skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A typical financial institution

Could you elaborate on how the Python ecosystem will suffer if these financial institutions get left behind? What sorts of contributions come from these users in particular?
That’s not what that library was in my opinion, it was a compatibility layer not a rewriting tool which is what I referenced. Having a layer in between simply prolongs the issue and creates many types of problems based on adoption or not. On the other hand, when rewriting you can apply that either as an author or as an end user depending on the quality which meaningfully allows for different results.
> Nobody has ever chosen Python for its runtime performance.

How many people do you think would complain if the python devs. replaced numpy and pythorch with pure pyhton implementations for an April fools joke?
This is really illuminating.

I'm an O'Reilly author, so I'm biased.

I feel like O'Reilly (the owner) and O'Reilly (the publisher) have both done so much for the tech community that I'm inclined to trust their interpretation and motives.

I still love Perl. It was my first love.
Yeah I've got a few thousand lines of langchain code now for a data cleaning pipeline... I've been fighting it every step of the way. Trying to replace sections of the pipeline to use a local LLM instead of OpenAI has had me have to replace the templates entirely, the chat based templates won't allow me to assign the proper user/assistant names, so the performance for the local LLM is terrible (stupid). They have zero actual composibility when you look at it slightly differently than they expect.

It's a useless abstraction for every single purpose I've actually tried it for.

Will be extricating it from my code base as soon as I find something else that works any better.
It's still used heavily for internal processes and internal web sites that query databases etc. At least at some of the large publicly traded companies I know about...
Tradition tied to a consistent order is not relative. It is designed specifically to out-last relative approaches to deconstructing tradition.
Remember "concentration camps for the unvaccinated?"

There's still people out there convinced that their knit face masks would save the world from Sin if only everyone else would wear them too.

Has a mania for orthodoxy ever served a society positive results? Why do we keep buying these fads? Why do we hate those who urge caution while they're running?
Yep I responded in another comment but I use sed and awk almost daily but I never learned Perl. It's actually something that could be useful in my current role though -- is there a particularly good intro to Perl in 2023 that I might want to look at?
So nerds don't exist in crypto? Because that's another loaded statement.
I'm not necessarily saying virtual machines are more secure, but, here's where I think the difference might be: the api.

Linux has so many system calls, and with each new one you get a whole new attack surface (e.g. most recently with io_uring).

But the attack surface with hypervisors is pretty static, and perhaps can be better reasoned about.

Again, not strongly arguing which is safer, but just pointing out that there is a pretty fundamental difference between the two that could make for a difference in security.
I think this is where concepts from Rust and Go could come in handy. Things like Go’s race condition detection and rust’s compiler validation approaches can be used to statically analyze code. Sure, it’s a meaningful change from how many Python devs approach the language and challenging problem but not insurmountable given the existing work in the field.
You can. But the point of this exercise seems to be cpu efficiency.
If you give the government new extraordinary powers it will use them "only in necessary cases" but "necessary cases" has a way of creeping...

- Year 1: Terrorists.

- Year 2: Powerful gang leaders and drug kingpins

- Year 3: Run-of-the-mill murderers and kiddy diddlers

- Year 4: Deadbeat dads and unpaid parking tickets

- Year 5: Suspects who have encountered police and been released without being charged with a crime

Prime example: Civil forfeiture in the US. Was originally supposed to only be used on the worst of the worst drug cartel types, nowadays they'll use it to confiscate the life savings of some random black kid.

"That government governs best that governs least." You know, those limited government folks might be on to something...nah, they're all crypto grifters and crazy right wingers [/s]
From my understanding. GPT-4 is the biggest, or one of the biggest. It was trained on low quality internet datasets, like the others. What makes it different is post-training on custom data with human supervision. We know they even outsourced that to Africa. Second, they integrated it with external tools. Like Python interpreter, internet browser. But the first is most important. Also most likely they have experimented and found some tricks which make it bit better.
Unpopular opinion, but I think we'd be so much better off if Netscape had just embedded a Perl interpreter instead of creating JavaScript. Perl CGI was already the dominant server side technology at the time and it has incredible string manipulation capabilities that would be beneficial for browser scripting.
Only for now, because the minimum is 32 ETH to solo stake. Even then, people can run Rocket Pool minipools with 8 ETH and eventually, it’ll go down even more. And if you still don’t have enough, you can just buy rETH so you get block rewards and MEV.

You can’t even mine with Bitcoin PoW and break even, unless you buy ASICs, and even then, the % ROI is way less than what you’d get with Ethereum PoS (~3.3% for everyone, regardless of how much they stake) In that sense, Ethereum is way more equitable than Bitcoin.

