skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is neat. Who is making the most interesting (and realistically viable, ie not just a research lang) language in this space? Eg, for me (! no language wars intended.. oof) there is:

1. Rust for if i want something C++-esque. Rich stdlib & crates, i love it. My primary language for everything.

2. Zig for if i need C. Interesting language, but i can't speak from personal experience. Seems to be gaining a lot of traction, makes nice choices, feature rich in the right places, etc.

3. ??? for when i want Python.

I'm asking about #3. Who (if anyone?) is making an attempt at "new and better Python"?

.. and yes i know, all these languages i mentioned, including Python, are not dead, are loved by millions, and are all very productive. My statements are not implying that they are anything but amazing. Please don't yell at me :)
I would be very greatfull to see how one can leverage it not for LLMs but for Stable Diffusion models
Is this a bug or something[1]? Or is The Verge seriously expecting me to read an entire article in black-on-red? This has got to be some kind of cruel joke, my eyes hurt after about 5 seconds.

Who came up with this atrocious design language? Ironically, the polar opposite of Miyazaki.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/f0E4br6.png
There's two reasons I think. (I have ~25 years experience)

1. In your code should know what the edge cases, loop condition issues, etc.

I think this is fair. If you don't know the edge case failures when you write your code, you could end up with something like the Microsoft Xune that shutdown for an entire day over a leap year failure.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/original-mic...

Keep in mind that code review will probably not catch all bugs, it's up to the original coder to write it. This is particularly true if you're the best person on your team, say. Or you're working at a startup where no one can really review your code other than you.

On the other hand well coded unit tests should help you here.

2. It's toxic brogrammer culture there -- where leetcode scores are all that matter. In which case it's probably best you were passed over.
Like the guy who accidentally killed the most people in history?

https://youtu.be/IV3dnLzthDA
Good news! I now am a landlord whose sole property for lease is land upon which a sign can be placed. I also offer an unrelated sign building service and my friend offers a sign painting service!
Agreed. I get the "You aren't done till you give up" and "I have been knocked down 55 times, I got up 56 times" thing, but it can blind you to a tactics issue.

But there has to be at least two things wrong here, since he had a very low success rate on applications and on interviews.
Apple’s been making better trackpads literally forever, and better drivers, too. I run Windows on an iMac Pro (for gaming) and sometimes use an Apple Magic Trackpad. It’s _dramatically_ worse in Windows than in MacOS.

So, as usual, it’s not just that Apple makes better hardware. They do — their trackpads have always been more precise. But the software interpreting signals from that hardware is much better as well.

In Windows I get more accidental touches turned to clicks; pinch-to-zoom is less reliable; taps are often misinterpreted or missed.
I bought a first-generation Framework a couple of years ago, and it's been perfect for me. I don't especially need a thin/light laptop, but what I care about is that it's snappy and sturdy, has a nice keyboard, and can be repaired to last long-term (like the Thinkpad T430 that it replaced). The Framework fits the bill on those fronts, so it earns a long-term position on my nightstand.
The M1 finally convinced me to forgive Apple for canceling the Apple ][.
The innovation difference between the browsers is not significant enough to merit a switch.

Commercially supported browsers have a big advantage. I remember google chrome in 1.0 days. And it was terrible. They became great after a while. In the same time, Firefox extensions started needing rewrite.

Now the innovations are happening on both sides. The difference is little to none.
Hi. Author here. I’m not a sockpuppet and genuinely have no affiliation with Oracle. It’s purely my own technical opinion.

I only recently registered the site and set up the blog because I had nowhere else to post it and did not want to use a hosted platform like Medium.

I was watching the recent Red Hat debacle from the sidelines and had some thoughts to put together about the general Enterprise Linux model.
Content creators and studios really need to get this quote through their heads. While price may be a factor, people also choose piracy because it actually provides the product they want, rather than the product that the corporations want to sell.

