skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does his agenda make him lie? Does it have any impact on the sources, that used wikileaks?

No? Then why is it important?

You were right, it is a fig leaf for ones and a strawman for others.

The main problem, we as a society have, is a embassing lack of problem awareness! Guess what wikileaks does, i beg you.
> an interesting way to bait a Supreme Court case might be to request a CCPA delete for the NSAs “commercial” data.

Good luck with that. You cannot delete something which "doesn't exists". /s
You could also say that people choose a system that creates an environment for them to thrive and attracts more people who then also thrive.
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> Old-school FOSS nerds have a hard time admitting that they tend to be absolutely useless at considering user experience, because then that’s something On Computers that they’re not good at.

New-school FOSS nerds don't seem to understand that all poor user experience concerns are because we are trying to be productive. The new style of of reduced information density and easy-to-remember names isn't useful when you are paid to have production systems up and running. What I need are tools that give me the exact information I need quickly and get the fuck out of my way for everything else.

> It’s such an outdated user-hostile boys club attitude fuelled by insecurity and misplaced and not even well-thought-out elitism, and I’ll never pull any punches when talking about it.

Most people that complain about this put the minimal viable effort into actually learning what they are doing. Somehow I'm the idiot after spending hours of my life to learn this professionally and for wanting expert interfaces. You can call me elite all you like but when the whirlpool of disaster is pulling us both under, I'll be in my elite raft surfing the waves while you struggle.
Have you never worked a support role? Users don't read shit.
Exactly, pragmatic and effective while preserving Japanese culture. I would add qualifications that the family must be a nuclear family that is otherwise not on public assistance. Just give them huge tax breaks for having 4+ kids. The trend would reverse in 9 months.
> I haven't spoken to a single technical person in Europe who doesn't despise the GDPR.

I'd like to know those people, especially if their job is connected in any way to the practices the GDPR is fighting against, because, although it may have been created better, I can't find a single reason why ordinary honest people should believe the GDPR shouldn't exist.
If you’re building B2B software, It’s not that you can’t track but rather that you need to spend time building data retention infrastructure before customers would even consider trialing your solution.
Thanks for the personal attack but I haven't called anyone's perspective 'asinine' or treated people with outright disrespect on this thread, as you have.

Is there a reason you are so reactionary when people pose an alternative viewpoint to your own?

Why did you bother posting such a thing as "I don't understand why people think that social media is toxic" if you are just going to attack everyone who attempts to give a reason for it?
Ryanair and reputation hit do not belong in the same sentence. People already expect the worst.
Because the government can put you in jail and the marketing agency can't. (I think I heard this simplified response on the Risky Business podcast)

Realistically, scraping people for their data like this should just not be allowed at all. People are more important than corporations.
> cannot confront the US when differences between us arise

While it's true that Australia is a minnow compared to the US, it doesn't mean that it can't influence the US, it just means it can't coerce it, which no one can anyway.

Australia has done well so far by being a "middle power" and using diplomacy and statecraft. That's where its future lies. Everyone has to deal with the enormous power of the US, it's much better to do it as a "good friend".
There's an argument that I think is basically correct that governments are largely free-riding on people's inherent desire for children. This is to say that the value to a government of an additional child is substantially above the incentive they offer the parents of that child.

And I think this is because we sort of have this assumption that society having more kids is a thing we don't have to incentivize, and so we haven't really thought about what is the actual cost/value of that incentivization.
> - presumably, since it is compiled, it does static checks on the code? How many statically-detectable bugs that are now purely triggered at runtime can be eliminated with LPython?

Yes, it does static checks at compile time. The only thing that we do at runtime (imperfectly right now, eventually perfectly) are array/list bounds checks, integer overflow during arithmetic or casting and such. Those checks would only run in Debug and ReleaseSafe modes, but not in Release mode. So for full performance, you choose the Release mode. For 100% safe mode, you would need to use ReleaseFast.

- does it deal with the unholy amounts of dynamism of Python? Can you call getattr, setattr on random objects? Does eval work? Etc. Quite a few Python packages use these at least once somewhere...

It deals with it by not allowing it. We will support as much as we can, as long as it can be robustly ahead of time compiled to high performance code. The rest you can always use just via our CPython "escape hatch". The idea is that either you want performance (then restrict to the subset that can be compiled to high performance code) or you don't (then just use CPython).
Your argument seems to hinge on:

“at some point, the working population will be far far lower than what is necessary to support the rest.”

