skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No unhinged computers for the people as predicted years ago by Cory.

Cory Doctorow has a great talk:
"The coming war on general computation" from 2011 (12 years ago) in which he argues that all general computing platforms (OS, phone OS, browser) would face challenges by governments and corporations.
This looks like another way to control content distribution and put more control in Google's hands. They've made a great strategic choice in building Chrome browser and effectively superseded Microsoft and Apple on desktops as a platform.

The talk can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

BTW, in the Soviet Union you couldn't have bought radios that were freely tunable to certain frequencies. The same was done in Warsaw where German occupation forces collected all radios from the people.

Future doesn't look good for freedom ... When the tools exists, people that control them would find a use. Look what's happening in the UK cryptography battle, the same trend there ...
If it is pyrolytic carbon, they've somehow significantly enhanced the dimagnetism of it, which is remarkable. Usually that stuff only barely floats, and only when it is very thin.
>I wouldn't be surprised if Seattle is the fastest building urban metro area in the US.

It's tied for fastest building Democrat MSA along Minneapolis. (6.5 permits per capita). SF is at 3.4. Orlando is at 11.

https://twitter.com/mnolangray/status/1682489858881884160
Ray-Aligned Occupancy Map Array for Fast Approximate Ray Tracing
That's fine for regular Python, but this doesn't convince me for multithreaded Python. Most Python modules which are optimized for performance (numpy, pytorch, pandas, and all others built on top of them) are already multithreaded and drop the GIL so you can parallelize your workload with the threading module.

If someone really needs several threads of pure python being interpreted, something is afoul imo.
Then she met her Waterloo.
> you're already getting free multi-core.

Please explain: In what sense is the overhead of starting actual OS processes, and relying on IPC "free", compared to running threads or even greenlets, and using shared process memory?
Java didn't initially ship with lock-free data structures, those came later thanks to Doug Lea.
I would say that the best part of the article is:
“Some of you haven't had blisters from overusing your pestle and it shows.”
His evidence is of UAPs. What I read says all the alien origins and lifeforms is still contested. That real things happen and are under review isn't disputed, the SIGINT alone will make this SCIF only material.

What's disputed is the alien intelligence part. He didn't out names because that's a crime, congress or not. Pilots don't talk about UFO because it's career limiting not because they don't experience anomalies.

Anomalies happen. They aren't aliens from outer space and nothing he said makes me believe otherwise, nor the secrecy which is explicable from purely human, legal and logistical and strategic reasons.

That Chinese weather balloon was a UAP. And, the depth of US capability to detect, understand, image and analyse it remotely as well as interdict it, is a secret for obvious reasons.
It will be interesting to see how this will be executed. I think many in Ruby land wanted something similar but couldn't get some general agreement. Ractors tried and arguably failed. We have Samuel Williams basically the one person pushing very hard for Async changes.

Ruby could learn a lot once this is done, but at the moment GIL optional in python seems to be a 2030 goal.
Soon I’ll be able to ditch golang
It will absolutely erode encryption in my country. Our government seems to operate on the following logic:

1. We want to be a developed country.

2. X is a developed country.

3. X does Y.

4. Therefore, we must also do Y.

We have our own GDPR. I've seen judges citing european laws in decisions. Watching other countries pass laws like this one is like getting a glimpse into the future.
I’d argue those kids don’t learn much concentration and so on. Being forced by your parents to follow schedule they made is quite a mundane skill. Works great to become a mindless office worker though. Look down, carry out tasks you’re told to do… and don’t complain. But is it really a life to look forward to?
https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/systemvergleich
-> e.g. XMPP

like Matrix:
https://www.freie-messenger.de/en/systemvergleich/team/
> Alternatively, message-passing isn't traditional threading, but Erlang/Go-style languages are another way to approach concurrency or parallelism.

