skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interference with virtual environments makes this a non-starter.

The newbie (not to mention the data scientist) is always looking for a way to trash their Python environment.

Now they use

pip install

outside a venv or (worse)

pip install —user

which is truly a weapon of mass destruction. Both of these are globally harmful and Python is right to stop the insanity by making pip not work outside of a venv.

If Python lets the insanity comes back, a fresher will now trash their local environment and then flail around like a fish out of water because they forgot to make a venv before they start their Python.

What people don’t get is that the burden of using venv’s is finite, but the amount of trouble you get into for not using venv’s is infinite. Engineering managers are giving up on Python because they can’t successfully get code from developers into production and the main problem is the recalcitrance of the developers and refusal to follow good practices. It’s little understood that there is a small (literally a handful) of problems that make Python undeployable and make the gap from projects one person works on to ones that two persons work on look unbridgeable.

If the Python community accepted solutions to these problems instead of 90% non-solutions, Python would get a reputation for being easy to use from start to finish and not the abomination against software engineering that people perceive that it is.
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The individual pages for each of the rivers (or atleast the first three I tried) have the discharges with different seemingly more trustworthy sources, if anyone wants to edit the page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_River
The article is named after a 50 Cent album. I don't think its taking 10x very seriously.
If you'd like run classic BASIC programs on your old programmable calculator (HP 15-C) you can use this compiler written in Idris: https://gitlab.com/michaelzinn/voyc
I think a lot of it is also just a general amount of fear for (from the companys perspective) no benefit. There's a lot of fear that if the code is visible, you could be sued for its contents or it could be otherwise used against you in court, competitors could "steal" your effort, etc.

Plus there's just a lot of belief in the nonfree circles that the software freedom movement is just religious zealot hippies who think software should never be paid for and that microsoft programmers should work for free and starve, and that anyone who does develop novel software should have it immediately ripped off and copied by competitors and make no money because capitalism is bad.

(I'm being a bit hyperbolic but not much.)
Unemployment in Indiana is max $390 a week and only lasts for a maximum of 26 weeks. At best it would extend our living 'runway' temporarily and I'd bring home more working a fast food job.
How to turn your estimates into reliable predictions
I rarely take any sort of medication other than my daily allergy tablet and usually a Mucinex during the allergy seasons. My exception is either BC Powder or Goody's for tension headaches and migraines. I'll have em once or twice a month, almost always after sleeping at a crooked angle due to my adjustable bed, and my solution is two packets of powder that usually eradicate the pain within 20 minutes.
But then your family rely on you for problems, so if anything happens to you, they potentially lose access to their passwords.

Self-hosting is great, for as long as you're around to provide support.
The term "abomination" is not useful at all in this conversation. It's 100% up to individual interpretation. To be fair, so is "natural". Many of the traditional things we do to food is hard to frame as natural.
For more information: https://www.githubstatus.com/
> The signal from GRB 221009A had been traveling for about 1.9 billion years before it reached Earth, making it among the closest-known “long” GRBs, whose initial, or prompt, emission lasts more than two seconds. Astronomers think these bursts represent the birth cries of black holes formed when the cores of massive stars collapse under their own weight.

Wild to have something a significant fraction of the observable universe away hit us so hard.

Im presuming there's a ton of directionality to these events, that they're extremely directed?
I think reaching peak optimization as an engineer is a mix of:

- Knowing or having control of the tools you use

- Knowing what problems are most important to revenue and which are the greatest risk

- Knowing the language well enough to plan ahead without much labor

When a company I worked at mandated an IDE it took me a while to be productive beyond typing speed. When I discovered my company had support for generators, I was no longer spending forever on boilerplate REST code. When I know my test harnesses well it's easier for me to prove functionality in a smaller feedback loop.
There must be a name for this phenomenon where someone sits in their academic study, spends time smartly and refinedly analyzing some aspects of social behavior, and among myriad possible theories they select the one where mankind, in general, is stupid, philistine, average...
Personally I've just not had that many problems with snaps. Just one, really, with Firefox. Firefox was crashing every-time I used the File API; removing the snap file cache fixed the problem. I don't have enough experience with Flatpak to compare.
It's definitely not for everyone. I'm on the fence, for example, I do like the utility based approach, but TW breaks a number of my common workflows. For example the feedback loop - I can't quickly add or change a few classes in devtools, since TW might not have compiled those yet. I can't also easily refer from the html code in devtools back to a component that rendered that without clutches (VueDevTools etc).
An RSS feed would be lovely, thanks.
>In May 2020, we became a remote-first company. Accordingly, we do not maintain a headquarters.

