skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
x.x – A Dynamic and Functional Entity Component System DSL in Clojure
If 50% of journalists are as you describe, does that mean effectively they are all as you describe? What about 30%, if 30% are as you describe is that the threshold where none of them are worth a damn?

There used to be a time where as a rule journalists were below that threshold unless they were specifically working for The National Enquirer writing stories about Elvis still being alive, but whatever the threshold is, we damn well got closer to it.

It's a fair question to ask, what's the threshold and where we stand regarding it. You cannot say they're all like that, but you can say TOO MANY journalists are like that. I'd even agree with the latter statement. Would the remaining journalists be more or less likely to be out there on Twitter, mostly unheard? How about after Elon Musk's takeover? My sense is that Elon is more likely to get rid of the good ones when they correctly call him out on his nonsense.
The p is probably Latin potentia or French puissance, but I'm not sure about the f!
For what it's worth, LLM powered chatbots are quite different from the chatbots that were popular 5 years ago and often feel much more natural.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the Indians that came to Europe basically outcasts?

They didn't leave India because India was being nice to them...

So there's shame on both sides.
Yes, very unique and outrageous. I'm sorry you had to go through that.

For everyone, when ridiculous things like that happen, some options are to involve your local Congressional office (often issues like this are resolved when a Congressional office makes an inquiry, particularly on local matters) or to involve the USCIS Ombudsman (which surprisingly often yields positive results).
Let’s do something for that nickel check smh
Both are web frontends for the Flashpoint Archive's database: https://flashpointarchive.org/

The difference is that 9o3o is Flashpoint's official (experimental) site, whereas Flash Museum is a third-party site that imported Flashpoint's database into WordPress and reuploaded the Flash files into an S3 bucket (without preserving directory structures or accounting for multi-asset items).
> (fyi, Python's multiprocessing has support for interprocess shared memory, with overhead)

I know. I have a werkzeug/gunicorn application that currently runs 60 worker processes on a 64 core server.

And I would love nothing better than to rip out every. single. last. one. of the IPC facilities, and replace them with the same easy and convenient mutex and CSP systems, that I can use in my Golang applications.

> They are recommended because they are much, much faster, period.

I know, but "rewrite it in Rust/Go/C++" isn't always an option, be it because of legacy status, constraints in available dev-hours, compatibility problems, library support or simply ease of use.
These people are called psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists. They sit at the top of almost every single organization because our/America culture breeds them and their personality disorders are effectively a human virus to do exactly that.

These people would be doing this anywhere else regardless of the incentives. Titles and power to harm others and bolster themselves are their only motivators.

People who have done real research like you and me, we'll never sit where they sit.
Some time back I sent a "thank you for moderating" note, and about a minute after I hit send it dawned on me that the hn@ inbox was probably also collecting a few "I'm being silenced" mails at around the same time. It was that realisation that made me appreciate the moderators here all the more, as I'd give up about five times a day if faced with the task.
I thought there's no shadowban on HN.
Ceteris-paribus, i.e for the same amount of "application risk", an open source model should actually be a less risky position than a proprietary model. Even more so if the dataset on which it was trained is also public.

But on the other hand, being open source does not by itself negate the risks emerging when applying models in sensitive domains.

So if played right, open source AI should have a regulatory edge. But not a free pass.
Let's be reasonable: Nuitka's sales pitch really isn't really a good source of information. And be aware that it doesn't say the code is converted or compiled to C. It just says it loads python code from C and runs it on the interpreter, which is basically what the python interpreter does.

I think my comment being devoid of content might have caused some frustration. So to make the best of everyone's time:

You can look into cython and pythran to see what I'm talking about.
cython lets you optimize code step by step via generating an html page with your code and highlighting lines that still require the use of the python runtime. It lets you add types and cdef function definitions in order to reduce your dependency on the python runtime.

Another good example is pythran, which takes your python code and turns it into c++ code to be compiled by a c++ compiler. I understand that this isn't a direct compilation to machine code, but a middle step which lets you compile the output to machine code.

Then there is numba and taichi which have just-in-time compilation decorators. Taichi also provides a sophisticated runtime which lets you run parts of the code on a GPU.

Surprisingly, the best performance I've experienced among these examples was numba + numpy, even though numba alone can sometimes have optimizations that surpasses all compilation efforts, because it turns your loops into mathematical formulas and runs them at O(1) complexity when it can.
> You would be famous and (if you knew the right hedge fund) probably very rich.

Famous, sure.

