skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that python is designed assuming people want to use system-wide packages.

This wasn't true for decades, `virtualenv` was de-facto standard isolation solution (now baked in as `python -m venv`, still de-facto standard), and `pip` is the package manager (we don't talk about setuptools/distutils, ssh!). If someone still used system-wide packages that was either because a) they were building a container or some single-purpose system; or b) they were sloppy or had no idea what they're doing (most likely, following some crappy tutorial). Or it was distro people creating packages to satisfy dependencies for Python programs - but that's a whole different story (and one's virtualenv shouldn't inherit system packages unless it is really really necessary and iif it makes sense to do so).

The problem started when one needed some external non-Python dependencies. Python had invented binary wheels and they're around for a while (completely solving issues with e.g. PostgreSQL drivers, no one needs to worry about libpq), but I suppose depending on specific versions of kernel drivers and CUDA libraries is a more complex and nuanced subject.

> Vs C/C++/Zig/Rust where you can just ship the compiled binary

Only assuming that you can either statically link, or if all libraries' ABIs are stable (or if you're targeting a very specific ABI, but I've had my share of "version `GLIBC_2.xx' not found"s and not fond of those).

In a similar spirit, any Python project can be distributed as one binary (Python interpreter and a ZIP archive, bundled together) plus a set of zero or more .so files.
My Day Away from Reddit
There is plenty of housing in shrinking urban areas, like Detroit. You mean build new housing in popular urban areas, where people want to move to. Maybe if Seattle is as dense as Manhattan it will be as cheap as Manhattan, right?
Worth mentioning, freezing and skimming ice is a clever distillation process. It’s also illegal under any other circumstances that distillation would be illegal, but nobody much cares.
50 million daily users is a lot. In ~2012, Reddit apparently had ~1.5m DAU. That was still a pretty decent website. Pulling random numbers out of the hat, maybe each daily active user makes 5 requests per day, on average? Many might just open up one thread, but a Pareto distribution means a small percentage would make hundreds of requests per day. So maybe more than 5? To be conservative, let's say 10.

So that's 15m requests per day. That's about 200 per second. Couldn't you do that on a single server using just PHP? Obviously these are just ballpark estimates but really.

When you say uptime similar to reddit, do you mean uptime similar to reddit now? Or similar to early reddit? Early reddit constantly threw errors at busy times.
Well in the normal, boring old securities world broker/dealers don't also get to operate exchanges and offer securities to unqualified investors.

I don't think it's the "public ledger" part of this that causes the regulatory issue frankly.
The people who left those voicemails are now the ones leaving very odd and paranoid posts on GitHub issue trackers. There's a few unfortunate souls out there convinced that something called Lighthouse is trying to hack them.
Because the US governments often values companies more than their own citizens. It is not a fundamental property though, Scandinavian countries do a whole lot better for example.
Top 50? Top 100?

I think scaling donations is difficult. Wikipedia makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year, but its closest competitor, Google, makes hundreds of billions of dollars. But to the average person, a hundred million dollars is a hell lot of money. So people get cynical.

Also it's possible that donation models just don't work well. Dwarf Fortress is one data point. It was decent money at $15k per month, then people dropped 7 million dollars on the Steam release on the first month.
I get the argument that fully custom scroll bars aren’t great for accessibility in many cases. However, the default behavior out of the browser or OS is pretty terrible in many cases as well.

Scroll bars popping in and out of existence awkwardly reflowing elements around it. Tiny unusable 30px wide horizontal scroll bars inside an input element because an element overflows 0.7px due to font size rounding issues or what not.

Default scroll bars are great for documents, but pretty terrible mostly for slightly more complicated UIs where a lot of info is displayed in small area.
That... is both quite evil and is amazingly consistent - if you happened to be a large enough whale to make this happen.

There aren't so many players who have the vision, evil and money to do this, right? Any guesses?
Maneras de Vivir
I had an interesting issue with that the other day:

Someone on my company thought it good to launch background process from within a cron, and start it with `&ˋ at the end, so that it detached from the cron and goes as child to init .

Right, but the program opens std out and dumps its output in it. Guess what, the fd handling the std out ends up in a temp file which is deleted by cron, but still held by the program.

I ended up with a full / in all production servers, with no culprit when running ˋdu`. Only running ˋlsof |grep deleted` did I find these huge temporary files.

Killing the process and switching to a saner systemd service was the savior.
It would be wise of them not to go against those that know how to build alternatives. Never under estimate the stubbornness of a programmer wronged.

Look at Richard Stallman, disliked proprietary software so much he spent his life fighting it even building large parts of an OS! Messing with Github would be like creating 100,000 Stallmans - and I don't think anyone wants that. ;)
They're not listing coins at random. They claim to have vetting specifically considering this kind of regulation and to reject the vast majority of coins.