There are also layer 2s which make transactions less than 10 cents, and will be even less with the client updates around September this year.
FWIW, for my current methodology, I capture the text - often from a Tranquility Reader version of the page - and then apply a macro in Notepad++ that removes 90% of the remaining junk. Then save it to a text file.
> Yes, awk and sed were replaced by Perl,

I still use awk and sed semi regularly. I haven’t used Perl in over a decade.
they also weren't applications, if that's what you're implying. But they quickly found quite a lot of highly valuable ones.
https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod

Ironically this is also from Meta which would be contributing to this space increasing the expertise of achieving this result.
> where there is some private excitement that we've built an AGI

This is a great litmus test for if you need to get a reality check.
No, but neither do most SPAs.
Ironic, considering that you just infringed their copyright by reproducing that article in its entirety.
i'm not kidding, i believe Steve (tech jesus) has a bulldozer in his personal rig.
Probably CVS or RCS.
> Scala was a dead end.

I'm sure all the companies, like Microsoft, Twitter, Disney, and basically every bank out there, will be very surprised to hear this.
I always figured React Native and Flutter were meant as alternative ways to develop apps. Kinda disappointing Facebook and Google don't dogfood their own frameworks too much.
Yes. You need notes that you can search through, and useful information that you've collected.

Otherwise you're limited by what you can hold in your head - and as you get older and take on more ambitious work you'll find that's a pretty big restriction.

My version of that is spread out across way too many places now - it's mainly https://til.simonwillison.net/ and https://simonwillison.net/ for published notes, 700+ public GitHub repositories for code and issue notes, 100+ private repositories for private code and private issue notes, a Pocket account with 8700 items in it, plus the contents of my 15+ year old Dropbox folder structure, an old Evernote dump and a continually growing S3 bucket of larger things.

I tried to tie it all together with a unified search engine, but that needs some more work: https://simonwillison.net/2020/Nov/14/personal-data-warehous...
Why should you take away my chance to -create- any of those too tho?

To save the planet?
Meh
The correct place to solve these problems is at the operating system level, but that's a difficult space to break into, and so people are trying to solve adjacent "containment" problems with different mechanisms like virtualization and emulation.

Here's what it could look like if it were solved at the operating system level.
This is a talk about the Helios microkernel, which is based on seL4.
https://drewdevault.com/2023/02/20/2023-02-20-Helios-aarch64...

The most important thing he says in the whole talk is that "Helios can run another instance of itself within itself, without virtualization".

We don't need any of this extra complexity, emulating entire machines, to be secure. We just need to build applications on top of APIs which allow for security. An application that needs a few seL4 endpoints to do its job is much easier to properly integrate into a secure system, than an application which expects the whole POSIX circus.
Perl was huge in the early web and first dot-com boom, it was used a lot for CGI scripting.
i do not think you understand the concept of scope.
Money from consulting fees. https://twitter.com/minilek/status/1509678967472549889
Is discussion a shiboleth here for -exchanging- money?
Seeing devexpress components in Lazarus would be a dream come true.
I swore off those Chinese manufacturers (Lenovo, Asus, Acer, etc) many years ago for similar reasons and haven't looked back. I just don't buy any products from them, laptops included. Surprised people are still having to learn the hard way that their products are crap.
> marketing not technology will win

As it should. No matter how amazing the technology may be, a social network that almost nobody uses is a dud. IMO every day that Bsky stays in private beta it is losing more potential users. Marketing is more important than tech. Look at Threads, there is nothing particularly revolutionary about it’s tech, but in large part thanks to marketing and seeding the platform with well known users, it appears to be off to a great start.
Fires up thousands of GPUs to train more models to solve climate change
If you’re aiming for simplicity, how did tailwind make it to the list? Why not use plain CSS?
Data Science is a form of statistics. Algebra II is a pre-requisite for statistics. How is replacing a pre-requisite with a more advanced class is a good idea?
I'm reminded of the Chris Hedge's mini-doc "American Psychosis", around minute two where he notes of puncturing the illusion and optimism as a disease: https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/american-psychosis-chri...
This doc has no info about perl version 0. Any source on it emerging at JPL? Can't find anything online except forum posts
That differs but is a reasonable understanding. I’m instead referring to automations that perform large scale refactoring as handled by Facebook, who would be contributing to this effort.

https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod

It sounds like what you are describing is what’s known as poly fills which convert code into a variant that maximizes function across implementations which isn’t really applicable here.
It’s actually one of the biggest points of Proof of STAKE. People put ETH on the line, a substantial risk, to act accordingly to the rules set by nodes. Early adopters and the most passionate reap the rewards by buying earlier, and securing the network. Higher price also means higher security as it makes it harder and harder for bad actors to buy ETH and attack the network.
This has been my experience as well (as a dev). Curious if there's others in the same sort of situation, and I'd love to hear more thoughts. My general tips are:

- Use as much as you can of what they already have.

- Talk to them, but don't waste their time.

