skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just use Erlang or Go. Even Java... Python doesn't hold a candle to any of those languages when it comes to multitasking.

1000%. Pretty much any other language.

> But, if you genuinely needed and advice on how to use Python's multiprocessing, and for some screwed-up reason you cannot use a decent language

Sometimes the drag of dealing with Python multiprocessing is easier and incurs less debt than splitting the project across multiple languages and dealing with (de)serialization of complicated data structures in way that doesn't introduce bottlenecks. And there are at least a few domains where there isn't really a viable alternative to Python.

But a good rule of thumb is that if you're not going to spend at least a couple full days dealing with the issues listed above -- or if you don't absolutely need to use a big chunk of complicated Python code -- you're probably better off picking a different language.
What's the velocity and mass of a single rain drop? And how many fall in a square meter in an average year?

Can't do this homework at the moment...
As neat as it is I guess it's hard optimize the backend for it compared to explicitly grouping the queries. I imagine a bespoke RPC call that results in a single SQL query is better than several pipelined but separate RPC calls, for example.

But even still, you would think it would be more popular.
If you scroll past the 6 feet of regurgitated Musk condemnation, he has a good point: DRM and anti-right-to-repair laws make it easy for manufacturers to scam consumers and allow scummy rent-seeking behavior.

I wish Doctorow eased off on the rhetoric and hyperbole ("mobile gas-chambers", really?) because underneath all that he is still right.
Grown from scratch, simulated magnetic fields could explain cosmic mystery
This has been happening for some months now, and I don't even know who to get mad at, or just keep laughing. Twitter prefers to let scammers buy ads as it needs every dollar, but is also letting Community Notes ruin their campaign. Meanwhile scammers keep buying ads, which means by the time the Notes show, they surely have positive ROI.

It's like watching a Nat Geo documentary about weird survival adaptations in the jungle, and I'm only missing Sir David Attenborough voice-over to explain the mechanics of this entire circus.
It is Flash files at least (https://flashmuseum.s3.amazonaws.com/htf_ep_45_out_on_a_limb... as an example)

Seems to be using the Flash Player emulator Ruffle - https://ruffle.rs/
Isn't OPT quite simple for the employer compared to H1-B, etc.?

For the basic OPT, you don't really do any paperwork--the school and student do some paperwork and obtain an EAD that you use for the I-9 form.

For the STEM OPT extension, you have to be participating in E-Verify (required in many states anyway), and fill out a training plan for the two years: https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/i983.pdf

I think the bigger issue is continuity--employers that plan to convert these to other visa types for continue employment will need to be planning for that from the beginning to avoid interruptions.
> On our website, Flash content will run on your browser using the Flash Player emulator ruffle. Ruffle is an open source emulator built using the Rust programming language. It uses WebAssembly to run Flash content on modern browsers

Amazing. Is this related to efforts by archive.org to get all of their archived stuff working? (Believe they also are using Ruffle)
Not giving money away, giving "worldcoin" away, whatever the hell that is.
I don't get "Android Auto" and "Android Automotive"
They aren't open source, and when they don't work, your car is left with a weird system that can't be substituted. They make it less likely that I'll want to buy a car with them. What's so good about it versus just using bluetooth and a phone mount? Could be crazy, but figure buggy software should be something I can swap out, not integrated into a car many times more expensive than it.
Everything in cryptography is a scam.

Cool.

Ssh is a scam. Got it.
Hey, this is pretty great.

I was looking for something simple and this honestly fits 90% of what I was looking for as I don't want to spend hours managing this stuff either.

One thing, when I add a record for loaning out money to someone, the due date isn't visible on the main page and I can't seem to find it.

I have a suggestion.

If I could see either or both the start and due dates, this could also be used for tracking any investments as well — though not the intent of the menu as-is — a simple UI addition or setting would allow me to do a lot more in my case.
LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler
He didn't really create the problem, and Worldcoin is not a solution.
Well, you are _absolutely_ taking on the potential liability implicit in becoming a person of interest in any case involving the exchange of materials that you are facilitating.

You may not _lose_ but you may find yourself with your life seriously disrupted.
Just as with political philosophies like anarchism or communism, if your Great Idea depends on everybody else adopting it to be successful, then it's going to fail.
Seems it will be hard for her to attend the event on San Francisco, given that US decided to label her as Russian spy.
>Bitcoin is the only real,

I will add Monero to that list
I’m not expecting anyone to stay poor, I just want politicians and scientists to call a spade a spade.

I don’t think the rest of the world will necessarily follow. If there is a competitive advantage to pollute, poor countries will do so. It’s similar to how we expected China to follow the democratic model.

