skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it Spotify treating artists badly? Or is it the labels? Is "terribly treats artists" shorthand for "doesn't pay them a fair amount", or are they doing other nasty stuff?

I was under the impression that the labels suck all the money out of Spotify, not leaving much for independents. Spotify doesn't really have the ability to do much else without dissolving.
You cannot backdoor a device in such a way that only 'certain' people can access it. Once that door is there, people will find an exploit it. The only way to be completely secure is never build the door in the first place.
Solara: Pure Python, React-Style Framework for Scaling Your Jupyter and Web Apps
We're not allowed to protest.

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/uk-government-plan...
> some people are much more evil (in the sense; more harmful to society) than others and the concentration of evil is higher near the centers of power.

I’d similarly argue that some people are much more good (in the sense that their work actively makes society better). Their concentration is also higher near the centers of power. An awful lot of people go into government out of a genuine love of their country.
All done through the ISP, a related party, having absolutely nothing to do with stalking. Poor argumentation.
> For a person who isn’t technical (able to compile programs), an iPhone has a superset of a laptop’s functionality.

That doesn't even begin to make any sense. Can you run CAD software or serious photo processing on a phone (like DxO)? Nothing I run on a mac can run on a phone.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/wall-street-tries-shortwave-ra...
Simple is not always easy. Too simple can be difficult to grasp and sometimes adding a little complexity can actually make something more intuitive and easier.

DNS is simple, but it is not necessarily easy to understand.
> sharing state between threads is such a narow niche use case

It is the norm. „Kafka scale“ problems are not the norm.
I super like Simon de la Rouviere’s work. He writes thoughtful long form content circling fiction, storytelling, communities, social media, web3, NFT, art and crypto. Often ahead of the curve of how new technologies can be applied.

https://newsletter.simondlr.com/

He also wrote a sci-fi book that showcases many of his ideas in a story. It is fun to follow a newsletter that gets bundle into something more over time. Book link below:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L8LQDC4?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_4...
If you let criminals vote, you’ll end up with (place your most hated political figure) elected.
I don’t know where you got that view, but I suspect that is very far from the truth. People just tend to speak easily about issue they feel are important. You don’t need to be jobless to write a wall of text, just to have 10 minutes to kill for one reason or another.
Writing to your MP (don't use a template) would be more effective. I have yet to see a single one of those petitions that resulted in anything more than a brush off. Even much more popular ones.

Letters to MPs almost always result in a brush-off too but they do take notice of them at least. Very occasionally you do get a non-template response too.
Python already has threads, they just have huge downsides in their current form, so this ship has long since sailed.
When do politics begin? Three people.
I understand the difference, and chose my words intentionally. What evidence do you have that the purpose of the high speed rail project is primarily for commuting to and from work? I’d be willing to wager that the actual report (which I haven’t read) probably names a variety of reasons for high speed rail in the PNW, of which commuting is one of many.

Setting your passive aggressive pedantry aside, you haven’t answered the question: how would you like the government to prevent commuting in the PNW? And—now that we’re focusing on just one form of travel—how much do you expect that will reduce the demand for travel, and how will that reduction change the desirability of high-speed rail?
This is excellent and to the point. Thanks for sharing.
Predicting future is hard.

Using a few recipes to avoid having to break backwards compatibility every so often is pretty easy, as long as you know what they are (eg. you may need to live with your "referer" typo for a long time), and enforce them through coding standards and reviews and automated tests.
I agree, actually.

It's just that (some) people really want multithreading. And with that Python had the rare chance to say, ok you'll get it, but we will make it safe by default.

Now they said ok you get it, even though it's a big risk, we hope it'll work. If not, we'll take it back.

In what world is "taking back" even an option?
Your comments about violence in America are generally naive. I assume you’re a young person.

As I stated in another comment, yes, it’s ideological differences on which we differ.
I can see system level python installs being abandoned. They seem to be getting progressively harder to use over time. I don't see the replacement being virtual env, it'll be a different language ecosystem. Whichever one looks like it has remembered "easy to do simple things in" is a feature.
Space is alot bigger than you think or make out, the effects on astronomy are short lived while they get into position
I thought things had improved regarding systemd. Now I go to Phoronix when I want to have some fun watching true zealots (on that subject) in their natural habitat. Which is entertaining for about 10 minutes every once in a while.
Large parts of the US are ideal for high-speed rail.

The Eastern Seaboard is basically perfectly laid out for high-speed rail (Boston - NYC - Philadelphia - Baltimore - DC). The Midwest has tons of ideal city pairs, such as Chicago - Detroit or Chicago - St. Louis. Even a line between Chicago and NYC would be practical (3.5 hours downtown to downtown with modern HSR).

