skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - "The Inner Ring" by CS Lewis (https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/)

CS Lewis predicted the impact of social media 50 years prior to its existence:

> And if in your spare time you consort simply with the people you like, you will again find that you have come unawares to a real inside: that you are indeed snug and safe at the centre of something which, seen from without, would look exactly like an Inner Ring.

Wisdom truly does transcend time and generations.
What policies "destroy[ed] rural and suburban life?" Do you think people moved away from rural areas into cities because of some policy to destroy them, rather than wanting to find work through jobs located in cities? Without specific examples I really find it difficult to understand your philosophy.

> If you found it jarring for someone to openly promote the destruction of your way of living, maybe take that into consideration.

No because you are advocating for an equivalence which, to my knowledge, does not exist.
>That's again a decision made by Python. Some other languages behave as if each iteration had declared a different variable. Here's Javascript again, you can even use `const` for the iterating variable:

But then can you use i after the loop? In Python you can use i after the loop, which can be useful (e.g. if you break out)

for i in range(10):
if condition(i):
break
else:
print("didn't break")
print("broke at", i)

It is also easy to "fix":

ll = [lambda i=i: print(i) for i in range(5)]

This issue is always going to be an issue for Python because it doesn't have explicit variable declaration. In C++ you have the difference between

for (int i = 0;; i++)
// and
int i;
for (i = 0;; i++)

while in Python there's no way to write 'declare i here so it will be scoped outside the loop', which if it existed would make the behaviour you desire a reasonable alternative. Python variables are always scoped to the surrounding function.

for i in range(5):
if i % 2 == 0:
q = i
print(q) #=> 0 0 2 2 4

>Could just as easily be an expression that's reevaluated on each call.

Not ideal but it is consistent with other parts of the language. This is just one of those things you need to learn and in practice isn't really an issue. The fact it's different from other languages is not a relevant concern at all. 'Being like JS' is not a virtue.

>Sorry, my phrasing was imprecise. It's not doing 'yield []', but an exhausted generator does behave like an empty generator. Maybe they could have made it so the first exhaustion raises StopIterator, and subsequent ones a different exception? Like reading from a closed channel.

Iteration is just calling __next__. It's useful to iterate over things more than once sometimes.

IMO, this:

y = iter(x)
for z in y:
do(z)
if condition(z):
break
for z in y:
do2(z)

is bit nicer than this:

flag = False
for z in y:
if flag:
do(z)
if condition(z):
flag = True
else:
do2(z)

>Comparison Chaining

Incredibly useful feature. I've never seen anyone write 'a < b == c' so this seems a bit artificial. I'd hardly describe it as a footgun.
https://archive.is/dwKdg
Several employees of the world's largest banks actually tried this. Result? Almost $2 billion in fines.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wall-street-to-pay-1-8-billion-...
Uh, you are joking here right ?

Tesla uses extremely deceiving marketing (and same goes for investor relations) regarding a lot of their products lately - FSD being one of them. It's called Full Self Driving... Is that misleading ? How do you interpret this name ?

Are people being misled ? I don't know. But, last year California did pass a law explicitly aimed at Tesla bullshit.

Again, I do think, from society perspective, it's rational thing to do - to 'test in the open' - especially that there are not that much accidents (although the numbers are much worse that Tesla would like people to believe - when you compare apples to apples, there are more accidents per mile with Tesla FSD than with human drivers). What bothers me is their aggressive and misleading marketing, and the fact that they get away with something other companies do not.
That wasn’t the low blow they were referring to. Sending a C&D is standard. Banning a 13 year account isn’t.
The Modarchive[0] is still around, too. The reviewer’s (shared) password used to be since1996

[0]http://modarchive.org
I will probably do too but much less frequently. Apollo increased my reddit engagement, without it mu usage will likely fall back to the occasional scroll 1-2 times a day.

Might not be a bad thing tbh
“Covid” or the constant breathless reporting about every possible little thing over 3 years did this to me. Not rehash any of it but now 3 years later people like Zuck coming out and saying things like “Woops maybe we censored the wrong things and promoted also the wrong things. Woopsies.”

