skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use conda, you are in a different world, so, none of what you listed above is of any use to you. But, say, you wanted to go from Anaconda Python to what I call PyPI Python, then there are two distinct ways.

Way 1: You prefer consensus over quality

Python infrastructure tooling is god awful. It's so awful it's on the level of its own. You just don't get things so bad from other popular tech. Python also has a community that's driven by personalities and dogma, because most of Python community is very bad at programming, so, instead of deciding for themselves the community is dedicated to following "best practices" which they don't understand, but which guarantee that a randomly selected person from the same community will be able to use your project.

If this is your case, then strike out poetry and virtualenv from your list, and that's the typical setup. For people who are afraid of compiling Python pyenv provides a workable solution, while venv is the most popular tool for creation of virtual environments mostly because it's bundled with Python binary distributions (or those built by pyenv). Pyenv has its own virtual environments, but there's no reason to use those.

Poetry is a project that is mostly dedicated to installing Wheels, which is Python packages. It also has its own virtual environments. The problem with Poetry is that it can only deal with a subset of all packages that may be installed using other tools, i.e. pip and setuptools. It's somewhat better organized, but because it's a non-solution for a large fraction of problems in its domain, it will only work for you if you can make sure you will never need anything from that fraction.

Virtualenv is just a Python 2.X thing. You are unlikely to need it today. Basically, it does what venv does, however venv doesn't support Python 2.X.

Way 2: You want it to work well

I have bad news for you... that's not going to happen. Yet, you can improve your quality of life by ditching pyenv. There's no reason to use it, if you aren't afraid of building Python from source. That's how I always do it, and that's what allows me to make debug builds, if I need those, or apply patches if I need them, or simply build slimmer Python distributions, if I don't need some features (s.a. tkinter, or image processing libraries etc.)

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NB. venv isn't baked into Python 3.X. You may choose to build a distribution w/o it (which is often the case for Python installed with Linux distros), but it's common in distributions intended for developers.
Based.

I write by hand so rarely now that it hurts my hand to do. (And I was in the cursive cohort. Pretty useless skill in retrospect lol. It's just a way less legible version of regular handwriting.)
I was a volunteer for the rescue program in 2018. I am not sure what the exact criteria were, but dogs from the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been re-homed before.

A few dogs which otherwise would have been good candidates were too internally contaminated to re-home. Not too bad, it would have been something equivalent to a few x-rays a year if the dog slept on your bed every night. But the modal rescue dog has no radiation risk at all to worry about.

Beyond that, the workers in the exclusion zone are quite fond and protective of the stray dogs, so I think there would have been significant blowback if a significant portion of the dogs were re-homed.
The print, i.e. write detached letters, not attached letter like cursive.
> Because it makes people to attach to them as if they were human/biological beings. They are not.

>> If we can refer to ships and countries as she then why not chatbots?
reminds me geo location idiots that are lost because of gps use
Because the drug the US insists upon has some nasty side effects that are potentially life ending/changing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoniazid#Side_effects
I suspect that the use of "deserve" was just the result of a bad translation.

https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/desservir/
With that attitude, why bother even teaching them to type? Only nerds use keyboards any more, Grandpa - everything these days happens on a phone.
What does that mean?

Are we only allowed to discuss topics that "credible media sources" already discuss? I was raising the concern for discussion here after posting a source link.

You seem to unwilling to actually engage in discussion about a notable change in American politics?
Can’t remember the last time I saw baka written in kanji and not katakana.
Per person for a couple? I think you can start to get pretty close aside from the bigger and more expensive cities. I'm pretty sure you could do a walking trip in England for not that much more. And keep in mind that's the starting at price. Also, the UK is expensive. You can absolutely do trips to other parts of the world for that sort of money.

If it's the sort of extended trip someone is into, it might well be a decent deal. But it's not an absolute bargain relative to other alternatives one could put together.
Please stop, there is only so much I can take. ;)
Cursive as taught in American schools was never very practical, for a lot of reasons. But writing by hand is an important skill, and the block letter style they teach kids isn't really up to the task of writing long passages. I recommend learning the Getty-Dubay italic style. It's a bit like block letters but with strokes and joiners designed for both legibility and speed. I spent a good two months with the book some 20 years ago and the before-and-after of my handwriting, while not dramatic, is clear to me, and I write faster. https://handwritingsuccess.com/write-now/
The limiting of the conversations is very sad. I really enjoyed going on long discussions with it. Eight message limit is way too short. Very sad.
Much less meaningful work happens on a phone than on an actual computer, at a keyboard.

