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> Pypi has what, 500k projects on it? Many abandoned.

> Whom exactly is going to update those?

> once all the hard work is done by the community.

If I want to use Python with parallel threads in the app I'm building, I don't need to wait for every last one of those 500k packages. I can wait for only the packages I'm using, or risk it and force Python to run in nogil mode anyway. It's my choice.

> Or do packages get an automatic “doesn’t work with no-GIL” unless the author explicitly opts to enable it?

As other comments say in this thread: yes.

> Does that remind you of anything?

> Mmm.

2-to-3 burned you. We get it. You might be getting flashbacks to that nightmare. That is understandable. But you need to look beyond a surface level similarity — "That was a transition. This is a transition. They're identical!" — and at the actual transition itself. The problems of 2-to-3 aren't present here. The user is not forced to choose between two incompatible options. Library authors aren't forced to migrate their code forward. Users and library authors do not need to collectively choose one version over another. The newer version remains compatible with older code. The sky is not falling.
If you have a friend who's willing to report on you for a price and the government pays the price the 4th amendment wouldn't have been violated. Why is is different because it's digital? The government isn't spying on you, it's just paying for information collected legally
There’s no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display in your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for fifty of your Earth years.
I recently plugged my extremely, abusively templated C++ library into Cling (the C++ interpreter mentioned) and everything worked like a charm. I can even use it in Jupyter notebooks. The speed feels more on the order of Python, though. But if the heavy lifting is done by precompiled libraries, I can see Cling having a pretty nice workflow for experimenting with and interfacing C++ code
Ha. It’s so bad!

And rather then let chat work on mobile it pushes you to download the app.

But if you say, “Send the desktop site…” from your phone it sends a responsive site where chat works fine.

They literally go out of their way to make it awful to use.
DNSSEC was already mentioned, but yet another dark corner of DNS are wildcard records.
For people interested in demographics and its consequences, Peter Zeihan (all over Youtube) has a lot of very interesting research into it.
why not using an end2end encrypted p2p only chat lioe https://cabal.chat instead?
Collecting data is specifically searching and seizing, and in an unreasonable manner without warrant.
To keep a journal. My long term memory is awful, I have no idea what I was like 10 years ago.
It’s how most of “responsive design using CSS” tutorial teaches you.
I've beenthrough this song and dance. Did months-long PoCs (with live data, running next to the then-production Prometheus deployment) of Thanos, Cortex and Victoria Metrics.

VM won hands down on pretty much all counts. It's easy and simple to operate and monitor, it scales really well and you can plan around how you want to partition and scale each component, it's incredibly cheap to run as performace is superior to the others, even when backed by spinning HDDs vs the other solutions on SSDs.

It's especially easy to operate on Kubernetes using their CRDs and operators.

I am not associated with Victoria Metrics in any way, just a happy user and sysadmin who ran it for a few years.
> holds your own journalists hostage?

The rub is that he is not a journalist.
Provide an RSS feed. The only thing that'll stop people following that is Google Safe Browsing. You'll still need to provide all the other methods for letting people follow you, but if you advertise your RSS feed, people might start using it.

(If you're feeling technical, you could set up an ActivityPub bridge, to let people follow you from social media too. If you're using Wordpress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/)
And the 29 other chat apps on our phones because chat is too “complicated” to run with an interoperable protocol like xmpp for today
PSA: all videos are from youtube apparently and get added to your YouTube watch history. You may want to open these sites in incognito / different browser -- if you wish to avoid seeing 200+ random 80s video clips in your youtube history suddenly (possibly effecting the recommendation algo too).
>Also lack of transparency. The self-hosted open alternatives are auditable and can be inspected. Nobody knows what Discord does with user data or what security issues exist.

This doesnt solve (or doesnt even tries to solve) my issue AT ALL.

I'd rather have Discord have some user data that I'm consciously putting there instead of my enemies from the game DDoSing/Stalking me

I've played hardcore MMORPGs and this is serious concern.

>tl;dr: Web linking + some bot integration and client affordances solve all these. This is how the web is supposed to work.

sounds like: go put effort and decrease your UX.
>regular monopole antennas

There is no real monopole antenna - there's always another "half", like a ground plane, a counterpoise system or even just the body of the person holding a handheld radio.
What does solar have to do with it at all? Why mention 'forest fires' in the first place?
the same goes for punishing criminals, but the idea of pre-crime is worse
9 months x $15 = 135. Even at double or triple, It's still a better deal and less hassle than having to juggle junk mowers every season just because they can't be bothered to learn simple hygiene/maintenance.