I thought I was world worn and tough.

Then came AI and I was again on the doom and gloom train. Then I had a moment, realized this just the new thing and dropped it down a few degrees.

What’s next?
Thanks. Very helpful.

One of the wild things to me is how incredibly elaborate chipmaking as become over the years. Per Wikipedia, the 6502's layout was made with "a very manual process done with color pencils and vellum paper". That's the processor that launched the personal computing revolution, powering the Apple II, Commodore PET and VIC-20, the Acorn, and the BBC Micro. Nearly 50 years later, things have gotten so fiendishly complex that "flip it over and put some stuff on the back" is a major industry change requiring who knows how many billions in R&D.
I’ll never figure with an internet this vast, anybody would be unable to take a hint that a particular community doesn’t want them and move on to one that does.

If a community bans you it’s the wrong community for you, it’s not a conspiracy at play, you just don’t belong.

Find the people who do share your views and go play in that sandbox.
I don’t believe that for a hot minute. These peoples’ identities are so wrapped up in Reddit it’s be like amputating a limb. No way.
Because we don’t want the site to be completely overwhelmed and turned into Reddit 2.0. Currently, invites are turned off, but are likely to be turned back on in the next week or so. Normally, they are pretty easy to get (asking for one in the r/tildes invite thread).
Andreessen Horowitz' public statements are a function of its road to profit. They don't necessarily reflect what will happen, as much as how much what might happen from making the statement alters Andreessen Horowitz financials.

Not that I'm any different, I too speak with assumed authority over matters which go to my bottom line.

The point I'm making is, don't assume this is some neutral-place observation of casual merit: this is a body whose very existence depends on alterning other peope's perception of investment and outcome.

For example, if it turned out a critical component of crypto was for some reason central london property (unlikely) I would assume the qui bono here was "when did A-H invest in London property, and why would it profit them to realize it's value now rather than later"
The site looks great on mobile Safari at least. Maybe your system has an adblocker available?
I don't see any ads there at all. Aren't you using an ad-blocker?
What is a good alternative to reddit?
> went on a rampage deleting pages for individual pokemon, which I'm not proud of

I find it amusing that pokemons get pages, but real people don't.

Yeah, notability, I get it. Still.
Hold on. If the Vegas shooter was a "white terrorist", then why did he target a country and western concert?
>Bluesky is modeled after Twitter, which has sort of public popularity contest features built in, like retweets and replies, which can let malicious users signal boost using your account.

I don't use twitter enough to understand what this means. How can a malicious user signal boost using your account? Regardless of blocking. I don't understand what that means. No one else can force you to retweet or reply if you don't want to.
I'd hate to be so aware of the mods that I remember their names. As much as they deserve gratitude and praise it's supposed to be transparent.

I only knew one name, once, because the other mod showed him the finger and started another sub. I followed the drama, agreed he was a dick and moved to the new sub.

PS: actually, I remember heroofwar and pinko from HQGifs because they're part of the meta jokes of the sub.
There's no 'as' in Python if or while statements, only with.

>>> if True as a:
File "<stdin>", line 1
if True as a:
^^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Because there's seemingly a "totoro tuesday" for everything. There's even notes about Japan-only releases of windows. Neat.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTgYYqZBoP2/?utm_source=ig_web_c...
you misunderstand the scenario

if we're talking about hash(x) == x then the hash function doesn't consult any central DB to compute a UUID or evaluate uniqueness or anything

there is no UUID generator or DB involved
The 240W cables have a different spec so that's not indicative of what you'll see for 48v.
$15 is under minimum wage in many parts of the US
Probably because it looks horrible.
You're right, the comments being collapsed is annoying. The sidebars you can get rid of though iirc.
This is an atrocious experience on mobile, but a fantastic website regardless.
yeah but deleting the creator’s account is uncool
They have definitely in the past added features that they later released as part of product launches and then upstreamed, e.g. ARM64 backend or more recently -fbounds-checks (which I think will be in the new Xcode?) Other things I don't think they ever tried to upstream e.g. I think watchOS bitcode might have been special. In the end it's basically the same reason anyone maintains a fork or a set of patches; better integration and prioritization of the things you need for your products and more control over risk, etc.

