skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super cool! Yet another example showing that animals are more complex than we thought :-).

> The researchers also say that the ants' movement could someday be used to inform the design of autonomous swarms of robots that perform search and rescue missions in disaster areas or explore landscapes on other worlds.

Can we stop with the default "it could be useful for search and rescue in disaster areas"? That's the default "I don't see an application, let me just find an extreme case to justify my research".

There is no need to justify it: learning about ants is interesting on its own, and so is building a new robot.
“I would assume a company like Raytheon has all their processes documented and can quickly spin up a new manufacturing line for a legacy product.”

As someone who has worked in this field, I almost spewed coffee out my nose. Thanks for the chuckles.
I hope that you're right. Even the current copyright duration is absolutely insane, and the world is losing trillions USD in progress/knowledge/opportunity just so Disney can sell Mickey f@¢#ing Mouse! Enough already!

I'm willing to give the 1998 legislators the benefit of doubt -- they were probably clueless when it comes to internet and technology. But extending copyright further now should be seen as a crime against humanity.
"From Systems Thinking to Systemic Action: 48 Key Questions to Guide the Journey" by Lee Jenkins.
Oh, duh. I shouldn't try to read code past midnight...

Thank you!
Apart from the fact this list is a bit repetitive, these aren't lessons in how to get rich, they are actually a description of what being rich IS.

You can have your own ideas because you don't need your job, it doesn't matter if your boss doesn't see things the way you do. You can sell things because you are completely aligned with your own ideas, not bound to what some existing business needs you to sell.

You can focus because you don't have to do things like take care of the laundry and pick up the kids. You don't need to work so you can work hard on whatever you want.

You can build a network because you have time.
> I would assume a company like Raytheon has all their processes documented and can quickly spin up a new manufacturing line for a legacy product.

Do you assume that they had all of their processes documented 20 years ago, and that they have retained all of that documentation, and that the documentation is appropriate for a 2023 workforce and doesn't make assumptions about the audience that would be invalid today?

Because I would bet that that isn’t all true.
That's just because google is a corporate person who is more equal than a human person. Human persons, at least in the USA, get charged under the CFAA 1030 law if they're using non-browser tools to access the public website of someone with power and/if they happen to rock the boat (like weev w/wget).

That's not to say that I disagree. In most cases robots.txt is not legally binding. It only becomes a legal danger to not follow it when the person running the site has power and can buy a DA to indict you.
Yeah, threads.com is taken by a slack competitor
My high school computer science teacher (almost 30 years ago that is) used to say: "A program that 'almost works' is like a plane that 'almost flies'".
> The details of how this standard works

The standard works by being CCS with Tesla's plug. It's CCS with a changed plug. That's all.
Writing open source code is not one of my FAANG check boxes. Could maybe do it as 20% with lawyer approval.
The people who truly hate code work in upper management. Coders are expensive, hard to hire, and tend to say no a lot.

You can make so much money selling hoax ”zero code” solutions, as management is very happy to drop money into projects that promise to replace coders with Magic Product(tm)
Some part of it creates cloud specific resources, and you might also for good reasons have cloud manged database or data storage that your k8s services use. However, "k8s on a specific cloud", is mostly the same, except for the outer edges.
Also important is Chesterton's fence and the history lesson when touring existing code. What were the business requirements the first time around that were thrown out the window for version two, but there was no time for refactoring so version three has this known wart that version four tried to refactor but that wasn't complete until version five which had this new feature that needs another refactor.
If it doesn't work, under the Consumer Rights Act you need to ask for your money back, paying for stuff that doesn't work encourages companies to half-arse things.
> Marketing theory is never tested rigorously.

Of course its tested "rigorously". Performance marketing is always about testing and optimizing CAC/CPA. It can make or break your company. If you can acquire customers at 10% lower rate(at the same volumes) than you competitors and you have similar COGS, you will dominate them and will ultimately will be the market leader. Monetary incentives are there to ensure efficiency just like there are incentives around COGS for efficiency.
Telegram Bot with SvelteKit and Vercel
I think killing animals and eating them is an extreme position too but it’s considered obnoxious to say that, so how is this any different?
The difference is training. Scores of operators on the ground are already trained and experienced on the Stinger platform and the development of complete already.

Backfilling a proven stock item is faster than infilling a new platform. Refer to the training cycles required for tanks provided by the UK. Those tanks have qualified operators ( with matching tactical-operational skills, but there are few personnel to back up their abilities. The Stinger is valuable because of the established user base compared to that.
If you are interested in a somewhat gonzo story of early cryonics from an insider perspective, check out Bob Nelson’s book, Freezing People Is (Not) Easy. Fun read.
Germany spends roughly the same annually through post-secondary (normalized by total population) and that amounts to a higher percentage of GDP to support a lower per capita student count at all grade levels. They do have a lower population and thus lower absolute spending, but that shouldn't be relevant.
Biometric Card IC: Get ready for new payment experience – Samsung [video]
Just stop playing most AAA or mobile games and that should solve most of that for you. The exceptions being the God of War series, the Mario and Zelda series. I still get excited for those. And probably the next Elder Scrolls or Witcher game.