Even if we assume Coinbase is in the wrong here, a hypothetical exchange with better vetting could also list dozens of coins and be entirely legit with no securities.
Your supply and demand link appears broken, perhaps you meant:

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fu...

In any case that's a secondary source, you're better off using the primary:

Uranium 2022: Resources, Production and Demand (aka U Redbook)

https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_79960/uranium-2022-resource...

although at 560+ pages it's perhaps doubtful you'd read that.

It's worthy of note that broadscale coarse uranium exploration gets "thrown in" with any airbourne geophysical survey that typical runs magnetic + radiometric sensors at the same time (saves fuel costs + 256 channel ground emissions give geologic structure via K + Th + U patterns )

https://www.ga.gov.au/ausgeonews/ausgeonews200812/radiometri...
> As president, that doesn't mean that Trump can't disclose that.

But he cannot disclose at least a large amount of what he has been accused of leaking. This article from the American Bar Association[0] is a good primer on what can and cannot be declassified at whim and specifically these two parts are important to this discussion.

>> In all cases, however, a formal procedure is required so governmental agencies know with certainty what has been declassified and decisions memorialized. A federal appeals court in a 2020 Freedom of Information Act case, New York Times v. CIA, underscored that point: “Declassification cannot occur unless designated officials follow specified procedures,” the court said.

>> Some secrets, such as information related to nuclear weapons, are handled separately under a specific statutory scheme that Congress has adopted under the Atomic Energy Act. Those secrets cannot be automatically declassified by the president alone and require, by law, extensive consultation with executive branch agencies.

So it looks like regardless of if that quote is out of context that the President does not have the sole authority to declassify everything.

[0] - https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...
great effort!

Do you think can you remove the css animations when loading any page? It's a bit annoying to see the fading in at each load.
It's almost (or actually is) a "pirated" torrent. So it might not be "legitimate".
https://archive.md/aVhT9
The indictment is the most important document you will read this year [pdf]
Lost me at u/Spez is a good dude.

his behavior's and words say otherwise.

also the comment earlier :
>There are so many people speedrunning Field of Dreams right now.

So true.
I know a good amount of people in their 30s who were perpetually online, from that time onward, and can can think of maybe two who have been to 4chan.

> The last time I went there it was full of CP and I lose all respect for people who use that site no matter how you try to spin it.

It sounds like you don't actually use the site --- just like GP was saying.
>You can't have HSR in rural areas. Rural areas, by definition, have very low population density. HSR is horrifically expensive to build and operate, and only works economically (like here in Japan, where there's lots of it) because there's huge ridership between the large cities it operates between.

>There's no HSR to rural communities because there aren't enough people riding it frequently enough to make it work, and the people who'd like to use it are too spread out over too large an area for the logistics to work. You can't have a bullet train that stops every 10 miles at some small town to pick people up; you'll end up with an average speed that's too low to even be called "HSR". Your whole post really makes no sense in the real world.

Which is why I suggested a hub and spoke system, where the ends of a spoke services several thousand square miles.

Nor am I talking about "making stops every ten miles," either. It seems you didn't read my comment very closely and applied my thoughts to systems that exist today.

I don't disagree about economies of scale, but there's certainly room for better communication and transportation infrastructure outside urban/suburban metro areas.

In fact, over the long term (after both of us are dead, I'm sure) such initiatives could increase economic activity in the US enormously.

>If you have a place with a bunch of apartment buildings, bars/restaurants, and all this other stuff, what you have is not a "rural area".

Yep. That's true. I never said "rural areas need to stay rural forever." In fact, reviving the economically struggling rural areas necessitates increasing population density and economic activity. And that's a good thing.
What if all drugs are a little of both? Who is to say that SSRI antidepressants simply correct brain chemical imbalance to healthy levels rather than letting one substitute a chemical high for real life changes? Who is to say that booze or opiates do not help by providing at least a temporary escape from otherwise unbearable misery. Yes, there are extremes, like people who would be vegetables or harm themselves without psychiatric drugs. But if it comes to that and mainstream prescription drugs do not work, I would not begrudge them trying MDMA or even cocaine to have at least some quality of life some of the time. Equally, some individuals can normalize using prescription drugs or cope using social connections, creativity, nature, physical exercise, meditation, religion, military service. Isn't a chemical fix depriving them and society of deeper achievements that may have made them feel allright?
Agreed. This brand of self-aggrandizing “I did it my way” advice adverts always exemplify a special brand of narcissism; the speaker is unaware that they aren’t the center of their own life. The truth is that “blowing up your life” isn’t usually good or laudable: if you regularly find yourself in situations where you think it’s best to hard reset you’re probably very confused about what you want and need and, ironically, would probably benefit more from figuring out how to renegotiate an undesirable situation than eternally storming between grand schemes.
I can only find a source from 2 days ago that says the SEC claims Solana is a security.