I think the ideal solution is some kind of tariff regime that makes emitters pay equivalent externalities. This could be done for all pollution, not just ghg.
You should make a prediction market on manifold.markets or metaculus & commit to the bet. I think it would be an interesting market.

https://www.metaculus.com/home/

https://manifold.markets/home
He has other videos like a pumpkin carving robot, gunpowder-powered home run bat, and a self-aiming pool cue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9zXcnSXNF0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puo6Vgcbxps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTTXYxydOE
Short summary - https://twitter.com/abhi9u/status/1684962764115308545
Just look up how much a L8 makes at Google.
Just for frame of reference, there are 2080 work hours in a year assuming 40hrs/week. So imagine making 765k for like 5 months of work.
I find MessagePack to be pretty great if you don't need schema. JSON serialization is unreasonably fast in V8 though and even message pack can't beat it; though it's often faster in other languages and saves on bytes.
The Developer Experience for AI Applications
Dual Irish/US Passport holder here -- if I wish to emigrate to the US do I have to do anything other than buy a plane ticket?
Sure, the State is bound by the First Amendment, and there is a fair debate as to whether the clear conflict of interest involved in being an expert witness against the state must be tolerated alongside research data sharing for that reason, either in general (unlikely, IMO) or at least in the specific case where there is no nexus with the shared data (more likely).

But it is a clear conflict of interest.
this response ignores large and substantial inputs to a complex system of systems, instead choosing to focus on a one-line and highly contentious assertion that directly and falsely merges "growth producing carbon waste" with "economic output." Lazy oversimplification like the parent comment, is directly counterproductive to addressing serious and immediate design and political challenges.

Please consider other economic inputs that do not directly increase carbon emissions, and include design consideration where "new machines and methods" can accomplish similar or better economic activity.
>It's harder to reverse-engineer an unconscious process

Aside from some basic life support systems, don't almost all movements start with conscious effort? Whether you are deliberate about the exercise or not, you practice and practice until you develop 'muscle memory' where it becomes unconscious: walking, dribbling a basketball, holding a G chord on a guitar, etc.
Yeah it’s pretty disappointing and really highlights for me that there isn’t anything special about the HN crowd versus other online platforms.
An ultra-sensitive on-off switch helps axolotls regrow limbs
They've reverse-engineered flash and written a player compatible with modern browsers. Crazy amount of effort, but worth it.
Honestly I don't know how I live without the back button, either.
The back button on Android 5+ stopped being "back", it's now some weird system I don't quite understand where it tracks, I think, "activities" and goes back from those, but the end result is the modern android back button is sometimes back, and sometimes close your app, which is really frustrating.
This move to X, and subtle reference to money transfer, makes me think about something. Musk never got over being shunned when his payment platform idea was rejected when PayPal was formed. He's still traumatized by that incident and is trying to prove to the world that the idea would've worked.

It's not unlike Trump and his bravado. He tries to show he's successful to spite the groups that rejected him for being an outsider when he was young.
Heck it feels like the majority of my whole engineering degree was unit conversions
One could argue, according to Cynefin, that "wicked problems" are where Lean and Agile diverge. When you're operating in a generally-known environment where what's unknown are things like product/market fit or codebase behavior, it makes sense to operate in short iterations or kanbans with rapid customer feedback, while still trying to use Lean to drive efficiencies along the way.

But if you really have no idea what's going on, there's no way to know what is "efficient," and so you have to fall back on more pure Agile, i.e. Cynefin's recommendations for the unordered "chaotic" or "complex" domains: do something small, analyze how that affected your environment, learn from that, and respond/repeat.
Every single criticism I see about worldcoin gets something fundamentally wrong about how it works
I have encountered a lot of problems trying to rely on virtual numbers from various VOIP providers. Very curious how that plays in to your stack. I know for instance a lot of Twilio is default blacklisted, but larger ORGS/ISP's who run essentially the same virtual VOIP (such as Comcast) but at different scale have no problems.

Why is there a difference?

Who is determining bad VOIP from good VOIP?

Are there steps you can, or are, taking to work on having your numbers legitimized?

Where are you sourcing your numbers?

I'll take my questions off the air :). Thanks!
Reducing carbon emissions isn't a solution. We need to go to all the way to zero and then to start carbon capture.

That ONLY happens with batteries fusion and AI. We are making progress and as long as the pessimists don't get their way.

Ironically people like Greta have had the worst impact on climate. Not just that she flies around the world instead of doing zooms. But that she is all doom and gloom instead of trying to help us progress technology
I never said that my business model did, nor that big money was involved. Please don't assume my position and re-read the thread. All I had said was that a non-profit in my area would very much like to target my local community better/cheaper.

This is just an example/anecdote.
Both those countries are simultaneously building out their coal power
Great book so far BTW. Man, Romero had an interesting/rough childhood, that's for sure.