But other than that, lately I've been far more excited about the Persona series, Nier Automata, Spike Chunsoft games (especially Danganronpa), The Witness (a bit older now), The Outer Wilds, Subnautica, Slay the Spire, Inscryption, and Vampire Survivors.

Tears of the Kingdom is probably the best pure exploration game ever made, with Outer Wilds being better in some ways, as it's simulating an entier solar system in real time and has some really clever ideas in it, but it's a smaller game overall. I think I pretty much fully explored Outer Wilds (except the expansion) in 20 hours, I've aleady put in 80 hours into TOTK and I've seen maybe 40% of the content so far.
It’s more like learning different Linux distributions than learning different OSes.
As someone not particularly tuned into the Python ecosystem, what is "nogil", though?
Our World in Data – Economic Inequality
What would net-zero shipping look like?
First CRISPR-like system discovered in animals
Lenovo is not the only vendor who uses these tricks.

I have not looked recently at the Dell site, but in previous years, for many years, every time when I have looked at Dell Precision mobile workstations, they always claimed that the price that what listed at that moment was more than one thousand dollars less than the "normal" price.
If that were the case, then the docs would call that out and warn people not to use their project in production. Instead, it's listed in a way that any normal person will read as a point of pride.
In the first sentence they mention AI, that's how I know it's doomed.
Some kind of interesting chrome integrations happening. Having a powerline like bar up at the top, for example.

Im general I starting to feel like shells could & should do more to expose their state. As far as I can tell, we're limited on how much further we can take the shell experience by being restricted to PS1 and PS2 shell hooks. It feels like the shell itself has to evolve at some point.

There's so many obvious options. The shell could open up an API or have a 9p VFS for itself. It could embed wasm or maybe eBPF to add programmability.
Actually I think they're onto something, the company being required to get insurance [too] means they have more financial skin in the game. A crash when the car is being driven by the company's algorithm should be paid for by the company and not the driver. Same as if any other engineering defect causes an accident.
I wonder if there's a .do TLD. If so, they could've done khoj.do
Freezing someone is lethal to them. We have no way of bringing someone back from this state, so it can be seen as a form of assisted suicide.
he was also an executive consultant on the tv show version of What We Do In The Shadows, which for a few years was the best comedy show on tv imo. The Jesse Armstrong, Armando Ianucci, Chris Morris, Charlie Brooker Channel Four-some has a lot to answer for (although most of Ianucci's work is BBC produced). I think the only other writing comedian of that generation I respect as much is Sacha Baron Cohen, although his work is slightly different
Thats the "with a little effort" bit. But as long as you have a business case (eg. "we are adding this feature for our use, but it will lower our costs if it is upstreamed rather than maintained as a private patch"), it will usually be greenlighted.
That's beautiful - an actual low level work

The more I learn about semicos, the more I'm excited - there's some magic and complexity that software doesn't have

the focus on solving problems instead of endless arguments about philosophy like tdd is the only way to write software, microservices are the way to go, etc.
The `WASM-Bindgen` Guide
Software Engineers also hate sensationlist headlines/titles.
What happened to Kraft Heinz?
RT is blackholed in the EU.
How the Tour de France became a $100M business
No - because the value of dollars centuries in the future is essentially zero today.
They cost the normal amount when the government is buying them
This makes sense. I require lenses for VR headsets. But I know I require them. Imagine a regular person getting a Vision for showing off and Apple didn't verify they would get an optimal experience.
> They're doing not much useful except polluting a search for the case details with links to their poorly articulated take.

Polluting a search indeed. On youtube, it feel like every search result, even if not news related, is filled with links to news. I just don't get it.

> it looks like they lifted this off Reuters.

The source of most news is the AP or Reuters. If the company wants to add their spin on a topic, they'll have their journalists add to the ap or reuters articles.
yay, ants! A few thoughts:

- The overall idea passes the smell test. It makes sense that covering already explored ground is wasteful and walking in a way that minimizes that would be beneficial.

- Ants are known to store a vector from their current position to their nest so that they can walk a relatively straight path back home. I wonder if this vector is used to limit the chances of walking back onto a recent path, too?

