skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, so long as one wilfully ignores the 2.x to 3.x transition, that took 10 years. To be clear, to presume Python starts at version 3.3 is slightly weird, but we get it... One good example here is when pip stopped working for old python-2.x.

The 2.x to 3.x transition was specifically an attempt at making a clean break, bookended by 10 years of compatibility before and after, so it doesn't really count here.

I deliberately chose 3.3 because that's the earliest 3.x version I'm aware of that started to see serious adoption.

> I would agree python forward compatibility is pretty good, but not so sure about backwards compatibility.

You're right. Forward compatibility is what's good, but that's what the thread here is about. Complaining about old Python scripts breaking in new versions is a complaint about forward compatibility. Backward compatibility is not good, but older Python versions are EoL anyway and if you want to use them you're on your own.

> That's fair, but avoids a big aspect of the problem statement, of when Python updates.

The relevant aspect here is that older packaging tools historically have relied on components of Python that have been deprecated for years and/or internals with no stability guarantee, which are gradually now being removed, and so older packaging tools (e.g. older versions of Pip) are finally starting to break. So yes, packages with complicated setup.py scripts from 2011 probably won't work as-is.

People love to complain about Python packaging tools, but the PEP 517 transition is much like the 2->3 transition in that most applications are not hard to upgrade, and most big open source packages have upgraded already. Python packaging was absolutely horrible for years, it's not surprise that something has to break in the process of making it less horrible. That most non-PEP-517 packages still install and work fine is a testament to how good forward compatibility actually is.

I get really annoyed when people complain about how Python ain't what it used to be. It's better than what it used to be, and a little breakage along the way is necessary to get there.
Apocalyptic Ideation

see also: the book of revelations

There will always be people fixated on The End, some because they think we all deserve it, others because they can't seperate their own existential crisis from potential global crises
Second Life had legs from the start. Unlike Zucc’s Metaverse. BTW did he pay Neil for the use of that word?
You also need technical writers.
Map of my personal data infrastructure (2021)
>> by building generational wealth in the hope of ensuring a better life for their kids and grandkids

You could make a better life for your kids, and a lot more people, without building "generational wealth". The alternative in this case is not "run reddit in destitution". I'd argue those who pursue your "winner take everything" approach are the ones lacking perspective.
Oh it's how words work huh? Well while we are discussing how words work, I'd like to point out that you get to pick your nouns, not your pronouns. Males are designated "he", " him", a male adult human is a "man" etc. The grammatical rules of the english language don't have any allowance for self selecting pronouns, that's what proper nouns are for. Since we are talking about how words work.
Python insists on the difference between 2 spaces, 3 spaces, 1 tab, and 2 tabs; which is just wild. How is it that Perl works fine without all that noise, for chrissake? Or Javascript?
why doesnt this have a hosted demo on github pages?
>Fore very game I've tested (not many admittedly) I can turn the graphics settings up to 11 and it they run without dropping frames at the native resolution and refresh rate of the display (3K @ 60Hz)

You tested retro and mobile games or cant tell 30 from 60 fps. Just one example using almost 10 year old game medium details 30 fps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGTCSKMz-ec. Even older Tomb raider with lower quality and resolution down to 15 fps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMPri2zgfak. M1 Max with 4K high settings 30 fps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZVOo9WTIsU
So you'd like to make communities more free by regulating them more?
I'd turn down that deal. If they value it so highly, I'd prefer to just sell the company to them entirely over selling 10%. I know from experience that doing it any other way would make me utterly miserable.
Examples of banks/insurers etc. anticipating climate change
Recently major Californian insurers withdrew because of climate change:
https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-insurance-e31bef0ed7eeddcde096a5b8f2c1768f

Do you have any other examples of companies whose business models involve anticipating the future (specifically bank, insurers etc.) withdrawing from business or reacting peculiar because of climate risks?
Normal Coke is probably worse but they're both horrible.

I only drink normal Coke but sparingly. Usually I'm having water or plain black coffee. I think the takeaway is that diet Coke doesn't allow you to train yourself to enjoy normal sweet foods again. I just had an apple and strawberries and it is basically candy to me.

Edit: I have a question. Rank these food items by how healthful they are:

a) 150 calories of Coca-Cola Classic

b) 150 calories of fresh fruit

c) 0 calories of Diet Coke
To ensure there are no nefarious redirects in such a massive list, this one-liner comes in handy[1]:

grep -v '#' steves_hosts | awk '{print $1}'| sort | uniq -c

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456562
Homebuilders Poised to Rally Further with Fed Pausing, Demand Rising, Citi Says
I like the idea and am curious to see how well / if this gains traction. Nice UI, although I'm having trouble actually subscribing on the financials page, and it seems to show demo data?

