skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where is the progress? They claim "10-60%" improvements over Python 3.9 (I believe) and I don't notice much, partly because Python has always been sped up by C-extensions.

The price is an added complexity of the code base.

I truly don't understand why Python always gets a pass and people applaud every announcement, no matter how trivial or elusive it is.

The GIL effort is another matter. I'd rather have a simple interpreter with no-GIL than this mess of relatively small speedups.

But like other GvR efforts where he presided over a small group of people who did the work his efforts will of course go in. Like asyncio, the suboptimal "match" statement, the peg parser (which adds new workloads for other implementations because the de-facto DFL cannot be bothered with publishing an LALR grammar).

Python is a glue language, people can go elsewhere for speed.
WHAT? he was responding to your words that stated

"Every version of macOS that shipped with a CD had either PBX (Project Builder X) or Xcode..."

when he pointed out that the mac DIDN'T come with CD or any dev environment. you responded with "That there was no dev environment on release demonstrates precisely nothing"

can't you see how wrong your response is?
Then have different terms for different purposes. Charge LLM trainers and request that 3rd party apps show ads.
Knowledge is valuable. Just knowing you could fix this gives you confidence next time when something else breaks. But I also think it has an intrinsic value. It just feels good to learn. Compared with just, for example, entertainment, I usually prefer to learn. One could ask, what is the marginal cost of viewing Netflix. The monthly cost is one thing. But what could you have done with your time instead?
Capitalism is not monolithic. Markets and businesses work very differently in different countries on different continents. Or in the same country a few decades apart.

Shrugging at shitty practices and saying "capitalism" is at best reductive and unhelpful.
I would say size correlates rather strongly to bad incentives for the shareholder class vs society.

Mark Z was an open source bro who turned down M$ in High School and ended up open sourcing Synapse. He built Facemash and Facebook and was going to build an open-source, decentralized file sharing network (“Wirehog”) but the Venture Capitalists proudly “put a bullet in that thing”. Gotta extract them rents!

I heard Sean Parker myself on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2010 telling the story. Sean likewise tried to make a file sharing economy (Napster), and got nailed for it by another set of really big monopoly-like organizations, in the music and movie industries. He learned his lesson of capitalism: don’t mess with the centralized control!

Peter Thiel, the first investor in Facebook, says like you: “competition is for losers, build a monopoly”. That’s not hyperbole, that’s the actual title of his talk at Google, that I listened to.

With such investors it is no wonder that Mark Z went from an open source bro to corporate golden boy who buys up the competition, makes unilateral decisions — moves fast, break things — and then says “calm down, breathe, we hear you.”

Society has become like this (lonely, angry, addicted) not by accident. It is the end result of the system where shareholders and venture capitalists and the profit motive shape our platforms.
Dupe.

Covered extensively two days ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36330812>
Good, switch to it for a couple of years, use multiple vendors and then let everyone know how Android is a viable alternative to iOS.
I'm actually not that comfortable with the idea of deleting my account. Deleting part of my history especially if i don't really have a convenient way to archive (and see) it isn't something I like. I even still have my Facebook account!
Is it unethical (stupid) to sell your reddit account(s), instead of deleting them, to maximize effects of protest?
In looking for "past" articles from this I stumbled upon this from 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9170615

It's interesting how differently we discussed DevOps back then.

EDIT: also ThePrimagen reacted to this article yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVEEpUvl0Kw
That’s basically just Lemmy/kbin. Those two services can even interconnect with Mastodon thanks to ActivityPub.

As I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, moving text around on the Internet has been a solved problem ever since NNTP. And that was 1986!

The only problem is that there’s not a lot of money in it, which is why having the ability to federate a bunch of smaller services together is such a good solution (at least on a technical level).
I feel like the "Store an index to get around the borrow checker" largely moves the problem - now you have A) array-bounds-checking bugs, and B) either "list was re-ordered, you now have the wrong item" or "can't compact the list, it just keeps growing even when old items are no longer used" bugs.

Sure, you no longer have to satisfy the borrow checker - but it was a tool to help you catch bugs, and you've cleverly avoided getting that help.
> For instance, to pick German again, when "caching" certain parts of sentences for later processing, which does not exist in other languages.

Do you have an example for this?
If you look around a bit, it’s not their users who are making noise about wanting it. Why should they care about a competitor’s users?

