skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m still unsure I understand the source of excitement. As far as I know Python even in its latest version is still at least an order of magnitude slower than native compiled code. It would seem to me that a native Python compiler would benefit server side Python applications much more than these incremental speed improvements of the interpreter. Is there any work being done by the Python community in that direction? For CPU bound workloads Python needs 10-100x improvement in order to be competitive.

Note, that I’m not dumping on Python. I use it daily but I think it’s likely a poor choice for apps that primarily tax the CPU.
Lithium on earth is in salt form. Most coming from dry salt beds in South America. Big US project is to extract it from the Salton sea. Fracking is much worse and contaminates water tables not to mention all the methane releases that cause global warming.
https://linuxiac.com/fedora-and-opensuse-are-dropping-suppor...

It is only affecting Fedora and openSuse. Not affected are Arch, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Debian.

* The hardware-acceleration is within the hardware and not in software - that is why it is named *hardware acceleration*. Fedoras decision doesn't make sense.
* In Europe you cannot patent software - because you cannot patent logic. Sometimes software-patents are granted because the patent system is dysfunctional but these patents get revoked when challenged.
* I doubt you can even defend a "software-patent" in America if challenged.
* RedHat is weakening its position of Fedora (and of Linux) historically by similar decisions. Fedora is working well on desktops and laptops. But it is not acceptable for end-users to add extra repositories from RPMFUSION to get basic features working. The success of Canonicals Ubuntu is building up on this.
* They're not removing it for Fedora <= 36. Removing features is evil. Ff Fedora is certain about their point-of-view they had to remove it, too?

Bonus - Qualcomm tries to attack AV1:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33638975

I think someone within the AOM needs to tell Qualcomm in polite words that another decade of missing hardware-acceleration and patent-trolling is not acceptable.

If you're worried about software-patents. I recommend moving the legal domicile and hosting servers to Europe. I'm sorry America but your mistake. The original intent of the patent system is proper documentation for the public. Instead it is used for hindering other upon improving existing ideas for decades. And lawsuits.

PS: Fedora is working excellent on laptops on desktops. While I prefer Arch personally, I do install Fedora on every computer of a "normal" person which is not within IT. It just works. Fedora is doing a good. But only if I add RPMFUSION first.
“This” is fine as long as it isn’t the only content of the comment. It is simply a signal that the following text isn’t meant to contradict what they are replying to. It’s a simple shorthand for “I wholeheartedly agree, and furthermore …”
No, you can't!
Probably pthreads. Makes otherwise very tedious things straightforward and uses predicable naming conventions. For longer justification of it being well done, see https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/04/05/pthreads-as-a-case-...
In C which Python extensions use, it hasen't gotten any easier to write thread-safe software "in 2022"
From the title I thought this was about a math problem posed in Sanskrit (of which there's a lot, but no "unsolved" problem AFAIK), but "Sanskrit problem" here is a problem about Sanskrit itself!

For more on the domain—the tradition of grammar/vyākaraṇa and the dizzying heights reached by Pāṇini—I recommend this really good essay "Pāṇini: Catching the Ocean in a Cow’s Hoofprint" [1] by the novelist Vikram Chandra (known now as the author of Sacred Games thanks to the Netflix show, but possibly better known among HN readers as the author of Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty). Or if you're looking to get a glimpse by diving into some technical papers (but readable in English), search for "Panini" on Prof. Kiparsky's page: https://web.stanford.edu/~kiparsky/

Within this still-much-studied tradition—of <4000 terse rules, less than 50 pages when printed, that nail down Sanskrit grammar to a level of detail that has never been matched for any other natural language, and likely will never be—the news here is about a new interpretation of one of the "metarules", which (IIUC) experts used to use contextually, but did not always "work" when blindly applied literally. I imagine that it will take time and discussion by many grammarians before it's clear whether this new interpretation is really a better one.

Direct link to the PhD thesis that the article is about:
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.80099

[1]: https://blog.granthika.co/panini/ PDF: https://downloads.granthika.co/miscellaneous/Catching+the+Oc...
EDIT: I posted this comment twice by accident! This comment has more details but the other more answers, so please check the other one!

> code that's only 95% right is just wrong,

I know what you mean, but thinking about it critically, this is just wrong. All software has bugs in it. Small bugs, big bugs, critical bugs, security bugs, everything. No code is immune. The largest software used by millions every day has bugs. Library code that has existed and been in use for 30 years has bugs.

I don't think you were actually thinking of this in your comparison, but I think it's actually a great analogy - code, like art, can be 95% complete, and that's usually enough. (For art, looks good and is what I wanted is enough, for code, does what I want right now, nevermind edge cases is enough.)

The reason ChatGPT isn't threatening programmers is for other reasons. Firstly, it's code isn't 95% good, it's like 80% good.

