skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
honestly I was just shooting for easy round numbers. "More than 43x the speed of sound" doesn't have the same ring to it. And besides, as we all know "technically correct is the best kind of correct!" :)
I wonder how they got this working on x86 with Star Trek. Porting to x86 assembly? ouch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
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I was a technical IC for the majority of my career and apart from leading small teams technically, didn't do much management.

However, i picked it up when i started my own company and it has considerably changed my pov. Hard conversations, managing time, developing people, building the organisation, delivering value to clients and a ton of other things which i couldn't dream of doing as an IC have been possible and extremely rewarding.

I think the article makes a few good points but on the overall, I feel that an younger, immature and less clued in me would resonate with it more than me now.
From the project's homepage:

> A fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python

Performance without compromising too much on compatibility seems to be the main benefit. There is a talk on the YouTube channel «Pycon Sweden» from 5 years ago where the host showed some impressive speed gains for his workload (parsing black box dumps from planes).
The Hague is a city in the Netherlands ("Den Haag" in Dutch). Admittedly it's a bit of an unconventional name for a city, so I can understand that it might be interpreted as just a funny name for the International Criminal Court, which is seated in that city as well.

(It's also the seat of the government, so you'll also see sentences like "The Hague says..." in the media that actually refer to the government.)
I've only seen one picture of an alleged successful replication yet: https://twitter.com/iris_IGB/status/1685731177523449856
In a court in the Dutch city of The Hague?
That official statement seems incredibly light on detail, almost as if written for children, or worse, members of congress.

I wonder, is there a technical publication elsewhere that has more substantial coverage for interested people?
You don't have to make it about projecting an image.

Make it about living your proclaimed values. Otherwise, those aren't your values.

My kids have learned to mock my hypocrisy (usually when I'm hanging out on HN or worse), and I never disagree with them; I just try to be better and tell them I want them to be better.
When I developed a text-mode UI library (not using curses) with a friend in university for fun, we tested this on his actual terminal connected via serial cable. You'll notice unnecessary redraws very quickly that way. (Granted, piping the output through some throttling may have had the same effect, but there was something about writing modern code (even as students) and seeing it work on decades-old hardware :).)
I think this video sums up how I, and most europeans, feel about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYHTzqHIngk

If you don't understand the core differences between how to even buy shopping and the influence this has on how you live your life… it's not possible to explain that, actually yeah, it's possible to never do shopping by car, even to feed a whole family.
Yep, my parents purchased a car in 1978 that was still on "NNN AAA". Then our next car was a 1986 model, and I believe it was a "1 AAA NNN" series. By 1993, I purchased a car with ridiculous vanity plates, so I immediately pulled them off and registered normally, receiving a "3" series plate.
> I beg anybody to rephrase it understandingly with using some units similar to football fields. Is it possible to launch a little cheap rocket with a transmitter just to correct Voyager's position?

please tell me you are being sarcastic!
35kK in this reactor is much closer to room temperature than 150MK in ITER, isn't?
Those are by far the largest and most diversified economies in the EU besides Germany. And from the 1960s to 1990s, France outperformed the UK.
If your data doesn't change, you can leverage HTTP caching and lift a huge burden off of your service.
> - simplicity of the protocol, especially the encryption

only simple for developers though - due to the lack of Cross Signing it is very difficult to keep communication secure.
A bit of an aside, but one of the biggest perks of having Comcast as my ISP (I don't love this, but it's the only wired choice I have at my house) is that for roughly 60 percent of my public computing, I connect to an "xfinitywifi" router and get good-enough service.

Dunno what kind of tracking and security risks I'm exposing myself to though...
The antenna is pointing two degrees off course, so you wouldn’t need to send a spacecraft all the way to catch up with Voyager 2 and fix it, you’d just need to launch a relay spacecraft to the nearest point that intersects the signal beam. If Voyager 2 is about 32 billion km away, that point would be only about 1 billion km away, assuming the signal is a straight line.

“Only”.

It’s probably not worth it.
I keep hearing "Edge actually isn't bad anymore", but as long as Microsoft continues to try and jam it down my throat at any conceivable opportunity, I will continue to refuse to even consider it.

Very few things piss me off more than the other Microsoft products that feel the need to override my default browser and open pages in Edge instead. And on top of that, last time something launched Edge instead of Firefox, I was greeted with an inescapable fullscreen page that hid away the other browser tabs (i.e. the page I was trying to view) until I clicked through their idiotic "welcome to edge" bs. Sometimes lately it really feels like Microsoft is taking classes on how to piss off their users as much as possible.
> Battery consumption during hibernation seems to be higher than Windows, but that's about it.