As one of their actual users, I’ll tell you this. I am sick and tired of all these loud mouths being outraged on my behalf. I made a rational decision to buy an iPhone, knowing full well what it means. In the end all that matters is that it works well, and most likely will for a long time, as for now I’ve my successive iPhones have been used for at least 5 years (apart from the 3G which was unbearably slow after 3). I don’t hate openness, customisation and tinkering, which is why my main desktops run Linux. I just don’t want to be a sysadmin for my phone, which is something you really often see actual iPhone users say, including in this thread.
The AI Act EXPLICITLY enumerates all use cases that will be considered 'high-risk' (Annex III). If your use case is not on the list (or on the 'prohibited' list), then you're good to go. There's no mechanism where someone opposed to your model can argue you should be high-risk because of supposed harms perceived or dreamt-up by some political group. (Caveat: The list of high-risk use cases will probably be able to be amended by the Commission unilaterally after the regulation is enacted.)
> All phone makers should make their devices last for a minimum of 10 years after purchase.

I don't think it's necessary. They should just allow full user ownership and let the community use the phones as they wish. Including the Android's closed drivers, which should become FLOSS after 10 years or so.
The filter has been able to be deactivated and changed by instance owners for at least a year.
Yep, instantly followed them from lemmy.world. :)

Someone joked that it's natural for Star Trek to join the Federation early.
One of the most essential components of a successful and safe approach to contract lifecycle management in any business or organisation is contract risk management. By reducing the anxiety associated with prospective hazards, you improve your contract risk management and provide yourself access to amazing opportunities.
Well I for one don't care for the taste. It's not that cheap either. At best you can find one that is inoffensive. Why would I spend money and effort going to a bottle shop for something I regard that way? Drinking it at home confers no social benefits, confers no meaningful health benefits either, nor is it the cheapest method of getting drunk if that's what you're after.

Some of the sweeter ports are pleasant. I basically only drink water now though.
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Certainly harder to work on but you can do your own maintenance. I have a BMW R1200GS, and there's really nothing you can't do yourself. Most of it is mechanical and the computerized stuff you can use diagnostics tools like GS911.
Hong Konger here:

Or four times: Acquisition price, usage price, storage price, and disposal price

Hong Konger who rents here:

Or five times: Acquisition price, usage price, storage price, moving price and disposal price
Why wouldn’t? It’s open source

Reddit is a trademark but that’s another story
The price reddit is charging for API access seems much higher than the value to Reddit of the ads that are being blocked by the client using that API.
What about translation?
Kagi is pretty good, but as someone living in a 3rd world country, it is too expensive. They say 300 queries/month is enough for almost everyone, but I've almost reached that amount in just a few days. And few cents per query adds up when I do multiple searches per topic, times ten for currency weakness.

AI search engines like perplexity.ai are too slow, and I end up clicking the referenced links anyway.

Once my Kagi credits are used up, I'll go back to DDG, which has better results than google in my experience. Though reddit being gone makes it hard to tell rn.
Imgur was profitably hosting images until reddit brought image hosting in house.
My 14+-year-old laptop not just receives security updates. It runs the latest Debian without any problem and I see no end to this. What's the problem with phones?
Because Mozilla misleads users with corporate-speak bs, telling them that they respect their privacy when in reality they have a history of doing anti-user nasty stuff.

Today, the public is well aware that G, Meta, Amazon, Apple, etc... spy them and monetize their data to sell ads. So most people using products from those organizations know what to expect.

What Mozilla does is worse than FAANG. They release anti-user and spyware features but they have the nerve to preach in their site, docs, UX, etc about how they "lead a revolution to save the web" and "deeply care for user's rights". Perverse and disgusting.
This is not true in developing countries. From my experience, the poorer a country, the more likely you are to see extensive, serious use of Facebook. And the revenue growth opportunity is huge for FB in these places. It is already flat or slightly negative in highly advanced countries.
I actually like the idea. Many things pay-per-use are actually cheaper unless you use it basically constantly, because if it isn't cheap enough, many people would stop using it, thinking: is listening to it right now really worth X amount? People have a strange attachment to the concept of ownership, so that they are willing to pay extra for it. Pay-per-use is actually a more profitable concept only when people are hesitant to buy something fully, because they are not sure if they would use it enough.
> I keep seeing this ubercynical take that "mods are all on a power trip" from people who are clearly planning to invest in the IPO

I think most of the people who are negative about Reddit mods are not because of any IPO.