Secondly, we do a lot more than write one-off pieces of code. We write much, much larger systems, and the connections between different pieces of code, even on a function-to-function level, are very complex.
you can just disable cosmetic drops/leveling/whatever else on private servers since it's sadly such a massive part of multiplayer games nowadays, problem solved.
If you're interested in profiling, you should check out scalene. It's leaps ahead of every other profiling tool I've used in python and honestly might be the best profiler I've used in any language. It will give you per line results for mem, cpu, and gpu, tell you c time vs python time (numpy calls, etc), and it's faster than most other python profilers.

https://github.com/plasma-umass/scalene
Technically, sure, but the artists (who are not trademarking their work) are putting this in the context of copyright infringement.
Much like a fresh account created to defend the CIA's honour, the CIA does not get the benefit of doubt that they would NOT lie to hurt a guy they hate.
Unicode has the concept of directionality built in already but it took some work to align with the existing assumptions of DNS https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5893
In a condo you have communal property you all have to maintain (the elevator, the roof etc, if they break you're all screwed).

HOAs usually don't have that (maybe some roads that should be adopted by the local government...). Instead their rules are specifically about lifestyle and appearances.
Yes. There are far more wrong on HN than right. In fact the Web3 / Crypto example might have been the outliner.
So again: What would you have Biden and Schumer and Pelosi (soon, Jeffries) do? Berating meteorologists because you don't like the weather in your locale is not exactly a hallmark of effective advocacy.
The NYT best seller list became much less prestigious in my eyes when I found out it wasn't even just a single list; there's a best seller's list for basically every genre of book, including pretty niche genres like comedy.

It's not like there's a comedy book that sells in massive numbers coming out every month, so if you come out with one and can even sell like a few hundred copies you can become a "NYT best-selling author" and slap a big shiny label on the cover of the book going forward.
Musk is struggling with the "absolutist" part of free speech.
How would you explain the benefits to the average person? This doubles the number of parties they need to trust and usually means adding a subscription service so it seems like a tough sell.
Mods agree - if bot replies became high quality enough to meet human standards here, dang is ok with allowing them. This site’s managers value the content quality, with no value given to social qualities
Cheap off the shelf is important. I worked at a mac/pc shop in the mid 90s. To kit out a mac dev was easily 25,000. I could do a similar pc dev for about 2500. If I remember correctly sun was in similar ballpark numbers as the mac. I could tell even then once linux/bsd got its act together it would eat the server space as MS was starting to charge eye eyepopping numbers per user for network access on their servers. Cheap is not that big of a deal when you are working on a multi million dollar proj and there are 1-2 devs and maybe 1-2 users. But scale that past 20-30 and the numbers add up fast.
It's civil vs criminal law. Illegal usually implies breaking a law and committing a crime. Copyright infringement is a civil matter, not criminal.
Because we know it's not going to happen any time soon, and when it does happen it won't matter only to devs, that's the singularity.

You'll find out because you're now an enlightened immortal being, or you won't find out at all because the thermonuclear blast (or the engineered plague, or the terminators...) killed you and everybody else.

Does that mean there won't be some enterprising fellas who will hook up a chat prompt to some website thing? And that you can demo something like "Add a banner. More to the right. Blue button under it" and that works? Sure. And when it's time to fiddle with the details of how the bloody button doesn't do the right thing when clicked, it's back to hiring a professional that knows how to talk to the machine so it does what you want. Not a developer! No, of course not, no, no, we don't do development here, no. We do prompts.
This is city ordinance where I am in Massachusetts, but it’s 24h before pickup…
Answer HN
I’m extremely dubious that this guy is being subjected to noise torture. That is the claim that has a high burden of proof.

If it were true I believe he would write the whole letter about that. Instead he says 5 words about it.

Combined with the rest of it being mostly whining about nonsense… it looks deranged.
Flight tracking data is publicly available. All this dude did was tweet it. There's no legal question here. If anyone is the idiot, it's Musk for going back on his word.
tl;dr: is management part of the "working class"?
AMD had already done that with their 3D V-Cache, and to your point of SRAM & Logic not scaling on the same process they have also been working on that with the just released RDNA3 GPUs (The I/O-die is 7nm and the Logic die is 5nm IIRC).
Can you imagine _war_ in this world?

At first armies can march in one direction of the ring or the other, with every natural defense point being sort of a Thermopilae situation

Then, technology progresses and certain machines may allow smaller groups to traverse outward for limited periods of time. Analogous to our submarines?

Would then flight make the world "flat" and globalized?

