skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see little evidence "quality of writing" is on their agenda at all at this point. I couldn't even list the movies responsible for billions in losses that had great music, acting, special effects, marketing, and everything else, and fell down only in their absolutely atrocious writing. It's a snarky thing to say, but I'm quite serious in my snark as well. It seems to me Hollywood holds writing quality in contempt.

And I don't mean things that took a risk that failed to pay off. I mean things that you could take to a Writing 101 class after eight weeks and the students could savage based on what they were taught... and there's no excuse like "the authors understand the rules enough to transcend them", the writing is bad on the standard measures and also had no other redeeming values either.

It's actually sort of weird that they see this as some sort of cost center to be managed. They already don't seem to care about it at all. From that point of view, using AI makes sense; they don't seem to care how bad the writing is, so why pay for it at all?

Though it seems to me the effort put into AI would cover an awful lot of writing no matter how you slice it. That one $900K job won't be the only one. Will a team of super highly paid AI specialists absolutely be cheaper than actual writers?

It would be super ironic to start an "AI writing startup" and then do what a lot of the AI startups have done behind the hood and hire humans to do the initial work. Why invest in risky tech? Just AI-wash the writing! Everybody wins!
Real-time satellite monitoring of old growth logging in B.C
I used to ride a regular trek (not even a road) bike at excess of 45km/h uphill, overtaking some slower cars. I see no point in this dual-style speed separations for e-bikes, any athletic person can do the same damage on a regular bike.
The bank that acquires does so with a haircut and a hit to the balance sheet from the overall entity having all the liabilities of the combination and the assets. So the insurer throws in some money to recapitalize. Remember everyone needs this deal to be smooth and the new entity toppling is not smooth.
Channels has this feature (“Virtual Channels”): https://getchannels.com/library/
i was going to mention scouting somewhere in this thread for exactly that reason. we didn't have merit badges in the country where i grew up, and scouting was a lot more of less structured exploring of the outdoors or activities planned and organized by the kids themselves. and most importantly, parents were not involved.
The article they link to about the job says as much so I'd say the author is very much trying to drive a narrative to push an agenda even if one doesn't exist.
Xillenials
Reaching to just this part

> I find myself becoming my worst self on here, whether I want to or not, in reaction to others being their worst selves too. It's difficult to rise above the fray.

You always have a choice. If you display your worst self on here, you choose to do so. You can opt not to engage with comments that are a negative to the community.
The proper term, apparently, is 'gifts', though I'm not sure how that's supposed to make it sound any better.
Presumably C extensions will have a different API name/ABI to prevent accidentally calling into GIL code when in non-GIL mode and vice/versa so that's going to complicate the compatibility story.
I dare you: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Gackle

Spoiler alert: It assume you're looking for a loud, pushy corvid that hops up on your table and insists it has a right to one of your tacos.
I’ve watched at least half a dozen long presentations and interviews from dr levin and I’d say the previous commenter is essentially repeating it exactly how Levin describes it. To be fair it’s not exact. What I understood from the interviews is that they have been imaging bioelectrical activity in organisms during development and claim to have deciphered patterns associated with growth of certain structures. He talks about a certain ion channel drug (one used for epilepsy I believe) which they used to reproduce the bioelectric field previously observed and the organism grew a leg. Multiple legs actually, wherever they wanted. Also working eyes on arbitrary locations.

So from a high level they say they have figured out how to “speak” to cells in a sense and instruct them to start building certain structures. And they emphasize that they aren’t making any changes to the genome or manage any of the low level processes themselves.
I scooped! They not duped! :…(
The only real confirmations are nobody using one, not even in a hot war involving Russia.
> it’s a lot cheaper than buying them all.

And thus the artists get screwed.

Let's face it, the real reason Spotify is popular is because folks see music as a commodity and fairly compensating artists as unaffordable.

And so Spotify lives on despite its many many flaws.
I think legislators should regulate to make illegal the data-tracking big companies perform. And I think the legislation should give ownership of all data collected about an individual to the individual.

In the government space, I think permission should be required from the individual to share information between departments, and the data to again be owned by the individual.

How does Tor do anything meaningful about allowing me to both participate in society, and preserve my privacy and data ownership? This is not a technology problem.
> osmocombb

Open source stacks are already or basically on the verge of being obsolete in most of the world's telco networks if you want to actually use them. They are incredibly cool and a huge undertaking but no one is saying they are practical for actual usage, and that's ignoring the clear illegality of broadcasting with such firmware.

