skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant it as a relatively neutral descriptor.

In modern day and age, this would frequently be shared as a 20word phrase on tranquil image background on Facebook.

Compared to that, this is "wordy" - which some of us will enjoy (I did too:), others will not.
Incredible find.. As a pilot, lifelong aviation freak.. being in (nowhere near as 'unlucky') somewhat similar situations (running out of fuel in midair .. being trapped in monterey marine layer suddenly before instrument trained) there is definitely this inexplicable ability or pursuit of the ability to just keep trying.. Notice the author always went to the 'next thing'.. when his primary chute didn't open .. he spent the free-fall time not on looking out at the ground coming up at him, but looking up toward the tangle, trying to shake it free.. Always trying something else after the previous attempt failed.

Great story
Egypt wants the Rosetta Stone back from Britain
You lean/step out of the water to apply stuff and then lean/step back in. Are your showers the size of coffins or something?

I get the efficiency of Navy Showers, but water is cheap where I'm at. Would be a lot of extra effort and discomfort for negligible savings. Maybe it makes sense if you live in a desert or, as the name implies, you're on a ship
> The City could afford to buy those hotels only because demand had already evaporated

Because of the pandemic or some other reason?
Yeah, that's the kind of thing I've seen before, lots of circumstantial evidence that makes the claims sound plausible, but then the trail just seems to stop cold.
5% is it because you inject traces in 5% of requests?
Inventory continues to rise today while new listings go down. Prices are going down continuously in my market. The outlook for a cash buyer is good right now, especially by January.

All it will take is one more economic blip and your 2nd scenario becomes true. Which I've read a recession is to be declared before the end of the year and it's a sure thing.

We're already have improved conditions for home buying unless you're cash poor. I know I'm in a better position than I was in March of this year. I've been working these sellers hard and they're powerless. By January through the rest of 2023, they're going to be completely at a cash buyer's mercy.

The zero-savings lemmings are out of the market. The ones that foolishly drove up their own prices, instead of pocketing the savings on 3% loans.

I'd bet on Powell fulfilling his promise to correct real estate prices to affordable levels. It's nowhere close to being done yet, so everyone that bought a house with cheap money better like what they purchased. Probably not, since in the 3% era you had about 30 minutes to decide if you were going to buy the home or not.
Ok good point, on the other hand I believe most modern corporations respond "Why not both"
Trusting Apple...doesn't make a lot of sense. They're almost entirely security-by-obscurity. You have nothing to go on but their promises.
Not OP, but are you taking into consideration that it is not Python 3.9, but pypy, which is distinct
Good call-out!

That was the scene I had in mind when I mentioned sitting in a barbershop arguing about the greatest boxer who ever lived, and while I didn't want to repeat that speech word-for-word, I was most definitely thinking of the Joe Frazier Rocky Marciano line you picked out.

Finally, for all three people in the world who care, I picked George Chuvalo as my reply specifically because he is famous for fighting Ali twice and staying on his feet both times.
Is the performance difference of Python and Javascript due to the language or due to the runtime?

If one would compile both, the Python version and the Javascript version, to WebAssembly and execute that, how would the performance differ then?
> Tests are sexist, so we need to adjust for that to give men a boost

I don't think I saw anyone claiming that. What was being written was that boys do a lot better on anonymized tests relative to girls than on GPA (which is inherently non-anonymous), so removing testing is actually exacerbating sexism in education.

This is probably the comment you're referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339235
Make Python Run Faster
More government pressure to require you to carry a tracking device.
Might not be much of a production line. Very big, very slow, sensitive to weather conditions. What do you do about all the scattered light? The guy in the picture is wearing goggles, but people in the building who see the crucible (while looking out the window) won't be.
That sounds like the perfect book for thieves to find out exactly who has money. I have survived living in sketchy high-theft areas by pretending to be poor -- this would totally blow my cover.
Seagate broke export rules to sell hard drives to Huawei
And where do you work? Who's used your stuff to be an antisocial jerk? How's the beam in your eye?

Like, I generally pride myself on never having worked for any company I wouldn't admit to working for later, but even some of those are kinda bad. (I contracted at a daily fantasy sports company for a while, and I'm not proud of that.) The recognition that labor is frequently if not generally in a compromised position is kind of the point when people are talking about "unrestrained late capitalism".
I think the world of open source would be a better, not worse, place if we had some usable bounty system at the level of issues/PRs.

And I say it both as a contributor, but also a consumer. Sometimes I'd be happy to throw $100 on top of some specific issue of a lib/app I use regularly to incentivize its resolution.

I wish this service didn't require repo owners to do anything before they see some actual bounty assigned to one of the issues. So, theoretically, I could go and assign a bounty to any repo on Github right now, and the owner (and maybe the public) would see it right away.
The IME gets a lot of hate around here, but let's not get distracted by it: higher-privilege co-processors running code outside the main OS' control is becoming (or already is) the norm everywhere. Intel-based PCs are just one instance of it (and perhaps not even the most egregious one).