From the Coinbase S-1

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000162828021...
> Assange put information that embarrassed the US on the internet

You say embarrassed the US says stolen as in espionage. And the majority of americans support the sentiment against him,snowden,etc...

Try publishing shit china hates and find out. Sony made a movie that embarrased NK and had their corporate network nuked. Show me one person that did that and got away with it.

> just have; HK and China do not get nonresident noncitizens in my country imprisoned or killed; the US does.

Apples and oranges, if China had similar power and interests you have no reason to believe the same or likely worse won't happen to you. What you don't get is this whole topic is about preventing china from becoming such a threat to you. The US has your media and politicians by the the throat that's why things are the current way and you are seriously saying China is better somehow you will be treated better than their own people
You could pick the colors using Atmos but you'd probably need some easy tool for IDE preview. Maybe this could help? https://themes.vscode.one/
Breaking: the runners lagging behind in the AI race demand openAI to stop right on its tracks; this is very unsafe; it will be much safer once we catch up and openAI is on the rear view mirror.
> reading summaries of certain books

Careful with this. You have to trust that the summary is correct. Which, as it turns out, isn't as foolproof as one might hope for.

It turns out that a sizeable percentage of human reviewers and condensers of information just make stuff up. And if you're just consuming the summary of a work, how would you know?
The age of A/B testing
> What you are really saying is you want all software developers to publish Debian packages

That's exactly what I want. Developers and Linux distribution maintainers should be working more closely with one another instead of reinventing static linking with "snaps" or whatever just to avoid working with the community.
Yes, it happens with a fresh install, no addons, etc. I assume there's something else going on that's unique to me, but common to all of my machines. Maybe I'm running some oddball service that FF hates or something. I don't know.

I gave up on this problem a year or so ago, honestly, so I'm not fresh on the circumstances around it.
Repeated questions could put you at risk of cyber crime
Was this comment written by an LLM?
I signed up with no problem using a Canadian credit card
Man, that's a sexy sweater. I want that pattern!
Ask HN: Has YC fellowship been abandoned?
> It reminds me (not in a good way) of bootstrap classes circa 2011

Unlike Bootstrap Tailwind doesn't have hardcoded components and full on UI elements like "breadcrumb-item" or "modal-title". You want components? You build them yourself.

Tailwind is literally just utility classes with a few defaults for sizes and colors thrown in.

> unlike solutions that use CSS or object syles, which can be more readily swapped between frameworks, e.g. migrating from MUI to Emotion

You're confusing a CSS framework that actually is like Bootstrap (MUI) with a way of writing CSS (emotion).

You'll have significantly more troubles trying to move away from MUI with its rigid requirements for code structure and CSS (Typography variant="subtitle1" and Button variant="outlined" etc.) than moving away from Tailwind which is really just a collection of CSS classes that you may or may not use as you wish.
> there are a lot of things that make your life better at the expense of society has a whole

There's no better example of this than the discussion on health insurance here on HN a few days ago, where people with health insurance were opposing universal healthcare because they'd have to "compete with the general public for treatment access".

How do you fight it though? There's no incentive for anyone to willingly choose to have a worse personal situation for a greater good.
>Guess you have somewhere between 1/4 and 3/4 of a million USD, in some form.

Uh hardly. 2021 I worked 600 hours of overtime and didn't even break grossing 50k USD for the year. My take home pay for the last 15 years is probably around 300k USD, when I left 2 jobs ago for the job I was just laid off from I had a 49% increase in my income. Not everyone is making six figures. Median income in my state is just shy of 31k USD a year.

My wife as a high school educator was only making about 45k (with also about 15 years experience) until last year. She now makes more but she also has to drive 3x as far to get to work so it's almost a wash.
1. I bet Japanese in several prefectures of Japan outlive the general population of Japanese as well.

2. Populations with a lot of immigrants tend to have strange health and longevity statistics. See for example the Hispanic Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_paradox
I would try providing it a schema as the first message, just for its internal memory and see if that works, but yeah, I usually ask it to write domain independent stuff and then adapt that.
I assume the review references are false as claimed, but I'm not sure I'd rely on that outdated GPT-2 detector to prove their origin. More recent AI detectors aren't reliable on large chunks of prose; they're likely to be even less so on small chunks of text with very strict formatting requirements.
feels like a GPT written comment
It was mentioned briefly at the end of the article, but I think Free Pascal and Lazarus are the closest in spirit to what Visual Basic classic was.

It’s the best drag and drop interface builder I’ve seen in an open source project and it’s cross platform and compiled to static binaries for easy distribution.
In fairness, I think the allure of an app is to act as a forcing function for actually reading the content before it disappears.
If you don’t name it then it’s sensitive to DOM changes which can look completely inert in the file in which they occur.