They can't lay cables across the scorching dor icy deserts, so worldwide comm must either follow the ring or be satellite-based
> we can choose different professions that are less susceptible to automation

What are those? It seems it's low-margin, physical work that's seeing the least AI progress. Like berry picking. Maybe also work that will be kept AI-free longer by regulators like being a judge?
Had to look up what a phytate was. They look like the kind of thing that’s administered for metal poisoning (chelating agent), so it’s not surprising it hoovers up the essential metals in one’s diet.

This study would be better described as “a diet of not fully nutritious food isn’t fully nutritious”. Like with pet food I guess, the manufacturers can choose ingredients or supplement as necessary or you can supplement them as necessary. The latter, unfortunately, takes more effort and carries more risk.
That IS the US approach to freedom in a nutshell through. Freedom means stopping government, it doesn't mean stopping any other crazy group/person. In fact those are to be embraced and empowered.
Comment HN
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33998145
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Includes an email generator for two use cases.
1. email as an internal (aiming for promotion)
2. email as external (aiming for new job in data)
I'd be wary of assuming the women's (and men's) choices are evolutionary - or at least nature versus nurture. It needs to be remembered both that having a choice at all is a fairly recent decision - 99.99+% of humans who ever lived didn't really get to 'choose' in the way we do now - and that choices are really hard to separate from societies in which we live.

When you live in a small group like most humans, you do what needs doing because if you don't, it doesn't get done. Think a nuclear family unit: If mom is out of the house, of course dad changes the diaper because otherwise it doesn't get changed. But all the time. There are some tasks that only can be done by one sex, but very few. Turning down a competent hunter or caregiver because they had the wrong genitals is suboptimal for group survival. Overspecialization in general is only possible after a certain number threshold has been reached.

The social part is important because it's also important to remember that evolutionary history =/= written history. We don't have records from most human societies. Limiting our data set to written records on gender/sex cuts out all pre-literate societies and also introduces substantial bias. (e.g. just because cuniform exists doesn't mean that any average person can use it or that their writing would survive or be accurate).

Modern societies have, up until recently, been fairly restrictive on the basis of sex. My mother wasn't allowed to go to college and her interest in electronics wasn't acceptable. This in turn impacts what I (and my sister) were told: Most parents will give their children advice that they think will help the children survive and flourish, so girls are told to lean in to their communication skills while boys are told to lean in to other things (I'm not a boy, I'm not going to speak on y'all's experience). Likewise, I've heard from men that a fair amount of them had to discard the part of them that would want to care for others/go into a caring profession.

There's also how we categorize professions as caring or not. Doctors vs. nurses are a good example as are college professors vs. high school teachers. A high school AP Calc teacher is in a 'caring' profession, but an adjunct teaching algebra in a community college is not.

And that's without even getting into 'is the average human aware of why they make choices'? The majority of what I've been told/seen has suggested that the couples make the decisions on the basis of finances, but I don't know if that's true or if it's just the most comfortable story for everybody. Humans are great at lying to ourselves, particularly if it helps us fit into a group.
Any references you can recall on the emergence of modern art as a response to photography?
see the FAQ: https://overturemaps.org/resources/faq/
In subdivisions, they’re also responsible for maintenance of common areas like parks and other green spaces within bounds.
Although, by looking at the places where they are more abundant, I wouldn't be too optimist, at least with the current geopolitical climate.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/277268/rare-earth-reserv...
> I'm in Vietnam .. plan to lose xx% .. to sea rise .. There is definitely some dysfunctional planning at play.

I thought the same reading earlier in the week that Vietnam is challenging China on the "building low level artifical islands in the Spratly Island's" game.

( I ocean surveyed there in the early 1990s and have memories of being stopped at sea by gun boats from every surrounding nation )
Imagine a desalination process funded in part by producing battery-grade sodium.

All you practical people who wait until there is real world manufacturing promise are missing out on the pleasure of wild imagination.
Show HN: Ponder – A minimalist browser scratch pad
Ponder is a very simple scratch pad that runs in a browser tab.

I wrote it to scratch my own itch and it's been a daily driver for me for almost four years now. This morning I noticed that the repo has always been set to private. I added a MIT license, updated the readme, and I'm releasing it to the world.

Maybe someone else will also find it useful.
> What are your thoughts?

A question.

What problem(s) / do you want to see solved or what needs do you want to address with this?

(asking as someone who mostly never used social networks outside HN)
Yes. That's the point. That is exactly the case with everything in their fully tongue-in-cheek comment.

"Unions are for losers" is the propaganda of the capitalist class. Unions are how we exercise and defend our rights.
Could we, though? I suspect some residents of the world don't care about clean streets and don't want to pay for them. Some other maladjusted individuals might even prefer dirty streets.

It seems like if we could build a global utopia where everyone agrees to the same homogeneous rules and values that we'd have done this already.