- I learned a while ago that not all ants rely on pheromone trails to food discovered via exploration. For example, seed foraging ants do not rely on food pheromone trails. This is because there's a 1:1 between ant and seed and the location of fallen seeds is fairly randomized. So, a trail would only be misguiding. Modified walking behavior seems related to this - it's all about optimizing rate of food brought back to the nest.
My personal machine is a desktop, and I have a laptop that I use for light portable web browsing occasionally. But for work I've come to expect to be given a laptop. It means you can easily WFH, take it to a meeting, or hot desk, without needing to RDP/VNC. And neither I nor my company would want me doing work stuff on my personal desktop. I do know some developers who work by remoting to a VM instead (often as part of a compromise to let developers have admin/root access for development tooling)
Russian terrorists made crime twice on same place. First, they flooded most fertile territory in the world (to annihilate Ukrainian Cossacks), second they destroyed their own creation, to harm descendants of those Cossacks.
React, PyTorch, Tensorflow, and many others, all from FAANG. Benefits the ecosystem and their businesses. Not a bad trade.
Indeed, and that is why the Typescript team is against any feature that steps away from that relationship.
I'm surprised the article included ReviewMeta. It was a useful site but I think about a year ago the site owner said they wanted to stop running it, and for a while it was timing out. Now it appears to be up superficially, but it's afaict broken - every time I've tried to have it check a product, it comes back with "the data didn't look right."
> :) Oh I'm so glad you linked that, because I was trying to find that same blog series and couldn't figure out the right phrase to search, and I was so mad that I hadn't bookmarked it when I originally ran into it.

Happy to help, I certainly get a lot of mileage from that one:) A convenient one is also the series on the Fremen mirage, which is another trope tough guys like to throw around: https://acoup.blog/category/collections/the-fremen-mirage . It’s actually related to the point you were making. These people like to talk about the fall of Rome and decadence as if what came before was a kind of golden age, but I don’t think their reasoning prowess goes far enough to actually come up with some arguments as to what was better before and why. They are focused on what went bad (disintegration, obviously because men were weak, women were rebellious, and there were immigrants).

> maybe it's the Twitter phenomenon where a news article reads a tweet that was liked 5 times and then makes a controversy about what society believes now. Or maybe I'm embedded in such a narrow sub-culture where I'm more likely to see wild takes about the past.

Yeah, it’s difficult to gauge this sort of things now because Twitter is such an echo chamber, and the most vocal communities are not the largest. I don’t claim to be perfectly informed either, far from it. Imperfect as it is, mainstream media provides a better view, I think. The future will be interesting if Twitter disintegrates.
Some % of the population buys more than one mattress in a 3 month period, intentionally. Perhaps they are landlords, or have 2nd homes, or want to stock their new home with new furniture.
> None of the Twitter Files involve a government order to censor speech.

Several of the Twitter Files have given concrete examples of Government officials providing lists of specific examples of speech and/or speakers that they want censored.

Again, here's an example that has already been provided in this sub-thread:

> We released a list of 354 names Maine Senate Angus King wanted taken down for reasons like “Rand Paul visit excitement,” “followed by [former Republican opponent Eric] Brakey,” and my personal favorite, “mentions immigration.” For balance we also released a letter from a Republican official at the State Department, Mark Lenzi, who tells Twitter about 14 real Americans “you may want to look into and delete.”

https://www.racket.news/p/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter

All of which were backed up by threats from both parties that if the platforms do not do more to censor speech the politicians will get rid of the legal immunity platforms have traditionally had (going back to the postal service, telegraph systems, and the phone company) that those platforms are not legally liable for the contents of the speech of others sent through their system.
MVP of the Year: Threads
no GIL (Global Interpreter Lock)
As a therapist, I know what’s breaking couples up
They paid for the account in the name of their company, for company uses, with company money. If that's not account ownership then please define what is.
venv, virtualenv, pipenv, pyvenv, venvwrapper, conda, ...

Python4 needs a hard reset.
>I don't think there's any real evidence that people of immigrant background get "murdered by the police on a systemic basis" in France. If you have well sourced statistics on this, feel free to post, but for now it just sounds to me like a parroted talking point.

Just because you deliberately ignore the evidence to uphold your bigoted narrative does not mean that the evidence does not exist:

1) "Police, justice et discriminations raciales" by Fabien Jobard (2015): This book examines ethnic discrimination by the police in France, drawing on empirical research. It discusses how ethnic minorities, including immigrants, experience disproportionate levels of identity checks, violence, and harassment from law enforcement agencies.

2) Reports by human rights organizations: Organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have documented incidents of police harassment and discrimination against immigrants in France. Their reports often include firsthand accounts and testimonies from individuals who have experienced such abuse and oppression.

>Somehow, when the police engage in misconduct that's a systemic problem. But all of the following are just "isolated incidents" attributable to "sick individuals", no systemic issues with their culture or belief system at all right? No reason at all for ethnic French people to be upset or fed up?

So when the french police systematically oppress and murder french citizens with immigrant background you dismiss this fact while demanding evidence, while the evidence is publicly known, but you are very diligent in collecting every single immigrant french citizen's crime and have no problem with immediately blaming their belief SYSTEM. It's evident that you are not making objective judgments but are driven by bigotry and prejudice.