Have you actually used Tailwind for a week or more?
There is no "job of a tweener" in computer animation. Geometry transformations are interpolated and always have been.

Where are you getting this idea?
I'm always wary of articles like this. The feeling of things becoming mediocre strongly resonates with me, but I am aware that there could be a great many different biases at play.

When I was younger, entertainment media felt magical. The complexity and depth of experiences I could get from even a second-rate story was immense. I remember staying up late at night to process the last movie I watched, or feeling that rich combination of sadness and inspiration from finishing a long book.

I barely consume media nowadays, because every book, movie, TV show, video game and song fails to give me an interesting or meaningful experience. They all feel like grey slop - and after a few minutes, I start to fantasize about vacuuming my apartment, because even that seems like an adventure in comparison.

The question is, why do I feel this way? Is it because the modern entertainment industry truly has become stale, or is it because I've lived long enough to see the simple patterns underlying most of our desires and fantasies?
Given the "success" of AI to date, encouraging the CCP to invest in AI research may be a decent strategy while the US tries to rebuild its manufacturing base.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ponzi%20scheme

Here's the common definition of a Ponzi scheme. While people can debate whether any specific coin or nft built on etherium is a Ponzi scheme, it'd be hard to argue that there aren't plenty of examples.

Etherium makes it easy to spin up a new "coin" or token, the article is a prime example.
doesn't `Runtime.addShutdownHook` have a synchronisation point. like all writes need to have occurred before `ApplicationShutdownHooks.add` has been called so there is no publish problem.

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/2fa09333ef0ac2dc1e44292f8d45d4571cb22cca/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Runtime.java#L69
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/2fa09333ef0ac2dc1e44292f8d45d4571cb22cca/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ApplicationShutdownHooks.java#L65

maybe I'm missing something that is java specific with the way constructors work. I'm guessing even without the synchronisation point java lets you share objects in a way that would normally be considered unsafe as long as all the fields are final.
Curious about sources for this. I see some indication that botulism toxin can be destroyed by cooking, though the bar is pretty high - needs to be boiled over 5 minutes. So lesser temperature methods such as grilling the meat may not be sufficient, but something like stewing over many hours seems like would work fine.
Yes...

That is why many rational people do not support this idea of unlimited democracy. The founders of he US knew very well the perils of unlimited democracy and that is why they not only attempted to check government power, but check the power of the majority

I dont want to be ruled by either a government in washington, nor a majority of my neighbors
Exactly. Canonical's Snap Store service is closed source and the Snap client is designed to only interface with Canonical's proprietary service. It's not "disinformation" to point out that Snap is a locked-down product controlled by Canonical, while most other packaging solutions for Linux are fully free and open source on both the client and server side. Canonical's one-sided approach to interacting with the Linux community will only encourage Linux users to reject Ubuntu and adopt distros with more sensible defaults.
Coming soon! Thanks for the nudge.
Musk just mad that he got rejected by OpenAI.
Really any US military outfit. I was airborne infantry in the US ARMY and this was our mantra when learning anything new.
You’re right, I could use a more related example there.
> Unless you're statically linking against distro policy they have dependencies on the particular version of the distribution they are built for.

The irony here is that we’re discussing flatpak/snap, which take the idea of static linking to the absolute extreme by doing something closer to a container where every dependency is part of the package. Maybe static linking being “against distro policy” is tossing the baby with the bath water by causing maintainers to reach to a much worse packaging method (snap) because the distro policy is just too obnoxious.

There’s no good reason you couldn’t just statically link (or relocatably copy) your dependencies into your .deb except the distro maintainers being purists. It would make the process of building a deb (or RPM or whatever) trivial because you’re using it as a dumb archive format for your build artifacts, similar to how a container works.
I’ve gotta say without unambiguous and long term unencumbered licensing, preferably with open source attached, I can’t foresee recommending any place I’ve got influence at to even look at it yet. Hopefully you can push them in a direction that is plausibly usable by anyone other than hobbyists. Even as a local dev tool it leaves too many holes open in the licensing and distribution model. Letting a team build a process and workflow around a time bomb would be negligence. It’s sad to characterize this as such, but we’ve all been burned too many times by globo mega corp whims.
Biden’s science adviser on the US push to compete with China
https://archive.ph/HfAJT
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I think the point is that there would be fees to ensure that they always have an extra $0.08 on hand for every $1 you put in.

