skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Never gonna happen. Python's explosion has been through data science and ml, which is based entirely around calling Fortran/C/C++/etc."

What's Django, then?

"I assume you mean Rust here. Do you think python can't already call rust? It's been able to do that for the better part of a decade."

Python can only call C code. The fact that Rust itself (or Fortran, btw) has good C ABI is on Rust, not Python. Also, by calling Rust's C ABI, you are making a double indirection, thus severely reducing performance.

That's why I said we need to optimize Python, and even make progress towards making Python - in Python itself. Just like Go can compile itself, Python should be able to run itself. But, that is all for the long run.
Empty with noscript, how lame.
If he takes full responsibility then it should step down. But hell no, why would he…all these sugarcoated emails make me sick.
What's the best Prisma alternative for js web projects?
Ignorance is a bliss, and your linguistic and historical ignorance is admirable as well as it continues to push new limits.

Russian, as a distinct language, is a fairly recent historical development that is slightly over 400 years old, and dates back to the end of Times of Troubles and the end of the Polish–Muscovite War of 1609–1618 when Catholic Poland – after sacking Moscow and keeping it for two years under its rule – eventually ceased to be a threat. Old Ukrainian, as another distinct language, predates the emergence of Russian by a few centuries (if we are to trace its origins back to the Ruthenian language). Granted, it is all Russian propaganda to you nevertheless.

> "… Ukrainian inherent intelligibility of Russian is close to zero."

False. Previously cited, non-representative, examples point to varying degrees of the mutual intelligibility amongst Czech, Polish, Russian, Slovakian and Ukranian. Intellligibility hovers at the 50% level at least. So, no, it is not zero. You are yet to provide a single credible example other than handwaving and vacuous references to a pub style banter.

> On the name, including various discussions about the meaning of "Kraj". And the fact that "Krai" is still a type of division of land in Russia.

Also false. It is one of the many meanings, and you are persevering with twisting facts to suit your own narrative. I have pointed to sources in the Old Ukrainian dating back to 1496 and 1667 in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34471179#34477841, both of which state otherwise. Namely, that «ОУКРАИНА» and «ВКРАИНА» mean [at] «the fringe», «outskirts» or «the edge» (i.e. «окраїна»). You have provided no credible sources to back up your counterpoints so far.
"Solid state" in this context is used to include SSDs but exclude HDDs. The definition you use which considers HDDs "solid state" is not the definition that's relevant to this discussion. The physical state of matter doesn't determine whether a component is "solid state" in this context.
If you dont know what ORM means then you are probably not their target group anyway.
> Are you another one of those that think everything is going to shit because of immigration?

Not everything, but Paris isn’t what it used to be.
I would summarize your criticisms as Japan doesn't have Western values and priorities.
A very large amount of people notice the bloat in Teams, how it wastes your memory, cpu and your battery and how it makes your laptop fan spin.
Copyright is not about protecting people. The purpose of copyright is:

>To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

The purpose of copyright is not to protect the authors, it is to promote the progress of science and art.

The current situation for AI image generation is pretty much the only way these technologies will be available to everyone. Most other paths will simply lead to billion dollar corporations acting as gatekeepers to this technology. Megacorps can afford to hire artists to generate specific art for their AI models, everyone else cannot.
Does it depend on language?
Huge pages are an absolutely great idea. I will continue to complain about our eternal commitment to 4k pages, with all their pitfalls, which it appears we may be stuck with until the heat death of the universe. At the very minimum we could go to 16k pages, which are good for many reasons including, in particular, being able to have bigger VIPT cache sizes without needing an increase in associativity (and thus latency). Not the end of the world but a very solid win on top of the TLB wins.

But transparent hugepages continue to be a massive source of bugs, weird behaviors, and total system failures in my experience. I just got a bug report this week where a simple THP enabled system simply spun out of control with a kernel task locking the system at 100% CPU for minutes, with a 10 line reproducer via mmap(2). This is in combination with qemu/libvirt in a virtual machine, and it's possible the virtualization stack is just exposing bugs, but, like. This is very well tested stuff! I'm not sure "Google enabled it fleet wide, so it can be done" is very re-assuring to me when most of us don't have fleetops/infra/kernel teams capable of dealing with this stuff. The person who reported this bug said they started seeing odd behavior a month ago, before boiling it down; it wasn't readily apparent at all. Is this just a massive footgun for our distro users? I dunno. Something that works in the p95 and then collapses horrifically in the p99 cases like this doesn't feel great. I try not to be superstitious about things like this but, yeah. It's weird.

Anyway. This reminds me I have to submit some patches to disable jemalloc in a few aarch64 packages so I can use them on Asahi Linux. 4k pages will haunt us until the end of time.
You should read the essay, I think you’d like it. Your comment strikes the heart of the matter.