If there was a movie service that offered simply a paid download where I could browse a list of all movies ever made, buy a single file (let's say MKV) that contained the movie, my choice of audio stream(s), my choice of subs, that could be downloaded once and played any number of times, in any region, on any hardware, running any software, then you have my business! Figure that out, and then we can talk about price. Bandcamp mostly figured this out for music (except for the "all music ever made" part). How is it so hard for movies?

Also really tired of hearing the vague "licensing" excuses, too. "Oh, we can't do that because licenses!" This is an industry self-inflicted wound--one that they could fix if they really thought it was important.
My blame of Crystal is still lacking of discriminated union (like in Rust) and the hard to use macros system (while powerful)

Other than that, it's powerful.
The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think [video][15 Min]
It is not black on red besides the title? Did you not scroll anywhere past the title bit? :/

https://ibb.co/Fm0zz35
Miyazaki is pretty well known for having “world-class” dubs; I don’t think liking them is considered controversial. Liking the Akira dub or the dub on a Satoshi Kon film, on the other hand :-)
Whenever I see Linnaeus, I am accorded to this study of latinised surnames in modern Sweden and how they can be used to 'measure' social mobility:

https://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Swede...
This was my conclusion as well. Will wait to see what the response is here.
Nixhub: Search Historical Versions of Nix Packages
TBH the gist I get from this article is that the way the Linux project deals with security issues is a bit of a joke.
My hack was to purchase a 2017 vehicle with a 5 speed manual transmission. I reckon 95% of would be thieves can’t easily drive it away!
https://nim-lang.org/ for #3 probably
The whole thing is red for me (the screenshot I took is from below the title). I use Brave, but I also checked it out on Edge and Chrome, and there it's only the title (so I do think it's a bug on Brave). To be fair, even the title being black on red is absolute garbage-tier design.
As the article says, "So Meta and their supporters aren't going to give up on their plans to embrace and extend the fediverse just because of the pushback."
The section on "The next step in embrace-and-extend, coming soon to a standards working group near you" goes into more detail.
Yes it is.. I have customers that are still on RHEL 6 today and are only migrating to RHEL 7 because they were forced to..
> The unfortunate thing about the field is that subtle methodological errors often cause subtle failures rather than catastrophic failures as we're used to in many other branches of engineering or science.

I've been doing a lot of studying in the ML field lately, and I'm seeing this a lot. It is just another thing that feels like the polar opposite of everything else that I've done as a software engineer.

Miss a semicolon? Instant error.

Miscalculate some grads on one out of three layers? Every now and then it might even work! But the results will be weird.
This is like a competition to see who can lose the most money
I was replying to the parent comment’s broad message about avoiding old translations, not specifically Homer.
LinkedIn CEO on keeping users coming back, retreat from China, & “the reshuffle”
There's obviously no one-to-one, Miyazaki being a legend for a reason. But I've founded the work by Satoshi Kon to give me a blending of fiction and reality and depth of storytelling makes me think a little of what Miyazaki does.
So, that rant actually predates Oracle v. Google. (For a bit of a history of my LISA talk that you quoted, and then my added color on Oracle v. Google see [0].) Oracle has shown everyone over and over again who they are; it shows how deep the mistrust in Red Hat has become that Oracle seems benign by comparison.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpnncakrelk#t=15m16s
It used to be that the PIN logic was just a simple rolling buffer and substring(ish) search, such that for a 6 button keypad, an optimized 80ish button sequence would open every single vehicle with those keypads.
Mojo is one to keep an eye on for #3.

https://docs.modular.com/mojo/
Of course Meta hasn't been prevented from adopting an open standard. The section on "The next step in embrace-and-extend, coming soon to a standards working group near you" goes into more detail.
> The bit about it being unrecognizable as an implosion because of its unique construction is complete supposition.