Great job launching something!

https://pasteboard.co/eRp2eCMwkExq.png
I installed Windows 10 (not even 11!) recently on a random laptop and was appalled by the amount of BS in the initial setup process. Forced me to make a Microsoft online account seemingly with remote access to my PC, tried to sign me up for several different free trials, then tried multiple times to push me to Edge instead of Chrome. The UI has new crap like the Bing search on the taskbar and in the center of the desktop. It finally left me along after a while, but I know there will be updates and Edge will try to reassert itself. Win10 wasn't this bad a few years ago.

I'm not normally careful about privacy and never felt Linux was a worthwhile alternative on desktop, but this was so plain annoying that I'd probably pick Linux on my primary PC nowadays if I didn't already have a Mac.
As someone who maintained Radiator (a RADIUS server) at a few places, I agree. That piece of software alone was enough justification for Perl to be used in critical scenarios, and as far as I know some of those instances are still running, decades after I left (obviously not the same machines or versions).
Aw man I forgot about alien blue!!
Reminder that MS owns GitHub, LinkedIn, and Mojang.
I have the same with C code. Yet I'm not going to recommend anyone starts a new project in C, outside of very specific use cases like some embedded thing. And even then I'd say a C++ subset.
Markets are irrational - yeah I'll trust where the data leads rather than a known overinflated housing market
I'd take that bet. I think there are probably lots of people who are like, oh yeah we're not doing reddit today and opening up hacker news instead. Like me right now for instance.
Solving climate change doesn’t require dramatic long term changes to the cost of energy. Economically it’s mostly a question of sunk costs as our infrastructure is built around fossil fuels. However, infrastructure has a finite lifespan meaning gradually changing things is vastly less expensive, though you do need to actually start changing things.

Thus ideas like increasing carbon taxation so economies optimize for efficient transitions.
Thank you for introducing me to Johnny Decimal!
Slice of pizza.
Is it possible they want to change that? I'm sure the board is aware of how the site works and how important all the unpaid labor is to keeping it alive. But maybe they don't like that? It seems like the most profitable thing for a social media platform is to make it appeal to everyone, and not just "reddit people", for lack of a better term.

My normie friends who all have instagrams and tiktoks are not on reddit because it's full of "reddit people", and those people are... weird to them. They still make fun of me for being a "reddit guy" despite having deleted my account years ago. Reddit wants to go public, and I think they know that they have to shed that reputation if they're going to be successful with that. They must have known what a shitstorm these API changes would cause, so maybe it's all already priced in, and they're ok with a mass exodus and they have some horrible plan to appeal to the lowest common denominator. Of course, that would completely ruin reddit, but the point is to make money above all else.
Thank you so much! Could you share what you like about the tool the most? Just curious!
Opera GX
Sounds like someone either wasn't around for, or forgot about, both the Athlon era (when folks were just as likely to have an Intel as they were AMD), as well as the 486 days, where folks were just as likely to have an Intel as they were a Cyrix (thanks, Quake, for ruining that party).

It's not "only the past few years", it's "we're back to healthy competition" after a period of basically illegal business practices breaking the market.
https://dart.dev/language/type-system
Yeah, in the map editor there is, in fact a random button that generates. I havn't gotten around to making sure that the random level is playable (and about 1 in 4 have unreachable areas) but that wouldn't be that hard to add. (I've been focused on the creative aspect of creating your own levels because right now that part is more fun).
"hey what if we replaced all our mods with AI, that's pretty hot right now, that might look real good on our IPO"
Bankers aren't in the business of underwriting risk, other than credit risk. However, mortgages typically require having property insurance as a condition for issuing the mortgage, so de facto, if the property is uninsurable, the bank isn't issuing a loan. The expert insurance and reinsurance underwriters have started raising rates or exiting some markets altogether, as well.
> It is also a known tool of any epidemic/pandemic management, it just has rarely been necessary at such scale given the intensity and wide distribution of COVID.

That must be why all the pandemic planning guides from various national health agencies specifically said do not do lockdowns, do no close schools and don't force masks...

It was never a "known tool" to anybody. It was an insane, unproven pharmaceutical intervention that somehow, suddenly, became something "we always knew about".

What we did for covid was absolutely insane.
> You throw your script/container

If you're using containers, then IMO, you're no longer serverless. The reason being...

> Nothing to maintain or update outside of your own code

Unless your Dockerfile uses something like "FROM python:latest", you'll find yourself having to update your Dockerfile to pull in new images on a regular basis in order to get the latest package updates.