The main problems for HSR in the US are: extremely car-centric development, highly individualistic politics, incapability of pulling off large public projects.
Broken Arrow – 1961B-52 crash in Goldsboro, NC
Someone posted a link to a page of "broken arrow" incidents yesterday, and I recalled reading this one a while back.

To me it's the scariest broken arrow case. Two bombs were dropped from a disintegrating B52. One of the bombs parachuted into a tree with 3 of the 4 arming switches live. The other disintegrated in a field with live arming switches. The plutonium 'pit' was recovered, but most of it is still buried in that field.

It's a bloody miracle that neither went off.
> shitty social media company

How was it more shitty than what it is now or what Musk is trying to turn it into?

At least it had a quite decent logo instead of as generic as it get X character.

> interesting

Also what so 'interesting' (in a non crazy/entertaining way) about what Musk is doing?
It would be great if it could have an archive of opinions around specific topics too. And perhaps a way to get insight into the background/motivations of donors. Like on Crunchbase you can visit the websites of funds that invested and get an idea of their goals/ambitions.
I hope it'll be lua. I fear it'll be javascript.
Agree - a UK without WhatsApp would be a UK in revolt. Literally everyone I know from teens to oldies organises their lives on it. Lack of WhatsApp would be enough to drag our sorry apathetic lazy non-protesting arses out onto the street
It would probably be prudent to wait until whatever evidence that has been submitted to the inspector general etc comes out more publicly, because at this stage there is allegedly evidence existing for it, and without having access to that information you can't really make a qualified judgement.
This built up to such a beautiful end. Thank you
Yep indeed! The internals of these boards (and PineTab-V) are quite similar. Hopefully my work will show that it's not that hard to roll out our own OS on JH7110 boards.
TradeRepublic
Your link doesn’t disprove that they are subordinate though let’s not dive in to semantics.

The government are just playing nice and taking heed (or pretending to) of the declaration of incompatibility.

The courts can not force them to change their policy. The courts can not overturn primary legislation, not even the Supreme Court. They are basically just law experts and publish statements on what is lawful and what is not. Their power is derived from how much - or how little - the Government decides to act based on their rulings.

It’s important to remember the courts exist because of Acts of Parliament (some very recently, eg the Supreme Court was created in 2009). Moreover, they are governmental departments!

I’m sure Boris Johnson considered legislating them out of existence during his tenure but decided it was a bridge too far.
For a green card holder, with Russian girlfriend. If they get married and petition for family reunion, how long will it take her to get in US? Are there any routes to speed up this process?
Because if you know who they are and what their intent is, you can come to different conclusions and plans in dealing with the fallout.

If it's a YouTubers self experimentation fucking up you go after them and any illicit suppliers and make public notices about how dangerous it is. If it's an Operation Sea Spray 2 you probably oughta start whistleblowing and getting a large scale response in place. If it's a foreign state actor, you need to prepare for biological warfare, and also war. Biohacker, independent or organized terrorist, attempted assassin, drug synthesizer. It would be helpful to know.
The ruling class in python-dev are populists who are not threading experts. Python is run by the wrong people.

They will approve something if it serves a corporation. The submission here is likely CYA, so they can say that "they asked the community".

There is no appreciation for people doing grassroots open source software. If Instagram can add another hack instead of switching to Java, it will be approved.

It is important to remember that paid corporate developers will have job security every time new pain is introduced in the Python ecosystem.
Yes, in fact at this moment commercial interests are petitioning the FCC to allocate bandwidth in the HF 2-25mhz range for the purpose of high-speed stock trading: http://www.arrl.org/news/commercial-interests-petition-fcc-f...
It is chosen for you democratically by people that actually bother fixing those problems for you, for mostly free. Debian has voted multiple times on it, with systemd winning hands down each time.

Maybe we should listen to their expertise, shouldn’t we?
how likely, the corresponding code doesn't release GIL already? Pure Python is 100x slower than native code therefore the number crunching itself happens in C extensions where GIL can be released.
> "Python is just a pain in terms of using all system resources"

Whatever this comment means (I honestly can't properly tell) - removing the GIL will have absolutely no impact on Python's resource utilization.
Well, that’s how the other side feels, yes.

The closest thing this entire thread has given as evidence of overfishing is that a journalist was killed for meddling in government affairs, which has nothing to do with overfishing.
They could sell pieces of True Cross cut from scraps of it. The story of how it got transported from Judea to England and buried there is the stuff of legends.
I guess a (yet another) noticeable downturn happened at the Reddit exodus.
Could you imagine if the UK was just… cut off from the rest of the western internet?