That’s a completely reasonable take in, at a minimum, pre-industrial times.

There is a long dream that “increases in productivity will allow us to live lives of leisure.” This is obviously not how things have turned out, but it isn’t clear to me that we cannot choose this.

Anyway, what percentage of us actually need to work? Where is the point that we cannot cross? I am skeptical that Japan will come anywhere close.
It's understandable, and necessary, but it's also amusing that the CA HSR project has made (and opened) many miles of roads and bridges for cars and yet doesn't have any trains to run.

Of course, if they had started with a ten mile section of track in some place easy to drop in tracks then everyone'd make fun of it for only having two stations ten miles apart or something.
Is China the only country where this applies you mean? Because Apple runs the iCloud servers in every single country, except China.
European LLM beating OpenAI davinci at NLP: https://www.aleph-alpha.com/luminous-performance-benchmarks

It'll probably be "good enough" for most industry usecases ;) And you can run it offline and on-prem, which is a big deal to the many companies who DO NOT want their internal data leaking to OpenAI.

And the Carrefour AI stuff is hosted on OVH cloud (in France), I believe: https://www.carrefour.com/en/news/artificial-intelligence-op...

OVH has roughly 15% of the revenue that Google Cloud makes in Europe. So I'd put them at a similar size to Oracle Cloud, but clearly larger than DigitalOcean.
Perhaps the parent had these discussions with the kids before and 'Control yourselves!' was just a short-hand reminder to exercise some self-control. I wasn't there, so I have no context, but nothing about your story made it sound like the dad was thinking for the kids. (I'd expect that to sound more like 'Stop taking up the wnole sidewalk! Line up single file! Stand still!')
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Retirees will need to accept less support from the working population. Measures like increasing the retirement age will help a lot. Slashing retirement benefits.
Pains and gains aren't enough without stakes
It sure should be illegal all around.

The second piece about comparing the government to a business isn't valid. There exist many laws and rules that apply only to the government.

Not that I agree with the distinction. I think companies larger than the US government at formation should probably have rules to keep them good for humanity.
No there aren’t, as a quick search for the legality of prostitution in Australia would have told you.

You may have missed the word “child”, as sex tourism of this kind is unfortunately still a problem.
At least LOSSAN is slowly improving the Surfliner; I wish more of the focus had been on doing something like that (it's in phase 2 or 3 to completely doubletrack it from LA -> SAN but that's technically separate and Del Mar may prevent it nearly forever).
The B field is just the E field's relativistic effects to an observer not in the same motion frame.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_electromagnetism_and_sp...
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So fun. Some favorites:

Big Room: http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/Big-Room.html

Bogo-Sort: http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/bogo-sort.html

Bug-For-Bug Compatible: http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/bug-for-bug-comp...

Fence-post Error: http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/fencepost-error....

Magic Smoke: http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/magic-smoke.html

One-Banana Problem http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/one-banana-probl...

Tail Recursion: http://www.hackersdictionary.com/html/entry/tail-recursion.h...
This is a nice rant, but it doesn't really answer the question. I understand what black and white is and that those are two extremes.

The task at hand, though, was to come up with a concrete scenario and you've failed at that.
Governments think this is GPS and they can build sovereign alternatives. This ain’t GPS.
btw, you can copy movies and play them on vlc on your iphone by using itunes on windows or finder on mac. Just put them in the "file sharing" tab.

Windows: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

Mac: https://imazing.com/uploads/screenshots/imazing/datasets/app...
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Arxiv has its own problems.

You can find dozens of proofs on the arxiv that P=NP and that P!=NP. What does peer “review” look like here? Most people won’t bother to write an article specifically rebutting one random incorrect proof.

Now somebody tomorrow posts a proof that P!=NP. Will people pay attention? If it’s a “big name” or somebody at a university with a good PR office then yes; otherwise no. Doesn’t seem ideal to me.
Wait, really? I haven't seen these before.
That's interesting. I'll just nitpick that the bible never actually mentions an apple, but rather "the fruit ... of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ... the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil". I suppose this
could actually fit your story very well, except for the fact that the biblical story is considered aetiological - we are the way we are now *because* our ancestors ate that fruit.
Is the number randomly generated? If not, then I think the probability is wrong since there are many series of numbers that have never been issued
According to your comment, it's not fear/hate of China, it's fear/hate of the US.
A misogynistic culture is probably a bigger issue than smartphones in causing some women to decide against having children.
Thanks ... you're right, I was thinking ahead, that should not be there.