Are you actually hibernating it, or doing the "hybrid sleep" thing, which only sleeps and then hibernates? In my case (Arch) the default for hybrid sleep is to keep it in sleep state for quite a while, whereas windows shuts down fairly quickly when unplugged.

Actual hibernation is shutting the computer completely off, so I'd be curious to know how one OS could have a different power consumption than another.
I would be interested in an OS project like this!

Anywhere I can find out more or be notified?
When you start getting beyond the "thousands of football fields" it starts becoming difficult to conceptualize. In this case, even though GP was asking for football fields, it may be easier to visualize it as flying nearly 800 thousand times around the entire equator of earth. And voyager is going around the equator roughly once every 45 minutes or so.

So to catch up, you would have to be faster. Let's say you were able to travel around the equator in 15 minutes, so you're gaining 30 minutes per equator. If my napkin math is right, it would take you roughly 45 years to catch up to voyager.
edge is just a front-end using the googel Big Tech web engine from google. If they customize the web engine, it's only a posture to hide the fact that they were unable to code their own in spite of their billions.

That said, they are big tech, they are all and the same.
Don't forget "We ran into a problem so we changed your default PDF program to Microsoft Edge" that just happens to conveniently occur
Late 90s, United States. It was a tiny private religious school in a 1950s building with a bomb shelter.

There was no school administration to complain to and no students with physical disabilities. I suspect they wouldn’t accept them due to a complete lack of facilities and policies.
Ah, that could be it... But then I only used standby and shutdown under Windows as well anyway...
I don’t think the article or the news release from NASA actually says #2. They could have known for a week but took a week to release the news.
Markets are perfectly capable of rewarding bad actors for a very long time. even if they eventually converge towards reality it's not something that you should assume about a market in any given situation (for one thing, a market is only reflecting the opinions of others about a thing, not the reality of the thing. Even if you think the opinions are on average wrong you don't make money by finding the reality, but by predicting when and how the opinions will change).

I think markets are an extremely useful decision tool in a lot of circumstances but they do still have many failure modes which aren't related to not being 'free enough' (especially w.r.t. regulation it can in fact make markets more efficient as opposed to less, depending on the regulation and the market).
Layout hints in legacy activity diagrams, from memory:

https://crashedmind.github.io/PlantUMLHitchhikersGuide/layou...

Can take compass coordinates from memory, in shorthand.

In Python, I pull a network topology from an API, then convert it to PlantUML, then edit a few arrows/lines so to point the right way, the entire topology adjusts accordingly, and generally I arrive at a useable diagram very quickly.

Way quicker than Visio, and nothing else seems to be able to do this (e.g. graphviz doesn't allow this).
Only if you're a non western country :p.
Marketers take a lot of credit for achievements that don't belong to them.

Take, for example, Hayek's rather more honest commentary on vacations and human rights generally:

>[The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights] is admittedly an attempt to fuse the rights of the Western liberal tradition with the altogether different concept deriving from the Marxist Russian Revolution. It adds to the list of the classical civil rights enumerated in its first twenty-one articles seven further guarantees intended to express the new ‘social and economic rights’. (…) The conception of a ‘universal right’ which assures to the peasant, to the Eskimo, and presumably to the Abominable Snowman, ‘periodic holidays with pay’ shows the absurdity of the whole thing. (…) What are the consequences of the requirement that every one should have the right ‘freely to participate in the cultural life of the community and to share in the scientific advances and its benefits’. (…) It is evident that all these ‘rights’ are based on the interpretation of society as a deliberately made organization by which everybody is employed. They could not be made universal within a system of rules of just conduct based on the conception of individual responsibility, and so require that the whole of society be converted into a single organization, that is, made totalitarian in the fullest sense of the word.