the theory that it would have been correctly classified by the trained system seems an even less likely complete supposition - the only arguments I've seen in favor of it are argument ad incredulity fallacies
This is overly black and white IMO. For the million or so of us who live in the "first ring suburbs", e.g. Somerville, it's common to own a car for out-of-the-city trips, but use walking/biking/transit for day to day life and going out on the weekends.
This is fascinating. Thank you for sharing!
Even before Apple did that their trackpads were dramatically better.
Very easy counter argument: someone else will sell Fentanyl so my action is not immoral

*Before a downvote, understand what I am saying and to what comment is this a reply.
Seriously, to suport collaboration, postgresql is simple solution.
> cleaning a shooting range then not washing their hands after

Care to elaborate? Even handling bullets should be no more posionus than handling diver weights?
Is it wrong that I think I would enjoy playing Sim Parking Lot?
This is two factor auth but when the "thing you own" is the standard case.

I don't get why it's not a keypad and relay though. Sounds like a complex solution to a fairly simple problem. I might be missing something though.

Edit - ah it's intended to work with many other options like controlling indicators or wipers or something - so you choose some pattern that is your password.
For #3, I think Python is working on making a better python. I have some 'lingua franca' projects at work. Python projects are easy to hand off and the the iterations are getting faster. Most of these projects are currently in python 3.9, but i'm looking forward to the speed increases that 3.11 will bring.
$92,000 for their "Platinum" model. I am surrounded by farmers where I live and there's no way they'll be buying those. I'm stunned that anyone would pay that much for a pickup truck.

A new Mercedes-Benz E-Class E 350 cost $56,750, just slightly more than Ford's lowest priced EV Pickup.

Ford's leaders seem to be way out of touch with working class folks and their sales reports are showing it.
Show HN: Open-Source AI Landing Page Generator
I'm finally able to share AI-Landing Page Generator as open source.

This tool is designed to help you craft the landing page with minimal effort and maximum style.

You can try the demo here: https://aipage.dev

GitHub link is here: https://github.com/zinedkaloc/ai-page

I hope this tool will be helpful to others as well.

Looking forward to your feedback and contributions to make it better!
> there are millions of workers who would have been exposed in this way (e.g. me)

Good suggestion. Sounds like you can add a new data point. How are your blood lead levels?
If by no other means than adding things to the list constitutes a poison or how much of a given supposed poison is safe.
Yeah the article body is black on red for me too, on Firefox. Must be some glitch.
Whatever works man. So many Americans are obese, I wouldn't diss it.

For example, my friends always said I should try crossfit. I tried it 3 times all with failure. Then I began indoor rock climbing because my friend lost weight doing it. I tried it and loved it. Now I'm 30kg lighter. Took a couple of years, but whatever.

My conclusion: whatever keeps you going.
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Alot of it felt like a timing thing --- Firefox was huge, swore by it etc, but then Chrome just kept getting faster. Eventually switching over was a no brainer and at the same time any new users/new installs started to lean towards Chrome also and the momentum happened. Why would any new user/install switch in droves after that? Marketing is a tough sell when users (a huge chunk who barely know what the browser is let alone care about its open source/privacy/whatever) are happy just surfing along inside Facebook and it "works fine".
We currently have no reason to believe this, and information we do have seems to suggest that is very unlikely to be the case. I'm also guessing from my username you can infer that I don't think we even know enough to concretely say what is this "world" you are referencing.
Is that better or worse than the formally written ones that claimed we’d have several millions of cases of microcephaly today?
We’re getting a lot of comments from people who are not familiar with different markets. This is HN - where the focus is on Silicon Valley and associated companies. User is posting from having just left Meta. $475k as a PM with 16 YOE isn’t even remotely high when you consider probably living in one of three major cities in the US (Seattle, SF, NYC) and is working for a company known to pay such rates. This is a common compensation - not outlandish at all.

The other aspect is the interviewing. People here are unfamiliar with other markets. If you’re interviewing with FAANG and crew - you probably send out hundreds of resumes. If you’re picking really desperate startups - you might get 25% reply rate if you’re in a good economy. In other scenarios, getting a 2-5% reply rate is common. Thus why people have to apply to so many places and so liberally. You’re just sending the same resume as you do everywhere else.