Yes, Michael Joyce was the 64th best in the world. He’s reached a level of tennis that almost every other player in the world can only dream of. Joyce’s ability to play tennis was rivaled only by a small handful of people in the entire world. And yet… not many will ever hear of Michael Joyce. He won’t be able to earn a sustainable wage playing the game. Ultimately, he might be even worse off than the 64th best player at a local club. So what’s the point? Why does Joyce do it?
I’m assuming you’re talking about some sort of automation/AI that litigants could use. This is a terrible idea for lots of reasons.

Civil litigation is complicated, messy, and situation-driven. Lawyers are expected understand all this, and are subject to sanctions for getting it wrong. Pro de litigants are already behind the curve just trying to navigate this system, which presumes that parties are represented by legal professionals.

The biggest issue I’ve seen, however, is that pro se litigants are too emotionally invested in the process. They start from the premise that they are in the right and fail to make arguments that both advance their case as well as diminishing the opposing side.

Pro se defendants can access attorneys through legal clinics to get help and advice in many jurisdictions, provided by actual attorneys. In some cases, these attorneys might provide representation, but availability and case complexity often preclude this.

Any tools you might create to solve this problem will subject you, the author, to enormous legal liabilities. Many states already consider software that handles the simplest issues as the unauthorized practice of law. Trying to create some sort of AI to play the part of attorney would almost certainly bury you in lawsuits and be shut down by the court.
Interesting, I haven't yet heard of interpretations from ChatGPT around rabbinic literature. Imagine getting entire summaries of volumes that took lifetimes to ingest.
Looks like we've overwhelmed it? I'm seeing only "no matching tag found". Also seeing "Uncaught ReferenceError: example1 is not defined
" in the JS console.
More universities are banning TikTok from their campus network
Everywhere in central London seems to be becoming food halls and posh flats.
This might be an old issue, but try turning of the hard drive space indicator in iStats Menu. It was a major drain for me a couple years ago. After a restart, energy use went way down.
Christian principles have maintained civilization for thousands of years

Your observation is false and easily proven so.

Most of the world is not Christian.

Civilization was maintained for thousands of years before the small Jewish and Christian minority even learned to write.

But thanks for further proving my point.
If it keeps reappearing while being unwanted, how can you call it not forced? Sounds exactly like it's forced upon you.
Thanks for sharing. Seems your issues are more with databricks than R, but certainly R is more obscure.

At least in my experience we’ve never had issues with people learning it on the job and far fewer software issues from eg versioning, dependencies, regression bugs. It just works, there’s rarely even a need for a venv.

I’d never expect it applied as a general purpose language like python though, typical projects are <1k lines of some specific data task, perhaps our use cases are just different
I stopped using Quordle when they put horrible ads all over the page, reducing the playing area and turning the app into a distraction-filled nightmare rather than an enjoyment. Disgusting.

Maybe Merriam-Webster will bring it back to its former glory. I live in hope.
They should be freaking out. Google is overwhelmingly dependent on a single revenue stream and AI like ChatGPT is a serious threat to their dominant position.

Not to mention, Google has spent a decade using their defacto monopoly as leverage and optimizing for ads and clicks, often exploiting their own users in the process. The bar for better was lower than it should have been, and the market is hungry for an alternative. Google has some real challenging times ahead.
I agree it’s odd, and I’m not sure, but it feels to me like a big chunk of their staff might be involved with building Next.js and also running the annual conference of the same name which gets a lot of attention. I think maybe they see this as their moat. Any product that is just a thin layer around AWS is in danger of being suddenly eaten by a competitor or an OSS alternative or AWS itself. For Vercel, owning one of the world’s most popular web frameworks, which just happens to be particularly optimised for their own platform (both the deployment DX and performance), probably gives them a decent moat in that it keeps a huge number of devs around the world familiar with and positive about Vercel.
Since they discuss deliberately skimming the event horizon, I assumed that there were some form of protections against that (perhaps they no longer inhabit biological bodies, which would increase the available options).
>Japan works for Japan

The Japanese people that I follow on Japan seem pretty critical of Japan, so I'm not completely sure if Japan actually works for Japan.
My experience suggests that there's a more or less fixed amount of religiosity in any person and it's on a normal distribution in any given population. That's the hardware/firmware so to speak, but what they apply that religiosity to can be quite varied. Just my observation from working in tech companies where C levels are treated like visionary leaders who provide the mission from on high - I could be mistaken, but the dynamics don't really feel terribly different from my religious education.
> The Co-Pilot suit is ostensibly being brought in the name of all open source programmers. Yes, that’s right, people crusading in the name of open source–a movement intended to promote freedom to use source code–are now claiming that a neural network, designed to save programmers the onus of re-inventing the wheel when they need code to perform programming tasks, is de facto unlawful. The open source movement is wonderful in many ways, but its tendency to engage in legal maximalism to “protect” open source is sometimes disappointing.