Also, I think pennies is the wrong unit of currency to use when budgeting for this harmonious future.
Link to the tweet? I can't find it.
HN is social media, but it's not a social network. A network puts the emphasis on individual nodes (users) and the connections between them (following/friendship).
I don't think so. Govt of India has been promoting Sanskrit (without much success) since many decades. There is/was even Sanskrit news. Now-a-days I can see "Weekly Sanskrit Magazine: Vaartavali" from national news Doordarshan [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELmU3GXcuuo
And you of course don't find promoting coups to overthrow the democratically elected government of you country to be a threat to family and kids, right? That all okay. Cool.
Not quite a social network but a new version of the web where documents are just markdown or something very similar and the browser is an unglorified document reader with no JavaScript has been on my mind for a while.
I think your premise rests on the assumption that higher GDP => a better society. Is that necessarily true? One could have a high GDP with millions of slaves working in poverty for some rich upper class, for instance.
Agreed, that's one way. The other way is multiple downward facing cameras with stereoscopic vision of the area immediately around the car. Mobileye demonstrated a system like that and it worked really well.

Tesla's cameras have huge blind spots near the car and aren't stereoscopic in all directions. They had ultrasonic sensors at one time, but those had blind spots and major limitations too.
IPCC is politicized with a liberal/capitalist realist perspective
afk

Which possibly dates me. I do sometimes get asked what that means when I write it on works messaging platform, so "away from keyboard".
Fair assessment, and I agree with much of your premise, though regards "it's difficult to see things getting orders of magnitude worse": Please don't challenge them.
So to be clear, this info is already public but a lack of web scraping ability prevents the low end stalkers from stalking without the twitter account.
He didnt seem too bothered when it was other kids getting stalked.
There have been a bunch of attempts to produce compiled code for Python, but each have fallen short in different ways. However there is a serious bit of effort going into speeding up CPython now. I don’t think it’ll result in turning it into an optimising compiler that produces a binary executable as output or even an interpreter w/ JIT compiler, but I think there are still gains to be made without committing to either of those routes
I believe economic inequality is quite unrelated to pollution. You can have rich and green (Ireland/Switzerland), rich and carbon-heavy (Arab states/US/Aussie), poor and green (most developing countries have very low carbon emissions) or poor and carbon-heavy (Iran).

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-fossil-energy-...

Also, do you not consider 2100 "long-term"? Do you think economic effects of the environment will only reflect later?
Here's one https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-06-02-01...

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Why not just use GitHub pages or it's equivalent gitlab alternative when you're already going static files?

Super easy to maintain as publishing is always just a commit away and if you're feeling fancy you can pivot to your static site generator of choice later
Yes, but the amount of knowledge necessary to decide how to make those sorts of decisions is far smaller than the amount of knowledge necessary to answer all such questions.
David Wilson's Emacs Configuration
The most insane Emacs configuration that I've ever seen. His YouTube videos and other resources are incredibly well done as well.
Fortunately, sanity prevailed after the underwear bombing failed.
How can you tell that?
The entire history of computer programming is using code generation tools to increase the level of abstraction most programmers work at. Having yet another one of those doesn't seem to present any realistic chance of replacing all of the development, testing, maintenance, and refinement of that entire stack. If your job is literally just being handed over a paragraph or so written requirement for a single function or short script, giving back that function/script, and you're done, then sure, worry.

But at least every job I've had so far also entailed understanding the entire system, the surrounding ecosystem, upstream and downstream dependencies and interactions, the overall goal being worked toward, and playing some role in coming up with the requirements in the first place.

ChatGPT can't even currently update its fixed-in-time knowledge state, which is entirely based on public information. That means it can't even write a conforming component of a software system that relies on any internal APIs! It won't know your codebase if it wasn't in its training set. You can include the API in the prompt, but then that is still a job for a human with some understanding of how software works, isn't it?
How popular is COBOL?
From that link, criminal copyright infringement depends on specific circumstances that don't directly apply here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506
We also always ignore economics in these situations. The reason we all don't have a Boston Dynamics level robot right now is because of the economics of mass producing such a robot.
To call that an engineering problem is too simplistic to me.

We don't need to just solve fusion. We need to produce fusion in a manner that undercuts the price of fossil fuels. Then stack "renewable" on top of that. Sociologically, people operate on self interest and will in-group into team Fossil Fuels, Team Wind/Solar and we might even end up with Team Fossil Fuels and Team Wind/Solar forming an alliance to oppose Team Fusion.

Of course, outwardly and individually we play make believe that we are all impartial 3rd party observers that just want the best for Team Human. It is those self interested jerks on the other team that are the problem. Never you and I.
I like to click on buttons
make a repo with a readme,
put your ideas in it and invite people to comment
That's true. In fact, I recently got an email from mine asking if I still wanted to keep my webhosting, because they wanted to get rid of it. I used to have a lot of stuff there, but it got deleted when they mixed something up about my account.