Most hardware has evolved to effectively run the main OS under a sandbox where it "thinks" it is in control, but isn't.

A nice talk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo
I worked with a guy once who implemented a popup asking for feedback on the website. By a huge margin the number one piece of feedback was "I don't like this popup", but he considered that to be an extraneous data point, threw it out of the results, and just kept on popping.
I mean, it is the NSA. They're probably pretty good at what they do. I should hope so, tax dollars pay for it.
When swarms of bots are more valuable than human visitors, and control capital, then the "attention economy" will look very different.

Unlimited swarms of Bots can already make "helpful and constructive comments" that are upvoted by other people, thanks to GPT-3. 99% of comment interactions are passive, not an interactive Turing test. And the bots can be trained to never cuss or pick fights with people. Mission was fucking accomplished: https://xkcd.com/810/

You won't see it coming, but the bot accounts will start to outnumber people online until 10 years from now humans represent a vanishingly small amount of content and "social capital". Just like on wall street, the bots have replaced human traders. It happens gradually.

And eventually, they'll control the money online, too, for various tasks. You'll be working for a DAO maybe, but it'll be some menial job -- the way rich people hired peasants throughout history to do menial works. Until those are replaced, too, in a race to the bottom.

That is what humanity is constructing for itself. Because AI innovation cannot be stopped.
If you need better precision, you don't go converting to/from civil time, because people think on quanta of ~1 second and better precision is not defined there.

Instead, I'll put my rule here: It's perfectly reasonable to drop your time precision to ~1 second when converting it into "people time", and you should never expect better precision from a back conversion.

That's not saying you don't need TAI. It's just not reasonable to mix it and UTC et. al. If you need TAI, you live in TAI.
EU laws does not override what's in an individual nation's constitution. National constitution > EU laws.
I love PostgreSQL but it's not easy, not horizontal write scalable, not immutable.
I don't believe that you are going to do all that screening before talking to the best candidates. It's just not true. You wouldn't invest like that in every candidate to submit a resume.

Your process is like everybody elses:

1. automated resume screen hunting for keywords
2. HR human review
3. HR call
4. 3-4 other calls
5. detailed screening
6. offer

If you are doing detailed screening BEFORE interviews, stop right now. It is wasted effort. Nobody else does it that way.
No thanks, I'm not a poor animal struggling to survive during my brief existence on this world. I don't see why we should feel guilty as if we're wasting something. All that water goes back to the environment, hopefully through your garden instead of municipal sewage, and for those really self-conscious about energy use, most of the heat to make that shower water warm was renewable.

Municipal sewage is one of the main things we need to focus on atm. We essentially mix black water with grey water, turning the whole concoction into black water that needs to go through sewage treatment. Woohoo, government screwed us over yet again.

Instead, we should re-use grey water in the garden or at least have a separate municipal dump for grey water.
But how about international organizations then?
Yes, but sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistiguishable from malice
At least for the tests I've done on a small startup recently, they've also implemented some automatic quota increases for EC2. I ran commands that would have (or did) eclipsed my quota, and got an email that my quotas were bumped a few minutes later.
Even compression is maybe somewhat a non-issue with Brotli compression options (now supported by every major browser and often "required" for strong HTTP2+ support) and its hand-tuned dictionary for things like common JS delimiters/sequences. With Gzip you do sometimes need large bundles before its automatic dictionary management algorithms pick up things like that. In theory, Brotli always starts from a place of more "domain knowledge" and needs less "bulk" for good compression.
Blink: Passkeys for SSH
This is offered very much in a “take it for what you will but for obvious reasons I am not going to give many more details” spirit. I worked for a major player in cybersecurity back when they were really trying to get everyone onboard with SGX. Our CISO was a technical guy, and worked closely with a peer who had a hybrid academic and professional background in cryptography. They both had strong credentials in mathematics and one was a practicing mathematician at one point.

After a thorough review, all of the stakeholders who reviewed it told the executive leadership not to touch it because their opinion was that it couldn’t offer anything meaningful beyond what we already had in place using the Windows API and it’s interface with the TPM, and they had concerns about what they felt were insufficiencies in the SGX design.

That experience was a bit more in-depth than I’ve detailed here, but the takeaway for me was that Blue was desperately trying to justify a technology that wasn’t what it was hyped up to be.

I’ve often thought IME is the same thing, “different day”.

Edit: typo
This is the huge downside of passkeys in my view. You must subscribe to some sync solution, and apple/Google/Msft have a tight grip on it it seems, forcing users to use their own secrets sync solution.

