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It has.

So many things were fixed in python packaging.

- "-m" was introduced.
- Wheel replaced eggs.
- Manylinux target now exists.
- pypi was scaled uo, a new api
introduced and 2fa added.
- setup.py got replaced by
setup.cfg and now
pyproject.toml is gaining speed.
- the py launcher is a thing.
- Import priority changed.
- Import lib changed.
- Zipapps were added.
- Venv ships with python.
- Pip replaced easy_install,
then ensurepip was created.
- The new dependancy solver
was funded.
- Distutils has been sunsetted.
Setuptools is on its way.

This doesn't include the dozens of third party projects that target improving package that came out in the last 2 decades. Pip-tools by itself has changed the game.

A lot has been done, and the situation is 10 times better than it used to be. It is still bad, but not because nothing was done, simply because there is still a lot to do.

People dont realize the sheer scale of the task, and the inertia that comes with a language as successful and old as python.

You have a language that is 4 years older than java, highly dynamic, yet uses fortran/c/assembly code in very popular lib (scipy/numpy) accross all popular OS, and webassembly and arm, in 32 and 64 bits. People routinely install multiple versions of python on their machine, linux repos freeze the upgrades and split the packages, mac and windows stores ship broken versions, and half the python userbase is composed of people that are not professional coders that can't use a terminal. Of course companies will complain if you change anything that breaks their 5 years old server, and devs will complain if they don't get the last new great feature.

It's a really, really hard problem, dealt by a FOSS community that 10 years ago was still running on mostly volunteers and the budget of a small start up. Of course, just to get heat by comments on social media and no thanks for all the effort, as if you own total strangers your free work, with no flaws on top of that.

Not to mention you can imagine packaging is not the only things the core devs have to work on.
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.”—Mitch Ratcliffe
Yep, and humans will make good guesses about the likely cause of the moving box. These guesses will factor in other variables such as the context of where this event is taking place. We might be in a children's play room, so the likely activity here is play, or the box is likely part of the included play equipment found in large quantities in the room, etc.

"AI" is not very intelligent if it needs separate training specifically about boxes used potentially for games and play. If AI were truly AI, it would figure that out on its own.
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> The result may explain the promise of a drug currently in human trials: lenacapavir. Lenacapavir "competes" with IP6, stabilizing the six-sided structures over the five-sided ones. This tilts the process to favor open-ended tube shapes instead of enclosed capsids.
You are right, and at the same time there are flip sides to all those points. More democratic than ever with some gaping holes, wealthier in places and for some, information just as accessible as misinformation... We're better on a 10.000 feet view, yet quite far from being "there".
> Switch to 1Password.

Doesn't cease to amaze me with what confidence people recommend these "Switch to 1Password", "Just use BitWarden". I switched to KeePassXC because it seems all the cloud-based password managers have the same endgame: get hacked.

> It takes ~5 min to export and import.

Only 5 minutes, and you've just doubled your attack surface area. Congrats.
I actually doubt that a lot of that magic will be shown, as models ( because of ml ops) won't be in code.
We did use flutter to build something like a companion app for our B2B product targeted at enterprises. One dev supported Android and iOS and performance was good (no battery issues, etc for an app that was mostly always running). It was a blessing that we chose a cross platform approach as our users did not decide which the devices they use, corporate does. And it can change its mind.

I do get the fear of the Google dependency, though. I did feel lucky that support did not end before we were done with it.
My search behaviour hasn't changed. I find chatGTP's answers to be too verbose, imprecise and the lack of visuals and links in its answers reduces utility for the domains I'm interested in (I think SEO works well in those domains). I often depend on substantiating my work with sources, so I need links to blogs, articles and research papers.
How does failing to get rid of a traffic ticket ruin someone's life?
You are most likely right, however I have to start somewhere.
Are they hiring more people than they're firing?
Hasselblad were acquired by the drone manufacturers DJI, and things have gone super-digital.

Some great concept digital cameras (and digital mounts), but they've probably forgotten how the mirror worked.
My snarky suggestion is we switch to emoji's for arithmetic operators. Semi serious incorporate syntax highlighting via markup into the language.
Same for Norway.

If your Norwegian isn't good enough (even if it is just that one day or you are having a moment), folks quickly switch to English.

Some Norwegians have trouble understanding other Norwegians as well and wind up using English. Dialects vary greatly from the written language and they just sound... different. Children start learning when they enter school (6 years old) and I think half of the graffiti is in English.
Generally agree here. However the Apple icons of the pre-flat-design-era, even the really skeuomorphic ones, were always pretty great; I always thought they summed up most of their respective apps pretty well. For instance, for Gamecenter, the icon for it before iOS7 was quartered, with a chesspiece, baseball bat, rocket ship and dart board in each quadrant.