People usually like to have reproducible builds though, so will instead use something like "FROM:python:3.7.16-alpine3.18". Except, sorry, that's out of date now. You need to update to "python:3.7.17-alpine3.18."
Data integrity issues roiled Laronde, seen as ‘Moderna 2.0’
MSFT's main product is software and services.

Google's main product is YOU. Without your privacy, they would have nothing to sell to advertisers --- which accounts for about 80 percent of their revenue.
> e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry?

You can use enhanced images in trials.

In general, Courts rely on expert witnesses so if you can get one that says X method is applicable and used in that field then it's a go. It then becomes the other side's job to find an expert witness to say X actually has these flaws and is untrustable. i.e. the Court is not bothered by confidence intervals; if your profession makes decisions by flipping coins its admissible in court. The Court only cares if somebody is willing to certify it as true.

http://www.curtisreevestrial.com/files/1187.pdf

https://www.jonathanhak.com/2018/02/17/image-clarification-n...
Post your companies that are withdrawing because of climate change here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36297304
Enshittification: How Platforms Die
You can have principles you desire to follow but still legally have to follow NIST 800-88. Can even add feedback to future iterations of the publication and attempt to get it changed in the future. Doesn't change the current requirement though.

And running a "shred" with multiple passes requires hardware and electricity to run, which needs to be maintained and scaled to such a level that the process could be done within a reasonable timeframe. Large drives these days could take multiple days each to run plus verification time. And now scale that to thousands of drives. That's a lot of additional hardware and electricity. Where recycling the shredded drive feels more eco friendly. But don't have any actual numbers to support that. Would definitely be interested in actual numbers and how things would play out big picture.
Maybe they wanted to hide the protesting subs by making all reddit black out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol

BGP was standardized in 1989 and has been in use since 1994. The technology of the internet has matured in many ways, and remains almost identical in many others. Sometimes Microsoft is right, and backwards compatibility is the killer feature.
Is this house the only place to live?
Thank you, I wasn't sure if I should edit this for clarity when I posted.
Post your examples here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36297304
List those companies
no - Meta wants to be the front-face of a system of Digital Twins, where only official records are legally valid, and access to those records is monitored, and changing those records involves opaque backrooms. Many Fortune 500 have already committed, and multiple small implementations are being used now.
To be able to be subsidized for building chargers in the US, you need to have CCS. To me that makes it more like a real standard in the US.
It's worse than obnoxiousness; the posture they have taken engenders skepticism and distrust.

When making technical claims to a technical audience, and vs Lattner leveraging reputation,

the appropriate approach is clearly not this. It's to lead with conservatively stated claims, reproducible results, and all the rest of the apparatus that is collectively understood as how adults (from which I exclude bizdev) demonstrate a better mousetrap, into an environment within which the cost of switching mousetrap technology is very great indeed at every level.

Big asks deserve and require better.
Vivaldi is my browser of choice due to sync, and because Firefox as much as I love it does not perform well when scrolling on mobile.

Of course, Firefox has sync as well.
You want the government to force private employees to work? UPS is not USPS.
not sure if I was clear enough for the downvoters to get it, ddos the ips and have DO charge the spammers / hackers a fee is the point..

Not that I advocate for ddos - I think it's a terrible thing, and I've been through it a few times.

DO and OVH are my most blocked ip blocks on several servers. I also get some hetzner and aws and microsoft blocks a lot among others sure.

Interesting that I just launched a brand new WP on a brand new domain, and in less than 24 hours half of the hack attempts are from DO ips.

You could lecture me about reporting and blah blah. I've been down those roads spending literal months doing that. With DO's cheap boxes and rotating IPs it's not worth it, I just block the entire CIDR every time, today it's 157.245.0.0/16 and 174.138.0.0/17

If DO was serious about stopping these abuses they would offer a WP plugin or opt-in setting that could check data from wordfence and similar and easily see which of their boxes are being used to hack into sites, all this could be automatic, without the form filling and delays that are required.
> But what parameters are available for the automation?

A case of non-automatic automation :)

Actually, there's nothing wrong with that. Many things are best left that way. It's just an interesting oxymoron. And it's also interesting the fact that yours (and I'm sure many other's) mind jumped directly into it.

Automatic automations also exist. And those require a complete different set of documents.

But anyway, they are important because the "how do they work", "how do we fix (or improve) it", and "what can they do" are trivial to deduce from a working artifact. Those are not questions you usually want to answer with text.
+ Significantly more income inequality than 20+ years ago

The opposite is occurring in countries that prioritized manufacturing jobs and skilled trades. The liberal arts, service led economy turned out to be a lie - as some of us knew all along.