Not sure what that would look like. Maybe a fee on every deposit?
But we can have a native, standard library for CSS. No need for Tailwind if this is the problem to solve.
Eliminate the waste in your 'to read' pile by populating it the same way he suggests selecting from it - pluck a few choice items here and there from the river that is the British Library.
What Does ChatGPT Know About Science?
> I am tired of hacker news for always having these shallow “smarter than you” sage comments that completely miss the point. It’s just like the article pointed out. At scale here everyone’s comment is “no you’re wrong because [some mundane detail observation that misses the point].”

Nitpicking mundane (and unimportant) details is HN Commentary In a Nutshell. I totally expected these comments and did not come away disappointed. We make an art out of missing the forest for the trees here!

It sucks, too, because the article makes a great point with numerous examples, but all we have here are comments like "Well, ackshually, in paragraph 5 sentence 3, the author says 'all' when he meant 'most' so the entire article is clearly wrong!" which completely miss the point.
This is convincing me that iOS users should enable Lockdown Mode, irrespective of whom they may be.
While it's a bit dull and boring, eventually when everyone sees what everyone else sees (as we do when we all have internet connected devices with cameras) then our styles and tastes will also be converging. Which will be the "winning" one will depend on context. In some cases it's going to be a boring convergence to an arbitrary or bland style, in others it's boing to be simply an adaptation of somethin that's objectively good. This isn't just about style, it's about everything. If something is objectively better (E.g. single faucet with hot/cold instead of the UK traditional double faucet) then the better one will take over. And that will happen once people realize there is an alternative to the status quo.
Who knew that the primary incentive being economic would lead to a convergence of human behaviours?

Every profit-motive champion raved about the variety produced by means of competition. Instead, the fear of failure from truly distinguishing oneself has driven competitive differences to the edge where it remains superficial and unimportant. Alpine white or cream white paint? Straight tube or spherical Edison bulbs? Nietzche or Camus on the toilet bookshelf?

In fairness, we can say that this incentive has normalized a lower bound of acceptable design in terms of function. Yes, it's bland, but it works.

But now what? The incentive needs to be transcended. The only way to do that actually is to be rich and/or crazy enough to deny the potential of economic failure. But who can afford to do that?

This hasn't changed. The Sistine chapel wasn't painted according to the whims of the peasantry.
Personally, I am growing comfortable with Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Performance is fine for emacs, I don't have to worry about device drivers, I can run any form of application, I can treat the windows hypervisor as a remote client or as a VM for isolation purposes, I can run multiple versions of Linux, even at the same time, and it isn't as clunky and slow as using a traditional VM like virtualbox.

The only thing that makes me jealous is when this post talks about quiet fans, and the battery benefits of Linux.

Edit: I forgot to add one more benefit I ran into recently. If you need one version of a library or or tool for one project, and another version for another project, you don't have to monkey around with path scripts and bashrc to replace versions on the fly, you can just have an ideal environment for each project.
Ugh, no. There are a lot of EVs, but they are much less practical for Europeans that for Americans, because they can charge them at home, and we usually can't. And car sharing in Europe (and probably other region too) is an extreme hassle - it is very expensive (unless you can make a super optimized multi stop same day route, basically a lot of trips same day), it is not widespread yet, and you can get hit with huge car damage fees many days/weeks after the trip, for pre-existing damage. And for travellers it is close to impossible due to drive permit restrictions.
https://archive.ph/lHDHQ
Not installing software by default doesn't seem that big of a deal to me.

I mean, first thing I do is install Emacs, which should, but doesn't, come pre-packaged with Linux. vim, sure. gedit, ok.
We could also just talk with China rather than kicking off a new arms race ?
I see, well, good luck with it!
In what area is Elon Musk an expert?
That's not so new, parmesan there is required to use calf rennet despite alternatives existing.
I remember watching a video a few years ago about a present day tribe (I believe in SE Asia) that went on a hunt and killed a monkey. Due to the heat by the time the hunting party was back the meat had spoiled but nobody in the village had any issue with diving in and eating it. I would think that up until very recent times in human development this was very common.
> Is it no longer possible to express opinions in the absence of conducting a research project?

What I'm reacting to is your inability to quantify your opinions. Specifically, 'disturbingly large percentages' and 'rather large percentages'.

> it's the cryptocurrency world that is presenting the new thing, so it's on them to prove that what they're offering is an adequate substitution for what we currently have.

"for what we currently have". See, that's the thing, we had newspapers and tv before we had the internet. The internet came along and gave us an entirely new medium. It took a while for people to get used to that. You're in that phase now.

While millions of other people are off experimenting with these new things (and effectively using as part of their daily lives). Nobody forced anyone to use the internet. People gravitated to it because they found value in it.

Just because you have come to the opinion that it has 'large percentages' of grift, doesn't make that opinion true.