Before that afaik the only cryptocurrency the sec had explicitly said was a security was XRP which coinbase delisted
I can recommend the MacWhisper app if you prefer a gui.
Also JS allows you to define default values if the key is missing, and Python's pattern matching doesn't.
There is a demo instance where I test the latest code[1], but my purpose as a developer is to make the project better not to admin/moderate a discussion platform. My hope was that communities come together and put up their own servers.

[1] https://brutalinks.tech
I would go even further: websites should not be the ultimate decider on any style-related decision. Including colors, font faces, text size, margins, padding, content width, and any other UI elements. Website should be able to suggest these things, but browsers should default to the user’s preference or the system’s configuration. The user should have the final say on how the User Agent displays HTML content.

Browsers have ceded far too much control over these things to websites, to the point where we are even debating whether they should style such fundamental OS controls as scroll bars!
Are you sure ?
Changing only one word is enough to change the meaning of a sentence.
Again, no one is claiming that people who participate are stupid for doing so. Why are you insisting on the idea that others see people in financial difficulty as stupid?

Nor did I say I'm the sole arbiter of what's demeaning. We both seem to agree at least that peeing oneself in public is demeaning, but some third person might not see it that way at all.
Oh, yeah. I forgot to quote that, because I was going to comment on it. It's an iterative, in-place algorithm, so there are no recursive calls to be made.

The bit I meant to comment on was the "kind of slow" part. It is true that heapsort tends to be slower than a well-implemented quicksort, but you don't use heapsort when you need the absolute best speed. The (IMO) best thing about heapsort is that its best case and worst case are the same order of magnitude, so sorting n things will take a fairly consistent amount of time, no matter what.
I really can't address the why, because I don't know, but I can give reasons as to why it's a good idea to keep them separate.

Y Combinator is motivated for a variety of reasons to have a place like Hacker News, that is not ultimately controlled by another company, so they actively maintain and moderate it.

Users are motivated to go to a place with a particular common denominator. The common denominator base is broadened when the forum is nested in a larger forum. Sub-reddit moderators have to take active steps to keep their users a specific subset of people, this extra effort also has the side-effect of excluding people who don't fit the criteria who may positively interact.

Keeping HN separate from Reddit makes it easier to balance these competing interests.

Also, a great number of people like compartmentalizing to various extents for various reasons. A monolithic entity makes this more difficult.
It’s pretty easy to get into the ~15% range with the right yeast (champagne yeast is the best starting point) and attention to sugar conversion (I wish I could remember the details here but I haven’t brewed for about a decade) and importantly for beer, good ventilation. I had a barleywine that should have been in this range ferment for about 12 hours and it clogged the airlock, exploded the carboy, and generally ruined everyone’s day. But not the way it was supposed to ruin anyone’s day.
Everyone has been on slashdot too, right? I mean come on, it's slashdot.

...except realistically, even though I'm in the age and interest group, I've been there like, a single-digit number of times --- which totally qualifies me as an expert on it, right?
Indeed. Have a popular vote.
That's a participle with an elided subject and helper verb, not an imperative. In spoken English the difference in pronunciation makes it obvious.
> universities output stuff that "works on ubuntu, just copy and paste these lines!"

Well that's the value in it. There's never going to be a perfect system, just good enough. Until I conceded to that, I was using FreeBSD and enjoying the lack of systemd while I struggled to make random packages work. My servers do run Ubuntu Server now.
> I guess thats what I mean. Of course he wouldn't continue because he wouldn't have the money to continue.

Not exactly what I was saying. Let's say he stopped today. Or when he hit $25M in total wealth. Some figure where he could live a comfortable life while still contributing to these kinds of acts.

Would he still do it? Or is continued profit / brand building / etc a key component? Is this fundamentally a transaction?
I don't see enough discussion of the fact that LLMs are actually trained with two losses: text prediction and a regularization loss of some sort that effectively encourages the network to use "simple" internal structure. That means the training process isn't only trying to predict the next token, it's specifically trying to find the simplest explanation that predicts the next token.

Given that the history of science is mostly driven by trying to find the simplest explanation for observed phenomenon, thinking about regularization makes it much less surprising that LLMs end up learning how the world "actually works".
Flywheel. He’s a genius.
DigitalOcean’s load balancer handles +10k requests per second, +10k simultaneous connections, +250 SSL connections per second for every $12. The ceiling is pretty high.
Going big and blowing it up - what is there not to like? Going big requires investments and while there is a sunk cost fallacy there is also compound interest. Most larger endeavors have investments from more than one participant - and it often needs just one person to blow it all up. Last but not least: All big investment require taking on risk and you ability to stomach those may decline over time - there is survivor bias in the tale of heroes.