Also, I've done the bowl repair you mention here a few times actually.
… they’re using the data to perform searches …
Oh, you are the parent poster! :D

That's why the sibling thread wasn't making much sense to me. :P

I should learn to check usernames before responding.
Miniconda can be nice sharing an environment around especially with Apple Silicon as one of targets.
Among other things that makes this tool awesome is how convenient it makes light weight data wrangling on the cli, e.g. to introspect some json data in your clipboard with sql

`$ pbpaste | sqlite-utils memory --table - "select * from stdin;"`
It's a requirement in France when company loose a trial that users should be aware of (e.g: privacy, etc.). It's not perfect and maybe not immune to "trolling" but it's efficient

Like this: https://www.numerama.com/sciences/28339-google-affiche-sa-co...
What are the actions and forces that really keep a bicycle balanced and upright?

And no, it's not the gyro effect because the wheels are too light and spin too slow; particularly at low speed. At best, the gyro effect may help delay the start of a fall in some cases.

https://theconversation.com/the-mysterious-biomechanics-of-r...
I was in that position, and then one of the creators I watch on YT had a Nebula offer at the end of a video to get a year's subscription for about $30. For $2.50/mo, I figured it couldn't not be worth it.

Then I checked their T&Cs and privacy policy and was instantly sold.

Have no regrets about signing up. I only wish that there were more of my favourite creators from YT on Nebula.
Russia ‘using disinformation’ to imply Sweden supported Qur’an burnings
Surprising there isn’t a teams addon
Just try to extrapolate when tons more rockets punch the skies and let harmful radiation do its toll on life on Earth. We already have tons of junk, nobody has the responsibility to "clean after themselves." Wh would've imagined that the plastic bottles that are now in every river, in seas, and oceans will pollute the entire planet with "benign" micro- and nanoplastics.

We humans are stupid. We always underestimate the consequences of small stuff that simply adds up over time. This is a pattern. We polluted the planet with forever chemicals, lead, and tons of other pollutants that our descendants will have to deal with and suffer from!

All this needs to be regulated, a risk-benefits analysis made, and there needs to be a huge excise tax for all such activities!
If I’m not mistaken, Cling is an LLVM-based JIT compiler, so it really should be performing close to the same level as an ahead-of-time Clang-compiled binary executable. Perhaps what you are noticing is JIT latency (from compiling on the fly.)
Nothing's busted, Dave is rushing to judgement (disclaimer: I'm going by the title, haven't watched the vid. EEVblog's usually on the money though. See eg. his vids on solar roadways / bicycle lanes. That just racked up another "confirmed, it's a bust" over in the NL).

In this case: too early to tell. The jury is still out.

From what I've read, doesn't look good though.
I never believe privacy policies anyway.

I go on the assumption that anything I ever reveal on the internet will become public knowledge at some point.
If 200$ is reasonable price point. We can ask what is the normal rate of people who repair lawnmowers? How many hours you can actually buy with it? 2? 4? and then we aren't even at parts. Are they available, what is the lead time?

Labour costs are likely so high now that just replacing something makes lot more sense. And you get certainty that it works.

Also shouldn't there be some sort of warranty? At least for year or two?
(Ask HN: List...)
Teenage style gossip mills on discord rumours is a great way to have a smashing chat experience
if the availability of commercial data becomes necessary for a functioning NSA, it will be used as an argument against any attempt to regulate data collection
Is the name chosen in contrast with PyPy's RPython?

Haven't heard from pypy for a while now.
We should use fossil fuels to transition away from fossil fuels asap.

And stop using them for things we don't need.
Adapting is actually a bad decision. If everyone invests into local counter measures such as ACs or flood walls rather than reducing emissions, we might take away resources spend on the cause of climate change.

The estimated cost for net zero are only 3-6% of global GDP per year until 2050. Totally doable.
Of course we can adapt to things that keep changing. Noting is static in the universe, change is inevitable.

Sure, billons will die and it will be the end of our civilisation as we know it, but either we'll adapt to the new life or we won't.
On one slide showed big dip in profit in 2009.
What was it?
I don't think it was just the 2008 economy downturn.
It may be on some level a culture issue. Grand announcements in unreproducible results are more common in societies with a profound respect for learning. Think Dr. Pangloss …
Bosch boss urges Europe to be more competitive and worry less about China
That's seems backwards. Everything is highly unlikely, a priori. To say that something isn't unlikely is the assertion which requires evidence.
> Discord's client is also visually pleasing

Actually I find it ugly, but thats firmly in personal preference territory. A decenct client would be skinnable or css-able to meet users diverse aesthetics.
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When you can easily get a seat on the rush hour subway people's attitudes may start changing.

Really, if _you_ want _other people_ to have children, you have to negotiate with and offer them something. That seems to be missing from so much of this demographic discourse.
I'd state what the parent comment says a bit differently: the availability of data for purchase does not make its purchase by law enforcement magically "reasonable".