They really didn't need to change it. It's now just 4 coloured bubbles, which symbolises...what? I always thought it was just so...random. It's the most irreverent icon of the iOS home screen since iOS7.
> I agree with you in principle. In practice English is often all you need if you live in a big city

that might be true in Europe (not everywhere though) or in the US, it is certainly not true in Japan.

There is also a fatigue associated to speaking English for non native speakers that often leads to being identified as the "foreigner" and in practice you end up hanging out only with other English speaking "foreigners".

You also miss a lot about the local culture, because the language barrier forces you to only visit places where people speak English.

It is like living in Poland and never eat pierogi.

> When I look at my country (Poland), I can see that a person can live in Warsaw (capital city) or any of the biggest 5 cities without knowing any Polish

Poland is good (but not great) in that sense, a lot of people speak English, many of them don't speak it well enough to actually hold a meaningful conversation with a native speaker. I understand them as a non native speaker, but I also recognize many of the mistakes in the construction of the sentences they make (and that I make as well).

But that's not true in general, not even in rich and well educated Europe

See

https://cache.eupedia.com/images/content/English_speakers_Eu...

Now the real advantage of speaking some local language is knowing a lingua franca.

It's not uncommon here in Italy to witness a conversation between immigrants coming from wildly different backgrounds (say, for example, North Africa and Eastern Europe) happening in Italian. Their version of Italian, of course, but it's good enough to communicate and they also can practice the language they actually need to interact with Italians.

Of course it takes a lot of time to learn a new language, especially if the language doesn't even have the same alphabet you already know, but after 10 years I would expect to actually have learned at least the basics of it.
We use words to communicate effectively with other people. If different groups use words differently, that creates confusion and works against effective communication. We need to come to a general agreement about what words mean so that we can effectively communicate. If you decide to deliberately use a word differently from how it's been commonly used, rather than accepting the fact that you've been using it differently from everyone else and changing your behaviour, that makes effective communication harder.
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It's quite different, it's simple suggesting unsubscribes. It won't let you unsubscribe without doing anything. It also won't let you remove a large amount of subscriptions quickly
The Hungarian system is pretty much useless since the reform in 2013. Before 2013 party candidates that did not win the districts contributed their votes to the list vote totals. This is losers compensation. Since then we have a winners' compensation: winners also contribute their extra district votes (the difference of their votes and the second place candidate's) to the list totals. This exacerbates gerrymandering and pretty much guarantees the 2/3s majority needed for amending the constitution to Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party with their 45%-55% popular vote.
I saw the forum post in this thread claiming leak happened back in 2022. This aligns well with the massive PII leak they had before so I would say there is a chance.
Do you actually speak Chinese or Japanese? Because either of those languages with phonetic characters would be a nightmare imo.

The characters actually make it easier to learn the language imo, and anyone who claims otherwise hasn't actually tried to learn seriously
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It may cause issues, it may not. It's so hard to know, we may not even know even if they do carry out these types of experiments.
I recommend staying in the middle
“ The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines released *thousands of tons of sulfur dioxide* into the stratosphere, temporarily lowering average global temperatures by about 1 degree Fahrenheit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.”

“ Make Sunsets was planning to…release anywhere between 10 and 500 grams of sulfur dioxide in January”

I hope it doesn’t take years for someone to test the theory with a few tens of grams of this substance unless even that amount can cause harm.
Today, parking ticket. Tomorrow, DUI. Next week, a murder case.

It's about putting the first wedge in.
Especially as the guy was a journalist, he was supposed to go into "smaller towns / cities" and write about the people in there.

Surprised though that the BBC hasn't put that as a requirement before sending him to Japan for a 10-year stint. Afaik The Economist requires of their potential correspondents that they know Chinese before posting them to China, and this is why many of their Chaguan China-focused editorials are really interesting (for example in the latest one [1] the Economist journalist takes a train ride before the Chinese New Year and talks with Chinese people with whom he shares the ride)

[1] https://archive.is/85RX3
The core problem is we have no useful definition of "intelligence."

Much of the scholarship around this is shockingly poor and confuses embodied self-awareness, abstraction and classification, accelerated learning, model building, and a not very clearly defined set of skills and behaviours that all functional humans have and are partially instinctive and partially cultural.

There are also unstated expectations of technology ("fast, developing quickly, and always correct except when broken".)
It actually really did get me interested in the topic.

I have a raspi which doesn't do much left. I guess I'll add it to the network soon.

Thank you :)
Almost anything is possible, even time travel, it's just not very realistic under certain circumstances. In case of learning Japanese in 6 months while working full time in English speaking enviroment with 0 Japanese foundations to start with.
I think what he means is that Mexico would be just as effected if they did in the ocean, or in India or wherever.
Does that also factor into account that manufacturing has largely been moved to other countries? That is, does the average US consumer spend fewer resources than in 1960, taking imports into account?

