skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What “Barbie” Gets Right About Male Psychology
My "observation" about observability and "reactive type" of code is that old school proxies, events and ways of defining expressions that get computed when the dependecies change is a much simpler way of programm reactive UIs (for example MVVM style of architectures) compared with a functional programming approach. Of course the naive approch does not work properly because any change in dependent values will trigger undesired side effects, reentrace, infinite loops, etc. However in a programming language like JavaScript if the observability is based on a Sound PubSub System these kind of problems reduce to becoming surpinsingly irelevant. If you want to undestand more about this, take a look on https://github.com/OpenDSU/soundpubsub/ We used this approach to implement two ways binding and reactive MVVM web frameworks but this comment is to present this insight that it is possible to have a "procedural" and "spreadsheet like" method of implementing intuitive and sound rectivity without bending your mind with streams or anything very abstract. In a low code environment this could be essential.
> Can’t they just pay for priority?

With what money? Oh, the extra money they could be allocated by… Congress?
If there's a release of a dangerous pathogen, does it really matter what type of illegal lab it was?

"Why jolly oh! I may be coughing up my bloody chunks of lung, but at least this preventable danger was the result of young entrepreneurial biohacker with some hustle, by god!"
One of my closest friends is working on this proposal.

The personal safety fears are unfortunately real, which is absurd. However you feel about the internet, people shouldn't be physically threatened for having ideas about how to try to make it better.

On an unrelated but otherwise relevant note: he's also one of the most thoughtful and intelligent people I know, who has spent the majority of his career becoming a domain expert in internet abuse. He's also a true hacker and tinkerer who fully embodies the same free-as-in-freedom ethos that a lot of the dissenters do.

I haven't had a chance to talk to him about this proposal yet, but I'm really curious to hear his take. I'm sure it's thoughtful, nuanced, and well-intentioned. He'll be honest about what criticism is valid and what needs more work. He's the kind of person you want working on something this sensitive.

Those of you piling on about how this is Google being boldly evil or the death of the internet or whatever, kindly shut the fuck up. These are well-intentioned people presenting ideas to make the web a better place for everyone. (Abuse is unfortunately a very real thing that has real consequences; see also, global politics in the last decade.)

Your hyperbole is putting real people in danger, and that is not okay.
This would be a problem in any system I can imagine.
I had a friend from Ontario tell me she was going to school in London. That was confusing initially.
Lurking and not leeching.
That is true in a broad sense, but there are certainly many city pairs / areas where cities are within few hundred miles of each other. For example, there are flights from SF to San Jose, there are flights from Chicago to Madison, there are flights from Chicago to St Louis and so on. All city pairs where a HSR would be faster / same time duration as a plane end to end.
I am not a python programmer.

What is the use case for this?

Who needs it?
This one is my favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkkmtkAO4p0

Disarming a nuclear bomb with excel
I think a lot has to do with provenance. For journalists this is their day job, they post with their real name and usually under some larger entities name. They are perhaps as biased as everyone else, but it's easier to figure out the biases.
It's worth a link to the lyrics in question: https://www.harley.com/harley-quotes/unix-sysadmin.html - And any Gilbert and Sullivan fan can sing you the tune.

I remember reading the lyrics on a techie humor site back in the day, along with other filk parodies like "Write in C" and "Dr Seuss Explains Why Computers Crash"; I would have been sure it was this one - http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/fullindex.html - because the styling looks so familiar, but it's not in that collection. Such songs were full of references that I, as a neophyte techie, had fun understanding, and more that I didn't, providing ample lines in inquiry.

The early internet was a full of such bits; Techie was of course among the most popular subcultures, but I saw all sorts of groups documenting their histories in little sites like that. I cringe at the modern use of "Fandom", which has proven a terrible steward. Long live the personal project website!
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> Sounds a lot like Solar Freakin Roadways.

Worse, power-generating sidewalks.[1]

"Our kinetic energy solutions are inspiring brands all over the world to create a meaningful and lasting connection with stakeholders around sustainability and ESG practices. Our award-winning kinetic technology uniquely uses the renewable energy generated by a footstep, with the excitement of highly engaging experiences, to educate and inspire stakeholders."

Virtue signalling monetization as a business. They've been at this for 13 years now. "Crowdfunding soon".

[1] https://www.pavegen.com/
The topic gets a lot of attention, this is not the first time sentences such as:

“Until recently, the best we could do was slow aging. New discoveries suggest we can now reverse it,”

and

“This new discovery offers the potential to reverse aging with a single pill, with applications ranging from improving eyesight to effectively treating numerous age-related diseases,”

have appeared.

I wholeheartedly agree that it suggests the potential to lead somewhere.
I'm curious to know whether the thick sodium hypochlorite that comes in squeeze bottles specially for toilet and bathroom use reduces the bacterial load and if any research has been done on that.

