the Middle East this year because it's too soon. We are only just building the terminals too! And such things normally take decades in Germany... Great achievement to turn the positive surprise into a negative headline.

Also, German gas storage is over 90% full and still increasing. Yes, that came at great cost, and I think shutdown of some heavy industrial users.

However, given that German cities and industry had been completely bombed to ruins and came back after some disastrous war that also killed millions, not that many decades ago, having less fossil fuels available now - not "zero" as some headlines claim - for a relatively short amount of time of a year or two, so what? This little thing is supposed to be the end of German industry and lead to complete "German deindustrialization"? What a joke.

As a German, this is exactly the kind of shock this country needs to get its energy- and fossil-fuel act together. With continued stable cheap supplies nothing would have happened. And no, it's not the politicians. They just do what the majority of people want.

The goal for the future is to require much less fossil fuels, and this shock helps a lot to finally speed things along, for example, also from this very deal:

> The bilateral deal with the UAE, signed with UAE president Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, also covered other energy agreements, including a deal with Germany’s Steag and Aurubis for the supply of low-carbon ammonia to fuel hydrogen, with the aim of decarbonising industrial sectors. The first cargo arrived in Hamburg this month.

> Masdar, the UAE’s renewables vehicle, will explore offshore wind projects in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea off the German coast in an effort to generate 10GW of renewable energy output by 2030.

> Adnoc also delivered its first diesel delivery to Germany this month as part of an agreement to supply 250,000 tons of diesel a month next year to a German company.

https://www.ft.com/content/0065dfcc-4519-41b6-9883-92e7ff137...
The one's going up and the other's coming down.
Thank you. I'm not a writer, but there's an undeniable urge to communicate when I feel excited about something, especially when I have synthesized new knowledge. I suspect this urge is universal.

That being said, achieving clarity often requires tremendous effort.
> Unisys later switched to running on commodity x86 servers

It runs the same OS on an emulation layer. Not sure they do it, but you can get zero downtime out of multiple x86 boxes with a number of interesting tricks while pretending you are on a single CPU
I didn't think this needed a past tense?
Is This the Death of VFX? (Stable Diffusion)
> In what country do libraries work like that?

I believe most former Commonwealth countries work like that.

Here's the info for Canada:

https://publiclendingright.ca/

It's not a huge amount... minimum $50/book/year, maximum $4,500/book per year, but I suppose it's significant if you have, say, 20 books, each bringing in the maximum.

It's a flat rate, though, not a per use charge.
This is an engagement hack. Get the user to give max permissions at the start so that any future call to action will have less friction and/or not require a modal.

It’s less about Google wanting to scan your data today and more about Google’s stingy strategy for photos plus Google’s lazy engineering (too many other interesting games to solve). Google Photos was born out of Google Plus, and is under heavy revenue efficiency pressure.
Clickbait headline -- the proposal is for a flyby, not a landing.
It's easy to say it's an excuse without considering the world today. Saudi Arabia could easily grind the entire world's economy to a halt if they so desired. China could do even worse. And Russia is already demonstrating what they can do. And these are just the well known examples. Look to essentially any field (perhaps rare Earth metals, especially those involved in electric components) and it's the same story.

The entire idea of an advanced or post-industrial economy is largely a facade. Absolutely everything we ultimately consume and use is dependent upon the most basic of skills, labor, and resources - the sort that 'advanced' economies strive to outsource as much as possible to 'developing' economies. But of course this doesn't change the fact that said skills/labor/resources are still the true backbone of your economy. Instead you've simply inverted a power relationship and become completely dependent upon those nations with said 'developing' economies.
Given the choice, many people would rather get something for free rather than pay for it. Rather than simply admitting that there is something at least a little immoral about benefiting from someone else's work without paying for that work, they come up with elaborate rationalizations.

There's a sort of virtue in embracing the intellectual honesty of saying that you took that work because you wanted it and had the means. Call it the Genghis Kahn justification.

Even if the work is completely derivative, someone still put significant effort into compiling and organizing it. And their immorality of taking the work of others doesn't obviously justify the immorality of taking theirs.
I generally assume that when people talk like that, that they believe that software engineers should not be paid, and that they get over their cognitive dissonance by saying something on the order of, “but since they are paid there’s no point in me working for free,” without noticing that there’s still a disconnect there.

There’s a very big Open Source / Free as in Freedom / AND Free as in Beer contingent on HN.
Where's the part where you have to install enough batteries to charge most electric cars at night? That was your scenario.

Good choice of states, though: I grew up in SC and live in California. California uses time-of-day rates to nudge people away from charging during the early evening peak.
This was a great read! I hope you keep up the "Algos in Plain English" series. Its' a great idea. I also enjoyed the one on KMP. I also thought that was well written.
It seems like it would cost around 2k for the hardware to make a complete mirror of this library (31TB for this library, and similar again for Lib Genesis). It's a lot, but considering what used to be spent on the beautiful buildings to host major libraries, it's something that is within the reach of a very large number of people.

It does require being OK to fall foul of copyright law in most countries though, which I expect keeps a much larger number of people away.
Of everything you said

> A tail-heavy half of a 747 could absolutely go vertical for a bit with the entire nose missing.

Is doing some very heavy assuming.
> raw math of cpu & io performance & costs on an Excel spreadsheet

But that's not the raw math; the raw math is "total OpEx", and OpEx for these large systems is increasingly dominated not by the systems themselves, but rather by development-talent acquisition costs, and operational-maintenance talent labor costs.

Even Sabre's choice wasn't "upgrade to z16 vs. move to IaaS"; it was "hire people to replace churned devs+ops to write the next feature of the system: people with z/OS experience, or people with IaaS experience?"
> On your second point, if this is the case then why did Paypal also ban the Free Speech Union?

I’d assume these were connected given their history of similar dubious claims re:school safety but I think the larger point is remembering that these groups profit from tapping into larger political trends – consider how much money is being spent promoting the idea of “cancel culture” and using it to avoid intellectual engagement with criticism – and so I’d be skeptical that the simple narrative being presented is full and accurate.
Exporting externalities is en vogue. Like when they exported old tires to Poland who in turn burned them right away and still claimed to be green...
> Communism has a definition and a connotation. The connotation is negative and is twisting YOUR personal definition of the word. To you, communism is evil, so you must twist the definition for it to function at the extreme. To you capitalism is good, so it's not at the extreme... it's more of a moderate concept to you.

I’m very confused how you came to that interpretation from my comment.