skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While Python has never been my primary coding language, I've used it extensively for building scripts and tools, but I've pretty much given up on it. The language is so elegant, but the installation of it (with 2~3 compatibility issues being just a small part of that) just became such a turnoff. It's been super frustrating having to search the Internet every time I need to install something Python-related, to then find all sorts of conflicting instructions, bleh. Virtualenv, venv, a different Pip in Ubuntu, and so on. Since there's a lot of references to Java in these discussions: there's "sadly" two ways to do it: Maven and Gradle. That's still one too many, but at least not a new flavor du jour every year, like seemingly with Python.

And I'm sure someone will drive by, now, and tell us we have to use xyz, "obviously". But if that's not "obviously" what I find in an Internet search, then the community has apparently not agreed on it consistently in a sustained way.
If it ever comes. As far as I can tell, Equifax still hasn’t been paid out
"I was a moderator once."

"I saw. You were doing very well, until everyone left."
I wish this could run as an app on a TV, ideally starting in fullscreen and supporting the remote - I would never need Netflix ever again...
I would think that if all your markup goes to warehouse and employees (operating costs) and the membership is all "pure profit", there's not a lot of money left over for R&D or tech upgrades without hurting your own margin.

At least if you take the article at face value in the simplicity of it's explanation. I imagine it's more complex than that
That's fine. We go from suspecting there are issues to knowing exactly where the issues are. The rest is just chipping away at that list and making the issues go away. Either by adding some kind of mutex around the code or by replacing the native code with something less likely to have issues.

The argument against this seems mainly that it's a lot of work; not that it's impossible work. It probably is a lot of work but if there are enough people doing the work, we should get some results.
It would be cool, but there are no world-changing implications to a new diamagnet made of lead. It's just kinda neat if you find one.
Thank you for your feedback!

You should be able to pan the map as well, so you may get to Estonia after all ;)

Definitely forgot that not everyone has large laptop screens though, absolutely fair.
Nothing new though - Elvis never wrote a song either, but he had the look.

Performative art is biased towards beauty and charismatic artists. Also true in opera since forever.
Zyklon B was also not designed to kill people, but the people at Degesch sure as hell knew what NSDAP was going to use those large quantities for.
While you might have a point, "the impact is too small to worry" is now the meme answer to any problem we should probably worry about before it becomes a huge deal with too big to fail players.

The more reassuring answer could be "there's already regulation Y that stops any single company from causing too much damage."
I sympathise with you, I'm a little tired of these same recycled comments every time the Python comes up.
Good intentions does not excuse abhorrent behavior. Nor is "I was just following orders" a defense against unethical behavior. Many of the worst human rights abuses in history were committed by well intentioned people trying to make the world a better place.
Home toilets have the front section
TBH loitering killed malls more than a centralized checkout. They became one of the few places for teens to hangout and teens don't have much money. No coincidence that the remaining malls tend to be in high income areas.

But I digress. The removal of hangout spots in the country (especially post pandemic) can be its own topic.
Neumorphism is funny - people either love it or hate it. No in-between.

Thank you both for the input, definitely agree on the mobile UX.
It shouldn't devalue the point. As you said, it's orthogonal.
Yes, the batteries are very energy intensive to produce. Which is a very strong incentive to build lithium ion battery factories where cheap electricity is available, which most likely means hydro, or other renewables (because hydro, wind, solar tend to be far from population centers). I've seen some really unfair analyses of the CO₂ produced by EV production that assume all energy inputs are from renewable sources at the US average (just 21% of electricity in 2021), which is not true.

So battery production is a good way to transport energy from where it's cheap to produce to where it's needed, much better than bitcoin.
Why is it not fair? I need to choose a tool, how it came to be is irrelevant for me.
Getting to work rapidly is guaranteed to be the wrong thing to do with any difficult problem.

The book "How Big Things Get Done" elaborates on this and gives examples of how to do it right.

1. https://www.amazon.com/How-Big-Things-Get-Done/dp/0593239512
Maybe an older Raspberry Pi with its analouge video output, autoload the website on boot and send it some keystrokes via script to start in fullscreen.
Thanks for both your comments, very valuable! I'll put it on the TODO.
Just to be clear, the reason I didn't (and won't) accept nuitka as a compiler is that it doesn't do what actual compilers do, it just plays around with bytecode. I experienced no speed difference when running large programs, but the startup is considerably slower. To me, it is just a docker replacement that is 1/10th as portable.
For anyone interested, Humankind by Rutger Bregman goes into this very topic (among others). It is a nice book and recognizes the nuance while suggesting improvements, mainly by looking at other countries and systems.
Feels like the other way round in India's case. Compared to the degrees of change India's own culture has gone through because of foreign influences, Indian immigrants' cultural impact on the West is nearly non-existent.
Comments like this always remind me of Tom Toro’s cartoon:

> Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

Technology and innovation should serve the greater good. Unbridled growth for a few companies at the expense of the people is not a positive goal.
can you share the telegram bot, please
I think that's a misconception? At least the way how I understood this issue.