Qt signals/slots across threads is also message passing. Transparent to boot. Too bad you need to afford a lawyer on retainer to use it these days.
Indeed, Elon Musk made an effort to halt the California high-speed rail project, but failed, leading to the project pushing forward. The repercussions have been billions of taxpayer dollars funneled into a project that remains considerably far from completion. The budget has skyrocketed from a modest $9 billion to an eye-watering $128 billion. Adding insult to injury, the first phase isn't expected to kick off until 2030. Given the speed at which FSD is advancing, it's quite likely that it will be fully developed before this rail service even gets off the ground. Interestingly, the original 2008 target completion date for the rail project was 2020, but not a single mile of track had been laid by that time. As such, blaming Musk's efforts for the state of California's issues seems misplaced. One can't help but wonder if things might have been better off if his attempt to cancel the project had been successful.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/29/california-h...
I think you're right. Making it an explicit opt-out, as is planned for the first stage, should be fine. Expecting to make it opt-in in 5 years seems too optimistic to me. It relies on all the library developers to fix their libraries (also the Python ones). That's tough work, and importantly, if done well, it will even go unappreciated: nobody will notice it.

Many libraries have never had a multi-processing use case, others are so big that bugs are bound to happen, many of them subtle, so one guaranteed outcome will be unreproducible complaints and devs throwing in the towel. Opt-in will make people unhappy.
I wish there was a command to just generate one of these files instead of always having to look it up, copy/paste, and then fill it all in.

It's the simple things that reduce friction that matter. Devs never understand this.
>We’ve told them we will not pay for their college. so they will have to make choices about getting the best bang for your buck

I've read this before from Americans, and I don't get it. In my culture if parents can pay for their kids' education, they do it. There's a time and a place to teach them financial responsability, I feel distracting them with financial concerns during their most challenging years of schooling is not it.

When I went to college (paid for by my parents), I had friends who had to work on the side to pay for rent and groceries. They barely hung by, very few had great grades since they had to split their time between work and study. One of my close friends ended up dropping out because he was burned out.

Of course this doesn't mean you should pay 50k for a degree in feminist dance therapy, you make sure you only pay for something with ROI (That's another thing I don't understand about Americans. In a country with tuition so high, how can so many pursue degrees with such awful job prospects?)
Completely different country: because ballpoint pens not good for calligraphy. I'm still not sure why, but I heard this argument everytime.
Oh yeah, that I agree. I'm kinda upset Google is frequently pushing papers with JFT and 30 different versions of it and making conclusions based on pre-training with it. This isn't really okay for publication. Plus it breaks double blind! I'd be okay if say CVPR enforced that they train on public datasets and can only add proprietary after acceptance (but you've seen my views on these venues anyways).

All ML training is non-deterministic. That's kinda the point. But yeah, people should include seeds AND random states. People forget the latter. I also don't know why people just don't throw args (including current iteration and important metrics) into their checkpoints. We share this frustration.
Looks like an open source project that hits all of the promises of Mojo except for targeting MLIR and fusion
By the usual laws of software estimates, if they think it will take 5 years, it's going to be more like 10-15.
Wow! That sounds really cool. I'd love to hear more. Would you want to talk outside of Hacker News?
Sounds a lot like something the U.K. Home Secretary would say, sadly.
I wouldn’t say rat race is problem-free life. All sorts of mental and physical health issues plague the modern rat race society.

The only realistic way to win is not to play.
Hacker News is, uh, a name. I don't think most people here are "hackers", nor they identify themselves as ones.

Most people are just employees in FAAG or some VC-funded firms.

And to be honest I don't even think most people here are informed enough to discuss biodiversity. I definitely am not.
The most important thing I learned about changing people's minds is that you need to meet them where they are, not where you want them to be. This is not just for veganism, it's for any topic of interest. People want solutions that are convenient, and if you can give that to them while accomplishing your own goals in the process, that is what people will decide to use.