Rich? Perhaps… but I suspect that annoying a superpower will mean that, like Snowden, one would be somewhat restricted in ability to make use of any such wealth or fame.
> the clear harms you mention don't seem to me to result from insufficient "diversity"

Of course they do. Simply put: a bunch of young, rich white Western men - they never experience the insane danger that are part of the daily life of women: men stalking them using every way they can, raping them, killing them, or doxxing them just because they can "for the lulz". Both do not experience the racism and discrimination Black people go through, and neither of these have the experience of people in the Balkans, India or other countries with ethnic and religious tensions. And that's just the tip of the iceberg - discrimination runs rampant across all our societies, with technology lessening the effects of some of it (e.g. AI-generated descriptions of images for the blind), and making others exponentially worse (especially online harassment).

More diversity in anything tech automatically means more eyeballs on how a new (or existing) technology can be used by malicious actors to cause harm. For me the worst case in the last few years where this was clearly not done were AirTags - they are immensely useful, but it took over two years and uncountable reports of AirTags being used to facilitate crime of all kind to get a detection feature in Android [1].

[1] https://blog.google/products/android/unknown-tracker-alert-g...
> witness this ongoing genocide

There are more Romani living in Eastern Europe now than there were 60 years ago.

It's the world's worst executed genocide.
> Which I took as yet more "old man yells at cloud" sentiment.

This is the uncharitable assumption which you didn't have to make. Someone was describing something they observed, you can counter them without making silly snide comments.
I have an archive of Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015. It's over 3000 episodes and it's such a trip putting that on shuffle and seeing what the topic was on any particular day.
I think this is a misuse of p-value.
Depends on how steep uphill you have in mind ;-)
> They just want to do it anyway.

some background here.

the opposition in the UK is accusing the government of dragging their feet over this law, and are pushing them to adopt it sooner. they are also criticising the government for watering it down.

various NGOs are also attacking the government for watering it down and not moving as fast as possible.

basically the whole political spectrum is not only for this law, but wants it strengthened even further. there are also calls from the public for the government to go even further.

this is why there is no real backlash against this law. everyone no only wants it, but wants it to go a lot further than what the government has proposed.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.32...

They are estimating the payment will be around $35 per claimant. The settlement has not yet been approved; this website is performing no small amount of data gathering which the class action lawyers will no doubt use as evidence that the settlement should be approved.

There are a variety of objections. (Imagine if these could prevent the settlement from being approved by the court and the class action counsel wants to make them go away.)

Some of the objections asked not for more money but for the settlement to require Facebook to change its behaviour or to admit guilt. Some argued the settlement was just a way for Facebook to avoid further discovery. Quite a variety of feedback. Angry Facebook users.^1

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.32...

1. There's also some discussion of another website that takes a 15% cut of the claimant's settlement payment in return for the "service" the operator provides. He is objecting to the settlement because the settlement administrator is rejecting the claims he is submitting on behalf of other claimants. https://claimclam.typeform.com
C extensions are a different use case than accessing a C library using `ctypes`. The former allows intimate interactions with Python objects and therefore requires the GIL. The latter should only cause trouble if the C library executes callbacks on another thread. In that case, a Python thread is created for every invocation, which could cause race conditions with Python code. However, this problem also exists in GIL mode. In most cases, foreign libraries usually have Pythonic wrappers that should prevent some of these issues.
Ok, a bit more precise:

Of the 23 countries listed [1] on this site, all of them have tuition fees which are much lower than the US. A first sight shows Latvia as highest with up to 9900 EUR per academic year. Europe has 44 sovereign states.

You are correct, it's not "all" and "Europe" in general. But the sentiment (and the main difference) vs. US is visible and my point stands: "free" education is possible.

[1] https://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees
Doesn't matter. Once he started posting to the account, the UserAccount==Identity in todays world. And Elon being a child, simply wanted another toy, no other reason.

What if he had been in the hospital and couldn't log in? What if he was taking a year off social media? None of that justifies stealing an account. What about all the previous tags and replies, do they all now point to random Twitter support posts?
I once worked my courage up to go to the skate park with my roller blades. I fell on my ass when trying to go down the quarter-pipe. I felt like dying and couldn't breath. When I got home I threw them in the trash, without hesitation.
TV ratings did this as an aggregate of estimated viewer preferences. Doing that immediately on an individual level is wholly different.
So far I've come across 2 comments by you in this thread and both are minimizing privacy concerns in an off-hand manner.

- to give that 50 bucks to me you would require some information from me. Just post it here and we'll upvote you, 'k? (You are trivializing access to such personal info. Just post it all here to prove your point.)

