skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem with this idea that is probably the only thing preventing it from happening is that even in 2023, this is still too expensive. You can't run all of a user's browsing sessions through a system like that for the ~$20/year income advertising generates on average.

(A reminder of the drum I like to beat; these companies do not make anywhere near as much money per person as people tend to think. ~$20/year is a reasonable estimate of the higher end based on Facebook and Google earnings reports; companies that are not Facebook or Google make even less. That's what they're breaking the internet for. $20/year.)

If you don't take the raw income from ads but instead look at the profits, the bar is even higher. It's a minimum of an order of magnitude too little money to pay for that (and I think a very solid case could be made for 2 orders of magnitude), so it's going to be some years before it would be feasible even at the current level of web capability. (Add more 3D and heavier weight UIs based on WASM and some raw canvas or other and it gets even worse.) So if it is the future, it's still far enough away that I wouldn't try to found the startup today; you're still way too soon.

As big as the cloud is, it is absolutely dwarfed by the amount of computing power not in the cloud. It's not even close.

You'd have to get people to pay for it. For that, there has to be something very compelling. I can't think of what that would be. Apparently neither can anyone else, because otherwise like I said this would be a present reality and not a blog post.

However, this is just an analysis of this idea from the 2023 perspective. I'm not saying it isn't the future. It's clearly a future a lot of players want. I'm just explaining why, in light of that, it doesn't already exist.
You are well outside mainstream economics. The existence of market failures is only disputed by a tiny minority of economists. You can disagree with the consensus of experts, of course, but it's ridiculous to claim they don't have the "proper education".

I don't think you even realize that your beliefs are fringe.
My daughter loves Dashboard, get me one of those!
So we just need some fireworks companies to get after reproducing it, then?
I don’t use it, but I’d like to.

The big obstacle is that for while we would have multiple execution environments. It’s not like we could flip a switch and all Dockerfiles are using PyPy.

Plus I don’t think AWS Lambda supports it.

If I could go back in time, we would use it from the beginning.
IMHO browsers are nearly feature complete.
I had heard the explanation at one point that pricey hotels were the first to adopt wi-fi systems and locked themselves into expensive long-term contracts, so they were still trying to recoup the costs even as the tech got cheaper and more widespread. I guess it's been long enough now that that wasn't the real reason.
My biggest issue is that DataDog doesn’t support PyPy. Out of curiosity, I made a new branch of our app and took out DataDog and observed a significant improvement in performance when using PyPy vs CPython on the same branch (but can’t remember how much).
> I mean it's not even right. Most parallel/concurrent pedants would consider multithreaded code to be "parallel" even if it is running on a single core.

Hm, I think running on a single core is the exact definition of what the "pedants" say is not parallel. If all you have is one core then you can't achieve parallelism under their definition.

I think the terminology is pretty well established now. But I do agree with you that it's a bad choice of words and that it's annoying, intelligent even, for people to pick a particular unintuitive definition and then go around brow-beating people for not using/understanding their definition.
SQL is a dead-end. Stop trying to flog a dead horse
I saw a job posting recently where #1 a company admitted that 75% of their code is in SQL. On the other side of the coin, I notice #2 a lot of job openings from healthcare companies that only want to hire people with compliance experience.
If you ignore much of the majority English-speaking world, then yes, that would be accurate.

https://brilliantmaps.com/football-vs-soccer/
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> They're "losers" from the point of view of capitalism and corporate hierarchy. If you're not committing your life to ruthlessly climb the ladder to grasp at wealth and power by any means and you don't buy into the game or its rules, you're basically a defective cog, a useless part of the machine.

You have too narrow a definition of capitalism and of corporate hierarchy. What you describe is one outworking of them, but not the outworking.
Oh, that is extremely interesting!! It would be great to hear more about this!
Compozify converts your Docker run command to Docker Compose
You can install the CLI or test with the web UI at https://compozify.csam.dev
I don’t actually use PyPY, but I’m very aware of it. My understanding is that the only reason to use PyPy instead of the default Python is for performance gains. For the vast majority of projects I work on, the performance of our code on the CPU is almost never the bottleneck. The slowness is always in IO, databases, networks, etc.

That said, if I do ever run into a situation where I need my code to perform better, PyPy is high on my list of things to try. It’s nice to know it’s an option.
Agreed. I recently travelled over the US border to Canada (to a major city) and was shocked by the International data pittance, and what Verizon considers "3G speed". Crossing that imaginary line took me back almost 15 years and as much as I want to blame Verizon and their CA partner, apparently they're one of the "better ones"!
I made the move to full-time management after about 16 years as a hands-on Engineer & tech lead. As a high-level Engineer, I was very much into mentorship, influence, architecture, and process, so it felt natural to go into management. After a few years, I moved back to being an IC because it was very hard to not "control my own destiny" through hands-on contributions.