Hope it will change though and I can sync my passkeys using 1password for example. I don't want and password manager and a separate passkey manager on top of that....
Python and JS are basically the same language in terms of semantics.
As hardware owner I disagree.

Both personally and as part of the management team of 150.000 computers at work, we don't use this stuff there either.
It's the other way around - cube of wind speed. So wind speed and consistency is critical
I have 20+ years experience in academic research.

Connections and hustle are very strong predictors of success.

Test scores do indicate ability, and ability is helpful but far from sufficient.
>reflexive skepticism isn't any better than reflexive optimism.

it is in the current climate, with shady marketing and clickbait journalism producing three dozen such headlines every day
> Going into a bike shop, I couldn't just purchase the cheapest bike.

There is a term called "gear acquisition syndrome" (GAS). When I got into biking, I was the one thinking that I wanted the carbon fiber bike. It was so expensive that I feared it would get stolen, so I hardly rode it. The cheap junk bike I had before that was one I rode everywhere: stores, movies, to the park. I didn't worry that the $300 bike would get stolen. The $3k bike? It went to work and back. When my coworkers would do group rides, I'd go with them. It went nowhere else. I was scared it would get stolen, or the bike lock would damage it - the lock & chain weighed more than the bike.
So, now that it’s been admitted that testing for immunological blocking response (ya know, “immunization”, the thing vaccines used to do) was NOT done by Pfizer, and testing for risk to human reproduction was NOT done at all — are you still glad that everyone shut down debate about risks?

What else do you “know” is false or true, that even those who created the thing are unaware of?

Your position seems to reflect an astonishing level of hubris, to me.
Airbags in cars self-test themselves every time you start the engine. They test all the sensors and electrics (including the explosive igniter).

I would hope ejector seats do the same. If so, the fault must be with the mechanical part. But OP does not describe the cabin filling with dense white smoke as you'd expect from a rocket propelled ejector seat.

That tells me someone made a major design mistake with the seat... and yet the US military decided not to go dig up the seat to find what went wrong with it.

Thats baaaaad...
You can win like a cash buyer if you pay a 2nd payment every year. If you plan on paying the minimum though, you definitely lose at 7% vs 3%. You are correct. As long as someone drops that extra payment monthly or yearly, depending on the amount and if you ensure it all applies to the principal with your lender.
Synaesthesia’s Colour Debut (1883)
All three products you mention produce a ton of personal data/ monetary value for Google's ad machine.
Yes i think this is interesting because there are people who like to plan trips and people who just want to go on them. My parents just fwd me an itinerary for 2 weeks in Scotland. One of their friends loves to plan it. The enthusiasm comes across in the email she fwd me. So it’s interesting that this platform could be almost like a creator platform for those who like to plan trips. Would be super cool to be able to reserve blocks of flights, rooms, tickets etc in advance to be able to confirm the price up front. If guests could simply tap to join and have everything booked and paid for would be cool. Especially would be good now for 3 or 4 day weekend trips for remote workers
I’d trust Poetteringware over any given UEFI implementation that’s supposed to provide a trusted boot chain.
https://builtwith.com/jeffsu.org
So you are saying it is GOOD if an employee is working two jobs because they are then exposed to more solutions and actually SAVE the company because they can reuse existing knowledge other companies have taken the time to develope? I like your thinking :)
See my comment above - it depends on what body position it puts you in, and what body position you’d otherwise be in.

In sports skydiving, it’s generally considered fatal either way to not have a fully functioning parachute above your head long before you come back in contact with the ground.

A partially deployed parachute is also considered to be one of the most potentially lethal types of malfunctions, as it has a high risk of entangling the reserve parachute. Bailout parachutes often don’t have a backup.
well that's my point. I always thought that what was lost were frame definition files, and not the models. surely every animator had copies of the models; you can't animate without them, and the movie was in production when the data was lost, so they had those models, or certainly most of them.

I think what was lost was the animations, and not the models or the frame/scene files.
That's a complete straw man. TFA we're discussing is about a 5 minute application process. Five. Freaking. Minutes.

If you can't fill out a 5 minute form to get a job, that's a problem.
Price and ability to recycle.
I strongly disagree that being data-driven and collecting a lot of data is directly correlated with disregarding user privacy. You can collect a lot of data on how customers interact with your product without associating any of this data with a specific customer.
And also the goal of being data-driven is not to scale fast. The goal is to validate your features are meeting the assumptions and expectations while providing customers with as much value as possible.
A government isn't much different. Stop giving the government your money and watch what happens to you. I agree with everything you've written though.
I'm from the US, live in Finland. From here, it really seems like the US needs to upgrade its prisons to be safe. Hard to meditate on atonement and redemption when you're in a constant struggle for survival. The implicit idea that rape for instance is a potential, extra-legal added punishment is outrageous.
If nukes are falling down, how good is your EMP shielding will probably be your least concern.
Please stop dancing around the issue, and tell us exactly what these 'vaccine problems' are, and how they compare to the 'problems of actually catching COVID [1] without having gotten vaccinated'.