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

In a digital world, one's "Person" and "effects" have become inseparable from the phones/platforms we communicate with. Participation in many cases is not a choice if one is to function in society.

The requirement that warrants are issued only upon establishment of probable cause also highlights the issue here. It seems highly dubious that a company holding your data and selling that data is somehow an acceptable end-around the warrant requirement.

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.
Guns are designed to kill people, and WEI is designed to block unauthorized browsers.
Normally I would agree, but for some reason, the width threshold for going from desktop -> mobile is really wide (1280px) which could genuinely be larger than some laptop screens depending on zoom or scaling.
How so? GDPR has done so much for personal privacy, I can't see why you would think it's stupid. It's been a pain to implement when it was introduced, sure, but since then it's pretty much become routine and privacy has become a key value of nearly all (EU) tech companies.
Not having a backlog is actually the thing I like about it. Discord (and Slack) have this thing where because there’s a backlog, people expect other people to have read everything. I prefer the experience where the assumption is that the people not in the room are assumed to have not seen a message. It makes it more unambiguously a synchronous experience, whereas Discord and Slack chat is pretty ambiguous as to whether it is synchronous or asynchronous.
Germany's auto industry: suppliers' confidence waning
First, you need to define what a soul is, and how to spot one.
It's funny how headlines like this are instantly alarming, but they really shouldn't be. A natural population decline is the best thing we can have right now. It's not hard to make babies, it's in fact too easy.

Imagine if a breed of deer living in a restricted space naturally controlled its population in relation to the resources of their living space. That would be amazing!

More close to home, but a lot less popular, is the fact that the population of Croatia has also been steadily declining ever since the massive exodus of the last civil war.

From 1990 to 2023 the population of Croatia has declined from 4.8m to 4m, that's an even greater decline than Japan viewed in percent of population. Very alarming if it's part of your culture and language disappearing.
Well, in fairness, I believe the guy that got caught posting classified docs in a small private discord server would appreciate privacy, even if I myself and a lot of people almost exclusively use public servers and would prefer if they were even less private so internet search would work.
The government paying a contractor to circumvent the constitution is still the government violating the constitution.
> "doesn't imply that other way is better"

I never said that multiprocessing is "better" than multithreading.

Both are mechanisms to achieve parallelism with different pros/cons, and there are legit cases where threads are a necessity that can't be satisfied with processes (ref my previous comment with examples). This conversation would've been much easier to have given specific constraints and examples (which nobody seems to give).

Within the context of a general purpose VM which was never built to support multithreading (CPython), and which carries the baggage of 30+ years' worth of 3rd-party packages and libraries which were never built with multithreading in-mind - I think we can both agree that the costs and risks of changing literally everything may outweigh the benefits. It's not a difficult stance to accept.

My main argument, if you distill it down to the abstract, is "use the right tool for the job" - and stop pretending that a hammer and a knife are the same thing, when they're not.

If you need hardcore, ultra efficient and parallelized workflows - Python is just the wrong tool for the job period. This isn't up for debate - it's a given fact. This isn't just about the GIL - it's about the type system, the frameworks, the bloat, etc. There's nothing wrong with Python being this way - Python fills a niche of its own incredibly well, something which others tools suck at, and Python is loved by millions for it.

Python is used today by certain demographics to perform certain jobs - and it excels really well at those jobs for those demographics. This whole discussion now (GIL vs. no GIL) is about bending and twisting Python to fit the use cases of few companies like DeepMind or Facebook - who I'm certain represent a miniscule usage compared to the millions of students, schools and universities, research institutes, web shops, hobbyists, tinkerers, etc. Those people want to get shit done quickly - and mutexes, sempahores, events, threads, synchronization primitives, atomics, etc - will do nothing but make their lives a misery, and drive them away.

Also, I keep asking you for concrete examples where the Python community absolutely needs multithreading (where multiprocessing fails) and you're not really responding which makes me feel like we're not conversing here...
So supplement IRC with a bunch of other services? Realising people didn't want to deal with this shit is why discord is so popular.

(Seriously, this response and others like it demonstrate that IRC will continue to remain a niche. I won't fault you if this kind of setup works for you but suggesting this kind of thing is acceptable for the average user is really, truly, genuinely out of touch. I'm among the demographic who can and has done this kind of thing, and I don't want to do it!)
Whatever disaster you might want to impose on the world to solve the problem--and decarbonization without fusion power would be a terrific disaster--will be as bad as the sea levels rising a few feet. Actually, much worse.

