skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget 30 years ago, how many companies are running apps which are still being written that way?

I think about this a lot in the context of open source. We’ve had a ton of great things happen from everyone being able to share code but there is a valid concern about vulnerabilities in code which has been orphaned or was written by someone who wasn’t familiar with secure coding practices. For example, businesses have seen billions of dollars in benefit from WordPress based on the cost vs. functionality / productivity of commercial CMS applications but WP plugins are a famous source of exploits and many of them are written by people who don’t even have the time or skills to secure them if they did. It feels like there should be some way to change that but it’s not clear whether any of the efforts to fund open source will get enough traction.
Passing an int and, if the value doesn't exist, a None can be expressed quite neatly like this: "Optional[int]"
Sure, happy to clarify anything, including why I see engaging an existing social group with the intention of finding a long term relationship as problematic.

In my experience, way people act in a relationship long term is frequently is more comparable to how people act around strangers than within an existing social group. Common example of this would be if you’re on a date with a stranger and they just randomly leave, are mean to waiting staff, etc — though they would not likely exhibit that same negative behavior the date was from a existing social group because of the negative blow back.
Considering humans have been using it thousands of years I’d tend to agree. We have a habit today of quickly throwing away things people have done forever believing, arrogantly, that we are the first people to finally be right. We tend to privilege certain types of information (scientific study in this case) without considering the broader context and practical realities. And that trying to live forever is futile.
Hersh possibly confused Jens with his father Thorvald Stoltenberg. Who travelled to North-Vietnam in 1970 to negotiate between them and USA, and who was commended for his negotiating skills by the am. intel community in a declassified rapport from 1980.

See my other comment for quotes and sources.
Is anyone able to summarise how python got to this point? I haven't used it seriously since the tail end of the 2.7 woes but liked it a lot back then. Good native dictionary type and first class closures worked for me. Scattering of unit tests. The type annotation idea always seemed inconsistent with the language to me so I've ignored it.

In particular I'm wondering if this is a consequence of the rumours that python scales badly - someone changes some module far away, runs the massive test suite and it passes, checks in their code, and your code promptly blows up because the interaction wasn't tested.

There also seems to be a current enthusiasm for statically typing everything on hackernews which might be reflective of the wider industry, possibly making python acceptable collateral damage as it was on the wrong side.

That's my conjecture though, would love to hear from someone closer to the game how type hints became such a big deal in the python world.
smartphones are terrible. I might just try to get lodged into some good-enough well paying company for the rest of my life, and go back to dumb phones. Any given new tech company might expect you to have a smart phone for MDM or multiple authenticator apps. Asking for alternatives during the interview is not really popular. If it weren't for jobs, I wouldn't have a smart phone at all.
Yes. Hersh possibly confused Jens with his father Thorvald Stoltenberg. Who travelled to North-Vietnam in 1970 to negotiate between them and USA, and who was commended for his negotiating skills by the am. intel community in a declassified rapport from 1980.

See my other comment for quotes and sources.
What matters is obviously per person... So "if you are a couple" is completely irrelevant.

Terms like 'light', 'moderate' or 'heavy' drinking are relative and must be taken in context.

For instance, historically it has been customary in many countries to drink wine with every meal. So 2 bottles per week is indeed moderate as it's about 1-2 glasses per meal. Likewise, 3.5l a beer per week is one beer at dinner, which is considered quite moderate, indeed.

Basically, if your drinking is moderate during meals only and no hard liquor this is considerate 'moderate' to normal in traditional terms.
Everything is easy if you don't have to handle state.

K8s was always really crap for persistent storage. On AWS you can always dump to EFS or the managed lustre (what ever thats called). (which is better than attaching block storage.)
Availability and Use of F-35 Fighter Aircraft – Budget Office Report 2022
"Let’s change the peer pressure around drinking like we did with cigarettes."

This is precisely what I was referring to. If peer pressure to use [insert substance here] is wrong; the antithesis is wrong too.
>Money laundering

They don't need bitcoin for that. Smuggling money into the US (the by far largest global destination for laundered money) via crypto requires the exact same amount of criminal effort (false identities, mules,..) as smuggling money through regular bank transfers, because nowadays all crypto exchanges that are allowed to interact with US banks must establish the identity of their customers same as a regular bank.

So that leaves P2P trades. Their volume can be estimated (in fact: upper bounded, by adding all trades on the block chain and subtracting those corresponding to trades on known centralized exchanges.) It's about $200B per year.

As for money laundering, the range of estimates of global volume per year is pretty wide, ranging from $20B to $5T. If you compare research from the 90s and today, you'll notice that the estimates have not changed, meaning: similar methodology applied to current data will yield estimates that are close to the estimates from the 1990s, adjusted for inflation.