This is one reason why the rise of meat-like alternatives that nevertheless taste like meat are one of the most subersively impactful ways of turning someone vegan. I suspect once we as a species transition fully to lab grown meat, we will all basically be vegan. But the reason why so few people are vegan these days (out of the overall human population) because it is simply less convenient than eating meat, given that we like the taste of meat. There really is no alternative currently that still satiates people's demands for the taste of meat.
They do. Now make them move ten times faster than an airplane. What happens?

Mind you I'm not the one who came up with the TERRIBLE analogy with cars. Millions of people a year die in car accidents, and this was somehow the example that's supposed to convince us that if "cars are safe" then satellites travelling 100x faster than a car over our heads (and 10x faster than an airplane) are also safe. The whole construct betrays extremely sketchy thought process.
Ask HN: What buggy software is relied upon by the most people?
Which software products/projects are relied upon by the most people and have serious defects that lead to regular failures?
It's a workaround for not having 1200 Ghz CPUs but instead 128 cores at 3 Ghz...
Yes there is! A table should have a primary key, which ensures no two rows in a table are exactly equal. So the simple solution with ‘a except b’ should work.

Lots of otherwise simple things get complicated with duplicates, e.g. try to change or delete one row out of a set of duplicates.

A table with duplicates is not even a relation, since relations are defined as sets. SQL is in a weird place because it technically allows duplicates, but many operations are not able to distinguish between duplicates.
> It's funny how even as tech users, google is "the internet" and if something disappears off google, it's gone

Good point!

Your response just made me remember why Copilot & later ChatGPT came in so handy. It was a weirdly perfect timing . It was after i have been so annoyed with all these trashy low quality code snippet sites just copying SO content appearing multiple times on the first page for almost any code related query.
After months I even made a Ask HN because i wondered, if only I was so incredibly annoyed by these sites popping up.

I just stopped googling for much programming related questions because of this.

OT:
A silly thought crossing my mind: I never really understood the value of these sites. In hindsight now, does it seem plausible that microsoft or openAI were behind these or had something to do with these sites?
The biggest fire the North has ever seen!

Here it is burning up in 2021:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2i6xpWmh-Q
Active Storage in production: lessons learned and in-depth look at how it works
I have seen this also, but attention is far better for gtp-4, it seems to follow a system prompt for say, outputing json, uniformly compared to gpt-3.5. I have also found that gpt-3.5 follows a system prompt to do the same for only 2 successive outputs. You have to give it that prompt with every single time. So I think increasing context windows may not make it follow the system prompt uniformly.
> For a political party that likes the cliché "tough on crime"

Labour also likes that cliché too [1].

They're all the same.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/27/labour-evok...
Category mitosis.
Call me new-fashioned, but this crap should not be legal. I get cars, I get people heating their homes with wood, I get burning coal for electricity, but this is just a middle finger to the environment and a huge waste of energy (approximately 1.8 GWh).
Part of the complexity of integrating a form library with a ux library is passing all of the correct properties around between the two. In this case, I wasn't doing that correctly and it resulted in a bug where disabled was not being set correctly. Someone filed a bug. The bug was fixed and a test was written to ensure that this doesn't happen again in the future.

You can read the history here: https://github.com/lookfirst/mui-rff/issues/455

If you're working with people who randomly 'forget' things while they are doing development, then I guarantee that you're working with people who also write buggy code. In fact, in this case, it was ME who wrote that buggy code. I own it. Not all code gets 100% coverage and sometimes things get missed. That is ok. What is not ok is skipping tests because you might forget something and therefore think it isn't worth writing tests at all.

I consider buggy code the act of developers writing the code at least 2x instead of 1x. If you or your company is paying someone $X a year to write code once and they are actually writing code more than once, then I would highly suggest you look for new people to work with because that is a terrible return on investment.