It would always be nice to slim the differences and get new releases faster though, of course.
https://archive.is/Y1IwY
Anarcho primitivism is hardly "left wing"
For years I've been joking about selling an "internet battery" for people going off the grid. I had no idea that some mad bastards actually did it!
You've jumped from "do research" to "making frankenviruses" - which beyond being a sensationalist term with no formal definition, isn't necessarily the sum totality of viral research. Just the bit that the popular press likes writing lurid articles about.
Here's one from 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Saha_Airlines_Boeing_707_...

What happened isn't so surprising if you check the location of the air base in relation to the airport
The Unabomber died by suicide, AP reports
I'll just be here for tech news, and other sites for my niche interests. Nothing of true value will be lost to me.
“Yes, but you see the problem is I want to pee in YOUR pool. If I were to build my own pool then I’d have to swim YOUR pee.”
Not the I/O, they are drivers after all.
China Has Had a Spy Base in Cuba for Years, U.S. Official Says
My hunch is that a decent bit of tech-Reddit will migrate to HN. But more general stuff, no.
> I find it beneficial that creating an account is no longer necessary for viewing Tweets and responses.

I don't recall it being truly necessary before, though there were annoying banners sometimes.

But right now "age restricted" tweets require a login, and the thing that makes tweets age restricted is the presence of images plus a very buggy per-account setting.
And meanwhile they're both getting cucked by Apple because the Intel/AMD brand monoliths are too heavy to make any groundbreaking/architectural changes now.
Needs competition. Another 'pedia or two would be healthy, and perhaps enlightening.
"Hey, I know that you have an extensive personal blocklist, can I take a look at it and adapt it to my uses so that I don't start from scratch?"

"Hey, I know that your server has an extensive personal blocklist, can I take a look at it and adapt it to my server so that I don't start from scratch?"
Can the lab be sued out of existence for damages?

It is quite clear that they did amplification research as they’ve planned. And had inserted the furin site into the coronavirus . And they’ve mismanaged the research and they’ve let the virus to spread. This had caused a lot of damage, in particular the deaths, economical damage, long-covid damages, mental illnesses and diminished IQ (covid brain fog). There’ve been some positive sides: diminished air travel, diminished carbon emissions, transition to work from home, more pedestrian zones in the cities, mRNA vaccine technology. But the negative side from the pandemic is still overwhelming.

Arguably this lab should be sued out of existence for damages.
>ear-clipping isn't foolproof though, since many feral cats will not sit still long enough or let you get close enough for you to observe a clipped ear.

Nothing is foolproof, but you can use binoculars to see feral cats' ears from a distance if you really have to. Most stray cats, in my experience, are NOT friendly at all; they won't let you come close enough to them to pick them up, and if you do they might fight you.
https://archive.is/mAhjx
> It is still unknown who compiles the material or from where it was obtained.[9][2] Some have theorized that the lack of pornographic material and lack of anti-government views in the package may indicate the Cuban government is involved in its production.[10]
I’ve just never seen any director titles without a massive nr of reports. TIL, thanks!
Why even enter the name of the company? It didn't match any of the words I typed even remotely.
Most of the megacorp leaders, probably. Perhaps not all, though I can’t come up with a Gen X / Millenial / Gen Z counterexample myself.

But plenty of small and medium sized business owners primarily get their wins by grinding for a long time in their respective industry (luck helped get them into that industry but sometimes those industries are really low barrier to entry), and then starting their own firm and delivering consistent excellent results.

There’s a lot of incredibly great businesspeople running small to medium sized bootstrapped companies. Of course there’s also a lot of inherited money who abuse high functioning lieutenants to whip the real work…but if you want to find mostly self made business owners, that’s where you look.
Comments like this make me worried I'm always reading posts from bots and the developer forgot to take out the word Reddit when pointing the bot at HN.