Osmocom and others like FreeCalypso only work on very old devices with TI Calypso chipsets.
As sibling comments says, GIL mode can run no-GIL code.

Entirely different from 2->3.

That analogy is so poorly applicable it's laughable.
But how will I waste thousands of person hours battling subprocesses now????
Well, it is the ninth island and all :) never been to a location on the mainland, wiki seems to suggest most were not under original ownership, actually were owned by Bloomin Brands for a while who runs several of the concept megachains that would be in TCF's class, so those may not make my arbitrary cut.
The job description seems to imply that you aren’t replacing screenwriters but to augment the decision making on what to green light anyways .
The thing that led me to this was the "Wilhelm Scream"[1]. Something recently made me think of that, and I wound up on Wikipedia or somewhere reading about it, and eventually found that the original "Wilhelm Scream" is part of this USC archive.

https://archive.org/details/SSE_Library_VOICES/SCREAM/VOXScr...

An interesting little piece of history, there.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream
> I don't mind that it's there. I do mind that I can't delete it.

This is the key point. Not giving the user the choice. Yes, they can install a different program that does the same thing, but the manufacturer-dictated programs are still there, taking up space in storage, the app list, and possibly memory if they're doing potentially user-hostile shit in the background.
Enlighten me, what could you do an Apple II that you can't do on a modern Mac?

It has a real UNIX terminal. I can write code in nearly any programming language. There are thousands of packages that I can install easily with Homebrew. It feels general purpose to me.
> People in here are emotionally invested in seeing Musk fail, no amount of reasoning can make them see the forrest from the trees.

The same statement holds for Mark Zuckerberg. ;-) (EDIT: and perhaps also Steve Huffman)
I was called inconsiderate for essentially asking this very question. I still think it's the right question to ask:

Why should Python even have a free threading model?
I think the biggest problem is the Mastodon devs (and community's) complete aversion to doing anything other than blaming the user for any flaws.

Onboarding didn't make sense? Well that's just because you're stupid, you have email don't you?

Difficulty discovering people to follow? Well that's just because you're using it wrong and if you were good at it you'd already know who to follow.
Why can't we just tow stranded whales and dolphins back out to sea?
I suppose "destroy the open web to get promoted at Google" is technically a principle.
One of the most notable sound effects in TV and movies ("the Wilhelm scream") here can be found from SSE Library Voices:

https://archive.org/details/SSE_Library_VOICES

Listed as VOXScrm_Man eaten by alligator; screams [Wilhelm_CS_USC.
"The Senate Parliamentarian had a doctor's appointment today, so regretfully, we couldn't pass this even if we wanted to"
> how does one library support _both_ python 2 and 3 from one codebase

How does one library support both GIL and no-GIL?

Easy, it supports no-GIL, so it supports both. Done.
I’m no fan of Java, but in comparison with python, Java’s focus on extreme backwards compatibility and their ability to actually execute on this promise year after year stands in stark relief with how python has handled the same challenges. I have low confidence, despite their claims this won’t be python 4, that this will actually be executed well. Looking forward to having homebrew deliver python@3.25_GIL and python@3.25_no_GIL with each flipping package I install.
This is fun, thanks for sharing! I'm currently developing a much worse language and I've spent quite a few hours on it. I think that the space of simple languages is very enlightening to explore. If nothing else, returning to a full-featured language after spending days programming in something horrid is a breath of fresh air.
Define AI.
Is this something I can be outraged about?
"other revenue-focused initiatives" could mean literally anything.

I'd say the author is being necessarily and reasonably cynical given what we've seen in just the past year (for example, the SAG and WGA aren't striking for nothing).
Those people should not be in charge of decision making, as it often involves defending your decisions and having difficult conversations.
Keep the GIL and avoid the problems its removal will cause. Allow parts of your program to run in a separate namespace with explicit passing of objects. No sharing means no contention, so no overhead.
Multiprocessing has a lot of issues, one of which is handling processes that never complete, subprocesses that crash and don’t return, a subprocesses that needs to spawn another subprocesses, etc.
In support of 3, 5, and 7 being the real drivers of the category listed separately just under them:

This is a map of Mastodon instances.

https://www.comeetie.fr/galerie/mapstodon/

I think it gives a good sense of proximity.

From the place in this clustering where I spend my time (in the jorts.horse space, if that gets enough across), it is almost unimaginable that someone could get an experience reminiscent of LinkedIn... but that's just one spot on the map, right?