Things like `map[k] = v` would be atomic both before and after nogil, and things like `map[k] += 1` are not atomic even with GIL, the read and store can be split from each other.
>The EM field is always there

Hmm sounds dangerously close to aether theory. I thought we had moved past this … that EM waves exist in their own right without need for a medium. Unlike sound say.
Maybe read Humankind by Rutger Bregman? There are either ways than the super harsh, sometimes commercial US prison system. There are also “crimes” that really shouldn’t be crimes.
Hard agree, I wish they would move the islands a bit further apart!

No, you are absolutely right of course...I'm still figuring out how to get that working nicely...if you have any specific ideas for the UX of clicking the small islands feel free to share.
definitely use chatgpt to get the typical behaviour questions, works like a charm.
Not sure if some random guy on HN using it for side projects counts as keeping it alive, but I'm giving my best.
If you're interested, I wrote a more elaborate comment on asyncio vs. multiprocessing vs. multithreading here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36915581 (fyi, Python's multiprocessing has support for interprocess shared memory, with overhead)

Those languages you mentioned are not only recommended to escape parallelism problems in Python. They are recommended because they are much, much faster, period. Four of those you listed compile down to machine code, the last one has a highly optimized JIT. Just two are garbage-collected, and none do reference counting. All of them are strongly typed. These differences sum up to orders of magnitudes. If well-written Python code were equally fast as well-written C code but the only way to do parallelism was using processes, then I promise you you wouldn't get (most of) those voices telling you to escape Python. Plenty of well-written C programs choose a multiprocessing approach for parallelism over multithreading.

Long story short, if you worry about the performance overhead between multithreading and multiprocessing, make sure you worry about plenty of more significant factors that differentiate Python from faster languages first.
The equipment in the video is fully automatic sanitary napkin production equipment.
Is this subset of F# itself formally specified? How is it different from an emulator that is slightly more clear to read?
Constantly and frequently complaining that a single employee treated them badly is healthy? I must have the wrong understanding of what griping is.
In an alternative history, a non ccp China would be close to the US just like India and their dispora would be competitive with India's. But due to the ccp baggage, the Chinese influence is much weaker.
Dude wants a wicked problem, he should figure out how to change the name of the institution he works at.

"Imperial" College? In this day and age?
I always just assumed that it was Constant. I wonder what other inaccurate assumptions I have.
Driving electric Toyota 7km, underwater, crocodile infested waters (Livestream)
Glad you like it! Implementing a sort of in-session Spaced Repetition was actually one of the main foci of the project :)
Frustrated, sure. I wouldn't be griping about it though, I'd move on.

(I also wouldn't stop shopping somewhere just because one employee had an outburst about something that they're being forced to do and is causing negative interactions with customers. Sure, I won't feel good about it, I might complain to management, but at the end of the day that one short interaction has so little bearing on my life that it's not worth constantly remembering and bringing it up.)
I live in Tokyo which arguably is one of the most transit friendly cities, and still bus to the nearby Costco to load up every month or two. Sometimes you just need a suitcase full of mozzarella sticks, no questions asked.
The best we hope is that they learn to take good decisions. Too much bubble wrap and they maybe will crumble in face of adversity, too much neglect and they will get their attention from elsewhere. All are maybes.

What children perhaps need is a different amount of parenting in different stages. Someone wrote that first you are the authority figure and the lighthouse for love and safety, then you become more of a mentor as they grow up.

Again, the best you can hope for is that they learn good enough values and let them live their lives, it’s THEIR LIVES, not yours and maybe they will come to you for help. And when that happens, go to town!
I think ActivityPub is future but we'll see the end of Mastodon as a "Gen 1" APub at some point. IMO it needs account and backend sharing over servers, as well as a timeline system not based on individual following.
WAL = Write-Ahead Logging ?
Being pseudorandom is often the point. That's very far from deliberately being nondeterministic.
From the POC implementation the reports state ~5-7% if memory serves right.
Writing the same sentence with a fountain pen vs ballpoint, it looks much nicer with the fountain pen.
So no need for Jaegermeisters at work anymore!
A fullscreen interface is an interesting idea, thank you!

I bit my teeth on how to make this fun on mobile and small screens especially (and then gave up)...copying something like gMaps more closely may just be the move.
Can you link to a public post of one such individual, which is also not connected to a publication?
> overnight an unknown set of existing github repositories will become illegal in the EU

Overnight? Is this proposal not known ahead of time? Is it being kept a secret until enters into force suddenly, at midnight?