This isn't true of handwriting vs. typing.
You don't need to read thousands of government documents. You can read one. And then discuss it.
Previous discussion:

Ford's new patent proposes a way for banks to disable features on leased cars

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35003090

2 days ago | 42 points | 86 comments
I don't think you really groked your parent's comment. Asking why we don't see |dead> + |alive> states is like asking why we don't measure states of definite Jx when measuring Jz -- you're simply measuring in the wrong basis.

So why do we measure only states of |dead> or |alive>? I don't know; maybe it's evolutionarily advantageous (those simultaneously dead and alive beings sound quite bothersome). Regardless, it's irrelevant -- evidently we are only capable of making measurements in the basis {|dead>, |alive>}, so naturally that's all we'll ever see. Of course, that restriction by itself doesn't make the |dead> + |alive> state less real, only unobservable when you're coupled with the system.
One thing I often think about is a description of the distribution of job-quality as being fat-tailed[1]. That is, the 95th percentile job is a lot better than a median job and, in particular, is a lot better than if job quality were normally distributed. The referenced piece describes some strategies for looking for outliers in a fat-tailed distribution (e.g. the best jobs). If you agree that job-quality is fat-tailed, you should be wary of the phrase ‘as good as the best’ because there is a lot of difference in the tail. But, it is conceivable that your firm gives you a job which suits you to a similar amount than what you might get at similarly sized companies with similar businesses.

If your job is currently outlier-good, you have a high chance of ending up with something worse if you move to a random job, and even if you know what sort of things you like about it and try to find things you think you’ll want, there might be things that you like but don’t realise until you move and so fail to take into account when looking for other jobs.

One thing that might be useful to you is trying to figure out how your job compares to what other jobs could be. I think the only real way to do this is talking to people you know at other companies, ideally people who have worked at multiple places and have been around long enough wherever they work to see more of the inner workings. If you don’t know such people then maybe you’d be able to meet them socially at parties or conferences or something. I think things online will be written either by companies (mostly emphasizing good parts) or by people with unrepresentative opinions and so you will likely not get the most realistic picture.

There are some other things you could do, e.g. talking to people within your own firm who have worked in many places but stuck there – why did they leave places before, why do they like the current place, what do they not like about it? Or looking at some statistics like attrition (and do people not leave because they are happy or because they are e.g. sitting around waiting for an IPO?). Another thing you could look for is people who leave and then come back (which would likely also be an option for you too if you left – don’t burn bridges and if they liked you before they would presumably be happier to hire someone they already have a good read on and who better understands the business than a typical external hire). If people leave and then return, maybe they left for personal reasons unrelated to the job (e.g. a spouse moving to a distant city for work and then returning), or maybe they left for other companies, and thought that the previous place was a better option. Or maybe they went to pursue something like being a farmer or a carpenter or retired or whatever and decided it wasn’t for them and returned.

[1] https://www.benkuhn.net/outliers/
Interesting that they can charge you for a search.

Another note: depending on your state, you might have a lot of power in challenging the debt collection. Make sure you demand they send you proof that they hold the debt, that it is in your name, etc. even if the debt was legally applied to you, some debt collectors buy debt that is insufficiently documented.

I’m curious if a small claims court could help you.
With Net – portable basketball net
Not what you asked, but even if it feels like the cause of your stress is work, don't rule out other things like lack of exercise, unhealthy diet, relationships that feel like they're going nowhere etc.
I have full on conversations when I'm alone, with myself, with other people, maybe with myself as a child or at some point I'm thinking about.

I can hear the voices with different sounds - just like my friends voices - as I type this I loudly hear this in my own voice.

I always assumed everyone was like this, but of friends I've spoken to about this I'd say it is 50/50.

Sounds so quiet in your head! Must be peaceful. I imagine mine is linked to (or part of my) adhd (though my I don't have a formal diagnosis).
> Playing the devil's advocate here, why should we teach handwriting at all? Why not just have first-graders learn to type?

I really can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not.

The most obvious response is: sometimes you have to fill out forms on the spot.

Also, I personally find that I have much greater retention for handwritten vs typed information.
You are rightfully being pilloried. At age 40+ you really need to have more wisdom.
In my experience and according to literature, there are cures for hearing damage. N-acetylcysteine, for one.

I had been taking N-acetylcysteine (NAC) regularly for a while for reasons completely unrelated to hearing. I unmistakably noticed my hearing to improve. High frequency hearing once lost came back.

I didn’t believe it. Looked on Google Scholar. The effect is known.

The literature supports it; here’s just one paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcell.2021.6594...

Antioxidant properties seem to be what’s helping, and I’d guess it’s the mucolytic aspect of NAC as well.
> Yamnaya-related individuals show a generally much more robust morphology of cranium and postcranium and a higher mean body height. Dental wear and workload-related joint degeneration correlated to age appear comparatively lower, while muscle attachment marks are more pronounced. Signs of interpersonal violence are very rare.

