skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the purpose of debate is to teach high schoolers things? If only there was some other institution they were a part of that could do that. Do HS students no longer take AP history and economics?

You could just as easily have a research club where awards are given for the best research on any given topic. That's essentially what the science fair is.

But it's important to you to have a winner declared between a and b? A fun game, sure, but don't delude yourself into thinking it had more value than entertainment. You could have learned about or been taught energy policy through any number of means. But you are failing to consider why the framing of HIV vs energy funding as a winner take all debate is, as I said above, incredibly dumb.
I am Nike, the sky is holding me
Why did you select those languages? Do you speak any of them?

How much does it take to add another language. If you add Spanish I can take a look and comment. (I don't use Rails, so my feedback will not be so good.)
I feel like orchestrating thousands of GPUs is such a niche use case that it’s fair to expect the people wanting to do it to learn a more suited language, rather than ruining Python for everyone else.
On Stripe, I need to create all possible currencies then ?
Regulations on data exports doesn't solve this problem at all, it just means an endless goose chase of exporting and importing. Additionally, we open people up to even larger data leaks if the entire export and import path isn't regulated. We already have a problem with this in regards to switching password managers.

Regulations on what data can even be collected will solve this problem, and negate the entire reason for using these front ends.
Nonsense. A neural net of sufficiently high parameter count can learn a function to reproduce any digital representation of information. This argument would suggest that anything which can be represented digitally is therefore of minimal value.
Any articles or sources for Voice disconnecting calls? I've never experienced this
Looking at my routers stats my average monthly internet usage is around 65% IPv6. I wouldn’t say it’s failed - but the roll out has been slow.
I'm sure you were one of the ones that made covid last a lot longer than it should have. All I'm saying is that when the next crisis happens (most likely a climate crisis because that isn't resolving on it's own) there are going to be people out there saying it is a government conspiracy. The crisis won't get resolved if 50% of the people don't comply to common sense solutions (in the case of covid it was simply to wear a mask and get vaccinated but the climate crisis will likely mean even deeper sacrifices). Doing it through your wallet is the best way to get people to comply.
Plenty of us use Linux with something better than bash (zsh, oil, fish, whatever). I know I have for quite a long time now.
> Asking about Alpine in a production environment was always good way finding who has container experiences of watching C-Beams glitter in the dark to those who only just read a "10 Docker Container Tricks; #8 will blow your mind!" blog post from 2017.

I dunno, I've been running containers in prod for a while now and I don't recall Alpine being a problem. Maybe it varies by your workload?
Vitamin D is also readily available in food. You can get plenty by eating brown portabella mushrooms. I often read sunshine vs supplements discussed, and rarely food sources.
Greg Rutkowski is most well known for his work on D&D and Magic the Gathering. You recognize his style as he was one of its pioneers.
>It was quite popular for a surprisingly long time.

Hah, that's a blast from the past. One reason it lasted as long as it did was the Knights of the Button, users who collaborated to keep it alive. I implemented the Zombie-presser, 1k+ donated accounts automatically pressing the button when no one else would. We kept it alive for a more then a month before the most embarrassing bug of my career finally killed it :D Good summary here [1].

Fun times! Thank you for the reminder :D

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/08/reddits-m...
Siddhartha being about Buddha was enough to qualify. I hadn't read it since college, but remembered how short it was ...
Depends on your frame of reference. In America, things have gotten worse in terms of lifespans, maternal health/mortality, and generally healthcare - when compared to 5 years ago. Partially due to the pandemic, but it remains to be seen if this is the start of a downward spiral or if things will recover soon.

Psychologically, people seem to experience less hope and optimism that the future will be better. That is an important concept as well - regardless of whether you think people are delusional - their subjective perceptions still matter.
https://archive.is/F9bE6

Not sure I agree with all the points but this agree that the proposal is madness.