Seems a common practice is to squirt some into the bowl before flushing. Is the mixing in the bowl sufficient to kill bacteria effectively or are people just wasting money using bleach this way?
Again, avoiding the issue with a allusory deflection.
Because everyone involved understands that, as currently implemented, Amtrak is irrelevant and a joke. But freight rail isn't.
This is what zero miles of track looked like in 2022: https://youtu.be/gAZqaESaZLg

This is what zero miles of track looks like a year later: https://youtu.be/luX35wVJt84

You can today in the Central Valley look at large construction sites and structures, some of which are finished. Go 100 miles up the alignment, and see construction and structures there too. None of those sites have laid track yet, but there’s hundred of miles of trackway under development.

Track comes last.
> The whole thing will fail once they realise how impossible this is to implement.

Uhhm…. Brexit?

These clowns (and not just this specific bunch, the entire UK political class) did Brexit, do you really think a small thing like the feasibility of this law will stop them?
Barely 1% of the world's population have, I think the point stands.
Minneapolis Police Used Illegal, Abusive Practices for Years, DOJ Finds
The major difference with rust is that the core language has strong backwards compatibility guarantees, and the package manager supports installing multiple versions of transitive dependencies so packages can be updated incrementally.
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> mRNA-1273 vaccine-associated myocardial injury was adjudicated in 22 participants (2.8% [95%CI, 1.7%–4.3%]).
Video of it in action: https://twitter.com/TranscribeGlass/status/16847066830530355...
What's the issue again? Everything works fine for me.
There was this toy in which you play with a baby and keep him entertained but it would become bored of toy and start crying.

Just a fun toy, I am unable to find it again.
I mean, you somewhat layout the context for me. If slave trade was abolished in England in 1807 I can only assume public sentiment started shifting well before then to cause law changes. Huge chunks of populations with capital and power were becoming against slavery. The increases in material coupled with the societial shift from slavery in certain areas would seem to create conditions where the capital, power structure, social norms, and need for labor saving of a different kind to arise. I don't think slavery needs to be gone for the conditions of the industrial revolution to occur, but I do think a critical mass of society has to reject the idea for it to happen.

My understanding is that even poor Romans would have slaves and that their usage was ubiquitous. Slaves had slaves and the Roman world seemed consumed with always warring to produce even more slaves. I'd hardly say the world only a few generations away from slavery being abolished in major nations is a fair comparison to Rome at even it's most anti-slave, but I am always open to other thoughts on the subject. I am not an expert, but I do feel I have a reasonable understanding of the motivations of human people regardless of era.
One of these days people are going to understand that "what makes most ecological sense" is allowing people to live their normal lives as they're accustomed to live them, without beating them over the head and telling them they're bad people.

The average American lifestyle (cars included) is what it is . . . so decarbonize that and stop expecting everyone to live like Brooklynites or Europeans.
I wish a similar system also existed for account recovery instead of being stonewalled by customer service I might be able to recover some years old accounts
As I understand it, as a library author you either do absolutely nothing and your library will be marked as requiring GIL by default. Nothing to do, you keep on working with that good old GIL and nothing changes.

Or you make the extra effort of being thread safe and you can declare your library as not requiring the GIL.

Now if a user script mixes your GIL free lib with an older lib that has not been updated, well, too bad for them. Even with your hard work, the code will still operate like before, everything gets the GIL treatment.

Normal python devs will need to track down which pesky dependency of their script is causing the GIL slowdown. Kinda sucks but at least nothing breaks.

It's a sensitive, opt-in, and safe way forward. Hard to argue against it, really..
> In my experience with multi-threaded programming, C++ code with "careless sharing issues" is often filled with multiple threads accessing the same object and relying on convention to avoid calling the wrong thread's methods

Right, I can see the kind of codebase you're referring to.

I don't see Rust as a magical weapon solving concurrency issues though. Namely because Rust (the compiler) has a very limited view of what happens in the lifetime of a multithreaded system, and no view at all of the lifetime of a multiprocess system.

Even when writing purely single threaded Rust, you quickly end up having to let go of the strictly static memory sharing checks and switch to dynamic ones.

I have yet to find a use case where Rust solves anything but the most blatant synchronization issues.
At least some research and experimentation has gone into the idea[1]. Doesn't seem like much has come from it to date, for good reason(s). But who knows, maybe somebody clever will come up with a mechanism for this that works, somewhere down the line.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvesting_lightning_energy
I don't know if there's a "default" unit, but most people I interact with would use SI units (i.e. km, m, cm, mm, micron, nm, pm). Maybe more to your point, 630 nm is the same number of characters and a slightly more familiar unit. Writing a wavelength as 6300 angstroms is a bit like saying a marathon is 421,950 cm.