The comparison will not be favourable to you. [2]

[1] Your camp spent the past two years both telling everyone, and doing your best to ensure that everyone is going to catch it anyways, so this seems like a reasonable comparison to require.

[2] The risk of treatable myocarditis from catching COVID is vastly higher than from the vaccines. The risk of injury and death from less-treatable complications is incomparably higher. If we're all going to get it anyways, you're choosing to both hurt yourself, and others by not getting vaccinated. You can't even freeload off herd immunity...
Define 'many'! Several large projects that may well be prerequisites/dependencies (ie, Python, CMake, .NET) are available natively, so most projects should be able to be ported with relative ease.
is he wrong?
Heh. Too good a line of argument to be David, but bad enough I was surprised it was Milton. Not that I know any other Friedmans than those two, but still.

[EDIT] Guess I should explain what's wrong with it. There are two chief problems:

1) It's not entirely clear which of these is going on without more context, but he's definitely either very wrong about a bunch of stuff or is operating, selectively on a definition of greed that is far too broad. I suspect the latter. This is what lets you pull tricks like "proving" that greed (extremely broad sense) is what makes the world run and then conclude "greed is good" like Michael Gecko (but you mean, specifically, the more narrow, generally-considered-a-vice kind—"huh, maybe not all greed is good" yeah, exactly my point, we have the word "greed" to describe the bad kind, it is all it describes). This and similar tricks are a favorite in... a certain crowd, let's say. You see it again with "This the world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests." Well... sure, if you do some tap-dancing with words you can make this seem true, but you're just playing games with semantics. "This world runs on individual cells pursuing their separate self-interests". I mean... yes, and also very much no.

2) This argument displays some major blind spots about the role of government in making markets function well, and in the nature of firms, such that several of his examples fall apart as soon as you think for half a second and some of his points should also apply to firms, but he refrains from taking that step, presumably because it would ruin the appealing simplicity of his argument. Again, pretty common error and/or deliberate trick to encounter in a certain category of writing.
WASM isn't really a replacement for JVM bytecode. It's not like you can take a random JAR and convert it to WASM. Last I checked, WASM doesn't even support GCd languages at all, and at any rate the whole insight that makes GraalVM unique and a big deal is that universal bytecodes are a poor choice for making fast polyglot VMs. The JVM world was doing that long before WASM was even a twinkle in Google's eye, with invokedynamic and other initiatives, and it kinda works. JRuby+indy is a lot faster than MRI. But, there's a lot of compromises involved.

Truffle is interesting because it says, no, we should not be trying to compile everything to a universal bytecode. Instead, we should JIT compile the source code directly, using the JVM as a runtime library but bypassing the bytecode layer. The language semantics can be expressed much more clearly, without needing to contort things to make them look like Java, whilst still benefiting from the JVM's core feature set.

So really I'd ask it the other way around. If it weren't for the politics of the browser world and the monolithic "Chrome is the OS" approach, would WASM be competitive? Because the Graal team already proved you can run lots of different languages at relatively insane speeds using partial evaluation and bypassing bytecode. The WASM world has proven it can run C++ and Rust at slower speeds than normal, which isn't particularly unexpected. If Chrome and Safari shipped GraalVM accessible via <script> tags, how many people would care about WASM? Remember that you can run WASM and LLVM bitcode on top of GraalVM too, it's not just about textual languages.

Arguably, if you wanted to give the web an instant free upgrade that'd make many developers rejoice, integrating Graal into Chrome would be an overnight way to do it. Python, Ruby, JVM bytecode and any other language you want at V8 like speeds, in a script tag? It's technically possible, it's just not politically possible.
And the only human you can truly trust after all is a dead one.
> Are your showers the size of coffins or something?

No, we just don't like wasting water/heating. I don't know how much extra effort it is to turn the tap off when you're done with it. It definitely doesn't feel like effort to me, and having the water run while I'm trying to avoid it so I can soap myself up is very annoying.

> water is cheap where I'm at.

You are in a thread where people are installing heat pumps to reclaim the wasted heat. Is saying "how about you don't waste the heat in the first place" really that crazy?
I used to think this about Sweden but literature of that time does not describe a society like that. Literature is often reflective of the world it is in.

Not like 2001 : A Space Odyssey is about what the world is like in 2001 but it sort of reflects the assumptions of the world at that time. For instance, there are no smartphones in that world.

Anyway, Swedish contemporary literature of that time doesn't tell such a picture which makes me think this is more a factor of an individual experience rather than what that society was like.
I interviewed the team members of Microsoft's Faster CPython Team to learn more about what they did to improve Python's performance in 3.11 and how doing it as a team greatly improved their productivity.
At night, of course.