As it turns out, going back to being hands-on made me realize that I'd kinda been-there, done that in terms of the things I wanted to get done myself. I really missed a) playing an integral role in the career growth of others and b) the strategic level thinking of being an upper-level manager, so I went back to full-time management. There are times where I still think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, but then I have those moments where someone on my team or in my org will thank me for supporting them or how that X that I've done has reduced the hassle of their day.
I suspect that a significant underlying (ie unspoken) motivation for the bill is to create an environment in which ordinary people know their place because they know they can always be watched. Preserving the status quo that keeps the UK a profitable place for some, while emiserating large parts of the population, requires this.

The recent legal changes that criminalise peaceful protest are part of the same pattern. They can see social fracturing coming in the near future - due to austerity, economic mismanagement, climate breakdown, etc. - and they're getting their retribution in early.
I can never grok the differences between Mint, Pop!_OS, and elementary OS. What do you like about Mint?
> It's really, really hard to be part of some grand conspiracy as a public company.

No it's not. Twitter and Facebook have had defacto government censorship collusion, as suspected by the paranoid.

For years and years it was dismissed as conspiracy, but clear evidence has now come out that it was happening in these public companies.
I think the reference is in Fire: It’s an offhand line about an ancient timekeeping system which the modern engineers mistakenly believe is calibrated to humanity’s first steps onto another celestial body.
He threatened to sue ElonJet for his account, Microsoft for... using the API Twitter provided, Meta for having a Twitter-like service, sorry that's just few examples out of many more. He sued none of them.
This is a race that I earnestly hope either someone wins quickly, or everyone loses... again rather quickly. For incredible claims you typically require incredible evidence, at the moment we're slightly better than hearsay but we've a long way to go get conclusive proof.
Your experience is very, very different than what the article was about. Starting your own company means you have ownership and pride of everything going on in the business. That motivation and entrepreneurial spirit will obviously paint everything in pink, at least for a while.

Imagine having those responsibities, but nearly no decision-making power. All those messy human behaviors are now coming at you from above and below.

What's tough is that to do management well, you need a level of freedom like what you experience as a founder. However, most managers with their own bosses will never get that level of freedom and have to somewhat conform to existing culture/process.
The Risk Ownership Society
Perhaps it's better to launch multiple, region-specific versions of a site, with region-specific data. Something like amazon.com vs amazon.nl vs amazon.de. Account data would still be global but that doesn't change much so you can get away with strong consistency.

Added benefit is that it clarifies how to do local compliance. With a global model, the complexity of local laws can really overwhelming. For example a global site based in the US needs to be GDPR-compliant, while a global site based in the EU has to figure out how to file multiple forms of taxes (federal, state, sales, city, district) for the 16000+ US tax jurisdictions. As a European I am more afraid of US taxes than GDPR.
VPNs aren’t a solution to this class of problem unless the same government restricting content chooses not to enforce its policies. Their traffic is trivially detectable so you’re basically putting up a sign declaring your intention to violate local laws and as a sovereign state they can pressure businesses to enforce regulations by banning VPN clients which won’t geolocate to the country level.

The only solutions for this are political.
In general, I don't think "The American company thinks it can flout a European court decision" is actually going to increase brand goodwill in the market they care about increasing brand goodwill in.
> dubbed "The Pressiah" by the community

Sometimes Reddit is excellent.
Not if java tried to call itself javashell, but didn't act like a shell.
How about we use generative AI to produce the experience I might like to see if I were browsing the web, based on Google's extensive data on me? That can be rendered to me in a continuous stream on YouTube. Then I would have to stop for YouTube ads and see the ads in the generated video. That solves all sorts of problems, like deciding what to look at next. Or not seeing Ars or Hacker News update fast enough. I would just see the generated world I would be looking at if I were actually browsing the web. All of it loads seamlessly and instantly. All of it unbounded. All of it pixel perfect.

Actually, can't wait until all this shit implodes on itself and we're back to browsing through gopher, usenet, and wais.
what's an alternative that is better?
The is if they want the public at large to pay for it.
No, citing who you copy doesn’t remove copyright protection.
Is there a point in making yet another unified email client in 2023?
thinking about making a unified inbox. superhuman is amazing, but works with only one email + ux is way to basic (i understand that probably thats the purpose). what would you like to see in a unified inbox? and should I dare to make yet another one?
Languagemodels.jl – Talk to language models programmatically from Julia
A port of Andrej Karpathy's llama2.c to pure Julia. Works on Llama2 and Andrej's tinyllamas models. REPL mode allows interaction from the Julia console
It’s Your Filters: How I Finally Ended My Chaotic Relationship with Email
Huh, that’s surprising - when I traveled for bigcorps and littlecorps “internet access” always had its own category in whatever process we had, be it Concur or someone’s hand rolled Excel sheet.