This early paragraph is so bone-headed, so smugly demonizing, and misrepresents the situation so badly that I had to stop reading. This paragraph isn’t analysis, it’s propaganda.
Is a better alternative to store passwords in an encrypted SQLite database? That would address the problems with the directory structure and Git.
Show HN: I Built a Site to Display Obsidian Plugin Statistics
Still lots of stuff to potentially add later. At this moment you can: search for plugins (atm only ID), view top plugins, view single plugin downloads over time.

The code can be found here: https://github.com/nevernotmove/obsidian-stats
RFC 2119 agrees [1] as does US law [2] with exception of Illinois apparently. Seems to be ill defined and not preferred in the UK, sometimes deemed inappropriate [3]. Perhaps the UK will interpret as per RFC-6919 [4] instead.

1. MUST This word, or the terms "REQUIRED" or "SHALL", mean that the definition is an absolute requirement of the specification.

[1] - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119

[2] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/shall

[3] - https://www.law-office.co.uk/art_shall-1.htm

[4] - https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6919
The article could do with a bit about the Plaza Accord, the US assault on the Japanese chip sector or something about the short stint where LDP was not in power and instead Japan was ruled by party that had promised to close US bases on Okinawa.
It's hinted at here, but film produces a much better overall look than digital. It is just that digital is way cheaper and easier to work with.

There is certainly more versatility in what you can create in post production with digital but the base look of what is captured is more beautiful on film, and this is the same with photographs. Look at high quality old images captured on film, they blow most digital images out of the water. Much higher dynamic range and depth of colors and contrast.

This is why Tarantino, Nolan, and P.T. Anderson still only use film. I think this is most glaring with the mid to low budget range of films that can't make up some of the ground with production techniques and post. Old 80's and 90's mid range films on film look so much better especially in night scenes.
As far as I can tell, that's more-or-less her position. Code has semantic breakable-points throughout lines of code, and she's advocating breaking.
Interesting, but I would say its the victim's POV that matters. In a relatively short amount of time from his perspective, he will be torn apart by tidal forces or smashed to bits by debris impacts (he can't steer). Even if that time is long, then he'll die of starvation or dehydration when his supplies run out. His life span, from his perspective, is greatly shortened.

I'd rule out kidnapping, because unlawful detainment presumes that the person can be released from that detainment. There is no possibility of release for Xavier.
A company I worked for thought about doing this, including approving every dependency of every codebase. And all their dependencies. Did I mention many of these projects were in the JS/TS ecosystem? Meaning you have libraries that do the tiniest little trivial things you can imagine, and people use them.

They gave up on this idea once a dev pointed this out.
But you can still see the code and learn generally how to write code. Maybe you see a style of unit testing in a library, and decide to incorporate the techniques into your own code. This is not a copyright violation. It can't be, or all creative expression would be dead.
i think space-em-dash-space was pretty common in both journals and monographs on engineering, science, and math in the 01940s to the 01970s, including some that include really excellent typesetting, though i don't have an excerpt ready to hand to post (and hn isn't really a usable medium for discussing visual things anyway)

i don't remember ever seeing it in fiction

i think of space-en-dash-space as just being an error, and i'm pretty sure i wasn't just misidentifying en dashes with spaces around them as em dashes
What you're describing sounds more like "revive" or "sustain". Interesting and important next steps, for sure. Saving a variety from imminent destruction is still a "rescue", though.
Linux Kernel Podcast Returns
After a (long) hiatus, the podcast returns with periodic updates on Linux kernel development
because everyone could have a different opinion on what it actually means instead of just a simple time based measurement.
The whole thing is just absolute bonkers
I think this is true for the people writing articles about "The Visual Blandness of Netflix" - which makes me wonder who they're actually writing to, beside the echo chamber. A24 is great for this crowd. But, they're already aware of it...

The majority of people watch TV and movies to be mindlessly entertained, not to be enlightened by some high-form of art. Netflix and Disney+ is just fine for this crowd.

You're not going to write an article and convince anyone their movie watching habits are wrong.
This is a late-2000s story but: I once worked for a small-time credit card emitter and the only money leaving us was the money from the transactions themselves.