The crazy part was also working 2 full time jobs essentially, 8 hours at softdisk then they would use those PCs at night for 8 hours to crank out their private games, also borrowing them on the weekends to get more work done.
It is traditional when visiting a Jewish grave to find a small stone on the ground and place it on the marker. You may see stones already there, just add yours.
Just like how the movie Contagion was a prophetic look at the most recent pandemic.

I really wish we could turn back the clocks to a time when crackpot voices were not artificially amplified by social media.
It’s a testament to the subtlety of software engineering that even after four tries (protobuf 1-3, capn proto 1) there are still breaking changes that need to be made to the solution of what on the surface appears to be a relatively constrained problem.
Specialized attorneys with subject matter expertise are billing them $1500/hr, so $850 is kind of a bargain.
If I make a claim based on prior knowledge and statistics I’ve learned over time, it’s not lying if it’s wrong. Lying has intent. Plenty of people say incorrect facts that they think are correct.

In second grade, my cousin talked a lot about flax farmers in South America, after learning about them in class. Turns out the lesson was on quinoa farmers, and he forgot the original produce and “hallucinated” the statistics about flax farmers instead. Technically the term is confabulation. Was he lying? No because he wasn’t trying to tell us fake facts.

LLMs have no intention of being wrong. Their “hallucinations” or whatever are just whatever makes sense from their statistical models. They’re really just confabulations.
I should probably finish reading it but doesn't "Guns, Germs and Steel" give a totally non-racial explanation for what they are saying?
This is valid criticism and it’s unfortunate that they chose this name for sure. It results in knee jerk reactions from people that don’t understand it and make assumptions
>The pitfall to me is that he extends that to all expertise - engineering, science, marketing. His opening belief seems to be that most professionals are bullshit artists who spend their whole day lying to justify their jobs. And while the professionals are often wrong about what organizations of people can achieve, they are much less often wrong about how engineering needs to work, and they are hardly every wrong about the core science.

If you see the teardowns of the Tesla cars you see engineering designs that are not done in other currently selling products. In fact now we see competitors playing catch up by copying Tesla designs. That alone disproves your theory. Whatever he is doing, Tesla/SpaceX seem to be forward thinking in terms of engineering.
> What does any of that have to do with the legal issue of whether a state should be able to prohibit participation in certain lawsuits as a condition of gaining access to research data?

As you yourself noted upthread, you had already taken this subthread afield from that topic.
Twitter's rebranding to 'X' triggers Microsoft Edge security alert
Thanks for the response. Yes, there are other options that aren't subject to the crazy and uncertain H-1B lottery such as the O-1 visa (which, without knowing more, you both probably would qualify for). And while the O-1 is tied to a company, this can be your company. A lot of founders in the U.S. are on O-1s. There is also the intra-company transferee visa (if you are transferring to a related company in the U.S.) and the E-2 visa if you are looking to start a company in the U.S. based on a substantial investment.
Indeed, they aren't doing well.
Hi, Graphite creator and website author here. I 100% agree with you since I am very bothered by marketing copy that's painfully obviously written by a nontechnical marketing team, and I want to avoid that here.

But... I guess it's hard being on the other end when actually writing copy so I've failed to design text which can be highly terse and also descriptive of complex concepts without turning into paragraph-long explainers. I know what Graphite is in my head, but conveying that to newcomers is really challenging! But clearly I need to try again.

Is there any chance you'd be willing to reach out to me, ideally on Discord but email also works, and let me use you to test my copy to a fresh pair of eyes? Basically as a B.S. detector :) I'm currently working on a new revamp to the website with many new pages, so having a fresh perspective and some ideas how to make things more direct (but not necessarily overly technical, since it should be digestible to artists also) and less marketing-ey, I'd find that highly valuable.
> Make people less fat by moving where the produce is in the store

It doesn't? Not even a little bit ?
Genuine question. One of the example of data exploitation I was given in university is that retail companies look for patterns in the thing their customers buy, and when they see that people who buy X-kind of thing also tend to buy Y-kind of thing, they tend to put X and Y right next to each other to push the customers to buy X and Y. Wouldn't doing the opposite work ?
Not sure which one is worse, the ones who gave their biometrics for $20, or the ones that pays to give their DNA..
I use it regularly and don't find the latency that painful, though not negligible.
Wrong. The deal was abandoned by Boeing, as an unfolding of the 737-MAX major fiasco.

And that merge wasn't Embraer "throwing the towel": Bombardier, Embraer's direct competitor, partnered up with Airbus, getting a critical competitive advantage. It was only natural for Embraer too seek a similar partnership.
Let all of your problems be solved, my friend.

https://libredirect.github.io/
Photo also degrades images by blurring them. You see it when you’re building a composition and merging layers as you go; the underlying image gets blurrier and blurrier. Photo simply can’t be trusted not to ruin your work.

This has come up repeatedly in the forums as new users discover it. And yep, the apologists cried and thrashed, issuing one ridiculous excuse after another. Even someone from Affinity.