The comparison to NRC is an apt one. NRC effectively killed nuclear energy in the US.
Will writing multithreaded code become easier? Or will the developer UX remain the same?
Indeed. It took nearly a full decade for Windows to match the responsiveness of, say, an Amiga 2000.
Looking at other comments here and elsewhere, I believe with Dostoevsky's work, it's binary -- you either love him to death, or you are bored of him to death. Glad to be in the former camp.

I really love how Dostoevsky's novels seem so simple on the surface, yet as you keep reading, they keep getting better, and deeper, and more profound, without losing the simplicity or authenticity. Looking back, The Brother's Karamazov is the best book I've ever read. I was just recently thinking of giving it a re-read, will probably be great to do it in a different translation.

It has happened to me before that a book that I greatly admired felt not so great when re-reading it later (The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts, I still feel it's good, but having internalized the core concepts, it seemed way too repetitive on second read). Hope that doesn't happen when I re-read Dostoevsky's novels, I have a feeling I would like them even better, but who knows.
Someone on /lit/ called Brothers Karamazov a "ghoulish rigmarole." I struggle to see the enduring value of the work. I got 100 pages into it on a 9-hr flight without wifi. There's nothing quotable or apparently salient. Kindle version had no popular highlights, unlike Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. I just hear vague proclamations about how great it is but no specific insights, passages, or takeaways. I can think of tons of quotes, characters in AK that resonated but nothing seemed to ever happen in BK.
The point being that they aren’t able to get private insurance higher than that, so the government has to come up with a way to help.

They’re insured the exact same way the banks are.
Not particularly. I'd love to be able to walk a block down the street if all I need is a haircut and some milk. I just recognize that that isn't possible in my situation without spending a significant amount of time/energy (that I already lack) in doing so. I simply prefer that over the urban hellscape that is my local downtown (and well, the rural area where it's the worst of both worlds). It's also cheaper, so that helps.

There are other solutions to this if we don't only consider walking. e.g. public transportation. But my nearest bus stop is a quarter mile in the opposite direction. And only a quarter mile if you decide to hop the train tracks (which comes hourly, I am conveniently enough a mile from my local Amtrak); it's a half mile to do "safely".

I actually do agree that some of the tips here could improve even this short minor route I described to get to a bus, but suburbs don't exactly care much to begin with. When everything is far, everything is unwalkable, so why bother (in the minds of these small city planners).
> Wow in 2023 someone thinks this is worth a blog post?

It was meant to be a beginner-level introduction to logging (especially for those developers who got started in 2023 ;))
Probably just the popular English speaking ones, GBP, EUR, AUD, CAD.
Interesting. The obvious question you haven't answered anywhere (as far as I can see) is what are the hardware requirements to run this locally?
Curve Finance Reentrancy Exploit Puts $100M+ Worth of Crypto at Risk
I had to come back to this post to upvote it, 5m later, after letting out an audible "aaahhhhhh" in the kitchen
By pure, I just meant no dependencies on c or c++ bindings other than libc. If that is the case you can do a musl build that has no dynamic dependencies, as all rust dependencies are static. So then your only dependency is the kernel, which is provided via podman/docker. A decent sized rust program with hundreds of dependencies I can get to compile down to 1.5MB. But that is depending on gnu. So if you had 4 or 5 of those on a node, it might be less data to use one gnu base image that is really small like rhel micro, and build rust for gnu. But if you have cpu hungry services like I do, then you usually have only a couple per node, so from scratch musl can be a bit smaller.
Positivity in Coding
There are plenty of other Python VMs that don't have a GIL and can be used already today, out of the box (examples include Jython and IronPython). Despite that fact - CPython remains the most popular Python VM out there (it utilizes a GIL).

Instead of waiting for the GIL to be removed out of CPython - take your fancy Python code and just run it using a different VM. It's literally as simple as that.