If the low end estimates are true, then money laundering is not a serious problem and using it as pretext for destroying civil rights is a joke, so let's go with the UN's reasonably big estimate: $800 billion - $2 trillion.

In that case, even if *ALL* P2P bitcoin trades were criminal, they would still only amount to 10%-20% of global money laundering.

Finally: The total BTC market cap is ~$400B, half of that has not been traded since 2015. Given the risk affinity of career criminal and the inherent volatility of criminal enterprise and given the historical rise of BTC, don't you think at least 10% of mone launderers would keep at least 10% of their money laundering transactions as crypto instead of cashing all of it out into USD? But they wouldn't keep them on exchanges. Looking at the blockchain data, it's difficult to make that work *UNLESS* only a small amount (less than $100B) money laundering happens via crypto.
With near Zero-SDK, of course.
The biggest issue with Imposter Syndrome is the name. It makes it sound like some kind of abnormal medical issue that some people "have". I think part of its popularity is because people make it part of their identity.

It's like people saying they are OCD when really they just like things to be neat.

It's should be called "lack of confidence", but they you probably couldn't write papers and books about it.

You could probably come up with more "syndromes" that are really common and normal human behaviours if you want to make a name for yourself! "morning syndrome" (difficult to get up in the morning), "hunger syndrome" (being hungry even when you've eaten a sensible amount of food), "stranger syndrome" (not being confident at talking to strangers), "Smalltalk syndrome" (being shit at Smalltalk), etc.
Or as Steam Deck shows, you can just drop the whole security theater and have a perfectly viable and arguably better handheld console device.
I guess, bootstrapping and grants are the "new" way.
Two small glasses of gin every day is probably way to much? Just from the high frequency.
Perhaps the carcinogens in cigarette are the various products of combustion, whereas nicotine is the addictive component?
Whats the difference between running a large DB running at 90% on a VM compared to k8s?

The method of snapshotting uses a different plugin, but apart form that, its essentially the same.
Relevant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-term_effects_of_alcohol_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol
> … is shared sacrifice similar to how a war effort is sold.

You actually posed a solution here not a disproof. Yes all this requires selling changes to the public and under a social message. One doesn’t need math to know this, it is intuitively true.

> from where to where

I already answered this.

> re-allocation is not going to happen because even the current allocation was a result of heavy compromise.

So anything that requires compromise cannot be undone? I’m not tracking your logic here.

I think you are looking for more evidence to backup my suggestion. See 1930s Germany as example where this model was followed and resulted in one of the greatest economic turnarounds of all time.

> inb4 muh nazis and Holocaust

Doesn’t disprove the economic turnaround that transpired.
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American. It's a really sad state of affairs back home. I vividly recall the first time I got pulled over here in Europe for making a traffic mistake - after I payed for the fine on the spot (with a contactless credit card) I realized something... my heart wasn't racing. I didn't have a massive adrenaline dump. I wasn't terrified of the police officer. Crazy stuff, huh?
International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies [pdf]
nicotine is not a carcinogen
Nah, that would never work.
Data Versioning at Scale: Chaos and Chaos Management
No. The AI doing generative work is doing the same thing human artists do: observe, consume, be influenced, and then create new work from pieces of what they have consumed. The AIs are like beautiful children who may one day be born but already exist.

And those beautiful, creative children are having their work stolen, by the humans who are taking the output of their creative work, showing it to the world, and saying, "I made this," when in fact, all they did was take it.
I’d suspect that using GCJ as a data source they assume that “good” = solving a given round of competition. The further you reached in rounds - the better programmer you are.
Not the best measure if they really used it. Coding competitions have almost nothing in common with day to day work of software engineer.
I believe socialized healthcare is an eventuality. But I couldn't care less about other people's habits.
Yeah. It’s basically just the transcript of the video.

Which by itself reads like an AI generated text. It doesn’t tell a cohesive story. Just some facts in a seemingly random order. Weird.
Needs more \n, at the very least after each function to separate them. Although it is surprisingly compact to read at a glance, I think it would also cause problems with source control when automerging two statements that are the same line.
>And if there was crypto, they would be far more efficient at doing what you describe because they don't even need to pay for the planes

They would however need to find people that can sell bitcoins to them.

Let's say a corrupt dictatorship wants to turn their $1T of criminal/stolen assets into BTC. How are they gonna do that?
IMO the only part of this article that is general enough to discuss is the bit about opt-out telemetry; everything else is just slapping technical solutions and attempts at preserving privacy on top of an opt-out system.

