skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is, if you want videos Youtube is most likely your only option. TikTok hosts only 5min snippets, it's better (or worse) at addiction explotation. Vimeo doesn't host videos you probably want. Nebula (and other subsrcibe services) are great but what if I want a conference talks?

To torture the analogy. This isn't sneaking in the free buffet. It's the option of only free buffet in casino offering stuff you aren't allergic to. But then forcing you to play some strip poker to get in. Sure you can pay to get in, but what guarantees I have they won't force gambling on paying customers or further deterioration of the free experience?
GCP Europe-West9 (Paris) Outage Preliminary Incident Report
> The expected speedup is around 100x, or 1000x for numerical stuff

What if you stay in the realm of numpy?

What's the biggest offender that you see?
stamets strikes me as a well-intentioned enthusiast who is more scientific than most. He did a ton of work on the actual techniques used today in a lot of commercial production and is a really interesting guy. It's also evident that he has sampled a little too much of his own more 'exotic' product.
>50% of my garage workshop is from bulk buys from hamfests and machine shop auctions

Is there a cure for this disease?
Completely agree, though in this case it makes at least some sense since the thickness gets doubled when you fold it.
From their FAQ: "How compatible is Mojo with Python really? Mojo already supports many core features of Python including async/await, error handling, variadics, etc, but… it is still very early and missing many features - so today it isn’t very compatible. Mojo doesn’t even support classes yet!".

Overall, pure Python seems to be about 100x slower than what you can reasonably get with a compiled language and some hard work. It's about 10x slower than what you can get from JITs like Pypy and Javascript, when such comparisons makes sense.

I agree that Mojo remind me of Cython, but with more marketing and less compatibility with Python. Cython aspired to be a nearly 99% superset of Python, at least that's exactly what I pushed my postdocs and graduate students to make it be back in 2009 (e.g., there were weeks of Robert Bradshaw and Craig Citro pushing each other to get closures to fully work). Mojo seems to be a similar modern idea for doing the same sort of thing. It could be great for the ecosystem; time will tell. Cython could still also improve a lot too -- there is a major new 3.0 release just around the corner!: https://pypi.org/project/Cython/#history
Are you talking about l’auberge espagnole[1]? This movie really promoted Erasmus in France at the time.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0283900/
No need to put words in my mouth -- yes, cured meats with nitrites are a pretty well-established human carcinogen. But it's not like other "processed food": we have specific causal mechanisms, and have been doing it for millennia.

Jury's still out on red meat; I was not "about to say" anything I didn't say.
Privacy or safety? U.S. brings 'surveillance city to the suburbs'
not sure I'd call it "delightful" in any way, but it certainly is weird.
I have one of the more basic UNI-T multimeters and can highly recommend it. It's always there when I need it (the single 9V battery keeps it going for years) and has great precision.

One thing that I don't have - and really want to have - is a variable power supply with constant voltage/current. They can be used when you have an unusual battery you need to charge safely, for instance. Unfortunately, they always seem inordinately expensive considering that all they are inside is a few coils and some ICs. I've looked into building one myself, and found the very informative EEVBlog series on it[1]. However, there's one thing I don't understand: how do you compensate for the voltage drop over your current measuring resistor? Is it a simple linear equation and you just boost the voltage accordingly? I'd love an explanation!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGjActDeoM
It's not clear to me that the new "loom" won't just operate itself completely.

That's the problem with comparing this to previous tech advances. Past advances made people much more efficient at some task, but it still required the people to work the new thing. But now we have a new thing that might be able to work itself.
What is up with the entitlement?

I mean I don’t like shorts either and I don’t like how YouTube is “shoving” them as you say, but how are you under the impression that just because you pay fifteen bucks a month you get full control over how the homepage looks? Your logic applies to every single pixel on their website.

Shorts are a feature of YouTube. You don’t have to use it or look at it, and it only shows up on the homepage or when you’re looking at other shorts. It’s really not unreasonable.

If you want to pay and not get shorts but still get good content just subscribe to nebula, it’s also fantastic value, just as YouTube is.
I don't like ads and I don't mind paying. What I don't like is paying for an ad-free experience and my data continuing to get mined. I consider companies entitled if they demand to have both my data and my money
Seen NetApp's boot messages, it's FreeBSD under the hood
If you spend hours, it's so worth it. Youtube is a whole different experience without the constant ads.

Source: Been subscribed for years and I watch hours a day on _average_. In fact I might be addicted to YouTube, but that's a different story.
I dislike meta posts generally, but I'll give it a go so maybe you learn.

> Now I'm getting downvoted again. Oh hn, you crack me up.

Because you were whining about down votes.

Generally, when I see someone whining about voting, I'll vote down without a second thought, regardless of the content of the post. Why?