If the GIL was such a bottleneck as people make it out to be - people would move off of CPython a long time ago. But they won't, despite having the options. This only serves to prove that 95%+ of the workflows people build with Python can be satisfied regardless of GIL, often using some of the other parallelism mechanisms available in Python today (multiprocessing, asyncio, etc).

Most of the stuff people build with Python are CRUD apps, Jupyter notebooks, automations, tinkering, small hacks, etc. If you're okay with not utilizing all of your 64k CPUs at home - Python's multiprocessing and asyncio libraries should serve you just fine.

The whole GIL/No-GIL conversation is a complete waste of time and a distraction. People have all the options they need already here and now - but slinging crap at eachother over an issue tracker is so much fun that people can't help it.
Inertia doesn't make you whip sounds in different directions. That's turbulence and wind, and about as good a landing sad you could ask for under the circumstances.
> the only thing that locking the root account gets you is assurance that if you ever bork the user you created in this guide (or sudo functionality as a whole) you'll have no way to recover without booting into another environment.

As opposed to borking the root user and being equally locked out? Assuming your sudo config is a "configure it once and then leave it forever" deal - which seems common IME - I can't see any way it would be different.

(Mind, this cuts both ways - once you force only key-based SSH, I generally don't see a problem with direct root access either.)
I can't explain anything about this project because I haven't invested the effort to understand it.

Maybe I'll spend the 20 minutes to read the 5000 words in Molly White's article, and then another couple hours to read the whitepaper, then another who knows how many hours researching the claims and counterclaims to make my own judgment.

But probably I'll never do any of those things, and I'll still have high confidence that the project probably isn't simply a scam for sweet, sweet VC money, or unimaginably naive, or full of fatal flaws that every rando can identify instantly.

Because in the past, when anonymous internet commenters are of one mind that a new thing is a scam or fatally flawed, while the team behind the new thing are highly capable, with good reputations for not being scammers or unimaginably naive, usually the anonymous internet commenters don't understand what's really happening.

And then I'll ctrl-f the whitepaper to search for 'sybil' and discover that the arguments in this thread are already discussed in the whitepaper, which gives me even more confidence that the hivemind conclusions of scamminess or naivete are most likely uninformed.
This is based off a meta analysis and the problem with those is you can filter the data to prove almost anything you want.

Many other studies have found a j-curve effect. So there is ambiguity, and there likely will be until someone does a long-term randomized controlled trial which is incredibly difficult.
Oh, if the issue at hand is because of its physical location, then you're right, although it could still manufacture parts. I thought the GP was emphasizing the fact that it was owned by a non-US company.
> Unfortunately, the process here seems to have turned into "each individual group vs car drivers ... where I live has separate pedestrian, bicycle, and transit advisory boards to the city council.

I suspect you're right; I've seen that, but didn't realize at the time that it could be a barrier.

I could imagine how it might be organized that way in good faith -- e.g., get the input from the people who really care about biking, the people who really care about walking, and the train/transportation buffs, and then have city officials process it all, holistically -- but that's a lot of heavy lifting, and also doesn't bring the advocates together to learn from each other and directly reconcile conflicts.
> one of the South African wind-up ones they advertised heavily just before Y2K. (My parents were insomniac Art Bell fans.)

That'd be C.Crane. Looks like he and Bell were into each other https://ccrane.com/art-bell-an-interview-with-a-legendary-ta...
unrelated to this specific initiative, but - I keep seeing a lot of announcements of huge VC rounds around what's effectively datacenters for GPUs. Curious about the math behind that - I feel like those things get obsolete so fast, it's almost like the whole scooter rental thing, where the unit economics doesn't add up.

