skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say the ideal was "always having something to process"; I said the ideal was always having exactly one thing to process.

Come on, it's an ideal; it doesn't have to be realistic.

[Edit] Just read the Slimmons article. His argument is specifically about a queue served by a server that is under stress. His assertion is:

"As you approach maximum throughput, average queue size – and therefore average wait time – approaches infinity."

He's quite right (and yes, it's a bit counter-intuitive). But it's orthogonal to the matter of the ideal queue length.

Thanks for the link.
I mean relevancy in the abstract sense by the way. It is trying to solve a problem that nobody really has, by adding an additional component to the system. It also makes your chain a tad bit longer... added weight and links.

> Can you expand on your idea of why you think Shimano doesn't look relevant now? ... On road, every World Tour team, save 3 are running Shimano.

They all use electronic shifting. This is not the way to compare relevancy, given that it is a sponsorship. Next year, sram comes out with a better financial deal for the team than shimano and they go with them.
The type of person that can afford $144/year is going to have much higher ARPU than the overall average.
The author mentioned venv in the article. Also I believe the parent comment is talking about the difficulties of choosing between different dependencies management solutions, venv among them, rather than the lack of (a good) one
You missed my point: show me the algorithm.

You just described how you think HN works but unless you work there you can't have first hand knowledge. I know I don't.

So show me the algorithm. Let's have an open conversation based on facts instead of speculation.

As an aside, I also think the lines are easier drawn than you think.

For example: is the algorithm based purely on overt signals from the userbase (votes, flags, etc)? Or is it based on an analysis of the content itself, which is then used to fuel a recommendation engine?

If the latter, are the recommendations based purely on analyzing past expressed preference? Or is there some other baked in weighting?

Algorithms aren't dark mysterious things. They're entirely explainable, and if opened up you could have a real discussion about what is and isn't editorial promotion of content.
People who say that usually don’t find facebook useful. Imagine saying that about google maps, gmail, spreadsheet, google docs, google meet, etc.
I suspect the trigger word was Gates.
What do you do to keep your inter component styling in sync?
It’s not like Twitter invented the concept of a paid subscription
Lighten up mate.
any recommendation to build a mesh network? is it worthy to worry about?
If you moved the hole, it's the same hole, everything on it should follow. That seems to be how realthhunder handles things.
Yeah, the well-actually's are a problem. It's not all of us though.

Python dev's know we have a problem, it's just hard to fix because "people developing apps and worrying about dependencies" is a rather small part of the python community. It's not like Java or something where everybody writing the language is a developer. Most are scientists or business people or students working in places like anaconda or Jupyter. So it's really hard to get momentum behind an all-together-now solution.

I've slowly been gravitating toward Nix flakes so I can use it to pin to a project versions of all of the things you can't reliably install with pip alone (like python itself, or numpy, or postgres or whatever) and then have it read deps from poetry (via poetry2nix) for everything that "just works," but that's never gonna fly with the non-developer Python community. Hell, it probably won't even fly with half of the developers either, but it works well for me.

I think my situation is typical of python developers, which is why we have this problem. I think it'll stick around for a while because it's not like "just use a different language" is gonna fly with the non-dev crowd. They're going to expect somebody else to solve these problems for them.

(I may have a bias because my company offers OSS python apps in a SaaS form factor, so our support folk are the ones solving these problems--typically by either handling the virtualenv behind the scenes or by ensuring that users with conflicting dependencies are using different images).
A Makefile makes this trivial:

# Makefile
all: venv frozen test

venv:
python3 -m venv install venv

frozen:
[ -e frozen.txt ] || { echo "ERROR: run 'make update-frozen'"; exit 1 ; }
./venv/bin/pip install -r frozen.txt

update-frozen: clean install-requirements freeze

freeze:
./venv/bin/pip freeze > frozen.txt

install-requirements:
[ -e requirements.txt ] || { echo "ERROR: make a requirements.txt file"; exit 1 ; }
./venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

test:
./venv/bin/python3 run_tests.py

clean:
rm -rf venv

Put your package names in requirements.txt and run `make update-frozen`. To reinstall everything from frozen state, `make clean frozen`. (And replace the first space with a tab; HN is stripping my tabs out)

I know Pythonistas like to use Python for everything, but there are other tools out there that will make your life much simpler.
I guess it really depends on your definition of URL shortening and I'm happy to admit that maybe mine is the one that less used.

Shortening 1 = using a shorter/different domain with a shortened path that maps to a longer domain/path

Shortening 2 = using the same domain with a shortened path that maps to a longer path.