The other thing is the interview process for a lot of these companies is harder and more selective. You’re competing with people from all over the world and many whom are on visas and want to stay in the USA. Your small shop in a city of 250k that pays one fifth what this person is used to isn’t going to be competing for the same talent.

My point is - wow, yes, people get paid differently in different markets. They also have different interview processes because when you get paid a lot, it tends to bring a much stricter interviewing environment because there are often way more qualified people than they can hire. (Whether you get into FAANG is a mix of luck and preparation - most everyone is qualified enough to do the jobs even if they don’t get hired but the interview process is extremely noisy and highly selective by nature)

I’ve gone through these gauntlets. I had to interview with 100 companies to get one offer. (Including 15 onsites) In other stages of my life, I interviewed with about 60 and got 6 offers. It’s hugely variable and often has little to do with you and more to do with the hiring environment. I was overqualified for most every job I’ve ever had or been interviewed for. As every job I’ve ever had has been a joke in terms of the challenge, the skills needed, or the intellect required. I’m including jobs I’ve had paying $15/hr all the way to $1m/yr. Don’t misinterpret the interview process as really being a strong signal to your ability to do the job. Especially with all the leetcode stuff.
I suspect that when German scientists reported that it was infeasible to create a fission chain reaction they knew. Knew that there were ways and knew not to turn their brilliance towards the creation of terrible weapons.

The last step in creation is relinquishing control. And while it is possible to use weapons wisely, an inventor must realize that once a thing is created he has no say in whether it’s used wisely.

For this reason I caution you all against the creation of any weapon you wouldn’t wish to face in the darkness of night, be it in the receiving end or as the responsible party.

Don’t create superhuman targeting devices. Don’t create targeted germ warfare. Don’t create antimatter devices. Don’t use AI to kill.

You are responsible for your own actions and your actions matter. Let us begin there.
Ah that Thinkpad 560E reminds me of my first laptop -- the perfectly chunky Thinkpad 380XD.

I adored that laptop. I loved how it felt, how it looked, how it sounded. I loved the beeps, I miss computers beeping and chattering to confirm that they are indeed powering on.

I loved the fan periodically revving every 30 minutes or so, reminding me that it was still alive but also putting into perspective that it had been utterly silent until that moment.

I still remember how the keyboard felt. Granted I wasn't doing much on it besides trawling through newsgroups and homework, but I haven't really come across a keyboard I've enjoyed typing on more.

The Filco keyboard I'm composing this comment on now isn't bad by any means, and I'm fairly happy with my Macbook's keyboard given its other strengths... but if I had the time, I'd find a way to get the 560E's keyboard on a laptop with a Chromebook Pixel's 2560x1600 screen and an M2 under the hood.
So does this “project”.

There are dozens of already existing products that are designed to do exactly this for pretty cheap.

https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPSrPR0
There are many vying for Python's space but no clear winner. I think because actually Python is good at many very different areas, and improving one usually makes something else worse.

Attempting to list some "better Pythons" by area, and the catches:

- golang for web: seems good and simple but also less dynamic

- Julia for scientific programming: Julia users are convinced it's better but converts are not queuing up. Also the story outside scientific programming is less convincing. Almost all ML/AI research is written in Python

- glue language / generic file wrangling... Not sure if there is a clear contestant!

- (shamelessly stolen from sibling comments) nim as a like for like faster/better replacement: faster and seemingly quite (still less) dynamic, but smaller ecosystem and unclear governance - currently one man and his GitHub login.