My theory is that a significant amount of the people who are very negative of Reddit mods are people who have had negative experiences with mods from Reddit or mods in other communities, and who are generalising their experiences to apply to all mods.
Thank you for linking this. I read about old computer stuff all the time on the internet and I've never seen it, and I'm kind of surprised that's the case.

I am super excited to screw around with this tomorrow, and hope my kids will enjoy it too.

I'm already sharing it around on irc and stuff. Thanks again.
Doesn't this just show the fundamental problem with the genre? In the time it takes to get a high level character with good gear in DIII you could have played another, shorter, game to completion. If you have to play through an entire game's worth of bad content to get to the good bits, why not just play a game that's good from the start?
You really do gotta keep things organised when you have a lot of Devs working on the same project. There are of course right amounts for right team size/task, but I've worked at startups growing where people started off with the individual contributor mindset and it became unmanageable as more people joined
Ah, the industry is out in force spreading FUD thick and early.

Here's what EU AI Act is actually about: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-truth-about-the-eu-ac...

And no wonder the (mostly American) AI industry is so outraged by it: it requires accountability.
1) Intelligence is the mitigation of uncertainty, if it does not mitigate uncertainty it is not intelligent.

2) Compose challenges in which successful criteria exists, without known or obvious established solutions. Grade these by complexity.
Not sure I'm following here. I can't really think of another motive for doing what they are doing. It's an attempt of a pump before dumping it in the public markets.

What else could it be?
My memory is very blurry about it but IIRC in Skyrim you can reset your build with a spell or something, and even change class with a side quest (possibly even appearance, or even race, but that one may have been a mod), so you can really do everything in one playthrough with one character (Ship of Theseus notwithstanding)

IIRC a couple of quests had branches that were mutually exclusive on some conditions though (mostly either you get reward A xor B)
Five years of free support, not too shabby!

Those stuck with systems they cannot upgrade can always pay, but most likely the best-effort patching from your Linux distribution of choice will provide the patches for you.

Better make migration plans soon, though; OpenSSL fixes may not be backported at the same time they're released for newer versions and you don't want to get caught with a vulnerable HTTPS server because Canonical or Red Hat needed a few extra days to backport the fixes.
I’d argue that the management/user relationship has been dead ever since they killed Secret Santa.

Some others might argue that the Victoria firing is what did it, but at least the admins were still showing up publicly at that point in random threads and trying to justify it to the community.

For Secret Santa, they basically just said “this doesn’t make us money, so we’re not putting any resources into it anymore.” It was made even worse by the fact that it was originally a community thing that Reddit corporate willingly took over to help manage better. And they just killed it as soon as it wasn’t generating value anymore.
I don’t think this is about competing with Cloudflare. Google Domains is good-enough and likely better for most of their users than Cloudflare, if only because they already have a Google account and know the brand.
Well, startrek fans already have the built-in knowledge of how federation works so I guess that might have been easier than other communities.
This is what i find strange about this

Surely this was at worse profit neutral, or could have been with a modest price hike, I know I would have continued using them even if their domains were an extra $1/year vs competitors because I trusted them more
Charge for commercial usage. The goal would be to re-capture value from commercial entities that use plain reddit posts (not paid reddit advertising) for commercial gain. A prime example would be a publicity firm hosting an AMA with actors to promote the release of an upcoming movie.

Update the standard user ToS to allow for only non-commercial use. Introduce paid plans for commercial usage. Introduce terms that allow for legal remedies to prevent companies from opening accounts only for the one month they want to host an AMA. Just like mods can decide whether or not a particular post is wearing a "mod hat", let commercial accounts decide whether or not users can wear the "commercial hat". Etc.

Price the plans such that the revenue reddit generates scales alongside the value that the commercial entity gets from the account.
be careful for what you wish for. 4chan went from both good and bad at the same time to overwhelmingly bad, eclipsing and later drowning the good due to reddit's initial purge of problematic communities implicitly encouraging them to migrate to communities like 4chan. Reddit fostered and encouraged these communities (it is said that spez was a mod for jailbait subreddit) in the initial days when its aim was to become the website with most active users/content. You really don't want reddit users here.
My main annoyance with libressl is the absence of SSL_CERT_DIR and SSL_CERT_FILE.
They are often handy for example for testing.
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I am not sure why this is downvoted, The Grauniad is well known for bleating smugness.
macOS-wakatime: open-source native automatic time tracking
Subtitle. Subtext is the meaning implied but not stated by a given text. :)
This is a good point. With tsan and helgrind multithreading becomes manageable in C/C++, nothing like that exists (or will exist) for Python.
> But, in any event, that's a community-level issue, not an instance-level one, and as such I'm not sure what it has to do with the topic of federation.