I'd guess resource usage has grown a LOT
Your country isn't the whole rest of the world. I thought that would be obvious for an average HNer?
My understanding is that it has reverse facial recognition as well. Very cool. Also, it’s an interesting foray into the ethics of AI in that this could easily be used for nefarious reasons. (You can snap a photo of anyone who’s been indexed and find them online very easily.)
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10516.pdf
Is Japan any different from the USA in that respect?

From what I've heard it goes like this: British person applies for US citizenship. He has to "renounce" his British citizenship and hand over his British passport to the US authorities, who shred it. The next day he goes to the British embassy, tells them what has happened and asks for a new passport. The British authorities give him a new passport and, of course, they don't say anything to the US authorities.

(There might be different cases to consider here, depending on how you acquired your British citizenship. As I understand it, if you were born in the UK of British parents then you have a right to a British passport regardless of how old you are, where you have lived, and what other passports you've had. It's not possible to "renounce" that right. It might be different for someone who acquired British citizenship in some other way: perhaps some people could "renounce" their citizenship.)
But isn’t research now banned in Mexico?

I know of academic groups fighting to ban research in this area.
I worked for years for a professional photographer with a vast commercial archive.

After every finished project we would copy the files to a thumb drive and print the top 10-20 images at around 14" long edge >300dpi and place everything in a simple archival box.

The logic being that even if the digital copy becomes unsustainable because of interface change or degrading, you could still scan or photograph the prints.

Most analog prints you see 'digitized' on Instagram are iPhone photographs of prints laid flat. It's all a bit ridiculous.
Who knows what Midjourney uses. We've got only claims in discords to go by.

My guess is they do internally a slightly more careful and less porn/anime oriented version of what the 4chan/protogen people do. Make lots of fine tuned checkpoints, merge them, fine tune on a selection of outputs from that, merge more, throw away most of it, try again etc. Maybe there are other models in the mix, but I wouldn't bet on it.
If I block AWS firewall level then I loose half of the internet from those who use AWS for their transit or those who use the provider for their sites.
ADSBExchange ... that is why I contributed.
I upvoted you because I appreciate the sentiment a lot.

As a non-native speaker in my country, if I seek to participate in meetups, etc. with the expectation that the language used will be the local one, I would prefer not to switch to English. I deliberately go to tech meetups partly for that purpose. It's fine to switch to English if the presentation is specifically in English, but I do not want the audience to accommodate to my lacking; I'd rather be clueless than be accommodated.
As the AI gets better people will trust it with more and more kinds of cases and cases with more increased complexity. If people want to pay for a real licensed lawyer they are still able to do so.
Shame that the standard library doesn't follow those recommendations (hello unittest).
This is a great answer/ great reply to the thread. Thank you for sharing
I don't see the problem as long as the actual lawyer can intervene when necessary.

If ChatGPT did something wrong, that lawyer would still be on the hook for deciding to continue using this tool so responsibility/liability/authenticity is not a problem.

I get that they want to make some kind of subscription service to replace lawyers with AI (a terribly dystopian idea in my opinion, as only the rich would then have access to actual lawyers) but just like Tesla needs someone in the drivers seat to overrule the occasional phantom breaking and swerving, you need an actual lawyer for your proof of concept cases if you're going to go AI in a new area.

You'd also need a fast typist to feed the record into ChatGPT of course, because you can't just record lawsuits, but anyone with a steno keyboard should be able to keep up with a court room.
--->8

ChatGPT: "Your honor, that couldn't have been me, as I drive a red Mustang, not a blue minivan, and was in Nepal climbing a mountain at the time.."

Defendant: "Your honor, that couldn't have been my, as I drive a red Mustang, not a blue minivan, and was in Nepal climbing a mountain at the time."

Prosecutor: "Um, this photo clearly shows your face in this blue minivan, and there's no evidence you've been to Nepal."

Judge: "I'm holding you in contempt of court, and sentence you to 7 days in jail for perjury."

8<----

I don't think the argument is that AI is never allowed to represent someone in court; just that before it happens, a sufficient amount of vetting must be done. At a bare minimum, the legal AI needs to know not to lead the defendant to perjure themselves.
If you're living in each place for a long time then yeah, you should learn the language. If you're just a temp worker then it's nbd, but then you also shouldn't be writing articles about the culture you clearly can't integrate in and don't understand.
I'm finnish and work with a lot of international people, many of whom have lived here for decades. None of them speak Finnish, and I, and all the other Finns I know, would never expect them to speak it. It's not that big of a deal.
I don't live in the US, nor Ohio. Back right at you, because maybe it should be you who should leave the country and see the disasters that these types of companies are causing to the world on a global geographic scale.
The naive statement from someone that never did security assements, porting code across multiple platforms, license checks,...
Despite productivity generally improving over the last few decades, wage compensation has not.