I haven’t travelled in years, but just checked my current software and it’s still there today.
Guerrilla Gardening
Reddit Rewritten in Python (Usenet Discussion 2005)
Hey, you might want to delete the link to https://mesapy.org/rpython-by-example in https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/architecture.html as it is pointing to a resource that people are unable to access.
>Can someone give a counter argument of how this might benefit the users themselves?

Remote attestation might reduce the amount of cheaters in games and fraud in banks if implemented properly. So, through potential indirect means.

I don't think any of this is worth the loss of user freedom and functionality, though. So I will vehemently oppose WEI and similar to be used outside of internal facilities.
That's just not reality. Many EMs are not necessarily proficient or even knowledgeable in the stack. It depends on the company.

EM doesn't mean the same thing everywhere. Last week I applied to an EM role that was 100% people management where my tech experience did not matter much. I also applied to one that was still a majority technical/architecture design, that some would consider a 'tech lead' or something like that.

Being offended by it is kind of funny. You'll probably have a boss like that eventually.
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Because I pay for NASA and I can ask for NASA to do a post-mortem.
HN is completely moronic about cheating in multiplayer. I seriously can't believe that people here think it's ok. Absolutely disgusting that you're getting downvoted.
Hmmm, Dashboard Confessional seem to be an actual band though.

Best I can do is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGxDVXGRQpY
I maintain an Open Source HTTP client based on libcurl [1]. We have support for variables like {{foo}} and also add kind of filters (like these new curl functions that you can chain to refine values). It seems natural to have this kind of templating for an HTTP client now (for instance, when you want to make "templatized" script). Really a nice addition to curl.

[1]: https://hurl.dev
> > Basically everyone who utters the question “.. but how technical are they?” in that particular tone of voice is a shitbird.

I don't see the problem here either. Sounds like somebody overheard that comment and had no real answer hence "they're a shitbird".

I want to take instruction from managers who have literally done the thing they're asking for.

There is a reason vast majority of football coaches/managers are former players I don't see why that should be different from software -- even those managers who didn't play professional football often have a pro background in another team sport.
Could you block Youtube generally and allow YoutubeKids, which has its own domain?
> Difference between machine learning and AI:

> If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning

> If it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI

(source: https://twitter.com/matvelloso/status/1065778379612282885, 2018)

When speaking in public, using the phrase "AI" is unavoidable. I tried hard to use terms like "statistical models", "machine learning", "deep learning" (or its concrete instance), but it is not what the general audience understands or cares about.

But when thinking about "AI", I recommend thinking about other phrases without the word "intelligence" or any of its synonyms (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBdvyyHLdxZSAMmoz/taboo-your...). That way, you refrain from using ill-defined terms with many definitions, meanings, and connotations.
It was a "failure" in the sense no significant mesh network was ever created because it was against the interest of service providers.

Today we have vastly superior possibilities and yet, apart from some niche efforts like the LoRaWAN, a "free mesh" is still not a thing.
One thing that bothers me about Free Wifi nowadays is traffic shaping. Here in Latin America, it is very common to have internet fast lanes dedicated to WhatsApp, when Telegram is unusable in the same connection. I notice sometimes I'm connected to a public wifi and Telegram stops working, then if I disconnect and go back to the mobile carrier it suddenly is back and alive.
Bikes and sidewalks are subtractive solutions and don’t “grow the GDP” like brand new EVs and associated infrastructure do [1].

Of course EVs are a better solution than ICE cars but to address a lot of problems in society we don’t need better versions of existing things but entirely new solutions altogether (sidewalks, bike lanes, better density and zoning).

As the author of this article mentioned and I agree, it’s disappointing to see other articles come out that do in fact blame bike riders for problems caused by reckless car drivers [2] and overall infrastructure mismanagement that can be placed solely at the feet of city leaders, state departments of transportation, and federal agencies. This car-only infrastructure is beyond stupid, and the drivers themselves (a leading cause of unnecessary death and injury in America) are themselves victims.

[1] They actually grow the GDP in less direct ways like increasing amounts of entrepreneurial activities, less obesity, less deaths and injuries (more capable workers), and instead of money going to department of highways budgets, oil and gas, tires, the vehicles themselves, and parking lots families can instead invest or spend on other much needed items - this particularly affects the poor.