Incidentally, I think this "second best at everything" meme-fact is part of its success. There is a huge pool of people using Python for one purpose, who, confronted with a new need, can also use Python, even if it's not the best tool for the job. It integrates easily with whatever else is written in Python, and it's one less language to learn. This is IMHO where complaints like "why people use Python for X when it sucks" miss the point.
Interesting, even the US provides social benefits to undocumented immigrants

https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/cash-assistance-for-im...
Isn't this just less efficient electrical heating?
Or am I missing something.
Mojo for when you want python.

https://www.modular.com/mojo
Show HN: Mastering PR Dependencies with Mergify
The definition of slave is really getting diluted lately.
I hope/believe that we are near a tipping point. There is a very large and very substantial neighborhood premium based on what's around it, but the zoning is the same everywhere so the competition was legally restricted to greenways, sidewalks, parks, and HOA facilities. Even in the suburban US, it is a VERY desirable feature to be within walking distance of a park where young children can play. This has created a strange effect, where people (let's be honest, affluent people) accumulate a collection of aspirational wheeled items - strollers, bikes, weird electric skateboard-like things, and other wheeled things for the kids. These are coupled local government parks and spaces where people can ride a bike JUST FOR FUN. I mean it very seriously that greenways outright avoid any turns that might be useful for economic life. Riding bikes on the roads is mostly for the true anti-car zealots.

I've been ready to buy a house for few years, but I've realized I'm no longer happy with the whole package. I want to realistically be able to walk or bike to get a dinner, coffee, or groceries. Yet, city centers (in the south for sure) tend to offer the most dangerous roads for doing this, and unhealthy environment, and poor social atmosphere.

I'm sensing that there are more people on the sidelines (who have remove jobs, after all) who are ready to buy into better neighborhoods. These people may not be willing to give up their cars, but there is negotiating space, and it is relevant that these are people who have economic clout to force the issue.
It wasn’t pertinent to my point. I was merely pointing out that coal is a huge problem.

Also, the United States is 15% of global emissions, not 28%.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by...
And after that there is still Extended Support.

RHEL 6 is still under extended support until next year.
> Rents are very high because they assume you can live there without a car

Rents are very high in cities because there's not enough housing for everyone who wants to live there [1] not because of an assumption about car ownership.

[1] Ironically, in part because of an assumption that people will have cars, which is one limitation on how dense housing construction is allowed to be.
>> infill development of existing parking lots to create mixed use neighborhoods is in reality very cheap for cities to do

No. That is a radical change in needs and services. Cars don't need sewage treatment and fresh water delivery. Parking lots don't need school systems and health care. Just saying that a parking lot can be converted to houses ignores the radically different local and external needs of human residents as opposed to parked cars. It is akin to those who say that office buildings should "just be converted to apartments" with zero insight re the difficulties of doing so in practice.
I want to mention Tuxedo Computers and Slimbook which are great.

After trying a Slimbook I don't think I'll buy another brand unless a company like this one pops up. Of course Tuxedo is an equally good alternative but Slimbook HQ is literally 45 min away from home so that's a plus to me.

They make laptops fully compatible with linux, offer great custom support, their designs are pretty nice in my opinion, good specs, quality build, good battery life (except for the "gaming" laptops), good trackpads, etc.
it's expensive because it's mostly nice (although the cheapest place I ever lived in was near west kensington tube station, just on the wrong side of the tracks, but about a mile from kensington gardens.

It's quite clear that you can have housing for 15 million people in the area of Greater London with the density and green space of Westminster.

Does that require grand architecture? Sure. Will it happen? Nope. But it's not a density problem, it's an allocation problem.

Instead great swathes of London are built over with high density semi and terrace housing with a tiny bit of poor green space per person (usually paved over to store a car which sits still 23 hours a day or more)
> None of the misdirected emails have included classified intelligence

Well that's good. Though it seems time to put a domain check on outgoing emails.
Highlights from The Industrial Revolution, by T. S. Ashton
I've very happily left a Mac touchpad. Not once but twice. While the gesture support in the OS is nice, I don't like how big the touchpads are. I feel like it regularly gets in the way of typing. I'm okay with the size of the trackpad on the Framework laptop, but it could have been smaller. I really miss my old Thinkpad trackpad with the physical buttons between the trackpad and spacebar, which I felt was really usable.