What a time to be alive.
A lot of my ideas (aside from what you've already got) were very programmer-focused and not very fleshed out, so probably won't be much use. Here are some thoughts after playing with it for a bit though:

- I think you should lean more heavily into the 'naming things' aspect:
- Being able to have a separate "display name" and "tag" (or something like that) for tables and columns would be a big improvement when referencing them in formulae. These would be linked by default. In excel, I always feel pressured to simplify table and column names because otherwise the formulae are nigh unreadable.
- I was a bit disappointed that column names aren't used when referencing other cells. Using plain A1 names is especially confusing when the column names don't even show the associated letter. Excel has a decent implementation for this inside tables, but it would be even better with the previous point.
- The controls for block selection etc. feel pretty unintuitive to me, until I figured out that I could click/drag the block headings to go straight to block selection mode. These definitely need their own hover/cursor effect to make this obvious. The fact that it stays in block selection mode when I click another table is also confusing, since it doesn't if I initially have nothing selected. Some improvements might be:
- Dragging the space at the top-left of a block should act the same as dragging the title (i.e. move the block).
- Preferably, the corner resize handles should appear whenever the mouse is nearby, without needing to be in a specific mode or have the block active.
- Either make it so that switching blocks _always_ enters block selection mode first, or only when the title is selected. The inconsistency depending on the current selection feels unnecessarily confusing.
- Perhaps most importantly, the hover effect should always show what's about to be selected.
- First class functions (a la LAMBDA from google sheets).
- I would've preferred if the generators just worked as functions which return arrays, rather than having a dedicated column selection UI. E.g. `= SORT(FILTER('Data'!B:B, 'Data'!C:C > 4))` (even better with a pipe operator).
- Formulas unequivocally need to allow line breaks and indentation.
- It should be possible to sort/filter columns in place temporarily for quick analysis, without any effect on dependencies or the underlying data.
- The filter blocks seem to lose all type information etc, making them pretty much useless - I assume this is already on your roadmap somewhere?
- You definitely need a "create > grid block" context menu item when right clicking on empty space (from the guide it seems like this might already exist?).
From the complaint:

"Disclosing tax-return information without consent is a crime. 26 U.S. 7216.
Aiding and abetting the unlawful disclosure of tax-return information is a crime. Inspecting unlawfully obtained tax-return information is a crime. 26 U.S. 7213A(a)(2)."

Possibly the tax providers may have broken the law. However Smith v Google is a civil suit, not a criminal one. Further down:

"The Federal Wiretap Act, as amended by the Electronic Communications Privacy
Act of 1986, prohibits the intentional interception of the contents of any wire, oral, or electronic communications through the use of a device. 18 U.S.C. 2511."

"18 U.S.C. 2520(a) provides a private right of action to any person whose wire,
oral or electronic communication is intercepted."

Google has been sued for wiretapping before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joffe_v._Google,_Inc.
Utopia to blight: Surviving in Henry Ford’s lost jungle town
> Meta are not trustworthy and it's reasonable to want nothing to do with them.

Perhaps but the login thing seems totally tangential to this..
A government would still have to make and use their own keys in a man-in-the-middle attack. The forged key means that if anyone bothers to check it will be detected, and there are also various ways that an application can lock the used key to make this impossible. Man-in-the-middle requires a lot of control over the infrastructure, for something that works reliably they would need to cooperate heavily with telcos, and spend a good deal of money.
I follow Rosenow on twitter. he tried to tell me that Heat Pumps /were/ economic, because the gas/electric ratio would change /in the future/ ! "I'll wait until then, then".

I've been saying the things in this report for years. Nobody I know is particularly attached to gas as a method of heating their home, they simply want to do it at the lowest cost possible. Make heat pumps have an ROI of less than 10 years and it'll change overnight.

The UK government keeps banging the drum of heat pumps, then navel-gazing when the public won't install them. This is not because - outside of a few anti-green nutbars - they don't think they work, it's because they can see no economic case for them to do so. Making comparisons to countries with different unit prices doesn't help. Instead of the wildly complex subsidy scheme (Which merely funds a grant-harvesting installation industry, at the expense of viable systems like air-air), simply moving green tariffs to sit exclusively on gas would make a big difference.

One comparison this report misses is against variable electric tariffs (eg Octopus Agile which has 1/2 hr pricing). I suspect the gap would narrow, but I don't know by how much, and doing that you're taking a bet about the average electric unit cost in the future vs gas. My guess here - and it's the same reason I currently don't think a battery system is investable - is that the difference between 'cheap' periods and 'expensive' periods is going to narrow as time-of-use tariffs encourage the significant extra demand from EVs away from peak-load times.
"Brexit" the movement has lots of meanings to lots of people but is generally a set of issues/complaints. The people that movement enabled (brexiteers) have almost universally made those issues worse.
Segments of the world with different ideological views represented by their governments.