- blocking all those sites [your other comment] disables functionality.
Is a Facebook notification sufficient? That seems to bear an implication that you're required to have kept using Facebook all this time, despite their misdeeds and general decline in popularity.
Kafka was wrong.
And your comments make it clear that you have never interacted with gypsies or their communities, and only view them through a romanticised version of the internet.

> I would support any political movement that wants to help these people get back on their feet

It is them who do not want something different. Imposing your view on their world does not work, they do not want change.

What exactly are their contributions that make them valuable to Europe?
I've uploaded the animation for you here: https://archive.org/details/flash_skipintro

I sourced it from the Wayback Machine, and thanks to the Internet Archive's Ruffle integration, it's playable on the web!
I know F#, I know roughly what RISC-V is. Not sure I understand the high level though. Is it that they formalized the instructions set in F# or is it that F# now can use the formal instruction set to compile programs?

Sorry this isn't my wheelhouse but I am curious.
So what phone do you recommend for someone who is looking for a new phone?
Now I wonder what it's like for sea stars and sea urchins as they grow from their larval bilateral symmetry to the adult 5-way version, in which everything is also reabsorbed/rearranged to an absurd degree.
the opposition not only wants this to become law, they are accusing the government of watering it down and not moving fast enough.

same for NGOs. they want the government to go even further.

various members of the public have come forward accusing the government of not doing enough to protect them from the perils of the internet (there were a few tragic cases, as it’s always the case).

basically, everyone wants this, and want it sooner and strengthened.
Thank you. Guess I should get my facts right before responding to an anti-Cali sentiment.
Fediverse Alive Servers Stats
> Sounds fair, $200 to $325 more per month ($6 to $11 per day) to partake in an illegal war. Russia shouldn't be there, BUT neither should we OR NATO member states This is all just 4ucking around with thermo-nuclear war, the hubris and lack of historic overview is simply shocking.

The US soldiers in Ukraine are stationed at the embassy like they are at almost every US embassy in the world.
I don't think a common national identity is a big factor. From what I've read about economic development during China's reform-and-opening-up period, private investment from overseas usually piggy-backed on existing trust networks between family and friends. E.g. a Taiwanese investor would support his second cousin's business in Xiamen right across the strait, not some random stranger whose trustworthiness is completely unknown.

So the Indian diaspora split into dozens of smaller groups could provide the same level of support as a hypothetical unified diaspora, each group contributing to their ancestral region's development, just like the Chinese diaspora.
Interesting. FYI, I'm not an apple user, but no upset that some are.

I wonder. Is this an attempt to market? Make it optional, but tout "we do this!', as if it is?

It's not a bad marketing position.
Obviously he was studying himself
You name C things which are fast.
Contemporary scholarship has posited that the ancestors of the Roma left India as e.g. camp followers of armies pursuing their livelihoods, not necessarily as outcasts intentionally turning their backs on India.
Python was not originally a teaching language.

Yes, van Rossum was an implementer of ABC, which was a teaching language. Python drew on that experience, but also from Modula-2 and Modula-3, and the needs for writing an extension language for the Amoeba operating system.

From the initial release notes at https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/alt.sources/1991-February/001749... :

[Python is] an extensible interpreted programming language that
combines remarkable power with very clear syntax.

This is version 0.9 (the first beta release), patchlevel 1.

Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write
prototypes of real applications, or as an extension language of large
systems, you name it.

No mention of it being a teaching language.
https://fee.org/articles/australia-s-unprecedented-encryptio...

> The Australian government has passed a new piece of legislation that, at its core, permits government enforcement agencies to force businesses to hand over user info and data even though it’s protected by cryptography.
Inactive open source projects are a huge reason why skepticism arises. The reliability becomes justifiably questionable.

This is exactly where organized open source and commercial open source (COSS) products come into play.

They're supported by an active community, funded by the users (and investors at times), and companies don't run out of resources to maintain and scale what's helping the primary user-base.
I've written to my MP twice in my life (as you say, non-templated because otherwise it's as meaningless as sending them a photocopy) and got a detailed response twice. If you take the time, they generally do too. (Obvious caveat that this is a sample size of one person and two emails / letters...)
yeah all they did is organise a referendum and then work tirelessly to ram lies and propaganda down the entire country's throat to make damn sure it passes.
Swiss German
Doesn't the encryption support depend on the messaging app? Meaning old devices could easily just update (even auto-update) to a newer version of Messages that does support encryption?
The H-1B is subject to a lottery so that's not an option. The L-2 would give you unrestricted work authorization but would depend on your spouse maintaining her L-1 job. The TN is company-specific so you would be tied to the company. Given all this, my recommendation would be to get the L-2 (as a Canadian, this is super simple and fast) and then if for some reason your wife loses or wants to leave her job, switch to TN at that time.
Suddenly bought back the first gig I went to a Sheffield's Leadmill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lorry_Yellow_Lorry
Speaking of checkouts, there is a chain of mega-sized employee-owned grocery stores in the upper Midwest that has the perfect checkout system. You pull your cart up to the register, and they pull items directly out of the cart to scan/bag them, and put the bags in another cart at the foot of the register. You don't event have to lift a finger until you go to put the bags (paper or plastic) in your car trunk.