From the guidelines: "Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

I know a good number of other people react this way as well.

Instead of whining about getting voted up or down, instead, use this as an opportunity to improve your messaging.

> I'll happily take the negative karma, cause I know it brings some awareness.

Up-voted comments bring more awareness. If you truly cared about bringing awareness to something, you'd want to communicate effectively, and effective communication is critical in our field.

Anyways, I generally hate meta comments like this one, but hopefully you have a better understanding of why people are most likely down voting this comment.
Beautiful. In another life long ago, I was a radio repairman at a truck stop. My bench did not look like that.
I believe they don't have registry or independent mirrors. Which CLI tool isn't that important.
I, too, have been using this delightful editor since the early 1990's -- once known as TextWrangler. Still going strong!

Their mission statement is spot on:
We don’t have investors to impress, so we don’t need a “mission statement.”
We enjoy writing and shipping great products
that address the needs of ourselves and our customers.
Everyone in a team might know who the underperformers are. But team members and EM are kept out of layoff-related decisions, which are generally done by upper management with the help of external consultants. Those external consultants are about as good as a random number generator.
I've also got remarkably good results pushing regular expressions to the max to perform "NER", while other more fancy (ML) solutions failed. So don't rule them out.
Parents Don’t Understand How Far Behind Their Kids Are in School
If you don't mind me asking, what were the signs you were addicted to something vs. dependent on something? I understand both are not mutually exclusive like in alcohol, for example.

While I have been addicted to tobacco, I fail to see how a people who are addicted to tobacco/nicotine are different than me (a stimulant is a stimulant). Is the difference sheerly due to the harm tobacco causes?

I do not feel like if I lost access to medication I would go and start pawning off stolen car radios to get my fix, but I feel like I would absolutely "hot-swap" to something else like caffeine (it's what I used prior to medication).

I do not think I abuse the medication or anything -- no all nighters, no running out before my next prescription, etc.. I try to take one day a week off them, but that one day is sometimes uncomfortable.

I would say my relationship to the medication is very "Flowers for Algernon" in a sense. I've almost lost access to medication due to all kinds of non-behavioral reasons like prescription issues, medication shortages, etc.. That always sends me into a spiral of anxiety and stress, but mainly because I feel like my life will fall apart quite quickly without the medication.

However, at the same time, I wonder if I am being delusional because it's not like the medication makes me some kind of FAANG developer or anything. I'm still just your lowly below-average developer working at an undervalued and dead-end job for my local government. It's about as easy as it gets in terms of jobs, and I feel like I can barely keep my head above water.
Exactly!

And, there are no burn marks on that desk or the mat, the trash bin is empty instead of full of Jolt or Rockstar cans, and those cables? Not a single knot.

The bins are labeled and the label matching items in the bins.

Those stacked containers on the right middle shelf? Never would be put back in that fashion after labeling them.

Look at the cute scre driver organizer on the bottom wall-shelf, right side! They are in order! How?!

Those drawer bins on the middle wall shelf? It will fall on your face dumping all, specially with the sharp and pointy parts looking for soft spots in your eyes.

I am calling shenanigans!

(Seriously - Good job on the write-up!)
> So the question is: what are the gig work companies supposed to do about this?

The article isn't asking this question, it's posing answers to another question: "What should society do about gig work companies?" The solutions proposed in this article are:

"Respondents strongly felt the creation of co-determination mechanisms would allow workers, and their representatives, to influence platform provider decisions which could instantly improve their working lives.

"These policies include elected bodies of worker representatives approving all major platform changes that impact jobs and working conditions. Our findings emphasise the potential for trade union growth in this sector, with majorities being willing to join and even organise such bodies."

> If gig work is so undesirable (because it ostensibly pays less than minimum wage), why are there so many vacancies at restaurants (which do pay minimum wage) but none in gig work?

Good question.
> There are times when "the form" is there for a reason; if you want something re-written in a specific form, GPT-4 can do a good job. I wrote an email recommending something to somebody's managers in a different company in a different country; then I pasted it into GPT-4 and asked if it had any suggestions. It did a fair amount of rewording, of which I decided to take about half. In this case, the "polite form" is there to avoid offense, and it's exactly what I wanted.

FWIW, this use case of writing a core message, then using an LLM to polish it into, as you put it, the polite form, is what I had in mind with Nicer.email, a Gmail extension that lets you do exactly what you described with one click, rather than copying/pasting/writing prompts. Trying to optimize the common case! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/niceremail-easiest...
I think you are underappreciating the placebo effect here. It is very strong, and it's likely one reason for the proliferation of "X solved my Y" anecdotes.

It may well have -- but through the placebo effect, making it useless for others.
Finland? Brasil? Both are further up the list, per-capita.

This is a meme that won't die, that America is somehow the worst. The data doesn't support that.