Instance == Community. The rest of your post I've already addressed and I'm not going to go over again. You calling out the Mastodon Server Covenant does not particularly make sense because it's not an authority, it's a listing of servers. Again you seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of how federation works given that you keep using incorrect comparisons.
The point was this: Reddit should have held costs down to be profitable. Growing at all costs is not a great way towards profitability, believe it or not.
It's the lazy way out to world design for non linear games.

Why put any effort in making sure player locality influences the surrounding quest level, if player can go anywhere, let's put level appropriate enemy everywhere.

Dungeon siege approach was so much better, even if the game was not as solid: minibosses or higher difficulties quests barred the access to higher difficulties areas. Within a zone, progression and choices were non linear. Item and enemies and xp reward were leveled to the zone, so the player had an incentive to not stick around in low level zones farming aimlessly.
You make some good points but if there's one fatal flaw these big tech CEOs and their boards seem to have it's hubris. Reddit doesn't have a moat and it also doesn't have data that's amazingly interesting. This may very well be part of a power play by Huffman but he's forgotten the only two things that really matter at the end of the day, which are quality and volume/scale. Screwing his mods hurts him on both of those counts, because bottom line is it will result in people leaving and putting their energy into rival projects. Tech giants can and do fall and it almost always happens because they lose sight of those two things which matter and get embroiled in their own internal political navel-gazing BS. If he is sacrificing quality and scale for anything he's slowly signing the death warrant of the business he manages.

Mind you this may even be intentional - "let's move this business into the maturation phase where it continually gets shittier and our margins get higher until it collapses and we sell it off or something" is a completely normal and regular strategy, happens all the time, businesses exist to make money for their owners. All businesses go through three phases, growth, maturity, and decline. But as a user or consumer if you see it moving toward the end of the cycle it's usually in your best interest to get the hell out sooner rather than later.
That fills some void, but not all. I particularly liked the <local city> subreddits, used it to find cool events, but now the only alternative is .. Facebook or nextdoor (yikes)
There's already a ymacs port in the App store.
I’ve always thought this is a pretty big blindspot in Rust. Having a raw pointer and having an index into an array are essentially equivalent, and doing this in Rust is a way to turn off the borrow checker for this particular object.

The index is bounds-checked, sure, but lifetime issues like “double free” or “use after free” are every bit as present with indexes. For instance, if you have an index in one place, but it’s deleted and/or reinitialized to some other place, you are now holding on to an object in an undefined state. Using it will cause the same issues “use-after-free” does in C. Best case scenario in that cases is that it crashes, but it’s just as likely your program will just silently be wrong.

I’m not saying not to do it, I’m just saying this is something Rust developers needs to be aware of: storing indexes like that removes a whole bunch of safety guarantees the borrow checker checks for you, without any code marked “unsafe”.
How will this affect websites which are using the static Firebase hosting bundled into the google domains deal?

As part of the Google Domains deal, I get free static hosting on Firebase…
We often complain about being distracted, including by the beeping, buzzing, notifying, LED-flashing of our tech devices. But what if you had the ingrained habit of being distracted? What if your distractions weren’t only caused by external disruptions… but by yourself?
There are also programming languages named "Dala" and "Dale".

Dala and Vale are memory-safe. Vala and Dale are not.
I think that's a logical error; I don't care about how much the contractor makes after tax, I only care what the cost to me is.

After all, if the contractor had some strange anomaly where he pays 100% of his income in tax, why would that matter to you?
old.reddit.com is the only way that I can use reddit. I tried the new interface and it's just so bad. The change isn't subtle either. It's like using a completely different site.
"The" Atari (the 2600) used essentially a 6502, which is quite a lot earlier and simpler than the 68k.
I think the code is less interesting then the (graphic) design and some of the wording (kharma) that people are used to. And maybe further expressions like AITA or /r/whathever. How is the legal situation here I wonder