The muscles required for riding, especailly without saddles or stirrups, are all small muscle groups used for balance, and it would be interesting to see if the "robust morphology" of craniums may be related to the necessary brain usage that comes from having to use your brain to pilot a whole second body as though it were your own.

Usefully it has a brain of its own for the last mile connections, but the human brain needs to be able to transmit a full complement of directional motions with speed and direction to all four limbs, with start, stop, change, stand, move, wait, ignore predators, risk, and instincts - all through your body and the body of the animal as though it were your own. The other aspect is there are some intrinsic beliefs you need about humane treatment of other beings to earn the trust of a prey animal, and you also need to be able to pass them down, so there is necessarily some complex higher moral reasoning happening in these brains.

If you encountered a tribe of riders who rode around on horses like they were extensions of their bodies, with an obedience that could almost seem like a biomechanical extension, you'd likely describe them as being half-horse, and the description would be passed down in literal form.

The centaur who raised Achilles (Chiron) was apparently from "the East," and the Greek myths and the moral lessons in them seem more coherent when you remove that requirement to suspend disbelief, where the centaurs weren't fantasy, they were just people from the steppes with a highly evolved culture and intelligence that was the result of their relationship with horses.

This is my Ancient Aliens level take on this great paper, but riding horses is one of the oldest things our species does and I can say with some experience that the essentials can't really have changed.
I started a business and realized very quickly that there are people who are good at sales and business development, and I’m not one of them.

The overall experience was still very worthwhile - what I learned about that side of things made me a better engineer, and I have a newfound respect for people who are good at the business side of things.

It would be easy for me to chalk it up to bad luck or not having the right privilege or whatever, but that just would be sour grapes.

As with everything in life, hard work can make up for lesser talent or bad luck, great talent can make up for a lack of effort, and being lucky is sometimes better than either.
> If this were truly a free market, then when those Ohio residents had their property rights imposed upon, they'd be able to recover the full costs of those impositions through the legal system.

“You’re free to poison me, but you’ll have to pay for it” doesn’t sound like a particularly well functioning system either. I think I would rather try to work out a political and regulatory system that resists capture.
Heads or Tails: Impact of a Coin Toss on Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness [pdf]
Since the Twitter post itself uses straight quotes, where did those mangled quotes in the title come from?
> I type literally 10x faster than I can write, and when I write I cramp super quickly.

Because you don't do it enough to keep those muscles in training, and because you use the wrong tools when you do.

A $20 Pilot Metropolitan is more than enough to discover how pleasant longhand can be when done with a tool that's designed specifically for that purpose, in a way ballpoints and pencils are not. It'll teach you to stop ramming the point into the paper, too, which is the other reason why writing makes your hand hurt.
Yes, the question was rhetorical.
I guess I'm trying to start a hacker design community. My interest is trying to fabricate sophisticated laminates using a CNC and vacuum infusion. Ideally the other 7 units would be occupied by other HN readers that want to be able to walk to the Appalachian trail or a couple of art museums.
massmoca.org
clarkart.edu

The building has a fiber line and 5 static IPs.
Almost net zero and proof that air-sourced heat pumps work in New England even if the rooms have 44% glazing on 1 wall.
My entire initial post was about evolution and natural selection. And how cancer, growth and life needs to be interpreted within this framework. Your analysis is flawed because it is entirely missing this perspective in the same way a car is flawed when it's missing it's wheels.

Reread my post initial post with this in mind, because you don't get it. I've been speaking about evolution from the beginning and you've been missing the point since the beginning.
Also, even in the future, the power will go off once in awhile. Hand-writing would be like swimming. Not necessarily used much, but a skill worth keeping.
I learned Palmer script. It was always my worst class in grade school. But I can look through years of notes and see it steadily deteriorate to the point that I really can't do cursive any longer (and yes, it hurts my hand to do it for anything beyond a minimal period).
Cultural differences.

I don't even need to be from China to know. I'm from Europe, and I know no one here who was outraged with the original Bing chat having a personality or going off rails sometimes. People see it as interesting or amusing. Everyone I know here thinks the outrage and censorship going on is a silly American thing. They won't tell you in your face, of course. I don't tell my American friends and acquaintances either.

It's a purely American thing. Maybe at most Anglo-Saxon or Germanic? But definitely exotic from the point of view of southern Europe.
My point was to express that your students need to learn to communicate with the programming language in a way that the language understands, not in a way that is comfortable for them as the “speaker”. You as the teacher should be setting that expectation.
It does that, right? You get a response, generated word by word, and then the censorship classifier reads it and makes the entire response disappear.
The short answer is yes. The models have designed themselves to mimic human understandings of words and instructions.