The parking lot is another item. Instead of the rows going perpendicular to the front of the store, where you are constantly crossing at the pedestrian entrance, the parking is lengthwise across the store. So you can cruise up and down the aisles without driving by the front of the building. And no matter where you park, you are only 2 - 4 rows back from the building.
Are you sure you didn't read p=mg instead ?

poids = masse * gravité

weight = mass * gravity
PEP-703 contains a whore Motivation section. Long enough to require a summary:

> Python’s global interpreter lock makes it difficult to use modern multi-core CPUs efficiently for many scientific and numeric computing applications. Heinrich Kuttler, Manuel Kroiss, and Paweł Jurgielewicz found that multi-threaded implementations in Python did not scale well for their tasks and that using multiple processes was not a suitable alternative.

> The scaling bottlenecks are not solely in core numeric tasks. Both Zachary DeVito and Paweł Jurgielewicz described challenges with coordination and communication in Python.

> Olivier Grisel, Ralf Gommers, and Zachary DeVito described how current workarounds for the GIL are “complex to maintain” and cause “lower developer productivity.” The GIL makes it more difficult to develop and maintain scientific and numeric computing libraries as well leading to library designs that are more difficult to use.
> “You're misunderstanding the thought experiment then.”

So if I don’t agree with it, I’m misunderstanding it? It even says in the Wikipedia article for it:

> "The overwhelming majority", notes BBS editor Stevan Harnad, "still think that the Chinese Room Argument is dead wrong".

So don’t try to pretend it’s some absolute truth, it’s just a flawed argument

> Programs don't contain understanding or intelligence, they contain instructions.

Why can intelligence and understanding not come from a sufficiently complex set of instructions?

> understanding is a conscious experience and neither a blender nor a recipe are sentient.

That’s an odd definition of understanding. By my definition understanding is having information about something and the ability to process it such that you can effectively predict its behaviour and possibly take actions to change its state to fit a goal. I guess you will always win if you redefine all the words to mean what you want. Your definition is useless because it’s unfalsifiable because you can’t measure whether something is “sentient”

> Just pointing out that convolutional neural networks are not self aware or intelligent or actually learning

Self aware? Probably no

Intelligent? To some extent, yes

Learning? Of course they are, I don’t see how you can argue that they aren’t
> Land clearing happens for ranching purposes, but is also happens for peanuts, coconut oil and all sorts of other products

Ranching takes 80% of the agriculture land, 50+% pastures were forested in the past.

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation#beef-soy...

Combined, beef and oilseeds account for nearly 60% of deforestation (majority of oilseeds are mostly used for animal feed).

> goats ... can subsist off of marginal lands and foods which humans can't

That's the typical argument of animal ag farmers. That land should be rewilded and afforested, to enable return of the wildlife.

Goats and grazing are a recipe for desertification:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09596836166704...

Blame it on the goats? Desertification in the Near East during the Holocene

https://grist.org/climate-energy/cattle-grazing-is-a-climate...

Cattle grazing is a climate disaster, and you’re paying for it

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/grazed-and-co...

Grazed and Confused?

> Veganism has nothing to do with biodiversity loss though

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-climate-crisis-biodiversity-ap...

The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached separately, says study

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22287498/meat-wildlife-bi...

The way we eat could lead to habitat loss for 17,000 species by 2050

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4

In terms of carbon sequestration and dealing w/ climate, it is clear that agricultural land use(especially land used for animal feed) is the largest barrier to ecosystem restoration. Potential for carbon sequestration is enormous (literally enough for the entire 1.5C carbon budget)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
> against the will of the people

it is not against the will of the people.

the opposition, NGO’s and the general public are accusing the government of moving too slowly and watering down the law. they want the law strengthened and adopted faster.
I haven't used IRC in a long time, but I'd be open to it, especially if it gave that "old internet" feel that I haven't been able to get from the tildaverse.

I dream of having my company use IRC for chat, and I used to fake it by using Slack through the awesome Emacs modes, but now that we're on Teams all hope is dead.
Right! Most articles I stumble upon nowadays is filled with everything besides the answer until I scroll to the bottom.
It sounds reasonable, after all those support people have to be paid, too.