Anyone have an insight?
> I may have missed something

You did not miss anything. The GIL prevents parallel multi threading.
TinyPilot Voyager 2a based OOBM
Similar experience. Even with multi process and threads python is slow, very slow. Java, Go and .NET all provide a very performant out of box experience.
Ask HN: Any hackerhouses in London looking for new members?
I used to do research in explainable NLP and GNNs, was an operator in an edtech startup for 2 years and now I'm a technical founder. In my free time I get while doing BJJ. Outside of work I'm a fan of David Graeber, Sapolsky, and Sam Harris, well some of his ideas at least. My favourite tea is earl grey, favourite book is Never Let Me Go, and favourite type of lobotomy is frontal. Would be keen to join a house with intellectually curious people who are passionate about problems they're solving in any domain.
I think you mean "a heavily abridged edition", unless you think a lot of background info is what's missing from your experience.
Same! That was the one!
>Even if there's a tiny increase in inflammation (which is doubtful: if this were real it would have been caught during clinical trials

I'm reminded here of what happened with Vioxx. When the clinical studies showed a dangerous increased risk of heart attacks, Merck simply falsified their data to remove those data points. It's estimated that 10000s of people died as a result of taking the drug. Some estimates even top 100000 deaths in the USA alone.

Also it wasn't exactly a tiny increase, the study puts the figure at 2.8% or 1 in 35 people had myocardial injury.
> In Germany, for example, only around 150 of 600 Taurus cruise missiles are reported operational.

That sounds like that could be a problem.
Multi-lingual NLP deep learning system in 10 languages for the Covid-19 pandemic
Because as we all know the standard never changes potentially introducing new features, allows no variability and bugs don’t exist.

It must be nice living in your. theoretical world. Here in the real world, I like libraries to actually help me do what I want to do rather than be needlessly annoying to take a stand no one actually cares about. But that’s me. Clearly it serves Musl right given the massive amount of use it’s seeing. Hmm, wait a minute…
This is why I personally prefer biking. I'm about to bike to the climbing gym. The one I like to go to is a 15 min bike ride away, so I'm already warmed up by the time I get to the gym. Likewise I can go whenever I want to avoid crowds.
I knew a few listeners who bought them, typically on credit. I inherited a couple but passed them on.
If you're going to use Tailwind why not just use the style attribute and just give up on CSS classes?
Chemistry is a wierd field

It's too complex to be perfectly predictable, like particle physics

But without instruments,you have to hope the nanoscale changes are slow and visible in solution at 1,000,000x larger scale

The fact that we can throw shit in a beaker and identify useful reactions is a hell of a thing. Our magic balls are the only thing that take it much beyond it's origins in alchemy.
It might be a bit corporate now but a few years back I found the security aspects of the redhat admin training to be decent enough for most folk.
Teddit, my preferred Reddit frontend, still manages to have an updated frontpage, but clicking on anything gives HTTP 429 for several weeks now (I think, only use it intermittently).

If the frontends quit working though, I just won't go to those websites anymore.
I started using plantuml more rigorously at work. I've found that collaboration on the drawings/diagrams, is simpler and easier as it can be tracked in Git. One additional thing that I've been using as well is the mdBook plugin to embed and render the images as part of a larger book. This has been helpful for large systems when there are many teams involved. We publish the content as github pages on the repos as well.

I'd like to start doing this with my open-source as well.

https://github.com/sytsereitsma/mdbook-plantuml
The book (Karamazov) essentially deals with very fundamental moral and spiritual issues like pain, suffering, the problem of evil etc. You'd have a better time appreciating it if you put yourself within the context of when the book was written, and the religious sensibilities common at that time.

Maybe it's harder to appreciate it now, I can definitely understand why it would be.
There are too many artists applying human stylegan to their artwork! Something must be done to stop this unethical practice.
> Moreover, the Finder had to maintain the catalog in RAM to keep track of folders, which were illusory. The Macintosh File System was not a true hierarchical system; it only appeared to be in the Finder. Folders in fact were kept as "Finder Objects" in the Desktop file.

That is so frigging cool. JBOF, just a bunch of files. The data about structure being not the responsibility, it being a flat file store.