https://redsails.org/concessions/

The decay we witness today is simply the rollback of concessions copied from socialist states and artificially bolted onto capitalism to reduce socialist ferment. The consequences are predictable.
How is it theft? The original source is prominently cited, the author of the blog post is an active participant to the original discussion, the whole point of the post is to collect and summarize various sources in one place.
The Earth is only about 150 million km (1 AU) from the sun, so nope the Earth can't move far enough to make up for a 2 degree miss from 32 billion km away, even if it's in the right direction.
I liked Psyco a lot, it was totally awesome and with very few bugs (CPython differences) but that was looong ago. PyPy looks and feels like a monstrosity, it builds longer than most software for once, which is off-putting. I would be more interested in a Python JIT which is more like LuaJIT to Lua.
The topic on how hard or easy it is to replicate seems to be as fast changing as other information. The first time I read about it, it was deemed to be super easy as all you needed are the two base materials and a vacuum furnace. But with all the drama involved I would not be surprised if the process is actually very complicated.
That's basically because Android nowadays has the absolute bare minimum on the kernel, the rest is updated dynamically
That sounds like too much, but turns out that 2 degrees is indeed about 1/30 radians.
Speed limits in the UK are a little weird, for example on the North Circular, you can be limited to 40 mph for many miles, on a 4 line wide highway with concrete walls on each side and no pedestrians possible, everyone crawls along. Also on the Westway, my pet peeve, a completely enclosed, raised and straight highway with nothing to hit, you can be stuck at 30 mph. Having spent an hour and a half getting out of London, you immediately hit tiny twisting country roads barely one lane wind, full of blind spots, and they're 70 mph limit. This is why its my pet peeve.
> Prediction markets are one of the (or just, the?) best ways of aggregating knowledge from multiple sources and producing the best predictions.

They would be true if people with most money and appetite for risk were also the most knowledgeable and smart.

They are not. As you can easily tell from recent coverage of idiocy of even the richest people who have propensity for big bets.

It has been researched and discovered that people with more money do not make smarter bets than those with far less. So at best, looking at prediction markets, gives you exactly as much knowledge as polling random people on the streets and asking them what would they bet on.
> The race to the bottom is all around us.

Isn't this more a side effect of corporations, advertising and corruption rather than markets themselves?
Are communications with voyager encrypted? Is it possible for someone to setup a big antenna in their backyard and take over the probe?
as far as i can tell Teams will not open links in the default browser it's hard coded to edge://
How was that "well-targeted"? It is barely even English...
12 Monkeys https://youtu.be/ok9tswBa-ZI
It doesn't matter who wrote the engine. If it did, they wouldn't replace it.

It's about control.
There were valid reasons to be upset at Python 3's handling of Unicode.

- https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/5/12/everything-about-unicode/

- Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7732572

- https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2020/01/13/mercurial%27s-journ...

- Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22036773

Chalking these complaints up to bad development practices is _precisely_ the reason why the Python 3 migration was handled so poorly. If this attitude is repeated for no-GIL Python, it will fail.
> Using current technology we could probably make an object go faster than that so yes, it would be able to catch up

We could achieve slightly greater speed immediately after launch but we wouldn't be able to exploit the planetary gravity assists that accelerated the Voyager spacecraft.
> If Facebook wants to stay out of such cases, they should either leave the jurisdictions where such warrants are possible (so planet earth, probably) or they should enforce non-anonymous posts so plaintiffs can sue each other without involving a court warrant first.

How do you propose they leave?

Why is the responsibility on Meta to make sure users in a jurisdiction don’t sign up for their service? Surely some of this responsibility could fall on the user.
What are people getting away with exactly? Prediction markets more rapidly expose fraud and misinformation than without them.

Generally the decision to list a market or contract is based on providing specific utility and information. They provide a better signal to noise and therefore provide risk management as well.

The fact you believe markets are a “partisan” topic illustrates exactly the problem. They are objectively and scientifically an important and critical part of humanity, which isn’t taught.

As I’ve said elsewhere there reason is obvious as in teaching such facts and information will require simultaneously teach about how horrific and harmful governments have been, and we know who won’t like that.
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I’m going to coin the term “beaverforming”.
>harder work will allow us to be happy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(Animal_Farm)

Spoilers ahead! (If historical allegory can have spoilers)

"""
When he collapses from overwork, the pigs send him to the knacker's yard to be slaughtered, in exchange for money to buy a case of whiskey for the pigs to drink.

Squealer says that his sayings, "Comrade Napoleon is always right" and "I will work harder!" should live on in all the animals;

"""
> 1. Ever heard of Lightning? https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-lightning-network-is-... And yes, some countries accept partially paying through Lightning. El Salvador obviously, but Costa Rica as well (check "Bitcoin Jungle"). In Africa, it's starting...

I worked for a blockchain startup, and it had the exact same concept listed here:

> Due to the nature of the Lightning Network's dispute mechanism, which requires all users to watch the blockchain constantly for fraud, the concept of a "watchtower" has been developed, where trust can be outsourced to watchtower nodes to monitor for fraud.

However... we were constantly discussing this. Was the network truly decentralized in this case? Watchtowers basically concentrate power in a handful of nodes, you're back to oligarchy.