There are long term consequences and without discussing how they relate to rewards of blowing big things up this feels a shallow self promoting piece to me.
> When the W3C tried to push XHTML web devs balked at the idea that they should understand markup languages and not have syntax errors

At the time a lot of the people generating content for the web were not web developers, so HTML had to be forgiving. Most CMSes allow people to add arbitrary markup — it is far preferable for the browsers to be forgiving than to refuse to show pages if there is a syntax error.
It is exhausting. But Linux isn't a completely viable alternative. I still want to play games and do other things.
Maybe he meant using HTML attributes like bgcolor etc.
>> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

Sigh...
Should’ve started a MrBeast asparagus line.
> I stopped using 4chan 15 years ago when I realized that a huge portion of the people on there are not merely roleplaying nazis, but honestly hold the views they obscure behind the atmosphere of joking.

How is that not an integral component of equal access?
Indeed, I was just about to comment on the linked page overstyling fonts and colors while suggesting to avoid overstyling other elements. The title can be clipped to "Don't use custom CSS" while reusing the same justifications.
> So how can I excise these from my life? I just want to work.

Support a candidate that will make that happen for you. Power struggles are relevant. "Just wanting to work" means ceding control of your life to others. Better get involved now and endure some discomfort while supporting your candidate than regret it till your retirement.
> You can’t just limit the check to private subs because it’s not known if they are private or not at the time.

That's not necessarily true. Perhaps the status of subreddits is cached (because there's no reason to hit the DB 100 times/second to check if r/funny is private or public). But for a given request to a private sub, it would need to check each user.
The mass ratios of charged particles, such as atomic and molecular ions, can be measured incredibly accurately in Penning traps. Some of the most accurate comparisons are between the mass-3 ions ³He⁺, HD⁺, T⁺, and H₃⁺. Of these, only H₃⁺ has long-lived excited states, and the different excitation energies are clearly resolved in the mass comparisons [1]. The binding energies are much larger and have to be taken into account in the comparisons.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.143002
Clojurescript has a lot of interesting stuff behind it, but honestly Clojure stuff has a pretty high learning curve (CLI tools whose error messages are extremely unhelpful, docs that are pretty minimal, and other things that make falling off the happy path rough). I think it's a very interesting "serious" choice, especially if you also want to run stuff as Clojure. But I found it a bit hard to get into.

Purescript has, I think, some of the most interesting things going for it from a FP language, as its effects system paired with the very nice support for JS objects through Record means you can build effects systems like "this function reads from the DB" vs "this function writes to the DB", or "this function accesses a single user's data" vs "this function is multitenant". The FFI story is also very straightforward IMO.

ReScript feels close to Elm in that it's very focused on a straightforward usage of ML and isn't trying to be fancy. I haven't messed with it in a while but honestly OCaml is pretty straightforward and lets you easily fallback to simple imperative tricks in a way that Clojurescript and Purescript don't.

I think if you want to go full FP, Purescript has the most interesting stuff to bring to the table (and because it's not lazily evaluated the mental model is not hard). ReScript has the easiest onboarding IMO... and Clojurescript is good if you're into Clojure/lisp-y stuff in general. But they're all very distinct flavors and it's ultimately a bit of an aesthetic choice IMO
The original work is still there.
And of course those beers were already way less hoppy. They weren’t for beer snobs, they were for colonizing.
You might be sufficiently informed on the topic and sufficiently good at managing your crypto, but if you've seen the whining after any crypto company has turned out to be a scam or has otherwise failed, it's pretty obvious that most people cannot be trusted with the ability to participate in an unregulated crypto market.

In a way, the mere existence of these big centralized exchanges is indication enough of the fact that the average person cannot be trusted to handle crypto without government backing them.
I can't see

"Please don't post comments that don't contribute anything to the discussion."

as highly relevant to the discussion.
Commenting on a news article doesn't mean you care what happens to the subject of the article.

Your comment is not only pointless and petty, it's wrong.
Security wise, QubesOS is better than separate PCs since (at least in part) isolating the network card into a separate VM prevents it from having direct memory access to the whole system (I think devices do have DMA?)

It also provides a better way to communicate between VMs through simple RPC commands rather than hoping USB device drivers are not malicious

In terms of maintenance, I'm pretty sure you could have only one templateVM for everything, which means you only have to update dom0 and that templateVM. So in terms of maintenance thats really not that much more I guess?

I think I might try that myself actually

If you need persistence in the root filesystem, that could mean a standalone VM or a new VM. Last I tried I had trouble with their AppVM solution on that
These days I'm actually more excited to find the next small thing.
The law is clear. It's not the job of regulatory agencies to advise companies on how to become compliant with the law and their rules. The law and their rules are...the law and their rules! Hire a lawyer for that!
Just wondering, any chance that Vision Pro will support flash content?
Does anyone know if there's the inverse process available, from Pulumi to Terraform?