[2] I’m reminded of an article I saw previously and don’t have on hand where I believe a child or perhaps a few people were killed by someone who was drinking and driving and had 38 fucking speeding tickets and was still allowed to drive.
This is a great writeup. Thank you for sharing.
>> We can stop this by having websites test for "Web Environment Integrity" APIs and refusing to serve clients that implement it.

That would be an incredibly difficult battle because it would be fighting against big tech companies that make web browsers and profit from ads--namely Google and Microsoft.

Getting browsers to adopt and implement Web Environment Integrity is Step 1.

Step 2 is where all Google web sites start requiring Web Environment Integrity to be used or they lock you out of the site.

Step 3 is where all websites serving Google ads require Web Environment Integrity to be used.

Step 4 Profit!

Web Environment Integrity is the beginning of the further DRM-ification and enshittification of the Web.

Wherever you live, you should contact your government representatives and regulators and put a spotlight on this issue for what it is--monopoly abuse of power.

Grassroots efforts are great and it is good to let your friends, family, and associates know what they are doing and why it is wrong.

However, government regulation of this abuse is needed to stop it by force of law.
Someone posted a research paper [1] a few months ago that says that due to energy consumption, the use of vertical farming doesn’t provide a net space savings for caloric dense foods.

I’m curious what you think of that paper and what it would change about your suggested solution.

[1] https://raghavan.usc.edu/papers/smartfarm-limits21.pdf
AI can handle the planning if precedents exist for what you need done. Since AI cannot think, it cannot do anything original though it can create Frankensteins from disparate pieces ("art"). You will need to do some thinking yourself if you need to do something original. Which brings up the question: is what you are doing worth doing if it is not original? Note: making money does not necessarily require originality.
Thanks for the feedback. It does seem like parsing logs and simulations is a sweet spot for PyPy
A bit surprised no one's mentioned Amazon Silk. Though it was for mostly different reasons, the Silk Browser more or less works this way. It's not using VNC (AFAIK), but it does do server-side rendering and then blast some kind of par-boiled stream to the remote device. Sure makes tracking and monitoring easy...

I think Silk is still the default browser on all their tablet devices, it certainly is the FireTV products. While you can load alternative browsers, there are few to choose from: even Firefox quit updating their FireTV build a year or two ago.
second this and it's what I do on all Linux distros, just run it inside .venv as the site-installation.

if you need extra dependencies that pip can not do well in the .venv case, Conda can help with its own and similar site-based installation.

I don't know how it is different in the python installation case between ubuntu and debian, they seem the same to me.
> Why would they owe

> there's no reason for the public at large to need it

As a member of said public, I would be curious to know. There's no need for taxpayer-funded agencies to operate in a cloak of darkness.

Most everything done by government should by default be open to the public, with an exceedingly high bar that must be met to be otherwise. Otherwise, you run into nonsensical things like how some details around the assassination of a president 60 years ago are still classified on "national security" grounds.
> Is what you're describing only true of the "Framework" Python build on MacOS?

No. This behavior is present on any Python 3.8 or greater running on MacOS, enforced via "platform == darwin" runtime check: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/13626/files#diff-6836...

You can check the default process-start method of your Python's multiprocessing by running this command: "python -c 'import multiprocessing; print(multiprocessing.get_start_method())'"
Look, call 35K cold if you want. It's relatively easy to make some fusion at home [1] at even colder temperatures.
However, the real issue here is __producing__ energy (edit: more than you put in). This has never been done in a sustained way (H-bombs produce net energy, there were some promising inertial confinement and tokamak results recently, but never for sustained periods of time).

And in the chain, it's pointed out quite clearly that everybody understands "cold fusion" as referring to "net positive energy".

[1]: https://fusor.net/board/index.php
Show HN: Gigbox – Link in Bio for Collaborations
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Why the World Just Can’t Kick Coal
That depends on whether they're serious about enforcement, or just trying to appear to be doing something for political points. I suspect this is the latter.
Sole criticism is that it's perspective is too "western-centered"? Though I agree it's eastern resources are sine qua non. One could conceive an entire Digital Library devoted exclusively to Ancient Indian Philosophy & Music and it would encompass 10x the scale ;)

Mind (Heart-Mind) in Chinese Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-mind/
Better than asking everyone to change their diets would be to change government subsidies and other agriculture programs to encourage regenerative agriculture practices. Sure it might impact diet via a change in prices, but the goal should be to reduce harm first, not force a particular diet.
i am a big fan of .venv/ -- except when it takes ~45 mins to compile the native extension code in question -- then I want it all pre-packaged.
Not a rocket scientist; but I have tuned in a TV. I imagine it is simply programed to turn a few degrees then turn back to wherever it saw the strongest signal from earth.
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