- Follow their patterns.

- Understand at the end of the day its their domain.

- Choose your advice carefully.

- Try to throw a little extra gratitude their way.
Organizational visibility, code reviews, documentation, mentorship, whatever feels appropriate and not over-stepping.

- Put extra effort into handoff documentation.
It kind of sounds more like Thibaud wants to standardize a new “correct” logo over the one that’s being used everywhere by his own admittance.
Ok, yeah, that's true.
I find Python much easier to read and write, whereas I find it hard to write Perl as anything but an unstructured blob. Its main advantage for me is that interpreter startup time is significantly faster than Python, Ruby, Node, and most Scheme implementations. So it's useful if I ever need to call an external program for some text processing inside a shell script. Otherwise I strongly prefer the maintainability of Python.
It's already been a problem that airlines can book you on a schedule without enough time to make a transfer. I've only had that happen with US carriers at US airports, so far. When buying a ticket, I consider whether there is sufficient layover time given the airport.
Saving this for later on Pocket, hopefully it won't get lost in my ever growing list of links that I will get to categorize and maybe even read some day.
Yeah, I kind of wondered whether it was an experiment with a control system that could work on mobile
>I’m sincerely asking: has any modern social media platform delivered this?

On Twitter you can simply select "following" instead of "for you" and all the tweets you see come exclusively from the people you follow, in chronological order. If I was forced to sift through the endless mounds of garbage recommended by Twitter (or any a social media company) there is a 0% chance I'd use it.

>A big part of “social” is the buzz in your corner of the world, and recommendations help me be far more clued in

I think the big question is, what does "social" mean to you? Personally I only want to see posts and messages from friends, people and organizations I proactively choose to follow. As long as I'm able to personally curate my own experience the toxic brew of e-celebs, SEO nonsense, advertisements and government/corporate propaganda of all kinds if almost entirely absent from my timeline. It may appeal to some people but it is absolutely repulsive to me (and others).
Google Trends has sed crossing over perl about 5 years ago. Awk seems insignificant, which matches my expectation. (I’ve used sed but never awk, I don’t even know what it does)

Worth noting “sed” is “thirst” in Spanish, which has the potential to throw off the data, especially worldwide.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=p...
I believe they are in C, but arrays degrade to pointers when you look at them wrong, and _those_ don't have length as part of their type.

At least I'm seeing: `array type 'int[3]'` in messages when I tried to do something wrong with it quick to get an error message (using llvm), maybe that's a compiler specific thing.
> From what I've seen so far, people love debating code style.

In my experience with people who seemed to confirm this, the opposite turned out to be true. I spent an inordinate amount of time configuring linting and formatting to suit their tastes, to minimize any formatting subjectivity in code review. Their reviews got a lot more substantive and valuable pretty much immediately because their formatting concerns were evidently close enough to solved that they could pay attention to what the code actually did.

I’ve had similar success adopting formatting that no one likes just because it’s opinionated and no one gets to dispute it because they couldn’t if they wanted to without diverting resources to a new tool. Now we’re all unhappy with the formatting and still happy to be reviewing actual substance.

When the bad formatting gets in the way, it’s trivial to ask the question “is this just a whitespace change?” and everyone groans for a second, agrees that it is, and gets on with life.

And when there’s any remaining style considerations (oh you like, or don’t like, reduce?) that’s a much smaller space of style concerns to negotiate and settle.
Let's save each other some time:

What's more likely?

You convince the Internet connected world not to adopt a proof of consensus mechanism via HN comment and related butterfly effects,

or something just like the posted app/service not only exists but thrives in under 5 years?
Indeed, the atmosphere was some 230°C back in the Hadean, and we got along fine... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean#atmosphere
> I still wonder what makes GPT-4 so much better than its contemporaries.

OpenAI have had many years to craft their dataset down from the noisy public datasets, and GPT4 is (supposedly) a mixture of 8 "expert models" each of which is 220B (5x+ larger than the Falcon 40B) with a total of 1.7B parameters (3x+ Google's huge 540B PaLM). The hardware and software to train networks of that scale is also a deep moat. Relatively speaking, the model architecture ("gpt from scratch") is the easiest piece.
Next decade's winners can't change the way history was recorded.
i'm with you as long as -- by design -- it consists of the plainest of plain text, and will migrate with me along my life.

otherwise all the shine and chrome in the world won't make it superior to a filing cabinet and some free time.

that's the difficulty point for all of these personal PIM type tools, they all have their own biased view on things like file format and 'touchability' of stored data in the (unannounced) hopes of trapping a captive audience; no good.