On that front, I find it confusing why the option of “we ask the user when they install what they want” is not explored. It’s given as an example in the article, and then there’s a whole section about how they want to give people sufficient notice on their website and how it would be bad to report stats before people could realize it’s turned on. Why not just tell them when they install and let them change it then and there?
For open source projects in general, and the Go project in particular, I think it is easy to underestimate how much maintainer time is consumed discussing & considering whether a change should be made.
Love the concept, but it’s so over used and misused in talks that I now have an aversion towards seeing that famous illustration
Yes, humans think in hierarchies, but they think in multiple hierarchies.
You’re in one hierarchy at work, another in your family, another at your Karate dojo.

This cannot be represented in a single hierarchy. In non-relational you therefore end up duplicating data and suffer the associated ACID and performance issues. The only reason people are fine with it is because they don’t care about data integrity and won’t fix these problems in hindsight, but that’s what the non-relational database developers tell them to do since they declare it’s not their responsibility.
I was a heavy pinboard user but recently made the switch to a paid plan on https://raindrop.io/. I tested a few self-hosted OSS solutions but none of them felt right for me. Still too early to say anything meaningful about raindrop but I’ve already found it useful a number of times.
Yes, I can't believe how few good complete solutions there are for this that don't involve me curating anything.

Currently I have obsidian notes for different libs and technologies and really useful stuff or things I plan on reading, they go there but search of the page itself is non-existent. For sites I go to again and again because chrome's search sucks, I tag my bookmarks in the url title with an underscore (e.g. _python _docs) and stuff them all in a folder. An underscore actually works and you can combine them to quickly find stuff. For highlights, I don't highlight much, but I use hypothesis because it looked promising, but honestly it's been very slow with any management related features. I also run a local archivebox for pages I don't want to loose. It has search but doesn't show you where the term matched.

And I've been keeping an eye out on spyglass, which is a local search engine with the concept of custom "lenses" that you can create or you can get ones created by the community. It can also index local files and bookmarks. It recently fixed the shortcut issue I had on linux so I'm properly trying it out and it seems very promising. I hope to be able to hook it up to all those different services. Need to clean my older bookmarks first....
that is not a high frequency for a regular drinker who is not an alcoholic. and my point was that this figure was made up by people who, with no evidence, simply made up this figure.
I can spin up a Db on my laptop in a few minutes.

The difference is my laptop doesn't provide any guarantees of stability, uptime or throughput.

installing a DB is as simple as "apt install $db"

> The nice thing about containers is that you are independent of the underlying infrastructure

I mean you're really not. You're dependent on the machine, the OS, and the kernel version. Docker on windows is a VM, from what I remember. I assume OSX's docker is still VM based too.
"Clang / LLVM as primary system compiler"

What is the rationale behind this?
What Is Fountain Pen Ink Sheen?
I remember the Wizardry series was especially punishing in this regard. It would have constructs like hidden teleporters, and in sone cases your “view” looked the same on the other side so it’d be unclear you weren’t where you thought you were
Huh, today I learned, thank you!

I guess I can update towards "most of it will probably be cooked off" but 45% is still non negligible for a lot of scenarios. And even 5% remaining after 2.5 hours of boiling means that I should probably expect some alcohol no matter what.
Not even zero?
You cannot shoot down a drone at 40k feet with an anti aircraft gun.
you should never be adding an int to a float. You should be casting one first.
Ask HN: Wasn't Google search auto-complete sold as an LLM?
Wasn't Google search auto-complete sold as an LLM at the time it was released in 2008?

Was it really just a bunch of if/then statements?
I think they want pointful calories.
But the rules can be dumb. The exponential decay of rewards is, in my opinion, wildly unethical and leads to great harm. It permanently creates a system of haves and have-nots. That a system that cannot be changed is not in any way evidence that the system is good.

We could imagine an alternative system that Satoshi programmed that, once per year, chose 5% of wallets at random and marked those coins as invalid, permanently destroying them. That would be an unchangeable system but it would also be idiotic. Just because there isn't a bureaucrat does not mean that there is no policy.
My trouble with this approach is that my brain is not very good at type inference, so I don't really understand what's going on just by reading the code. IDEs can help, but it's still a hassle (esp. in contexts where you don't have IDE - github PRs etc.)
Phrasing is off, so it sounds like TTS in the video as well. My conclusion is that the whole thing is just blogspam/videospam.
Opinionation is often useful but it's best implemented with an escape hatch of some sort for when you run into a sufficiently weird situation there's not actually a sensible way to deal with it.