+ Stagnated wages relative to inflation for much more than 20+ years

Inflation can be supply side, demand side, or both. US monetary policy, trade policy and foreign aid lifted about 2 billion people out of poverty in places like China, India and elsewhere. That is 2 billion new consumers of the same day-to-day living essentials you want -- at the very same time US supply side capacity was reduced by offshoring and new regs. We made the bed we are now sleeping in.

+ Economic mobility is significantly worse

For those without skills in demand this is true. Unskilled and wrong-skilled labor is largely worthless in the US, but pays a subsistence wage in some other countries - in exchange for horrid working conditions.

+ The education system is in worse shape than 20+ years ago + Higher education is more costly, and no longer improves prospects of gainful employment nor additional earning potential

I don't see the problem. I have kids in school and they are learning about gender equality, racism, white privilege and social justice. This is what the teachers want to teach, what the school boards support & what the media talks about most days. Isn't this an improvement from the barbaric reading, writing & arithmetic days of old?

+ Health insurance costs that significantly outpace inflation

Hold on there. My 83 year old father only expended hundreds of thousands of medicare dollars on chemo and supportive care for an extra three months of life - for which my family is very grateful. We cannot deprive the elderly of extra time, no matter how miserable it may be, just to make healthcare more affordable for kids and people in the prime of their life. That would be agism!

+ Kids today will be living under a surveillance state from day 1

But fortunately the surveillance will be from the CCP via TikTok, and from corporations via Instagram, SnapChat, etc. We don't need to worry about USGOV surveillance because its only weaponized against prominent political opponents, and not against the average citizen.

In sum... the status quo is what most people claimed they wanted without any serious consideration of the follow on effects. You get not only the government you deserve in a democracy, but also the economy and social structure you deserve.
How local? Say you have three remote workers with similar skills and experience who are doing similar jobs, and they all live in the greater Los Angeles area. One lives in Hollywood, one lives in Pasadena, and one lives in Compton. Do they all get paid about the same, or does the Hollywood person get more or the Compton person get less than the Pasadena person?

When you are hiring for a position that requires that the person work in a particular location than you have to take into account cost of living at that location.

But for fully remote workers where the company imposes no constraints on where they live it doesn't really make sense to have pay depend on location. Pay enough that you don't have trouble filling open positions.

If that results in a pay level such that you don't have any workers in say NYC because people there can't get by on what you offer why would that be a problem, as long as there are enough qualified workers from less expensive cities to fill your openings?
Data Can Be Overrated
Population growth with our current technology has kinda proven that it's not sustainable

Then who's going to be the one to tell people that having kids is unsustainable because your ancestors didn't care to implement sustainable energy solutions?
To resolve in Windows 10[1]: Disable DNS Client by changing the value data for HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Dnscache\Start from 2 (automatic) to 4 (disabled) (recent versions of Windows 10 no longer allow disabling DNS Client via services.msc).

[1] https://tinyapps.org/blog/201809300700_large_hosts_file.html
Mental process:

- I can make $20M today and sell my company off, and I'm set for pretty much anything I'd want for life, and I don't have to work if I don't want to.

OR

- I can make $1 mil a year and run this company indefinitely theoretically, and have to keep working.

That's a more realistic expectation.

Furthermore, trying to start a company with no real wealth to start with is a massive challenge, which means you're not starting a company alone, you're going to some sort of investor. And investors don't like "lifestyle" companies, they like make big money fast, and sell.

So everything pressures you to go in one direction.

Edit: If you sell off, the investor is in control. And investors want to be facebook.
> My problem with GPT-4 so far is that it's most impressive at doing things that I don't really need any help with

That's actually what I like about it. It's pretty good at doing routine tasks that I easily could do, but which are boring and/or time-consuming. That frees me up to do more interesting stuff.

One example I've given here before is porting an extension I wrote for the Atom text editor to VS Code. I have no doubt that I could learn to write extensions for VS Code, but using ChatGPT meant that I didn't have to waste hours learning how to do that. I just took the skeleton code generated by ChatGPT, dropped in my pre-existing code, and boom... done. Since learning to write VS Code extensions isn't my primary goal (or a secondary goal, or even a tertiary goal), that was a clear win for me.

I put off switching to VS Code for far too long after Atom was EOLed, just because I didn't want to take the time to learn how to port my extension.
The page is implicitly weird, too; r/books, for instance, is public but actively participating in the protest by refusing to post for 48 hours. The protest isn't a public/private binary.

EDIT: Is this even a list of subreddits that "pledged to go private"? Looking at r/askscience, they never pledged to go private, just to go read-only, like r/books. So why are they and r/books even on this list?