The real solution, of course, is population control. And step one in population control is shutting down immigration. Very few politicians want that, and basically none on the left. So it won't happen. They will continue demanding that the government seize control of the means of production and distribution, and not actually fix anything.
I'm pretty sure I've provided French localization for some of my software at some point, just on a whim. Which is an EU language. And I know that some of my non-EU users of free, online tools have travelled to Europe occasionally. So I guess I was subject to the GDPR, until I took all my web tools offline?

Sure, I never tracked any information except what was absolutely necessary. No email address, no IPs, just logins, passwords, and data saved by the user. But that still means:

- I needed to respond to several kinds of emails within 30 days, even if I was on vacation.

- I needed to understand the frustratingly vague and abstract language of the GPDR.

- I was subject to 27 different data regulators, not all of whom provided information in languages I could read, I don't think?

As a non-EU resident, I have zero vote in any of this. I make zero money off of anyone in the EU. I would happily ignore the EU entirely, or allow EU users to download my stuff and to figure out their own laws.

But the EU claims jurisdiction over foreign nationals, even though we have no vote, no representation, and no commercial presence. There is precisely zero upside for me here.

And with the Product Liability Directive, it looks like the EU might impose personal liability on me as an open source author who occasionally consults for US companies. Which, since nobody in the EU is paying me a cent, I have no interest in assuming. If the final PLD is bad enough, I guess I can try to block downloads from European IPs or something.

If these laws were limited to real companies with an actual presence in Europe, I'd feel very differently. But extraterritorial laws for private citizens are gross.
> Science got along fine for thousands of years without Journals and Conferences deciding what's "correct" and not.

And was available only to rich bored people who could self teach themselves
Inventory systems are hard.

Isn't Walmart known for having the best inventory system? Like real time global data, so they know that someone in Thailand bought some strawberry pop-tarts 5 seconds ago.
It doesn't seem surprising that companies whose bottom line is from the hardware sale moment would define it that way, and people who aren't (for example, people selling apps, people running websites, people looking around at what phones their friends and family have) would define it by "devices in use" instead of new sales.
I think it wouldn't even require so much as a WW2 mobilization. It needs 3-6% of GDP (globally) to replace fossils fuels and get to net Zero.
I would look into making a cyberdeck, as it'll be more fun and unique than just building a generic computer.

https://old.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/
Big miss
You’re not wrong, but our entire economic system is built on the idea that the pensioners will be supported by a steady stream of tax paying younger workers.

When that stream collapses, paying for the pensioners becomes much harder.
> Imagine if a breed of deer living in a restricted space naturally controlled its population in relation to the resources in their living space

Indeed. People seem to forget that the alternative to "contraception-limited" is "death-limited". In Scotland, since killing all the natural predators, we have to keep culling the deer in order to maintain the ecosystem.
Cyberdecks (2013)
It depends on the technology in question, but most development has some agenda that drives it or that is enabled by it. Simply engaging in the development of tech is already pushing an agenda - the notion that we should pursue technological advancement.

For me the important realization is that I'm not being neutral when creating something - at best/worst I'm being ignorant. I'd like to reflect more on my motivations for building things and be more explicit on my motivations for doing so.
The fact that it is tied to Instagram, i.e. you need an Instagram account to sign up for it, was what made me not even try it.
Human population growth has stopped everywhere except some African countries.
Not as much as you'd think, many of the muscles are in common when you use clipped pedals.

The most important factor in either sport in any case isn't the muscles, it's oxygen intake and use efficiency.

As far as your argument, by effect of selection, doesn't that meant that top runners are more likely to come from poorer countries? You also don't really need a good bicycle to train, just to compete, but even that's pretty expensive so I take your point.
How can you spoil a movie based on historical events unless you have no idea about the specific history?
Reading all this I‘m starting to believe the paper was written by chatGPT.
Do you have links to his Mastodon and YouTube? Would love to follow him as well.
> They'd just run some kind of CIA thing internally and rejig Aussie politics

Did it once already:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/23/gough-...
> As the guy who released all those Phoenix and Firebird and Firefox versions, I can tell you with some certainty that it hasn't been 22 years yet.

Yes, I was off by a year or so, I'm not making anything up. Two decades is a long time to remember details.

All I know is I'd FTP to grab the latest and unzip it into a folder.

By this point I was running a couple major websites and had a "5-star CNET Award" for an internet-centered software product so I was on top of anything in that sphere.

Glory days.
Nuclear is too slow and expensive to make any change. Just embrace wind and solar and everything will be fine.
DNA persists, so of course behaviors in it also persist.
I am not sure how your theory can both explain French people both turning their nose at "authentic arabic shwarma" but cheap kebabs being wildly popular at the same time. They're racist only against the authentic versions of foreign foods?
Why the ad hominem? Refute what they’ve put forward instead of trying to judge the person.