If #2 isn't considering "URL Shortening" then I guess I rest my case as I agree that nothing good comes from #1. Of course #2 is still a problem if you have long-lived urls and you don't maintain their integrity. The way we use them is for short-term one-time/short-term login links so it's even less of an issue, no one is bookmarking them/saving them and for sure they are in reference papers somewhere.
You don’t. The timing getting cancelled here is the free storage tier. But if you want to use your own local storage you can.
Chat apps like Discord hold valuable content and having it offline searchable would be really nice. Also, replying offline.
I think your pitch here really just ties back to simplicity in pricing. Simplicity in pricing is a strong customer desire. When your service is so valuable that it’s a no brainer, the pricing is de facto simple; pay the final bill and be done. When the value add is thinner or more uneven, it’s ok, but pricing becomes complex and customer preference will be for simple pricing structures such as all-you-can-eat.
I just watched a NorCal video where guy had to spend all race in little ring because it snapped at the start line. Ouch!
>detection isnt that difficult now

I would have thought this, but every attempt I've seen at detecting chatGPT generated text has failed miserably.
Hmm - looks like it gets rid of the front derailleur with a very proprietary rear hub, but that solves only one shift - small chainring to big is sort of an issue under heavy load (big to small, not so much) (so nothing to do with the cassette.

There was an American cyclist (which I shall not name) who had a high cadence style and would attack on the hills. Part of his attack was quickly going into the big ring. They accomplished this with a down tube shifter that was perfectly set to just flip them into the big ring (STI existed but suffered from shifting under a high load - as well as being somewhat heavy for a high climb bike), while they were already quickly dancing on the pedals on the small, so a high load was less of a problem.

Quite clever, actually.
In some ways, yes! At least for pop. I’m a huge fan of electronic music and synthesizers, but lowering the technical barrier to entry has resulted in some particularly bland pop music over the years making it to the top of the charts, for all the usual reasons of how music promotion is broken. I still think synths, sequencers, drum machines, and DAWs are a net plus to modern music, but there are of course negatives if you look for them.
Switzerland spitting out all the right moves of late.

Disclaimer: resident in CH
Hahaha. This is actually hilarious. They won’t budge to change and innovate so instead they copy and paste what Musk did on Twitter and just leave it at “fuck it”.
> The government is just after the really easy convictions on the cheap.

Feels like a reasonable description of modern society run by zeitgeist of MBAs.

“I want to extract the most value for the least amount of effort on my part.”
Do you mean they just pronounce the "eur" part like in French? Or do they actually say day-rye-eur? It would sound really weird to pronounce the word like in French.
This would be worth paying for one month just to get access to customer support if I needed it.
On the contrary, I think the internet being bigger means the prize for being #2, 3, etc is great too. Very few markets are actually winner takes all.
This is a bit crazy to me since it seems like there is a constant, almost never ending praise for everything related to Europe here. But I totally get that it's probably a difference in what topic we browse and what comments we read, so your experience is just as valid. I guess it's just surprising to me!
I agree with what you say, but your tone to me sounds contradictory, so I'm puzzled. Amazon "plowing it into expansion and infra" sounds exactly like "they prioritized growth", doesn't it?
I would also accept "Disraeli"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disraeli_Gears
reminds me about Akelpad which was my preference over notepad++/scintilla editors. It feels similar to Scintilla but uses an allegedly more performant editing component called AkelEdit. It has lots of interesting plugins and easily editable GUI. it was fun to tinker with.

https://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php
Now the product literally pays for itself. It's like the wall in Mexico, Silicon Valley style.
In theory their blue team could come up with even more advanced puzzles that bots trip over and then open source and document the bot puzzles. I don't know that they would, incentives or lack thereof and all. If nothing else it might make their work day more fun.

Or if I put my evil corp hat on, the incentive could be that they make puzzles that only Headless can get around and all other bots become trivial to block and obsolete by even the least knowledgeable hobbyist. Perhaps Google release Nginx, Apache HTTPD, Apache Traffic Server, Envoy and HAProxy modules that only Headless can get around and all other bots internet-wide are entirely silenced. Chrome becomes the one and only bot to rule them all.
Monero has proven at scale some cryptography that can be used to change everything. I recommend reading the codebases of projects before you write everything off as a scam. Monero is a legitimate project with enormous value, and active research on problems that matter; it is the primary private / anonymous digital cryptocurrency.
Real-Verified is the next logical step. Twitter will being following suit very soon. That said, how does this add value to Meta? Isn't this just another indication that Meta through its products sees less value in actual relationships and more in algo-driven timelines?
Snap seems to be the only social network left that is personal.
This is fine, I completely get it. My comment was more on the fact that you seem to care enough about what others think that you pretend you like it. Why not just tell people the same thing that you wrote in all caps, possibly adding "fuck off" if they still don't get it.
> Accuracy is obviously going to improve in models

Well, to be clear, they can put rules based filters and other things on top of the neural net, but the core GPT will never get more accurate since it has no mechanism to understand what words mean.
It's strange for ID verification to be presented as a subscription offering, given that it should suffice to verify it once (or for relatively long periods).