It's probably because America gets in the news more often. Has more news organizations per-capita?
Cython works and is widely used. Problem is that there aren't too many people working on it (from what I can tell), so the language has some very rough edges. It seems like it has mostly filled the niche of "making good wrappers of C, C++, and Fortran libraries".

Cython has always been advertised as a potential alternative to writing straight Python, and there are probably a decent number of people who do this. I work in computational science and don't personally know anyone that does. I use it myself, but it's usually a big lift because of the rough edges of the language and the sparse and low quality documentation.

If Cython had 10x as many people working on it, it could be turned into something significantly more useful. I imagine there's a smarter way of approaching the problem these days rather than compiling to C. I hope the Mojo guys pull off "modern and actually good Cython"!
The thing about JS is that it was always terrible 5-10 years ago, and is always "actually good now".

[EDIT] Though I actually agree that it's nearly-tolerable now that we have TypeScript and async/await to force what always should have been the default behavior.
Yeah, I caught that as well. With no data transparency - comparison to previous years not aggregated - it's impossible to properly evaluate.

Sadly, Typical click-bait-y driven journalism. Most people will default assume (the headline is truthable) and fail to see the flaws under it.
Software isn't static nor does it exist on it's own. You're not paying for the current version. You're paying for support, security patches, and for the next versions to be written. In the case of software services, you're also paying for administration, active network security, networking, and hardware operations.

Software is a lot like art or literature. The creator needs to be able to live in order to continue creating. Otherwise updates, new versions, and new creations become highly irregular or utterly non-existent.

Profit extracted from companies over the cost of business exist because that is how all businesses function. Profit is literally the point of capitalism. Investment in companies would not happen without the promise of a return. Even the smallest of businesses would not be possible without profit.

For a non-tech example, eggs don't cost $3.99 per dozen to produce. Eggs are expensive because of an extremely high profit margin. Is it justified? Price gouging? Currently there is no hard rule that differentiates the two.

Whether or not there should be a profit percentage cap is an entirely different conversation and not unique to tech. Personally, I think there should be a maximum amount of profit expressed as a percentage of unit cost that should be legal. Further, I think that an equal percentage of the unit cost should always be applied to wage increases equally across the company for non-management roles. Management should be paid out of the extracted profit percentage.
It depends. I work at a tech company as an engineer and insurance eats about $1K/month. My employer contributes only about $400 to the plan.The total plan cost is $1.4K. Keep in mind, while I pay this just for insurance, I am waiting to get a $3,000 dollar bill from the hospital (still!) for when my daughter had to go to the ER in December.
It's really not that complicated. all vascular plants have basically the same

node -- axially meristem -- internode -- node

pattern to growth. All plants are actually fractals but it's not a long the leaf dimension, it's along the stem axis.

It's also why it's so easy to effectively take cuttings and get a an 'fully mature' plant from them (eventually). Every node--etc.. section is the same pattern as every other. It's largely due to the exogenous origin of branching.
> Titles are by necessity summary in nature

Ok, that's why I made arguments against the body of the text. Did you read my initial post? I'm sure you must've, which makes it so strange you'd come attack this argument while pretending that the other ones don't exist

> It's eminently possible to interpret the arguments differently.

It's really not. The whole thing is a series of strawmans aiming to justify degrading user experience to avoid developer "complexity", but then that developer complexity is grossly overstated, as if from someone who has never dipped their toe in it decided that each complaint they had heard about it was spoken by God himself.

Indeed, my whole first comment is thoroughly discarding each of these strawmans before I grew frustrated by the fact that the author and the thread were both reciting this 2015-era anti-JS dogma.

I suggest you go try to make counterarguments to those points instead of my exasperated reply to someone adding nothing to the convo.

HTH!
Both Cuis and Squeak (from which both Pharo and Cuis were forked) are still actively developed. Pharo does have the largest presence in the two major Smalltalk conferences (FAST in Argentina and ESUG in Europe) but there is no need to worry if one of the other options is more aligned with your needs.
Some points to be made:

- there is both up and down voting

- you cannot down vote a direct reply

- there are not moderators, just one (dang), who is very hands off.

- most moderation is done by the community

- certain topics and opinions are regularly up or down voted

- your comments can swing from down to up over time

The system is working as intended, HN still maintains itself quite well using it

If you want a more specific answer to your comment, link it here

Another way to think about this is that the HN community does not reward bad or low quality comments, even if they spur a good debate. There is almost always a better way to say the same thing and create a good debate.
Huh? I thought very recently that link was established as being real?
I like tinkering with interpreters, and I do it a lot, but this is chump change compared to even a baseline compiler, especially one that makes use of type profiles. There is a pretty big investment in introducing a compiler tier, but I'm not convinced that it's less engineering effort than squeezing more out of an interpreter that fundamentally has dispatch and dynamic typing overhead. There aren't that many bytecode kinds in CPython, so it seems worth doing.
Wish we had something simple like jQuery
When I was teaching math and comp sci, I used broccoli in an example to explain self-similarity: imagine you're playing with your Barbies or GI Joes and you want to make their dinner plates look like they have real food on them. You can break off a much smaller piece of broccoli and it will look "to scale" on the plate. Try that with a banana!