If your developers are writing tests, along with their code, then the code is far more likely to be correct and better thought out and less buggy than code that was just hand tested as they developed it. Speaking of that 2x example, I'd rather pay someone 2x the amount of time to write code, with tests, than the other way around.
conservatism (in the form of : the kids would never learn how to write properly if they don't time their strokes with dipping the pen in the ink routine)
Something akin to go routines won't solve the C-library problem.
This is already happening naturally without any sort of societal intervention. Who knew that people simply want to have fewer kids because life is better without them?
How to be German in 20 easy steps (2012)
A possible confusion here is MYD vs YMD both bonfire nights having an 11 in them. And I did say guy fawkes night as a comparator to July 11, both have roots in anti catholic fervour.
> 5 years might be too short for everyone to dredge up all that C code, update it, test it, and call it mature.

Developers are lazy. Most people will just do nothing until, 5 years from now, some blog post will go "oh, next month we switch noGil as default, good luck!". At that point everyone will scramble, rush out buggy releases, and spend 5 years finding all the problems.
Does it still apply that if my Prometheus goes down or network glitches then metrics for that period is lost forever?
Big HSR systems have a mix of express and local trains, like in Shinkansen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinkansen#Service_names Not every train stops at every stop.
Veganism has nothing to do with biodiversity loss though.

Land clearing happens for ranching purposes, but is also happens for peanuts, coconut oil and all sorts of other products. Rice[1] is a cash crop associated with land clearing.

For example a practical sustainable diet for the world would be much more efficient if it included goat milk and meat, because goats can subsist off of marginal lands and foods which humans can't.

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/44127803
The first option is not actually more expensive than the cost of how we handle it now. E.g. we could just give homeless people housing for less than the cost we already spend on homeless services.

The problem is the "they don't deserve things for free" mindset. It's even here in this thread too, I had to pay for education, why should prisoners get it? This vindictive thinking is all over HN, just a couple days ago a top comment was wondering why we allow them to "infest" cities like they're some sort of disease rather than other people. If you ran on a dog whistled "kill the homeless" platform, you'd get a lot of voter support.
> Telegram seems it's all full of smut

Telegram is not E2EE.

(Unless you use secret chats, which hardly anyone does.)
If the locals wish to spend their resources in this way, that's for them to decide, not you. It isn't a waste if it is valued by someone who pays for it.
The first paragraph of https://archive.org/details/rc-shell/

So rc was made for Plan 9. The examples in that paper are definitely on tenth edition Unix, I think this would be because

A fairly complete version of Plan 9 was built in 1987 and 1988, but development was abandoned. In May of 1989 work was begun on a completely new system

from https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/1st_edition/designing_plan_9 (1990).
Step one - "upload your data" and we'll do cool stuff

Ok. How do I upload my data? Can't find any link.

Sign up for our newsletter. Nope.

And we went to Stanford? I don't care.

I'm not trying to be nasty, though it probably comes of like that. Assume I want to get started with your product and invite me in...
> Threads need to just die, and be replaced by something less idiotic.

Please tell us: What other solution do you propose for running CPU bound workloads in parallel?

There are exactly 2: Multiprocessing and using another language.
So many alternative tools for alternative tools make us feel like fools.
> His evidence is of UAPs

His evidence is not public which is why I would consider waiting to be a better option than spouting opinions.

For the record I don't feel that this is anything more than a result of Chinese whispers within departments that's now likely to expose broad mismanagement of funds (and of course I do also think alien technology would be "cool"), but I find it astounding that so many people want to announce opinions when they don't have the full suite of information. Hence my initial comment, as there is a low but non zero chance that we may be surprised.
Quoting from [1], section "The ABC Project"

> The letter “B” was chosen because it is the first letter of the word “beginner” and because the project was meant to become a language for teaching programming to absolute beginners.

[1] https://inference-review.com/article/the-origins-of-python
I remember these warnings as well from when I started programming C seriously in the 90s. When I first encountered them I was convinced these issues will be resolved in a matter of weeks, maybe a couple of month at worst. Ohh, so little did I know.
I don't think most SQL flavours support MINUS function, imho.