I'm concerned this will continue as a trend with any productivity improvements from these models.
How many times did Bill Clinton go to Epstein's island? Are you OK with pedophiles?
I think the stakes are not that high in this particular application. I see it as something akin to Turbotax, it helps you navigate a difficult environment but you should also exercise judgement to not screw everything up.
Probably it's just a search bot like Googlebot.
???

1.2 millions is 7, GP says that is low for the area, aka they’d expect mid 7 or above, not that they’d expect 6.
>When we first came to our condo in January, everyday they would knock on my door at the worse time.

That is not really what high-touch means in the context of luxury hotels, $1000+/night places will generally do their best to not disturb you. Instead it's things like coordinating housekeeping based on reservations the concierge has made for you, or perhaps just quietly stocking your room with a beverage you seemed to particularly enjoy by the pool.

>I want to check in digitally, use my digital key and check out digitally. I put “Do not disturb” on my door the entire time.

I tend to prefer in-room check-in, a very common practice in luxury hotels. A front desk staffer walks you to the room, giving you an easy opportunity to raise any issues or ask any questions you might have regarding the room.

And in any case, digital check-in is unfortunately legally difficult in many jurisdictions which require hotels to scan your passport.
So an American short ton and a German metric tonne are both 2000 pounds....but the pounds are not the same!
I'm aware. But if it did cause issues it would concentrate in Mexico and dissipate globally.

But what I'm asking them is.. do they believe it's in Mexico's right to ask a person to stop experimenting on the atmosphere (global or otherwise) from their country.
Right, I was thinking about Lisp-1. Good call-out.
For me, I'm chasing a great team to work alongside. I want to sit next to the developer I can ask about the pro/cons of any web development framework, that can help me analyze a heap dump, or explain why some transitive dependency is getting pulled in at compile time.
Probably because of legal compliance than technical reasons
Who benefits from non-responsibility?
Why are we not capable to produce figures capable to shoulder public burdens and are thrustworthy enough?

Why do we prioritize moral shortcomings of a person/character over the effectiveness of the work when discussing politics?

Whore, drink and murder all night for all i care, if the individual can prevent ecologic collapse and economic collapse during the day, thats still a good deal, even if i would be among the murder victims.

If the discourse around problems is so slanted towards "unimportant" topics, who can we remove from the discourse culturewise to refocus it? Can we build a social platform that punishes distractions from importance and reward contributions, according too global prioritys? A synthetic algorithmic clutch, focusing human attention away from the gossip..

Imagine a politics, without the person, only there legal actions being reviewed and percieved. Could been even annonymized as just a Nr.
Okay, so we're at the next step. Do you support Mexico's decision to stop experiments on the atmosphere that may cause issues?
Everybody has gone to war with eachother in every continent all the way through history.

If you go live in a country (long-term, which 10 years is), you should learn the language and not expect the locals to try to conform to your not-knowing the language... you're there, it's their country, their language, not vice-versa. How can you expect a country where people employed there don't know the local language to even work? Imagine a postman, a service worker, etc. not knowing german.. how is that going to work? When stuff like this happens, you get immiggrant ghettos and yes, in turn xenophobia, because people there cannot get normal jobs and expect the germans to adapt to them instead of vice-versa.
Blow it out your ass.

People are using the word differently, and the community is telling them to stop using the words differently because it's misleading. What exactly are you arguing, that community should not do that? That, you know, the open source community should not tell people to stop using the term "open source" incorrectly?

I'll cool my own language when you stop presenting your reductionist Philosophy 101 "it's just words bro" arguments without doing any further analysis. It's just words bro so why do you care that I said I had sex with your mother last night? Maybe I meant it as a compliment!
Then the governments requesting from the big tech your infos (and getting them). Same thing in the end.
> Is it succeeding in lowering housing costs?

Not yet. The first wave of developments is now in the pipeline, not yet built.
> a terribly dystopian idea in my opinion, as only the rich would then have access to actual lawyers

The rich don't go to jail already. The crypto scammer paid a huge bail and got out on his private jet. That, to me, is far more dystopian than a cheap tool to help people appeal traffic tickets.
Future algorithms will find online content that was ahead of it's time.

"Hi, algorithm!". :p
On which page of ISO C can I find the intrinsics specification?
And the new generations will increasingly become xenophobic again as arrogant foreginers with no will to learn local language move in.

It's a massive trend in Europe again and it will not end well for the expats.
Making the timescale just utc would mean that moon-seconds would not match si-seconds, which sounds very problematic.