But a human brain fart is probably just as likely.
It's only been perennial leapfrogging for the past several years, when AMD has been doing well with their Zen processors and Intel has been on a recovery path from their 10nm failures. But before that, there were a few stretches of several years each where Intel was solidly in the lead and AMD was always an also-ran. Intel couldn't have retained their dominant market share for decades without having those long periods of undisputed technical leadership to solidify their lead.
My issue with Isabella Weber's data is that she picks WWII as a prime example where price controls worked. But that was a time when we needed to produce as any cost, which creates jobs, so price controls did not affect supply. The generalization that price controls will always work is a fallacy. We have seen over and over that price controls will reduce supply which makes matters worse. She sites edge cases which make sense, under certain situations.

What I find strange is that she has picked-up so much support from economists. Why haven't they looked at her data as exceptions rather than the rule?

There might be a valid case for price controls but only on a case by case basis.
While nothing is perfect, newer security models do have strong theoretical security guarantees (barring implementation problems). Significantly strong enough that it will certainly stop random guy-who-is-good-with-computers. Which is the actual threat model for 99.99% of the population. Nation states have significantly more and different attack options available (eg unencrypted cloud backups, rubber stamped warrants, and old-fashioned rubber-hose attacks).
Haha, yeah, in any reasonable comparison to like “complexity of things that humans have made over all time,” they are definitely pretty amazing. But they appear to be third best among their peers. I’d take an Intel dGPU though.
The "new" object system in Python ("new" 23 years ago in Python 2.2 and the only system in Python 3 (2008 = 16 years ago)) was strongly and widely debated and refined over time. Maybe the old object system, which hasn't been relevant for 20 years, may have been implemented in a few days? So what? All of JavaScript was invented in a few days - the entire language. Yet people around here seem to love the language.
That’s my point: they benefit from a huge volunteer labor subsidy. They can’t afford to moderate it themselves as they clearly don’t have the financial resources.

They are free to run the biz into the ground, won’t be the first or last to do so. Meanwhile YouTube will keep printing cash.
Reddit-the-community's intent is not for it to be publicly traded. That's the intent of a very small number of people who seek to profit off of Reddit-the-community.
Not today, CIA.
pud of fuckedcompany deserves to be in the pantheon imo
Regardless, they have an interesting but relatively sordid history.

Its probably just to drive interest for recruitment since tensions are escalating geopolitically and they are probably finding their projections show they are understaffed. Skilled labor isn't as easy to come by as corporations make it out to be (with everything being replaceable).

Anything published like this would be considered a poison the well attack by any ne'er do wells.
To be frank, given SARS-CoV-1 as well as MERS, and the known prevalence of coronaviruses in and near China, if I was the military I think I'd be justified into looking at viruses not as potential bioweapons but as a force readiness problem.

The U.S. has done this, and indeed, most of our public health infrastructure is an outgrowth of it.
Site looks great to me! Perhaps your platform has a way of installing a content blocker like ublock?
>the US far-Right but the non-centrist Left

No need for such verbal contortion.

You're describing the far-right (Republican Party) and center-right (Democratic Party).

Left parties in the USA include Green Party, DSA, CPUSA, etc. They are largely irrelevant.
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/rectium.html
The point of mentioning the ARPU is to demonstrate that Reddit is letting these apps capture (or in most cases flush down the toilet) the value. Reddit goes out of business if they don't capture it themselves or continue to dump investor money in to a hole.
A 16bit CRC is there “encryption”? Lol, of course it is.
Yes, and I never said otherwise. You can sustain a business by breaking even. Or by making a modest profit. Which is what the great majority of businesses do.

Trying to make a massive profit is another activity altogether, and the quest to do so can easily destroy a sustainable business. As Reddit may learn.
Uh, they do provide some numbers though...

"On its own, the price of Nvidia is responsible for an enormous slice of the stockmarket recovery. Since the end of November the firm’s market capitalisation has soared from under $400bn to $925bn—accounting for a fifth of the rally. Add Nvidia’s surge to the growing market capitalisations of the 13 other firms with ai exposure and a remarkable 73% of the broader rally is explained."