Bing Chat says:
> The MINUS operator is not supported in all SQL databases. It can be used in databases like MySQL and Oracle. For databases like SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, use the EXCEPT operator to perform this type of query
Rarely are all of the things burnt paid for. A lot of the pallets etc are stolen from local businesses.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Your friend is now facing the consequences of their professional choices. Their well-intentioned ideas are not simply presented and discussed, but instead forcefully shoved down our throat from a position of power. Such a behaviour nullifies any claim to working from a well intentioned position. If your friend wishes to serve their master, however they decide to rationalize their behavior, the fact remains that they are endangering society and as such should not be able to do this without personal consequences.
I hope that will be the response. I wish the same had happened when the EU passed the stupid cookie law. Everyone should have replaced their websites with a static page that explains browser cookie settings when accessed from Europe.
My whole gripe isn't about getting 'caught', it is about getting literally yelled at.
Why would O3 be damaged by H2O? SpaceX rockets are powered by hydrogen and oxygen and produce water as exhaust.
A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors [pdf]
Ink?! When I was in school we wrote on clay tablets with reed styli. We had to maintain the styli with copper knives. Later, even the most reactionary teachers would let us use the new fancy bronze knives.

Heh, kidding aside I have all the writing implements: glass dip pens, metal dip pens, quill, even some home-made experimental pens (the one made from a plastic drinking straw is actually pretty good).

Glass pens are okay and great to clean but of course there's zero flex in the nib so it's not one that I reach for very often.

A calligrapher in the BBC series on the history of writing makes one out of a Coke can. Some day I'll get around to trying that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxUuPq3mWaU&t=3666s
The Einkbro web browser (Android) has a print-as-ePub feature.

You can print multiple documents to the same ePub file, effectively creating a book with a chapter for each document.

The ePub can be read using Einkbro itself or in your choice of ebook reader software (e.g., Koboreader, FBReader, Pocketbook, Neoreader, etc.)

And you can transfer the file to another device if you prefer through any standard Android file transfer method. (My preferred route is scp or rsync under Termux.)

<https://github.com/plateaukao/einkbro>
Windows? There is not an day me amd my colleagues have to fight with windows because of an problem in there, built in drivers that stop working or apis that have an probability to work of 30%.
So yeah lots of associations but most of the associations are bullshit.
aha, this must be critical urbanism's orange website alt

there is no inherent reason why high speed rail isn't suited to commuting, pricing is a policy choice. and i too can name random prices, i paid 25€ to get from paris to geneva on a TGV a couple of weeks ago. total carbon emissions for that trip: 2kg

other commenters have rightfully bashed you over the head for your pro-car comments. let me pile on. in embodied carbon alone, this is a ludicrous prospect. cars also fare dramatically worse in terms of specific energy. and in mortality rate, and comfort, and ...
Could I make a humble suggestion?

It sounds like you are very knowledgeable and are actively interested on the topic of HIV/AIDS.

If someone with your background would take the time to read RFK’s book on Fauci with a critical mind and do your best to identify fraudulent claims or misinterpreted facts about the early days of HIV treatment under Fauci, it would go a long way to help discredit RFK’s book and the man himself.

If your critique uncovers new insights it could be very persuasive in dismissing RFK’s candidacy.

This is not a small ask, I realize that, but if your current perception is correct about RFK Jr. you would be doing America a great service by revealing the fraud.

I ask this as someone who is not an expert on HIV/AIDS or vaccines but who has been pursued by RFK Jr’s message on other important topics and would genuinely like to know if the man is genuine or one whose claims should be dismissed.

I have purchased a copy of his book, “The Real Anthony Fauci - Bill Gates, Big Pharma and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health” but haven’t yet read it. I would gladly mail it to you to support this effort.