I don't particularly mind if a project holds their opinions sufficiently strongly that they mark the escape match big red letters with "BY USING THIS YOU ARE VOIDING YOUR WARRANTY, IF IT BREAKS YOU GET TO KEEP BOTH HALVES" and then tapping the sign any time somebody asks for support with using it, but it should still -exist-.
> I'm wondering if this is a consequence of the rumours that python scales badly

My (completely uninformed) guess is that people want to statically type all the things not because it improves correctness, but because it makes editor facilities like code completion and jump-to-documentation so much more effective.
AirTable is on the way, You can see the progress of the community here:
https://github.com/orgs/activepieces/projects/5

Please open an issue for Xano with your exact use case, so we know what triggers / actions you need.

https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces/issues/new/choo...
Some things can’t be linted and require a code reviewer to point them out. Noting the absence of documentation where it is clearly needed would be one of those things.

def get_height(): # noqa
…

Is just as annoying as useless documentation.
Lancet's British
We need sun light for our health (vitamin D synthesis, for example).
> Only when your application depends on optimizing your database to the max.

Only when you don't need to store data for any length of time. The point of containers is that they don't store state. You have to manage that.

And for some cases you can get away with it. But for most websites, keeping a single container up for many years isn't a great strategy. (Yes, I know there are ways around this. but they are not as simple as "docker run postgres")
Apparently there are; from the wiki page linked elsewhere in the comments:

> The EAR is the largest seismically active rift system on Earth today. The majority of earthquakes occur near the Afar Depression, with the largest typically occurring along or near major border faults.[14] Seismic events in the past century are estimated to have reached a maximum moment magnitude of 7.0.
Apparently, this is a myth: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-canc...
Déformation professionnelle.
Someone never had to write a matrix
> ...or your package upgrades take too damn long and you need to use your system in the meantime, the programs you use can be subtly broken.

As you mention, this is true of every major Linux distro out there. In fact, in the nearly twenty years (ugh) that I've been using Gentoo, the only upgrade troubles I've run into are

* Temporary KDE screen locker problems (that is, the screen locker thinking it's "broken" and instructing me on how to manually unlock the session. (It didn't used to do this, and it was better when it didn't, because it would actually work.))

* Other KDE issues that are always solvable by some combination of restarting 'plasmashell' or 'kded'. (I'm super glad that both of those programs have a '--replace' flag. (And I haven't seen these particular problems in a very long time.))

* Firefox noticing that it got upgraded and refusing to let me work with anything that kicks off a new process

> ...most veteran gentoo users will suggest you use a chroot or a separate system to build packages for the system you're using.

Wild. I definitely fit the criteria for "veteran Gentoo user", and I would never, ever suggest that as a way to avoid the problem you're talking about.

AIUI, it won't work, or will be _complicated_ to set up (as programs not-infrequently need to build against new versions of libs, so you must _install_ those library packages in order to correctly build the packages that require them), or is identical to a binpkg build box (which -last I checked- was only encouraged if you had either a _very_ underpowered machine as your daily driver and a beefy build-box somewhere, or many, many systems that all could make use of the same set of packages, so saving time and power by having those packages built only once made sense).

EDIT: I looked at your forum post. I think you're inferring _way_ too much from the fact that two people that the forum software has given the tag 'Veteran' suggested "building in a chroot and then copying the packages over" (which closer inspection reveals to be either an overly-complicated binpkg build box, or a binpkg build box running in a chroot), and "set up a binpkg build box". Two people recommending this to you as a possible solution is _not_ "most" of the userbase... and the forum software's rating of them has no direct bearing on how good of a Gentoo admin they are. (I'm pretty sure the forum software still rates me as a "Newbie", as I've only ever made like four or ten posts. Most of my conversation happened over email, IRC, and the bug tracker.)
As a philosopher once said, just do it.
We know that banning alcohol doesn’t work. We should do what we did for tobacco. Ban advertisements for alcohol. Do the same for other vice. If consenting adults want to engage in vice that doesn’t hurt other people such as gambling, alcohol, etc. then allow it. Just don’t allow it to be advertised.

Can’t deny that as someone who has abstained from alcohol my entire life, feeling pretty smart every time more of these studies come out.
Pg manages replication. If you use something like longhorn to replicate the volume you're just wasting storage - run pg replicas and stream Wal to object storage with wal-g, which the operator probably does (I user stackgres, and it does)
It's much more of a financial intelligence collection operation.

The intelligence community has access to information about every transaction with greater than $10k (lower thresholds for monetary instruments) with at least one party of the transaction identified for over 25 years.

People also miss the fact that FIU operations also often include 314(a)/(b) letters (subpoenas for financial information on specific individuals) alongside their AML operations. Same for OFAC Sanctions monitoring (obvious example is Russian customers and assets).
can the verge sit this one out maybe? their posts:understand ratio on AI topics is skewing the wrong direction right now.
In other news: obsessing irrationally over one's health is unsafe for one's health.
On the Current Status of AI Dating
Im not sure about that. Startups in a higher interest rate world just need to be more profitable ideas, and need less capital. I think that's probably a good thing, overall. But who knows right, we're in a very odd economy at the moment so we'll see I suppose.