"the exponential growth driven by our financial system's need for constant growth"

I've updated the original comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Acceleration

"In tracking the effects of human activity upon the Earth, a number of socioeconomic and earth system parameters are utilized including population, economics, water usage, food production, transportation, technology, greenhouse gases, surface temperature, and natural resource usage"

https://futureearth.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/great_acc...
Interestingly, if you run a BBS through the telephone system, you'll be immune, as the bill specifies "the Internet", but:

1. I think the lines have jitter now they're over IP anyhow.

2. Bit niche...
This is awesome. Love to see competition as it tends to be very beneficial to end users.

I use Numba quite a bit to does up slow Pandas operations. Cool to have another alternative.
It probably was to some extent. But also true is that readership used to have fewer means to question the writing of journalists, or to learn of others' criticisms.
Right we support (currently a subset) of NumPy (just `from numpy import ...`) and SymPy (`from sympy import ...`) and some parts of the Python standard library. We want to support PyTorch, CuPy and other such libraries in a similar way, at least the subset that can be ahead of time compiled, which is quite large.

Yes, offloading to GPU we want to support naturally via NumPy syntax. We will look at this very soon, most likely via annotating that a given array lives on a GPU or host, and then array copy will copy it from host to device, etc.
I'm not lol. That's the point. Even if Japan or South Korea had full reverse right from this instant, a collapse that will last decades is inevitable. That's the consequence of low and further declining fertility rates for decades. The table has already been set.
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Because the marketing agency can't have you targeted in a drone stike.
it seems more like ad prevalence has increased over time so that advertisers and ad-based services can make more money

after all, it increased before any attempts to rein in targeted advertising (which still exists, it's just harder to hyper-target in some circumstances)
If you think that the average office worker is obese and depressed then that’s a wild projection. Do you know who is much more likely to be obese and depressed? A poor person.

The stuff about AI just makes you sound out of touch with reality. You clearly spend too much time online and it has detached you from real flesh and blood life. Re enter your life
Probably a decade max? The hardest ones to replace will be actual physical jobs, but that's coming as well - see Boston Dynamics for shells that could bring AI into the physical world.
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> Is this all technically legal? Seems like it might be. Is this what the authors of the 4th amendment had in mind? Seems extremely unlikely.

you are not inconvenienced when the NSA buys data in the same way that you're inconvenienced when you have to feed/house a soldier.

While it's extremely unlike the authors of the 4th amendment had the internet & etc in mind this concept of selling things to the government surely was known to them and so the current implementation would be OK from their perspective.

A lot of the first 10 amendments are about protecting your physical property from the Government. 2nd - Guns, 3rd - House, 4th - Property, 8th - Money. The digital bits that Google and etc created (ex. metadata) are clearly neither in your procession nor your property. There is no amendment that protects letters you wrote but gave to somebody else nor recordings made by somebody else of your interaction with them.
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Nuitka is a compiler. With list it at the bottom of https://lpython.org/, together with the other 23 Python compilers, now 24. :)
The user you're replying to is saying that the GIL is preventing multiple threads from executing Python bytecodes at once (preventing some classes of race conditions and ensuring thread safety). They are absolutely correct.

The GIL doesn't solve or prevent all classes of race conditions (which can stem from complex interactions with databases, the filesystem, etc). Removing the GIL though, will only make things worse from that perspective - making the language more difficult to work with (for non-technical people).

This is exactly why Python should be further simplified, and not made more complex - given the population which uses it most.
It is very much worth it to optimise for material stuff. Why wouldn’t it be? I’ve never had to starve but I think it would be quite horrible, as would be living in very poor accommodation. I would like to optimise this away
I'm a UK resident not opposed to this bill.

First, child protection is paramount.

Second, The erosion of big tech companies' power is a benefit as far as I can see.

Third, We still have effective encryption in our hands. TLS is not going to be broken by this.

The argument that offenders will be pushed into darker corners of the internet is probably true, though I expect that will make it easier for law enforcement - take ANOM [1] as an example.

The battle I'd fight would be some kind of accountability in intelligence services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANOM
I like "emergency brake" as a variable name!

Glad to help, it was similar for me with a lot of effort to synthesize best practices and really appreciate all the concurrent options (asyncio, threads, MP) for where they each are valuable.
The question is, if you hold a garage sale and someone buys your stuff and the governments then buys that stuff from whomever you sold it to, is it a Fourth Amendment violation?