If the behavior was blatantly unethical, which I don’t think it is, it would be illegal everywhere. Just because my opinion is different than the popular opinion doesn’t make it anti-vax. Grow up and open your mind.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal was prosecuted under the current privacy situation. My ire with the level-0 comment was in it stating that the current situation doesn’t work. Also downloading random apps off Facebook is hardly behavior that a privacy conscious person would take. Not to mention that the use of the data, unless I’m missing something, did no more than make people uncomfortable.
It looks fun, but it's unplayable on my phone screen. The CSS needs work to accommodate different screen sizes.
The only problem with IRC and many of the open protocols (XMPP too) is that there is no "one true IRC": so while you can get all the same features as Slack, you've got to choose a particular server, a particular set of extensions (I am sure ChanServ/NickServ stuff eventually got "standardised" like DCC stuff did, but remember that DCC file sharing was direct-IP comms between clients), and on a specific client with the same set of features.

Slack and other tools are obviously inspired by IRC, but they do resolve a bunch of issues that IRC never got properly solved (or maybe did, but deploying it was too complex or it came too late).
I watched an interview with David Yelland, former editor of the Sun, recently where he said that the news media in the UK is more or less run by the same minority class of people who typically work as spads[1]. That would follow your point that the media props them up, because it is a homogenous and tight knit community now between media and politics.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/19/spads-speci...
Without paywall:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/utopia-to-blight-surviv...
I would also have no IT related problems if my computer wouldn’t boot..
It's in the "Py_mod_gil Slot" section [0] in the PEP:

> In --disable-gil builds, when loading an extension, CPython will check for a new PEP 489-style Py_mod_gil slot. If the slot is set to Py_mod_gil_not_used, then extension loading proceeds as normal. If the slot is not set, the interpreter pauses all threads and enables the GIL before continuing. Additionally, the interpreter will issue a visible warning naming the extension, that the GIL was enabled (and why) and the steps the user can take to override it.

[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#py-mod-gil-slot
> No, it's not. AOSP is free and open source OS that is completely functional without google's account or services.

That's just what I said. But most tie the android experience to the app ecosystem, which (not necessarily, but in practice (for most people)) is tied to the play store. Which requires a google account.

> Well yes, but either we give a pass to both of them or none.

WHY?! Google is honest about it. Why are they honest about it? Because they happen to be in a position where they can be honest about it. Samsung choose not to, because they rather trick people.

Google is required for the typical android experience. Samsung is only required if you like to be abused. They are not the same.

> But at the same time, this aproach is anti-competative. You will always buy into the biggest vendor, because it gives you the most features.

No, you buy into the vendor that is required. Not the one that tries to bully you and sneak under the radar.

> Just as google's software isn't AOSP, it's google android.

Google makes both. Google is much close to AOSP. Doesn't matter at all huh?

Google follows the typical android UX (close than anyone else at least), samsung tries to be different just for the sake of being different.

The competition to android is not samsung, it is non-android OSes

This is like defending tracking popups. They are abusive, illegal, user hostile and doesn't offer anything. But somehow avoiding sites that has them is anti-competitive?
I just asked my rabbits this question for you. Do they count as who?

They continued chomping down celery tops and coriander.

One of them likes to watch planes. It sits on its hutch in the afternoon watching planes from a local airport fly away, more interested in them on days when the wind's blowing such that when nearby they're taking off rather than days when the wind means they're approaching. The other one doesn't care for planes, but stamps whenever a wasp's nearby. This second one also likes to observe, then crush with a front paw, any ants it comes across or that come across it.

Remarkably human behaviour, though I know not what they think. Is it curiosity. Is it fear? Is something in-built and there is no 'thinking'? And what of us? Do we really comprehend? An Area51 alien is to me as a flying celery-rabbit on a magical boat with radish tops for wings is perhaps to these rabbits, if they've ever thought to imagine. They do seem to dream. That is, it's completely within bounds of their known reality. As outlandish as the very real, lived, imaginations of a schizophrenic delusion may be, and my observing it based on my 'norms', it's still somewhat based on the individual's experience, or imagination, of their reality, their experiences.

Perhaps there are aliens. Perhaps they exist in differing dimensions. Perhaps they exist as stars blinking to one another, perhaps they exist in my underpants or in fact are my underpants, what do I know, we are all in our (bounded?, there is always a bound...) existence, as Spinoza pointed out, of "Substance, its attributes, and modes".
Sometimes the right thing is writing code in a language that reaches market before runway runs out.
Thanks for the tip on Dent.
What was the power consumption of these chips?

More interesting yet it would be to know the Power/speed ratio compared to modern chips.