I wish someone there would teach me about layer blending. I still don’t get it after building high-end compositing software for film.
Which one is the swe, and which one is the murderer?
Net Zero by 2050 is not happening [video]
Thanks for your multiple comments and thoughts.

My biggest frustration is the mismatch between what a technical interview ostensibly is supposed to elicit for the interviewer, and how that interview experience is supposed to help the candidate prove they can do the job by successfully completing the technical assessment.

Solving a two-dimensional array data analysis problem is not an effective way to determine how good I am at Web development; this has been an example of one of the worst live coding assessments I’ve had in my search so far.

The best ones I’ve had have been asynchronous and allow me to spend hours if necessary to produce an artifact that would actually reflect my regular work product if hired. Those examples are proudly shown off on my GitHub, even, for whatever it’s worth.
Creator of the Unix Sysadmin Song explains he just wanted to liven up a textbook
They are making the orb hardware and software open source last I heard.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36906331
Yep, and it would have been tragic to see Boeing kill the last major civilian aircraft manufacturer not named Boeing or Airbus. The sector needs competition and innovation, especially at such a turning point, so Boeing going left and right sabotaging 2/3 (Bombardier, Embraer, with only Mitsubishi remaining, but they shut down their own project in the end) of the remaining manufacturers would have been criminal.

(I'm not counting COMAC because they're a decade behind and will focus on the Chinese market first, and UAC (Russia's various design bureaus) has been crippled by sanctions).
God, all 3 links are full low of quality idiots saying it's no big deal and the elite trying to control us...
Our commitment is to get to net-zero by 2050. How does conservation get us to net-zero?

US oil consumption peaked in 2005. EV ownership didn't peak in 2005, so it seems like a negative correlation to me.
> Obviously Sam has some street cred with the govt else they would have pulled him infront of congress like when zuck tried to launch Libre.

Quite the opposite. Congress usually doesn’t give a shit until something is actually relevant to politics. They don’t care about weird VC grifts
Thanks for the quick response, I agree if it would be that easy, sadly I’ve had friends that were turned away by customs for that exact reasons (staying months while they visited last time) and got recommended against even trying to enter by an attorney since the I130 in flight might be used by US customs against me.

I don’t think you or anyone can assure me that if I am currently trying to enter the country for a visit I might not be turned away by customs (worst case scenario being barred from entering for years).

I don’t know how you can plan your existence around random chance of US customs.

Please correct me if I’m wrong with that assessment.

To come highlight again, this has been a huge surprise to my wife’s family who resides on both sides of the political aisle.

They assumed it would be bad, but not quite how bad.
I’m from India, planning to move to US on L1 as an IC. I want to get green card in 3-5 years or get out of the country. If I get green card, I want to look at bringing my parents permanently to US.

As someone without any research papers, any significant industry presence, how difficult will it be to get an EB1 green card if I start chipping at requirements now?

How doable is getting parents within next 5-7 years?
I see it like the most abstract up the ladder you get, the more senior you are.

Anyone can fix a button's css.

Not anyone can refactor big parts of a codebase into something better, or help them create from scratch in a cohesive, modular, future-proof way.

Every time I get into a new job I get a various degrees of this.

The more business-context you have, the better you can solve business requirements with tech, the better tech toolset you have available, the better choice you can make on what solution to use or not to use to such problems.

True seniority means understanding how all the system works, regardless of getting into the grunt work of each of the steps, but being able to do so and understand it at the lower level too if/when needed.

It's a hard act.
That's right. But many U.S. companies in fact do use Deel and similar platforms to employ contractors living abroad.
> There you go. Now you are starting to see the problem. Definitions have shifted over time. The current population (not the population of decades ago) and 'generally on the right', do not understand those definitions as you stated, and are driven by 'biblical' interpretations, not science.

This redefinition, based on the relatively fringe belief that a man is actually a woman if he says he is (and vice versa), isn't supported by any scientific evidence.

Most people find this redefinition somewhat ludicrous but generally didn't care too much until recently, after institutional capture by ideologists holding this belief and the negative effects of it being applied to law and policy, for women and children most of all, became apparent.
My spouse has been going to estate sales recently, and it's an incredibly macabre scene. You walk into a house whose owner recently died, everything looking still basically lived in, and price tags have been put up on their entire life.
OpenAI is moving the problem much closer to today and Worldcoin absolutely helps solve problems of inauthentic online behavior
When a muslim coworker donates $1000 to support overturning marriage equality, yes, I would absolutely tell them that's fucked up and if they were in a C level position I would voice an opinion that they do not uphold our company's explicit core value to be inclusive.

I absolutely do not give a fuck about what someone PRIVATELY believes. The problem is not religious people believing in something, the problem is religious people FORCING their beliefs into law.

When muslim people do that, it's called Sharia law and I am against that, same as I am against laws based on christian beliefs.