Anecdotally I've only really heard angstroms used in material science / condensed matter physics, where most small structures are small integer numbers of angstroms across.
Right. But this is social-media science, so there needs to be an answer by Saturday or - at worst - Sunday.

Entertain our sudden fickle intellect! We're paying attention now, so you should all hop to, regardless of theory or evidence!
I'd say PoP is bland and stale in comparison, but that's probably because there's lots of animations going on in the background for Keen. And it is faster paced. I enjoyed PoP2 better compared to PoP. It had grander visuals, epic escape and puzzle scenes.
Interesting I’ve followed lean for many years and must admit I was not aware of this. Curious to dive in. Thanks for including this.
The government is funded by taxes. Shutting down a large amount of commerce during the lockdown caused a huge hole in their funding. They didn't want to lose their income but that was the most rational and evidence-based approach. If they wanted to be authoritarian and control everyone they wouldn't have also harmed their finances so drastically.
I didn't ask that question - Though I did ask the first one, and posting the column with his response is an act of self promotion :). I also appreciate the words he put in my mouth, because they're funnier and more appropriate than the follow ups I tried to write before settling on simple.

His direct response to me:

i write savage love sitting at it... it's in my office at work...

xo
dan
https://husovec.eu/2014/07/austrian-court-sentenced-tor-exit...

(Ed corrected link to be the sentencing rather than raid)

This _inevitability_ ensures/d it never could be set up like that.

You don't seed the sites you've visited you serve _any_ site the visitor wants.
...or the next BobbyBroccoli special like the one on Hwang Woo-suk, the man who faked human cloning (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ett_8wLJ87U).

Not claiming the researchers of LK99 are intentionally faking their results, by the way!
The instance was exemplary of a broader philosophy of thinking for children, rather than providing opportunities for them to learn to think for themselves. Such is the nature of parables.
> capture volume

doh! i meant "reservoir"!
It's just a lack of political will. If Congress wanted Amtrak to really have priority, then they'd strengthen laws which allow Amtrak to have priority and then Amtrak can go for suit. They don't though whereas freight railroad has a lot of friends in Congress and so freight wins while Amtrak loses.
In-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssembly (2020)
Sigh. Though there are definitely automated track laying machines in the US, some pieces might not meet the needs of the project and may want other machines. You can of course ship them.

Did you think CAHSR was going to lay the track by hand?
> The justification for it, however, is not "WA is just like Germany".

Of course not, they're not the same. But we are still talking about a region of about 8-10 million people. It's also a region that has grown by 2 or so million people in a decade. Washington alone has had a pretty steady 14-20% growth per decade since the 60's. Oregon is fairly close in its decadal growth as well. So by the 2030's we might be talking more like 12-13 million people in the region.

That's plenty sufficient density to start investigating if an HSR is economically feasible and advisable.

(Edit: Just for self elucidation, I looked at the number of people that live in the Hamburg - Frankfurt corridor, since that's about the same distance as Portland to Vancouver, BC. Just going off the 'megaregions' that are crossed, its about 20 or so million, give or take a couple. That's only 2x the density of the cascadia region. Berlin - Essen also seems to be about the same distance, and also about 20 million people.)

> Yeah fine, I fully believe in the Vancouver->Vancouver (cough) train line.

At that point, just extend it. Put a bridge over the river and have a train terminal somewhere near PDX. The further continuation into Salem and Eugene is a little iffy, that I will concede, but Vancouver WA to Portland is practically spitting distance.
To the extent this also breaks or threatens the security of financial services, I’d like to see credit card brands and non-UK banks also pull out of UK.

I know it may be dreaming but as a consumer outside of UK I don’t want to be saddled with the costs via higher fees, inferior service etc. that will be necessitated to pay for the knock-on effects of this weakening of security.

I’d rather do business with companies that stay more secure and not pay this “shoddy security tax” they will impose on the industry.
But many systems will never need to run at that kind of scale, but could still benefit from better threading performance, so it's good to have an "intermediate" choice, if that's what you consider it.
Please reconsider the headline. They aren't talking about regular critics. They are talking about doxxing and death threats. WEI is bad, but its proponents definitely don't deserve this. We aren't going to win the open web with violence and threats.

I also implore the regular critics to consider that WEI is a symptom of a systemic problem. If these individuals don't do it, someone else will. Attacking them personally diverts our attention from the underlying issue.
Right. GP was complaint about having a gazillion versions of every dependency sitting around to satisfy various whims.
Does a large portion of this $725M not actually get allocated to "victims," or do you think 145M people are going to apply for this?
I don’t see how I’m making that leap
Are you kidding me? Washington's "libertarian streak" is long-dead and buried.