I'm curious how something like Ceph bluestore works, what it's design is. There's metadata nodes here too I think, it's some kind of dumb-ish blockstore, for limited size blocks.
> And these density limits remain because old people swan around moaning that it's inhumane to build studio apartments when everybody wants a 12 sq acre bathroom, and why are there people in tents on the street?

Also Prop 13 in California that transfers wealth from new buyers to boomers who bought a home when it was cheap, and to wealthy buyers who can afford to buy a teardown and rebuild it around a single remaining wall.

But really, almost all of society’s current problems are pushed onto the public by the political power wielded by elderly boomers and retirees. The rest of us would like to do something about climate change and LGBT issues and cost of education but none of that affects boomers either. The elderly are fundamentally disconnected from the future of society because they will not participate in it, and unfortunate most people are not actually mature enough to demand sacrifices without an expectation they will share in the benefits. The meme about “old men planting trees in whose shade they know they will never sit” is not true, and it’s unfair to punish the living and their future from the hand of the dead. To use the term a bit differently than usual, the constitution is not a suicide pact.

We have a lower age limit on voting and there is perpetual talk about raising it to try and curb the political influence of the younger cohort (much like class war, one side is playing hardball, while the other side doesn’t even know they’re playing). Instead, we should keep it the same and add a cap at the age at which you can first draw early social security benefits.

I have heard all the retorts, what about the good boomers etc. But it’s just not good policy to have what are effectively transient participants (similar to how immigrants don’t get to vote) without a long-term stake in society being the ones in political control, even if some of them are well-intentioned.

Again, boomers keep trying to push exactly this change in reverse by trying to raise the voting age. They know there’s a class battle being fought here, but as usual the other side has talked themselves out of even playing the game, like if you don’t acknowledge it then it goes away.
I'll tell that to my alcoholic mom next time I'm home and she's done downing her daily bottle of wine, I'm sure I'll feel much better
> New: LAC is now available in a special, precompiled, optimized version for Valve Corporation's fabulous "Steam Deck" portable gaming PC. All of the controls are configured by default for best use, and it's easy to fly in LAC's online, multi-player, server-based missions without ever needing a keyboard. Even voice comms among players are supported!

Perfect.
Well, from my perspective, I was trying to say it was a mole hill, and you were saying, from this angle it looks like a mountain.

I think maybe I didn't communicate tone well enough in my previous comment, I don't mean it to come off as berating you to stop or something. I was saying that, if you understand that painting with a broad brush doesn't work, I'm confused why I see a brush in your hand.
Python's been a little too happy to hard-deprecate things for my liking, so this soft-deprecation sounds pretty good.
A Sustainable Commons for Open Source Software
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612306
Trucking Giant Yellow Shuts Down Operations
In a past life I hacked on PHP for a living, and in the time it took Python 2 to ride off into the sunset, PHP got two major migrations under its belt in 5.2 to 5.3, and then again 5.6 to 7.0.

It was amazing to see the contrast between the two languages. PHP gave you plenty of reasons to upgrade, and the amount of incompatible breaking changes was kept to a minimum, often paired with a way to easily shim older code to continue working.

I really hope to see no-GIL make it into Python, but in the back of my mind I also worry about what lessons were learned from the 2 to 3 transition. Does the Python team have a more effective plan this time around?
How does someone know enough to post about this on HN, without encountering the weekly "help, GoDaddy fucked me" threads?
Libc-Test
Compared to what? Maybe if some true communitarianism had existed in the modern, mechanized world, outside a few small pockets, and had proven it was beneficial to society and nature over an individualist paradigm, we could say that. But the only large-scale organization of people we've seen other than one based on individual liberty is authoritarianism. And if you want to talk about environmental wreckage and social inequality, the former USSR and the current growth model in China are hardly models to aspire to. I suppose the closest we've seen to an eco-friendly, communitarian autoritarianism would be Nazi Germany, which only came at the price of, you know, the mass murder of every individual within reach who was different from their model or disagreed with the leader.