It was quite interesting, AFAIK we had a range of CC numbers that we could use, and we had to "answer" to an API call (a "lower-level webhook", it wasn't HTTP) that provided all the user data for verification, and we had to authorize in a maximum amount of time (hard real-time). The verification happened entirely on our side, so it was even possible to reuse numbers by changing the CVV or expiration date, for example. At least that was how it was explained to me, someone could chime in and correct some mistakes here! :)

This feature later enabled some banks to allow the customer to change their "credit limit" as much as they wanted, or to block/unblock the card using a toggle in the app. But "real time confirmation" wasn't possible because of the hard-real-time constraint we had. I remember we had to reply very fast at the time, and could get punished if we had too many timeouts.

This might not be the reality on every country or region, but by giving everyone a dummy credit card in those conditions, the costs would be only of servers + personnel.

Of course, a partnership with zero dollars worth of transactions would make zero sense to the partnering bank, so they would obviously complain. But this here seems to be a special case where there's a previous agreement.
I am not convinced that finding "job opportunities and career growth severely limited by the heavily patriarchal culture" is the same as "treating half the population as undeserving of a career".
It's the same industry where it's common wisdom that you should take a new, better offer every two years and change jobs. Shouldn't come as a shock that sometimes it work the other way.
win - win : )
>Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books?

Of course not, and given my ability to train my mind on thousands of books in a few minutes and spit out a full book based on that training in whatever style one wants in a few minutes for that as well, it seems especially unfair that people act as though there might be a difference between the two situations.
> Fuck that idea.

It’s not an “idea.” It’s like saying “paying taxes is a social obligation” or “having a job if you’re able bodied is a social obligation.” At bottom those assertions rest on factual observations about society and the economy. If everyone evaded taxes civilization as we know it would quickly collapse. If able bodied people dropped out of the work force en masse, the economy would collapse. If we found out that the last child had been born in America, your retirement funds would quickly tank. These are such fundamental facts that societies have added a moral or religious gloss to them, but the underlying facts don’t go away even if you strip away that gloss.

If you won’t do those things, someone else will have to pick up your slack. Unless your retirement plan consists of hoarding canned food and ammo, or perhaps drifting out to sea when you can no longer work, you’re going to be depending on the children of the people who did the work of raising kids. And until we have robots that can wipe old people’s asses, that’s going to be an inescapable fact of society.

> Do whatever you want with your life, but don't go forcing it on other people and saying it's "social obligation".

Now that’s an “idea.”

> When has individual choice become a radical, antisocial idea?

You’ve got it backward. Until five minutes ago, everyone agreed that everyone has a social obligation to carry out the various work necessary for society to function. “Do whatever you want with your life” is a blip in human cultural history. It’s a blip even in the history of western civilization. And to date every society to adopt that notion has essentially doomed itself to obsolescence.
> Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? […] Humans are constantly ingesting gobs of “copyrighted” insights

This comment fundamentally and dangerously misunderstands Copyright Law. Insights are not copyrighted, nor are they copyrightable. Copyright law controls who gets to distribute a specific “fixation” or performance of work. It is not, and never was about preventing the spread of ideas. Authors and artists have always intended for you to read/observe/listen to their work when you legally acquire a copy. They just want you to not copy it verbatim, but go do your own original work if you want to distribute or sell something.

The whole problem is that today’s NNs are specifically designed to remember and remix only the fixed performative parts of the work, and they, unlike humans, don’t understand the insights at all. They are just deterministic machines that copy and remix at a large scale. As such, it’s pretty clear the people training AI today should expect to have to ask permission before “training” (copying) other people’s work.
yes, only you should be contributing towards your own pension without state (financial) assistance, it should be your savings/investment pension account

your kids can help you voluntarily without any system involved

if you didn't work/save and don't have kids them you can get some basic support same as people in productive age get, but it's not really enough even to survive
Whether capitalism has been good to me or not is besides the point: you can wish for the moon but you will probably not get it, so it helps to set realistic and achievable goals. 'The revolution' isn't going to happen, as long as people are fed and there are 50 channels of sports, besides that typically they result in new bosses who are the same as the old bosses.

Capitalism, like democracy is broken, but it is the best we've got - so far. Replacing it outright with some new system that somehow magically overcomes all of the shortcomings of the old and does not introduce new ones is a pipe dream, but you can make moves to fix the biggest holes and then keep doing that until you have incrementally arrived at a much better solution.

As for my empathy with overpaid Googlers: given the choice to sympathize with them or with their nil contributing rent seeking shareholder billionaire overlord I will side with them, and given the choice between them and a homeless person, inmate or mentally ill person my sympathy will be with the latter. Dealing in absolutes will get you quite literally nowhere, it's tilting at windmills at best and a distraction at worst. But feel free to pursue your goals in your way and leave me to do the same in mine.

There isn't a hard choice between these and no reason why we can't both pursue our goals in different ways and end up in a better place. It increases the chances of positive change.
This is a lot of fun!

And they aren't kidding that on a CPU backend it is slooooow :)