Which means... why bother with blockchain and cryptocurrency anymore? What's the point?

> 2. I sold a car for ~30k USD in Germany 2 weeks ago. I wish the guy would have been able to pay in crypto, because bank transfer didn't work out (because of money laundering law between unrelated banks due to the higher amount) and he ended up paying in ... cash (yes, the irony, so much about money laundering). And now, I had to open a new bank account which will be able at some point to accept the money. It's not just time consuming, but all this is not free obviously

He could have just... warned his bank?? Also, what's with the jab against cash, yes, it can always be used for money laundering, it's not like, God-forbid, cryptocurrencies being used for the same reason, see sock-puppet transactions, anonymity....

> 3. Well, that's a good point, since loans are created out of thin air... https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/081415/under...

Yeah, and what's wrong with that?
I can't remember exactly what the use case was but we used at my old work (Start up providing a Web CDN/WAF type service, think the kind of stuff CloudFlare does nowadays) in ~2013 for some sort of batch processing analytics/billing type job, using MRJob and AWS Elastic Map Reduce over a seriously large data set.

The performance of PyPy over CPython saved us loads and loads time and thus $$$s, from what I can recall.
You might want to check out Wolfi and Chainguard Images. Wolfi is a Linux distro that we use to build minimal images that are roughly comparable to Alpine in size but, everything is compiled from source against glibc.

Our images come without a shell or pacakge manager by default, but there are -dev variants that include these.

https://github.com/wolfi-dev/
https://github.com/chainguard-images/images
So practically speaking, what can you do with the fact that X% of fans (because people betting are enthusiasts) think LK-99 will reproduce and Y% think it wont?
I don't get it. what are you suggesting? that meta would break the law on purpose just because its 100k fine?
Since Twitter is no longer allowing public access to posts, it would be better to not link to it. Or better yet, re-post the tweet somewhere else and link to that.
Sure, but he probably wants to be able to prove to a court that he's accusing the correct person?
It's always a tradeoff, but I'm surprised to see so many people say that just because Python isn't fast it shouldn't get multithreading.

Yes, by using Python we leave a lot of performance on the table. We also get a lot of dev performance, just because of the amount of libraries available, dynamic language features, quick development.. So it's not always a clear decision between Python or a compiled language.

> If you need something to be fast you are supposed to use a C extension and control it with Python

So what do we do with the case where we need to control the C extension from multiple threads? Because that's currently my problem. The C extension we developed do release the GIL, but because the Python code that does the calls to the extension can't be really multithreaded, the performance gain we get is minimal.
More directly about the actual issues policy makers care about, so you lose less info to confounders.
To me there are 2 main reasons:

1) ownership - the manager does not really own the way the team works, in most cases it's just applying processes defined somewhere else (career progression, expectations, OKRs, sdlc, internal processes and the way the team works)

2) the eternal doubt - managing teams and people is not a science (that's why there are thousands of books claiming they have found the formula) and people are always different (different motivators, interests, personalities), and usually managers don't get proper training, and if they do it's more about facilitating discussions and giving feedback than anything else. This creates a lot of uncertainty over the actions that a manager take as the results, often, arrive later in time than, let's say, building a feature.

And the reality is that it's a complete different job than being an IC and most people don't realize this until they are deep into it.

ps to people talking about meetings, the reality is that this depends a lot on company culture and organization...in general the more the meetings the worse the culture (because it means that there aren't really good processes to share status updates and people don't take advantage of async communication as much as they should, but still want to be on top of everything so there isn't really much delegation and trust).
Regulations? Legislation? None of that means anything in this age of "it's only wrong/illegal if you get caught". What's needed is to kick these shitty anti-user services to the curb, and switch wholesale to ones that actually care about user agency, security, and privacy.
Thanks chatgpt
These don't really apply to the parent commenter's scenario.

1) gunicorn or any solution with multiple processes is going to just multiply the RAM usage. Using 10-100GB of RAM per effective thread makes this sort of problem very RAM bound, to the point that it can be hard to find hardware or VM support.

2) This isn't I/O bound.

3) If your service is fundamentally just looking up data in a huge in-memory data store, adding LRU caching around that is unlikely to make much of a difference because you're a) still doing a lookup in memory, just for the cache rather than the real data, and b) you're still subject to the GIL for those cache lookups.

I've also written services like this, we only loaded ~5GB of data, but it was sufficient to be difficult to manage in a few ways like this. The GIL-ectomy will probably have a significant impact on these sorts of use cases.