Whether you think it's a good thing or a bad thing, at this point, Seattle is basically San Francisco's insecure younger sibling and Washington is basically California Lite. As an example, since you brought up income tax, there is now a state capital gains tax, which the state Supreme Court cleverly danced around and called an "excise tax." Again, whether you think it's a good thing or a bad thing, Washington is every bit as much a single-party deep blue state as California now, and it's marching lockstep in the same direction as every other single-party deep blue state.
The FCC is rather prickly about electrical noise in the licensed bands, to the point companies have had to modify designs to not become impromptu transmitters on those frequencies. This is one reason power cords grow those little black cylinders called ferrite beads:

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

So, in theory, a crystal set should still be a good way to pick up conservative talk radio and sports talk and you kinda get the idea it wouldn't be a popular project for kids these days given the current media landscape.
Management Information Systems, I think.
It seems like a decent slide deck, but what's the deal with this anonymous blog with the odd domain name?
2023 in Science
HN user belfalas, quoting the linked New Yorker article:

> When stories that focus on structural barriers faced by women in the workplace, or on diversity in tech, or on race or masculinity...

Then, HN user version_five in reply:

> Why should we all stop what we're doing and prioritize discussing a niche political cause...
It competed in that way more with Applebees and TGIFridays; A "Casual Dining" or "Family Style" place that happened to serve Pizza as it's main dish, before the trend of "fast casual".
You are right... Flagging this because it's unnecessary ragebait and op is deliberately trying to fuel the flames. This is in extremely poor taste and malicious too.
And how about the dumping of excess fuel in the upper atmosphere?
They say they want no-gil to be the only build mode 5 years from when it becomes available. That is both too long and too short.

That is too long for Python to have 2 modes. Half a decade is more than enough time for 2 modes to become the status quo. For one thing, think of all the outdated Stackoverflow threads that will be hanging around after that 5 years. I am not optimistic that 5 years won't turn into 10 years of uncertainty and breakage.

But 5 years might be too short for everyone to dredge up all that C code, update it, test it, and call it mature.

I guess we'll see.
Not completely pointless. Fine motor skills need training too.
Thank you so much for the detailed feedback and the great feature requests, they're golden!
that's what Numba does.
Passim – local caching server that advertises files by their SHA-256 hash
EVs still emit brake particulate matter, generate roadway noise, put pressure on roadway infrastructure (either for maintenance or expansion), and still tie up the driver's time in transit. Rail does none of those things. It's a matter of political will in the US, and most Americans tend to be fine wasting lots of time driving.
I would guess that theft is a pretty minimal factor her. Costco sizes and checking receipts, must severely limit this compared to other stores.
Let Men Be
What happens when including numba or pytorch, etc in the scripts? GPU acceleration in python is one really nice way of getting decent speed, but I would imagine it's difficult to shuffle over when doing this type of compiling. If the end compiled program allows for use of all available computational resources (some logic with python to determine what accelerations to allocate, what is available, etc) and then can compile to C++ speeds for CPU and use GPU where appropriate, this will be astoundingly good.
If we're counting 10 minutes as the crow flies, then in the east cupertino/west SJ area, you're probably in range of 8 costcos, including a business center one.

Granted, with bay area traffic, that's more like an hour of driving, but it's still pretty dense.
Peter, you are a good attorney and your services are on point. But man you take forever to reply to emails. Our processing time changed while waiting for your response.

Do you have plans to scale up your operation?
Or maybe you can recommend other immigration lawyers? You can charge referral fees while you scale up your process.
I think people are able to moderate themselves because dang is enforcing a tone. you pick up the HN tone over here. and that tone puts the necessary boundaries to have a meaningful discussion.

for example I find the requests for proofs quite funny over here. it's never "source?", there's always a couple of words added to them to adjust the tone. most of the time there's no answer, but sometimes there's is a delightful come back with well researched sources, demonstrating the champion was well prepared and the challenger had been trapped :)
This is really well done. Great concept and execution. I love the Baba Is You style.

Only issue for me is that the instructions did not pop up fast enough.
Was going to reply the same thing. Spotify is so much. Enter when you think of it as a tool to play music. Sometimes diving into the algorithm can be rewarding, and sometimes you want to break free. I don’t intend this to sound shilling, but I have no problem using Spotify in both ways tbh.
Because in both cases, there comes a point where the majority should not be able to trample on the minority, be they PacNW Republicans/conservatives or Wyoming Democrats/liberals.

Having 50.01 percent of the vote in either direction should get you strong influence with boundaries, not carte blanche to do whatever you want. The American system is deliberately designed so progressively bigger changes to the status quo require progressively bigger majorities, and certain options are completely off the table.

And this is for good reason. If you and I vehemently disagree, we should still be able to live as neighbors as long as neither of us is trying to violate the other's rights or force our views on the other.