Obviously, Meta is after that sweet sweet MRR. But the consumer should recognize that they're paying for a one-time or infrequent task as if it involves ongoing effort.

From the consumer standpoint, a one-time fee makes much more sense.
Disappointing the article didn't specify the marketing that was used to sell the cameras five years ago. Obviously planned obsolescence is bad, but I'd like to know how misleading they were when selling the product.
My issue isn't necessarily that a usage spike impacts the bill, that's fine!

The problem is that because of the billing complexity, it's hard to predict how billing will scale with usage. There are just too many axes. Even steady-state billing is hard to price out before signing up, so much so that the answer we received from sales was to just try it and see what the bill is.

This becomes a road block. "I'd like to move us to Datadog! – Oh yeah, how much does it cost? – I won't know until after we've moved." – these conversations are hard to have internally.

The product is fantastic, I'm a big fan. And the total price isn't necessarily bad, it's just opaque, and required a lot of work on my side to model out the pricing, present the business case, get sign-off, and manage the contract over the years. Not something that I, as one of ~8 engineers, wanted to spend my time doing.
Is there a canonical example of how python projects should manage dependencies and sandboxing such that other developers can just clone, install, and get to work?
YouTube Premium has a clear value prop though w/no ads—I’m still not sure what I’m getting for Meta Verified… a blue check? Direct support if I (probably won’t) need it?

Twitter Blue now allows for longer tweets, and there is (or at least was) cachet around having a checkmark, so there is some cultural heritage there.

Blue checks on Instagram have some clout, but I’ve never heard of someone eager for verification on Facebook. Protecting against impersonation is something these platforms should be doing for free.

If this removed ads across the platforms then maybe there’d be value in this, but I really just don’t understand who this is for or why anyone would pay $100+/year.
People who have never found their paid work so emotionally satisfying are worse off, not better. At least professional artists have gotten to spend some of their working lives that way.
What makes this more ridiculous is that some of us have already been forced to verify with a government ID years ago, and they did that for free.

(I think it's if you run a page with over a certain number of followers or something)
Go with the flow. AI will need humans to be effective, humans will need AI to remain competitive. But everyone will have the same base models, just like we all have the same web search and electricity. AI won't be a competitive advantage, it will be a basic requirement.

Do you believe the number and complexity of software applications will decrease in the next 10 years because of AI, or that it will spawn whole new ecosystems of software and new types of jobs? I believe the second is more reasonable, we will have higher expectations from software in 2033 than in 2023. The easier AI makes it, the more difficult we make the tasks.

Human desires fill the available space like air, AI exponential is slower than our entitlement. So we still need to work.
Palantir would have formed the core of both the Gestapo's and the STASI's population-monitoring programs, and perhaps Germany has had enough of that kind of thing?
he actually went to and praised USSR when he was much younger
So it sounds like you agree that they were "never profitable because they prioritized growth"? I'm not saying that's a bad thing; I think that ones of the things Bezos did right, and very much in contradiction to standard business dogma. I'
>My Toddler Micturated on My PC...

That's a bit of a pisser.
The tool specific usecase with pipx is unique though, it's laser focused and perfect at the job of getting a python tool to users regardless of whatever wacky state their Python install is in. It's kind of separate from the issues of managing dependencies. It's a fantastic tool I wish more python documentation and users would embrace.
Spent my teenage years in a workshop with a dozen of cam swiss lathes, these are impressive machines and still used today!
Came in here to say just that - I wouldn’t judge relevancy based on the amount of sponsorship a company is willing to throw at a world tour team.
For terminally online people, prehaps. But in real life, no, people aren't generally obsessed by twitter drama. Real life usage is what matters, and if it's good enough for the ukrainian army in an active war zone...
> e.g. some deployment gone haywire and relaunching containers and suddenly you have 100x the amount of containers as usual in a 1 hour time span

To be fair to them, I believe they bill at something like a 98% high water mark for the month, so you can spike briefly like this.

I completely agree with the point though.
they invented the concept of paid verification for a major social platform and everybody dunked on them, now others copy them. Kind of like when Apple removes jack port → people dunk on them → then every competitor removes it too.
Technical writing, in order to be relatively unambiguous - the "technical" part - defines itself as a subset of English with a constrained grammar and vocabulary.

You just illustrated technical writing. Naturally, your writing style is very similar to that of other technical writing.

Take one guess what kind of writing exists in most of the text GPT is trained on.
> As you can imagine, given my position at DataDome (a bot detection company), I’m not going to share any new detection signals as I used to do

Here comes the sales pitch....
That's exactly it. I have two "cables" on my bike now and that is it... for the disc brakes. It is super clean and simple.