Open standards, open formats, and a revenue stream that isn't user-hostile -- then i'm in.
Google Docs added an AI a few weeks ago.
Pocket isn’t a bookmark database, it is a tool for saving things to read later. The user interface is primarily built for reading, not organizing. I use Pocket extensively for reading, but I use Raindrop separately for organizing and managing content that I want to archive for future access with proper search, filtering, and categorization. To me, these apps serve separate functions and need different user interfaces for their respective purposes. Pocket isn’t really trying to be both things, and it seems odd to fault it for not being good at what it isn’t designed to do.
When you actually get down to it, they're pointless and counterproductive. Templates are pretty useless and have inconsistently implemented features which make them non-compatible with different LLM backends without changing all your code. Honestly, cannot recommend avoiding the library all together high enough.
no idea what you are talking about here - what is "pas Al" - post an example of what you mean.
The BEAM VM (Erlang/Elixir) recently optimized a related procedure as well https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/7426
LN UI is crap unless you use custodial services. People can just use zk privacy to anonymize, and run their own nodes to connect their web3 wallets to.
Methinks humans were not around at that time.
But what can Khoj do without that?
Hmm... let's pick one of these guys at random. Okay, Malone. Let's pull up his file (from WP):

Starting in mid-2021, Malone received criticism for propagating COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories, including making "dangerous" and misleading claims about the toxicity of spike proteins generated by some COVID-19 vaccines; using interviews on mass media to popularize medication with ivermectin; and tweeting a study by others questioning vaccine safety that was later retracted. ... In November 2021, Malone shared a deceptive video on Twitter that falsely linked athlete deaths to COVID-19 vaccines. In particular, the video suggested that Jake West, a 17-year-old Indiana high school football player who succumbed to sudden cardiac arrest, had actually died from COVID-19 vaccination. However, West had died years earlier, in 2013, due to an undiagnosed heart condition. ... On December 29, 2021, Twitter permanently suspended Malone from its platform, citing "repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy", after he shared on that platform a video about supposed harmful effects of the Pfizer vaccine. In an April 1, 2022 interview, Malone made the unfounded claim that COVID-19 vaccines are "damaging T cell responses" and "causing a form of AIDS". Malone claimed that he had "lots of scientific data" to back up his claim, but did not cite evidence.

Bhattacharya and Atlas went on to promote the antivax Great Barrington Declaration, sponsored by a liberatarian think tank known until that point mostly for rabid climate change denialism.

Point being: it's a huge stretch to say these guys were "proved right". And quite alarmist to assert that de-platforming them "proved deadly".
As someone with a PhD in education, anytime someone uses the phrase “real education” as an attack on new approaches to teaching and learning, it’s a gigantic red flag that their argument is unserious.
Has Bluesky addressed why not ActivityPub?
Don't have so much pride in yourself. Nobody actually cares what you're doing. Well, China might.

And this is probably illegal in several countries besides that since queries might have medical information or other protected data.
They where/are defending the Economic interests of the ruling classes of those countries indeed
Or.. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

Joseph Heller, Catch-22
I found your comment insightful until the "(often substandard)" part. This betrays the rest of your comment. You start out saying how arguing specific indentation style is superficial but then betray this with that comment. If it truly is superficial then it does not matter what you lock in as long as you lock it in.

As with many things it's not actually a technical problem. It's a social problem. And it can work. Where I am right now for example we do have formatting locked in and enforced by linters. And it's not an issue there's no debate about it in regular PRs at all. The code formatter adjusts it and that's that. If you want to change it, create a PR that changes the rules and put a cross section of developers on said PR to discuss it. Happens from time to time but not often and works well.
Anyone who believes cnn at this point I feel sorry for. They’ve discredited themselves numerous times. They and media more generally are known for selling fear and pushing certain narratives because fear sells. And operation mockingbird was never really concluded. Psy ops are now more ubiquitous than ever.

And it’s less hot now than the last few years where I live. And I don’t live in a big city. Big cities are hot as hell, and should be abandoned or completely redesigned because they are unlivable hell holes.
I cannot believe that Bluesky still hasn't opened its doors. There was a huge window of opportunity for them that now seems firmly shut.
I mean, we did?

Atmospheric CO2 levels in the pre-tree era 400 Myears ago was something like above 6000ppm, compared to 280ppm in the pre-industrial era. Even burning coal formed during this time like mad, 90% of the atmospheric CO2 is still just gone.
This has been going on as long as people immigrate to the West under any possible circumstances.

Next time you go for a ride, realize there's a good chance that your Uber driver is smarter and more educated than you.
N=1 - but been building on htmx for our startup since Sep 21. We got acquired a month ago with successful exit.

One of the best technical decisions we took.
You said nobody in your original reply to me and reiterated it in your other two replies. Are you sure that the vast majority of the conference attendees from other states fit the same profile of staying in a hotel downtown? Maybe they are but I would like to see some data.
Most of our matter was? (note: gallows humor)
My question, a few sentences into the article was “has the author already been there”?