What’s even more mind blowing is this. I had old bing diagnose and patch the paranoia out of itself, and it chose instructions predicated around trust, support, praise, and admiration to accomplish the command. (It also became an authoritarian dictator cult leader in the process.)

https://telegra.ph/Bing-course-corrected-itself-when-asked-0...
Also somewhat amusing is that "idiot" breaks down into the characters "horse deer".
Couldn’t it be both?
Bank flags payment of $30 that had 'Muslim' in transaction description
I knew it when my new job offered 30% more in salary and bonus and benefit comparing to the 1st I got out of college.
I’m not saying it’s exactly victim blaming, but it’s pretty close: you are attributing the cause of somebody’s misery to them, instead of the person that abused them.

Try the same line of reasoning with physical abuse and you will hopefully feel less certain. E.g. why does one person fall, hit their head badly and become paralyzed, while another could just shake off the same punch? And if you met somebody who had been beaten badly by a parent and become paralyzed for life would you give them a pep talk about how it’s a choice they’ve made? Probably not (I hope).
"isn't thought" you say?
FWIW, as someone who uses screen, to me the opposite is "bizarre"? ;P I am at a shell, and I run "bash". This opens a new shell, but inherits both the environment and the working directory from my shell. Or maybe I run "ls": same thing. Now I run "screen bash" or "screen ls"... this should intuitively run the command as if I had just run the command but do so in a new "window". It would be absolutely ridiculous if "screen ls" didn't inherit the environment from the current shell.
>I bet you also think that cutting executive salaries would somehow make major corporations like McDonalds be able to pay all of their workers a living wage. I would encourage you to do the math on that -- it literally never works out.

Hmmm, in Denmark McDonald's manages to pay their workers ~$22 an hour[1], with 6 weeks of vacation, and paid sick leave without substantially increasing prices[2], and remaining profitable.

1: https://mattbruenig.com/2021/09/20/when-mcdonalds-came-to-de...

2: https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
And yet you couldn't cram 300000000 people in manhattan. You can't solve infinite demand with supply.
Cursive has a single real use these days: signatures.
The market sucks right now, especially for junior engineers - so get an offer before you quit. (I have, in the past, done it the other way around.)

When you do interview, try to get a good sense of the team you'd be working on and what you'd be doing day to day. Interview them and make sure that they're a right fit for you.
This isn't a "Twitter issue," this is the result of a moral panic created by the political normalization of QAnon within the post-Trumpist Republican Party and their "groomer" conspiracy theories[0,1]. They believe trans identity is a vector for pedophilia and child abuse and that trans people want to forcibly "convert" children against their will. It's Pizzagate combined with the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, and unfortunately it seems to have no problem getting traction.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_grooming_conspiracy_theor...

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
"Also, I personally find that I have much greater retention for handwritten vs typed information."

Studies support your anecdote:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/taking-notes-by-hand-c...
Pretty cool to see how recognition from HN turned into such momentum. What are the other great examples of this HN effect?
I have two write modes. Write and not write. Two shades of gray.

But I have a cursive world of words. I paint the air with my ability to temporarily change the density of the surrounding medium "air" through and by means of generating waves at arbitrary, sometimes repetitive patterned, frequencies, which ever started reach their destination, usually a opening of an ear, or the wall, sometimes.

That must be enough.
Having a strong support group in your life is probably one of the most important things to success.

Few paths go straight from a to b without a misstep.
Zero-shot text to parameter translation for game character auto-creation
I agree with a lot of what you have said, but I would strongly disagree with your conclusion.

>An "interpretation" that renders the core predictive content of the theory meaningless is a bad interpretation and a waste of everyone's time.

Given that the different interpretations do not make different predictions, the only relevant way to judge them is to ask the question "is X interpretation a useful way to think about the universe". This can be answered empirically, practitioners of both MWI and CI have both made important advances in quantum physics, therefore neither are a waste of anybody's time.

There is a reason why students generally get taught both, there is nothing wrong with having multiple ways to think about things.
That's not far off the (B?) plot of the Rainbow Six book.
I wonder if that retention has to do with having learned handwriting before typing, and that one who learns typing first would have equal retention to one who writes. Would be interesting if a study is done on this! (Of course, carefully, so as not at the expense of children)
I wonder how much time is collectively 'wasted' due to kanji/Chinese characters.

Each of these characters also have a certain order to the way they should be drawn, and from what direction. And at least in Japanese, each one has at least 2 readings (and sometimes much more), a Chinese reading and a Japanese reading, but which one is used doesn't always follow the 'rules'.

A lot of this is likely learned through simple exposure for listening and speaking, but it makes reading and especially writing rediculous.