The batteries in the levers last a long time since they are just used for a button press. They are worth it. Never had an issue with signal or shifting.
Yes, they do, but the domestic US version of first class. Also, the 737s in the article were departing on a 6+ hour flight to Hawaii, so they're not only used for short haul flights. Lots of coast to coast flights of 5ish hours are also on single aisle planes.
That's a 4.47% decline year-over-year. Stock -15% YOY vs -5% for the SP500.

Unless they pivot soon, they're in deep trouble, with a declining user base (particularly young people) and a consistent loss in ad revenues. One big problem Meta has is they went "all in" on a VR bet, that isn't working.
You're right, but they're all typically fractions of the revenue figure, so really very easy to price out. They may not be worth it for some businesses, but my point isn't about price, it's about the complexity in figuring out that price.
Posted our app here for technical feedback mainly, but appreciate you looked through our ToS. Will go over this part with our lawyer.
GP said "approaching empty", meaning it should be empty in the long term. It's not a slippery slope.
The client is atrocious.

Work your computer from sleep? Server offline!

Moon in the wrong phase? Server offline!

This isn't remote. This is the client and server on the same network.

Worse, the client never seems to retry on its own, and stays offline almost indefinitely. I've ended up with multiple sync conflicts because of this.

Even worse, there's no easily accessible button that says "try now." Pausing and resuming sync doesn't work.

On Windows it's the only software I update semi-regularly that insists on rebooting the whole computer, and yes, that includes other software that integrates into File Explorer.

I've also developed a strong dislike of their weird, "pretty", application-window-in-a-drop-down-menu interface. Just have a simple interface that respects the conventions of the host OS's UI, please...
It isn't relevant. There isn't any evidence that the human language faculty is a statistical process at its core, in fact there is evidence that it isn't. Vision, etc are different processes but in any case you have to show evidence of biology using a statistical process not simply postulate it.

There is lots of talk like "these statistical models could yield information about how the mind or some other system works" but they never do. In fact no one even tries. People don't really care about doing science but because science is high prestige they want to make sure to be classified in that way.
Every time I see these pay-for-verification schemes I can't help but think of Dr. Seuss and the Star-Bellied Sneetches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohyMXB4FLo

I must not be the target audience for this because I can't see how paying nearly as much as Amazon Prime is worth it so I can get comment priority and a little star next to my FB account, which is friends-only anyway. If they threw something useful in, like a music or video streaming service with a decent catalog or airline miles or a discount at Target, then maybe.
>> I think what the author is pointing at (with the wrong end of the stick, admittedly) is that there is nothing magical about human personhood.

If so, then the author is absolutely, terribly wrong. The human personality, how it develops, why it develops, the mechanisms by which it operates- those are some of the greatest unsolved mysteries, some of the most interesting questions in science. The nature of the world, perhaps, comes first, in the list of scientific questions; then, the nature of ourselves, of humanity.

If the authors is saying that there is nothing special about being a person, that's because they, like the rest of us, all, do not understand what it means to be a person.

You know, despite being one, and everything.
Oops, I confused the title with the earlier book
As written in another thread, why don't you just tell people to leave you alone if that's what you want. Avoiding to be rude at all costs is a silly goal.
These are great platitudes, and as a fellow human I like the idea that only we can create "real" art, but I don't know how to justify that idea. I have no chip on my shoulder about art, it's not part of my identity at all. Computer programming is, though, and I fully expect it to affect my industry in the next decade.

The current fine art market is extremely unmeritorious so I agree that AI art will never make it to the Guggenheim. That isn't a good metric since the human curators will never allow it to happen. The metric will be the industry. Will ai start composing scores for movies? Promotional posters? Art that's sold outside of expensive curated galleries (etsy, ect)?

It's possible that humans will keep their stranglehold on these and I hope that's the case... But I wouldn't bet on it.
Personally I felt more engaged with the story due to its narrative style.

A lot of the corporate responses wouldn't have as much impact if they were stated more neutrally like "These 3 stock manufacturers declined to comment", or just providing their nonanswers sequentially.

The author's bio also describes him as "chef, author and host of the YouTube cooking show Don’t Panic Pantry", so I think the style is more appropriate here than it would be written by a professional journalist on a more strictly "news" site.
Tesla has the highest profit margin in the car business. They didn’t get there by putting in layered safety systems. That kind of redundancy wouldn’t be optimal for profit generation.
No, again it's missing the point: None of this explains how the human language faculty works.
> In short, the people who "purchased" these cameras do not own them.

They do own the camera. They just don't own the cloud service that makes the camera useful. Or even operable.

Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's story Unauthorized Bread.
"The situation with Python on Debian has been pretty bad IMHO"

The situation with anything has been pretty bad in Debian lately.

I'm all for the minimalistic approach in regards to Python. It's Ok to provide only the packages needed by applications and the core system. For everything else, there's pip.

EDIT:
I've meant to say, there's pip inside a venv.