> These companies are not trying to take something from you but are in fact trying to give something to you.

Copyrighted materials have been stolen, and that's exactly why the creators are keeping secrets, and exactly why they're trying to influence people like you into lobbying on their behalf.
If you have the money to play

“…includes new requirements for project developers, like financial deposits…”
HN is still in the "everything non-male is political" stage of its development.
Circuit theory breaks down at high frequencies and the appropriate generalisation of Kirchoffs is embodied in Maxwell’s equations.
women in tech care about tech
I also don't agree with the article. Many aspects of sysadmin are far more difficult than DNS.

> the most common server and client implementations rigorously follow the standard

Not servers! in particular, many servers mess with the TTL (as author notes). It's not that these servers are defective; it's that the hostmaster has interfered with the configuration, presumably to reduce the load.
I'd say it's more just numbers, it's about the culture's status in the recipient country. While stuff like Indian food or Chinese food is super-normalized, you don't really see either culture dominating the US. Education does help, because it makes them seem "closer" to us, but a lot of the time a big culture will just end up absorbing all others that connect to it.
‘Something weird is going on’: Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows
I don’t know how that explains the resistances measurements though? Unless they’re complete fabrications don’t they imply superconductivity?
Ask HN: Which Blog Has Shifted Your Outlook on Life and the World?
religion for non religious by waitbutwhy did that for me.
New Relic don’t understand DNS
> The same Latin root is found in more familiar words such as acceleration and even celebrity, a word used when fame comes quickly.

According to the OED, celebrity comes from the Latin “celebritās, [the] state of being busy or crowded, festival, games or other celebration characterized by crowded conditions, reputation, renown, fame, frequency or commonness.”

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/celebrity_n?tab=etymology#991...
I agree for data creation, but evaluation seems to have little risk of contaminating the outcomes when used with human validation.
The whole thing comes from a paternalistic mindset of doing things to people, rather than enabling them to see their situation, perhaps differently than before.

In wicked problems, if you, the outsider, are doing anything other than facilitating or acting as a go-between, you're part of the problem.
Banks must publicly disclose data breaches under new SEC rule
From my experience (S. California) the Sam's club is more expensive. So despite one ironically being next to my Wal-mart I still prefer driving the extra 5 miles to Costco.

slightly cheaper food court (and IMO slightly better tasting food, especially the pizza) is a nice draw as well.
The house? 35k isn't enough to RENT a place of your own almost anywhere in the US, never mind a mortgage, and all the additional expenses that come with owning a home, like maintenance.
> The EU have regulated themselves into a corner where all they can do is shout at American and Asian tech companies

I think you may have this backwards. Consider the Brussels Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

I used to think of the EU as stagnant compared to the US. But now I realise (especially in light of COVID) that some things we consider inefficiencies are actually safety margins. The EU may not move fast and break things, but I'm starting to view them as slow, steady and generally robust over the long term (think multi-generational).
It sure did. Also the decision was pretty much rushed through, if you follow the latest discussion (which got shut down on the notion that everything has been said and trust the SC and coredevs).

https://discuss.python.org/t/a-fast-free-threading-python/27...
> Copyrighted materials have been stole

This is far from clear, it's obvious to me that training is fair use.

But even so, if copyright prevents these tools from existing it needs to be abolished.

Also not possible to steal a digital good, that's industry propaganda that they lobbied corrupt governments (US included) into codifying into law to the detriment of all humanity.

> Overnight? Is this proposal not known ahead of time? Is it being kept a secret until enters into force suddenly, at midnight?

"Sorry I haven't been closely playing attention to the minutiae of politics on a continent I don't live on, what do you mean I am being fined for my GPT-2 clone I trained years ago for fun and uploaded?"
Would We Recognize Extraterrestrial Technology If We Saw It?
You can cut some of those out then if you think they don’t make sense. It was a quick and dirty example I came up with from my minimal knowledge of Oregon/Washington geography (not nothing but not exceptional) and tracing a route through Apple Maps. Anyone with better knowledge of the local geography can take a second pass and come up with something more reasonable.

You do want some local service at some in-fill stations though between the major destinations, even run express and local service, but as long as you can park your car at a station, having a station that the more suburban/rural parts slightly off the beaten trackway can go to still makes it accessible to more people in the State.
Of course California is. Teslas tax rev now goes to Texas. Companies moving is nice.
Is your point that snapshot tests are not perfect? I don’t think anyone argues against that.

Are they useful and do they prevent bugs is the better question
> Great inventions can be used in good or bad ways.