"In November the average price to current earnings multiple of an s&p 500 firm, excluding the 14 most exposed to ai, was around 27. As we went to press, the multiple had dipped to 26. Meanwhile, the average multiple of firms in our ai bucket had leapt from 43 to 77."

Not sure what you would expect - they just point to the fact that most of the rally is achieved through the 'AI' companies - the rest of the index is actually down, or mostly down. That's fact. What more do you want to be more persuasive ?
Given infinite tenure which is not the case.
Microsoft was able to reverse it, hopefully Intel can as well.
On mobile viewing on safari, there was no such feature.
I expect going digging would reveal that csexp is decades older than msgpack. As a format I agree it doesn't look great though.

May 1997 for csexp. https://web.archive.org/web/20230219084819/http://people.csa...

Msgpack less clear, maybe 2008. JSON is 2000ish.
I guess the question is what's the likelihood of such a situation, vs the likelihood of the situation where a 'nanny' computer prevents the crew doing something dangerous?
> ... making all blocks scopes would be pretty awkward and require tons of "xy=None # reassigned later" and nonlocals) ...

C, C++, Java, C#, JS/TS (through let), Rust, and more all require variable declaration before use. Python is the odd one out here. JavaScript had something similar (variable hoisting), but it's so problematic that we ditched it for let/const.
Pure speculation but I bet Waymo doesn’t do highways because they can’t safely reconcile the speed limit with the speed of traffic. In CA and AZ (where Waymo is currently operating) typical highway limits are 55 or 65 mph while traffic speeds in light traffic are easily 70+. Speed differential is dangerous; having a Waymo going 55 while everyone else goes 70+ sounds like a terrible idea but they can’t exactly teach the robot to speed the way a human does either. I’d love to be a fly on the wall during that discussion, ethics, human factors, law, you’d have to tackle the whole shebang.
You can also use Tensorflow decision forest to begin with [1].

[1] https://www.tensorflow.org/decision_forests
Thank you everyone for providing great advice and tips

I really appreciate the responses
As a composer software engineer: all I can personally say is that MIDI is a pretty terrible protocol that's borderline unusable for everything except very limited applications. It's fine to use it for keyboard (piano, organ, celeste, harpsichord etc). For literally anything else it's useless and I see nothing in 2.0 that fixes it.
>Regular fruit at a regular cheap grocery store in Tokyo is still 2-3x as expensive as the USA, even in relatively expensive US cities

It's also 2-3x the quality and taste. Strawberries in the US have no taste at all; in Japan, they're amazing.
The top level question is not a scientific question.

In order to investigate it, many many many smaller questions may be asked, some of which are scientific.
I do whatever I want.
This guy really likes his own name.
I think it's interesting to compare El Paquete Semanal to the response in the US to net neutrality and various social media scandals.

When the threshold for action is high enough, the lack of open internet is overcome in Cuba without any special technology at all. Similar creative solutions pop up anywhere internet access is limited.

In the US, most of the energy is spent on open source, high tech solutions that rarely get wide adoption, such as CJDNS, Hyperboria, Mastadon, Lemmy, Fediverse, ActivityPub, various DHT based tools, and others.

Hypothesis 1: if the threshold for action were high enough in the US, people would adopt these higher tech offerings en masse.

Hypothesis 2: the low tech nature of El Paquete Semanal and similar networks is critical to their success.

If hypothesis 2 is correct, then building a similar network using "boring" technologies would be more impactful than working on high tech open source tools.
No, it doesnt. All the “indirect evidence” of the lab leak hypothesis could be interpreted multiple other totally reasonable and likely ways, and it would be irresponsible to motivate foreign policy on that “indirect evidence”.
I guess it depends on the platform.
I had hoped that it's AI-powered traders make NVDA go up, up, up, so that it produced more GPUs for AI to run on, until it can finally take over the world.

At least that would be somehow entertaining.
Francis deSouza resigns as Illumina boss after proxy battle with Carl Icahn
https://archive.is/iXlCx