That was to explain the concept of self-similarity, something we CAN see in fractals.

Note: for anyone wanting an easy way to experiment with L-systems, there's a built-in feature in Inkscape that is pretty fun to use. It's under "Extensions/Render/L-System"
Losing a job, like any major life event, can cause a rethink on this sort of thing. The average age of a successful startup founder is 45 for a reason. Most of them spent some time employed in the industry of the startup. Before that, they probably bounce between a job and trying to make it on their own.
Nagasaki was some fairly unimportant Japanese city nestled safely in Kyūshū, as they probably thought sometime in the 1920's.

I personally find utilitarian views abhorrent. Even if the ends justified the means, I doubt the most adherent utilitarian would put his neck on the line if his head on the plate would be the best outcome for humanity as a whole. It's pure hypocrisy to justify exploitation.
> If a city claims “moral responsibility” for 100 homeless and 100 more move in, do they get a one way bus ticket out of town? Locked up?

Yeh, if the city claims moral responsibility for those 100, and if the other 100 move in and don't meet the criteria, then yes... they get to say "tough luck, you're not our problem".

The city might still choose to offer the bus ticket, if they found out that another city is obligated. Or they might not. That's up to them.

They might not even do anything about the 100 that they do agree are theirs. There are thousands of municipal governments, and some are quite callous.

As far as locked up, I do not know. There are laws on the books about vagrancy still, though those have been challenged multiple times by various courts, so I think that'd be rare or non-existent.

The policy I propose is bureaucratic, and boring. It doesn't criminalize anything. It's just a checklist of how a homeless person would (or wouldn't) qualify for any sorts of benefits the city government might decide to provide in the future. That's all that's needed. If this policy apportions the homeless in such a way that a town of 3600 residents has a number that their resources can handle, and a large city of millions can handle, and every size in between such that some large percentage (above 98%) are apportioned to at least one municipality, that's all that's needed. The logjam is broken, and more common legislative processes will eventually arrive at solutions that see them sleeping in beds instead of gutters and dumpsters.

There are caveats. This doesn't work so well in isolated places. Hawaii and Alaska... no clue with them. Their problems probably stay where they are now. Mainland North American, maybe continental Europe would see a large reduction in the problem. But then there's that 1 or 2% who don't get apportioned anywhere... personally I'd hope that with the problem having been reduced 50fold already, the federal government would step in and take care of the remainder. That's probably foolish of me.
Countries need to get serious about raising their birth rates.

Korea is expected to have a 94% decline in the Korean population in 3 generations.
'Chechen separatists could had just leave and the war would end in a day', as a popular nowadays take.
> The money we (the US) do spend in education/healthcare/infrastructure is already poorly utilized, why would we want to spend more and end up like that?

The whole point of a single-payer system is that you will spend less, by virtue of the government using its single-buyer negotiating power to push down prices.

And also by virtue of firing all the useless parasites and middlemen that create, consume, and shuffle the mountains of paperwork that surround US health insurance, advertising, billing, etc. Unsurprisingly, these middle-men don't look kindly upon being eliminated, and have somehow convinced half the country that if it weren't for their heroic efforts, grandma would never get a cardiac shunt, and that the world would literally end if Medicare was actually allowed to negotiate drug prices.
I don’t turn up my nose though. I don’t judge anyone for choosing tech, especially if they have good reasons.

I’m also very loyal and pragmatic. I really tried.

I don’t want to start a language war here either. What I said above was a counterattack on the idea avoiding tech that doesn’t agree with you is somehow a red flag.

My general point is: consider that there are people who have earned their opinion the hard way. Even if you disagree.
4HL. Consistency space guy finds out rules are written by Payoff space guys.
Open access paper on the topic:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-00727-3
Mobile UI broke completely on me before my first round was complete (Chrome, Android). Otherwise seems well-done and a useful learning tool.
> birth control would be completely unacceptable since you could lose an immense number of future people

Operative word = "could"

Or lack of birth control could lead to an unsustainable level of population that causes resource exhaustion and we die that way. Oh, wait, that's already happening. We can't know how our actions effect the far future, but we can be more confident in our ability to improve the near future, and we should do that.
Yeah, just wait till you're in your fifties and feel like you're also running out of time to do things! For example: "how many more growing seasons do I have to try this or that tomato" or "should I learn Spanish?". On the plus side kids are out of your hair.