Because that's what's really happening here. Once you sell your data to Facebook, Twitter, etc, it's no longer "in your house." If you granted third parties license to collect and sell your data under terms of service, then that data no longer belongs to you, and you agreed to that..

To me the bigger problem isn't the government buying data on the open market, it's that data is a market to begin with.
Throughout history childless people faced high risk of destitution in old age. That’s no longer true in most developed countries, and I don’t think anybody would want that to be changed.
I think the recent announcement of OverflowAI [1] could work quite well in this way for a big company like that.

FWIW the announcement reads very boring to me but I guess I was expecting something else. Likely won't be super useful in a small-medium size company.

[1] https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/07/27/announcing-overflowai/
You're right that the system is set up in such a way, that it often prevents meaningful changes on the individual level. However, the individuals are still consumers of those businesses, and our habits are driving their profits and further destruction.

The change has to come on both levels.

Let's not use it as an excuse to do nothing.

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

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
A compiler doesn't need to optimize. I think if it takes Python code, and translates it to something else, it's a compiler. An optimizing compiler is the one that will give you speedups.
If people turn to the chatbot to ask "how to use the product" questions, it’s a sign your docs are unhelpful and do not provide useful answers. You do need support staff to help with questions specific to a situation, like how to resolve unexpected errors, or to handle billing disputes.
Yeah, but this article is about Starlink
California is mostly desert, national forest, and fire country. LA, and SD exist in their current state due to large scale water works that bring water from outside of California.

For an American comparison, the northeastern US is home to 43% more People than California and is only 17% larger. In both California and the US, the population is concentrated on the coasts.

Would it be so surprising that a nation with a large coast, mild weather, and plenty of water would have a large population?
The U.S. population is still growing, which of course may be lag, but can also be caused by immigration. Countries need to keep the population growing to support Ponzi-schemes like retirement benefits. I expect poorer countries to continue to be baby factories indefinitely.
Ericsson had an internal IRC server a long time ago.
It would be a simple answer if it was shown to work. But the results in other countries are at best iffy. I live in Germany and get both tax breaks and cold hard cash per child, but the results are not encouraging. As a parent it makes sense to me, I cannot imagine thinking about kids and having them for tax breaks.
>Where is the point that we cannot cross? I am skeptical that Japan will come anywhere close.

Japan's national pension scheme is "pay as you go", meaning that benefits for retirees today are paid out of the contributions going into the scheme today.

Japan has already reached the point of having less than two workers per retiree. By 2050, that number is projected to be more like 1.5: the writing is on the wall.
Are the other analysts with more accurate track records? Which major issues has he gotten wrong?

https://zeihan.com/demographics-part-7-the-northeast-asian-c...
There's probably a market for fake id streams: want my contact history? Fine here's 100 fake contacts. Want my location data? Fine. I'm at the Taylor Swift concert two states over. Want to listen in on my microphone? Fine. Here's a recording of Pat Boone trying to do rap.

I'm far from the first person to recommend this.
are you sure it wasn't prostitution but child abuse overseas that was illegal?
That's the point, though, isn't it? Fun fact: when you come back, you are no longer overseas, so now the Australian government once again gives a fuck about you! In principle, at least.

And they're not my airports. If they were, parking would be cheaper
Connect a solar panel?

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZJqynNhOk

:)
Sadly, their mathematical assumptions are actually very reasonable and conservative. They're not saying "this exponential trend will continue", they're saying "what happens in 30 years to South Korea if the current state continues?"

And the answer is that there will be something like two 80 yr olds for every 30 yr old.
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We are developing Scribe - dictaphone with speech recognition on device. On device means - audio is not sent to any cloud and stays on your phone, so it is private. The neural network runs right on the CPU of your smartphone.

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It is like Google Recorder, but unlike Otter.ai or other transcribing apps based on Google Assistant.

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Some of the features:

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Aren’t tax incentives a form of public assistance? Tbh, I don’t understand why not just pay people for children straight up: pay for the cost of daycare, cover the cost of a birth, provide food and clothes fit for a child, offer incentives to employers to employ moms after they’ve finished raising.
I completely agree with this position. If you need an optimized paralyzed code to chew through a tough workload, write that part in C, and spawn it from python. Python is a coordinating scripting language.
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I understand that they could work 16 hours a day, but I wouldn’t believe they can separate two businesses like that. I would have told the same thing though.
Actually, the 99 apparently comes from its year of discovery, 1999.

No, I don't know why it took over two decades for their discoverers to figure out it was a room-temperature superconductor.