Plainly and obviously wrong if you look at the context.

> > I believe that some of our mightiest inventions have served the purpose of enhancing our ability to collaborate as a civilization:

> What does the metaphor tell you? And are you sure it's only the metaphor doing the "telling"?

Wow you got me.
> It's a very bad idea for a startup to allow SAFE transfers, since you won't know who your investors are.

What about taking a 5-10% commission on the transaction value if the SAFE is transferred? This would be an incentive to create transferable SAFEs, since you will make money every time someone sells them.

> It's a very bad idea for a startup to allow transferable SAFEs, since you won't know who your investors are. And it will turn into hell when you do a price round.

You could add a statement into SAFE that each party in the event of a SAFE transfer must send you a letter identifying the new party.
> well-run teams with tests and CI

Well-run by what criteria? Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy points out that any large-enough organization (certainly F100's are large enough to count) will be run by people who take care of the organization, rather than people who pursue the organization's goals.

Most such teams are "well run" if they provide people with stability. No surprises, no forced upgrades, no rocking the boat, just an environment that let's people clock in and clock out with a feeling that they work in a supportive environment that appreciates them. Too many companies interpret CI as something that prevents them from delivering their work, or something that forces them to stop what they're doing to fix the main branch. In these companies, throwing something over the wall to someone else is a feature, not a bug. And if the person on the other end of that wall's only request is to still keep shipping Java 8? Well fine, so be it.
It's interesting how the Chinese diaspora was able to drive a large amount of China's economic growth, but the same is not true for the Indian diaspora.
Let me just add that perhaps we can sandbox python too? LPython is on the frontpage now and if I read it right, it will compile to C and C++ when targeting AOT.

See: https://lpython.org/blog/2023/07/lpython-novel-fast-retarget...
Hardly anyone. The same few who also click on web ads. If the ad is cheap to place, and if you don't pay for annoying people...
Seems like a bunch of free money if you're in the US. Sadly, Im not
I always remember c as the constant speed of light [in a vacuum], but never pondered the actual origin beyond the perhaps rudimentary algebra “x, y, z are variables and a, b, c are constants”.

I don’t think I thought c came from “constant”, because that’s a very English-centric view of science, but the annoying thing about reading a smart article like this is that it’s impossible to explore the depths of how your mind worked before acquiring the knowledge!
why don't they just repro their own experiment? If they can do it twice, then it isn't a fluke. at worst it's something specific to their lab. if they can't do it a second time, then the issue is settled.

I'm sure it will take a lot of time and money to run everything again. but all of earth seems willing to give them whatever resources they need.
I truthfully don't know.

A few people suggested they might have measured an insulator, the threshold where resistance changes being the breakdown where current starts flowing.

I'm skeptical either way, I think it's too early to say.
thank you @simonw for creating this wonderful tool! I reach for sqlite-utils for my adhoc data needs every now and then. For aggregation then I use duckdb to read the resulting sqlite file.
I'm 30 and I had to look up "Main street". Those simply don't exist in western suburbs where I grew up (At least, not 90's+ suburb.). Let alone the boonies where there's simply 1 "super"market, one liquor store, and maybe one fast food restaurant.

I understand it, though. There very much was a main street downtown in my college town. It wasn't literally called "main street", however.
His leadership & decision arbitration is dearly missing. Now we have decide by committee and as a result we see Python being pushed and pulled in all directions.
Something related which I've not been able to find the root of - in some older British mathematics textbooks, F=ma is written instead p=mf (and this is definitely p meaning force and f acceleration and not an equivalent formula in terms of impulse or similar). I would love to know why these letters were used.
The work of keeping spurious results out is pretty important for the building of reliable knowledge though...
See you and your fancy metal technologies.
Chalk on slate was good enough for me and my father and his father before. That were tradition and we were glad of it.
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> The submitted title has been heavily editorialized. That’s the only relevant part of the article, and that’s far from implying that there’s a concerted effort at Argonne.

What's wrong with the submitted title (other than being very narrow)? It just says they're attempting to replicate, which they are.

If anything I'd say that "taking it seriously" is stronger language, and the submitted title is slightly underselling it.
According to the New York Times, no one noticed: https://open.nytimes.com/we-re-launched-the-new-york-times-p...

That cut looks a lot like a consequence of changing approaches to monetarization.
Europe has a long history with the Indian diaspora. Particularly in East Europe, where to Romany, a people of Indian origin, have lived for hundreds of years. The two regions have long historical ties that I think should continue to be strengthened. Shame that Europe fails to acknowledge the history of slavery it made them endure and lacks the will to correct it.
Perhaps your only other inaccurate assumption is to assume you have another inaccurate assumption.