>I don't think watching a fictional film from nearly 30 years ago is going to be particularly valuable for improving my understanding of the current situation in France.

Although it's a film it accurately delves into the socio-economic struggles faced by marginalized communities in France. These issues still persist in French society, and the film provides insights into the root causes and systemic problems that continue to affect these communities today. Just dismissing it as fiction just shows that you have no interest whatsoever in having a nuanced discussion but just want to propagate your bigoted talking points.
The GIL is a conscious trade-off between contention/performance against a simpler code.

Without the GIL, you'd still need to use different locking/synchronization mechanisms to ensure thread safety (if required), but they'd be more nuanced and spread over the entire codebase (complicating the backend).
Perhaps that's what we should call ourselves, instead of "engineers". I suppose that'll only annoy the real firefighters instead though.
I'd guess it was true.

I've worked with engineering companies across Europe, and their documentation is always amazing, with full traceability of every component going back to the 80's. Everything from processes to weld inspections.

I'd assume that a company engineering weapons would be the same.
"Work" is loosely correlated with "Make money out of it" (especially for the ad seller)

The buyer of ads does (usually) keep track of conversion (as correctly pointed in the article, also the seller) and when optimizing their strategy they're usually ok with the results they get from it (because they sell and they have sales attributable to the online ads)

But here's the catch, making a more efficient ad probably doesn't make the sellers more money.
more like which python3-compat
Neat. My uncle worked on nuke stuff at Lawrence Livermore. He used to sleep talk incoherent phrases. I never made sense of anything but it was fun to guess. Stuff like "no, the crosstalk will ruin in" or "it's too close to the physics pack they will not approve".
We need cars that are actually affordable if we’re going to complete the electric transition any time soon.

The average annual household income in the UK is just £32k, putting this laughably out of reach for most.
> Nvidia could constrain VRAM for consumer cards because 24 GB is enough for games or AI inference.

Given some of the commentary in launch reviews for the 4000 series, I wouldn't be surprised if the overwhelming opinion was that they already are.
no Global Interpreter Lock
I'd also consider it. But an interesting question would be: when should we do it?

Let's assume the doctor says that we have 1 year left but a reasonably good quality of life until death. Should we wait until we're a few days away from death, or go to freezing right after getting the "1 year left" news under the assumption that the disease isn't as advanced and thus wouldn't require as big of a technology leap for a cure?

If we wait, the chances of being cured after waking up are pretty low (we are almost dead already due to the disease), but we'd have lived an extra year.

If we don't wait, the chances of being cured are a lot higher (disease not as advanced) but we might not survive the whole freezing process at all, and thus waste a year of life.
sudo apt install python3nogilispython3

sudo apt install python3ispython
> Management isn't a "next step" for developers but an entirely different career path. You don't naturally progress into it, and no one owes it to you. It takes a whole new skill set and lots of deliberate work to make the switch.

Really love this phrasing. It's so so true. It took me almost ten years to make the jump from when I decided its what I wanted to do (because at the time I was just a junior desktop support person). It has been worth it though.
They are mostly used to shoot down cruise missiles deep within Ukrainian territory, not planes (Russian planes don't fly over Ukraine controlled territory anyway, that would be suicide, and over frontline they have decent AAA).
There's nothing new in defence pods like Vitebsk-25 for aircraft, they existed for decades and even many civilian aircraft have them (like many Israeli passenger planes, knowing they can be subject to terrorist shootdowns).
Copyright is to do with protecting reproduction of works, no? What google has done here is scanning the book and indexed the content, presumably so it makes it easier for users to search books for relevant material. Assuming they don't reproduce large sections of copyrighted works in their search results I don't feel like they're doing anything wrong here.
Two reasons I think Windows exploits would pay higher than 'Linux':

1. The Windows (end-)user base is much larger than Linux (not counting Android), so a Windows exploit enables more potential victims.

2. Windows has been the de-facto corporate OS for a long time, so a Windows exploit offers more high-value targets.
Its presence makes it difficult for python to run multi-threaded.
This Will Be Easy
Now I am imagining Einstein inventing general relativity as a shorthand to deny yet another perpetual motion machine patent.
Is there some kind of vote bot ring or something?

This is a question with one short answer (at the time of my comment). It's hard to imagine why it made the top on its own merits.
Substack has finally added a setting to disable the subscribe wall.

Can you give me a feedback to confirm it’s indeed of for all of you?

I know this was the number one complaint I got on lobster and NH
What do you propose as an alternative? I write code in a lot of languages and I can't think of a single one where I don't have to consider the version. This applies to C, node, ruby, swift, gradle/groovy and java at least. Even bash. When developing for Android and iOS, I have to consider API versions.
thanks, giving up now.