I think my conclusions from this kind of thing are pretty different from Erin's in ways that could be anticipated from the framing in her earlier post: https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon
IMO that piece is worth reading first for context.
Speaking of Florida…

There are apparently something like 30M lightning strikes per year (about 1 per second!), and random sources I found suggest the average strike has an energy north of 1GJ.

1GW is somewhat respectable. Good luck collecting it.
This guy wins tech worker buzzword bingo. I knew somewhere he would use the phrase “stakeholders”.

“Bonus points” for using a completely arbitrary code of conduct to decide what is safe. What a joke.

Of course nobody should doxx him, but I think it’s fair game to criticize somebody who wants to end web browsing as we know it. What he wants is extremely unpopular.
Yes, indeed.

I think people conflate promiscuity risk with sexual act risk.

PIV is lower risk as it is less likely that semen will come into contact with blood.

Whereas anal sex has a risk of tearing the anal wall and thus blood coming into contact with semen.

Other STDs have run wild in straight sex communities.

Oral sex presents virtually zero risk of HIV transmission.
tremor.so/figma
Wasn't one of the main issues that when doing any age reversal you add massive cancer risks?
This along with the mites that live in your eye lashes is required hypochondriac reading / viewing material.
This nation gave us the first mecahnical computer, the first programming language, Alan Turing, the first digital computer, broke the Enigma encryption, and the World Wide Web… and now, this.
I love Costco, truly. I love the lack of mental noise I feel when I browse the aisles. I love the selection of goods and pricing leverage they have on manufacturers and their competitors.

However, Costco's technology is woefully inadequate for a wholesaler of their size. I've even heard this from Costco employees dealing with their employees portal (shout to /r/costco). Lack of sufficient tech is a systemic issue with them.

How is it possible that they cannot give me an accurate inventory of the items in the stores near me? Sometimes I see a product on social media and think "Hey it would be great to know if that product is only offered in Southwest US Costcos. Even trying to find a map of the store and where the products are kept (when there is some flux) is troublesome (yes, I get it's the "Ikea" method of needing to push you through the entire store).
Get someone to pay/fund you because it works really well with their site or app?
I've heard this line before, but I have a hard time understanding it.

Does that mean that a single user has an exclusive lock on 8 of these things for the duration of the request? I'm surely missing something.
Human Rights Council condemns the burning of the Quran as a religious hate act
Queues are a HUGE pain in the arse though.
Also, a bit more contrast between sea and land would be nice. Around the Mediterranean especially, I find it really hard to tell which is which.
Since there was a snarky(ish??) comment about commenters quoting Socrates, I shall waste no time and jump myself to Aristotle: “Man is by nature a social animal” (Pol. 1253a). But note that that famous translation (“a social animal”) actually translates πολιτικὸν ζῷον (politikon zoon: political animal). Of course, for the ancient Greeks, politics meant something more expansive than it usually does for us. They were right. Politics, like time, is part of the human condition.
Partly this is due to corporate controlled media, where newer languages aren't getting the coverage they deserve. We keep getting flooded with the same old languages, as if there is nothing else or new out there. People are often not getting the information on possible options and promising developments.
Kids do go through the same motions of testing boundaries, but they're testing boundaries that would get you punched in the face or jailed IRL-- but they get away with it without consequence because it's all virtual. There's no consequence to scamming other kids in Roblox or destroying people's artwork in Minecraft

i'd like to disagree. first of all these actions don't have serious consequences because it's a game. destroying someones work in minecraft is no worse than destroying your lego house. that would not get you punched in the face either, nor would cheating your classmate out of their lunch money.

there are also less consequences because of lack of supervision. i don't know about roblox, but the minetest servers my kids play on absolutely have rules against breaking others work and punish players by putting them in an in-world jail or blocking them from the server. in both cases the consequence is that the kids can't play. they have to learn how to interact with other players just as much.
Sure. It's hard to make this justice on a single comment, as there are lots of applications. Basically, any scenario with small or medium size datasets where you would use generative models. PPLs are just a way to encode generative models and get an inference engine compiled for you, instead of needing to write one. For example:

* Landing the Apollo on the Moon or tracking systems used by e.g. Sidewinder employ Kalman filters. See Example 24.4 (p. 510) [1].

* Predicting ride demand on heavy-tailed time series. Uber does this all the time [2].

* Estimating the effect of some policy on data with hierarchical structures (State > County > Individual observations) [3].

[1] http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/200620.pdf

[2] https://pyro.ai/examples/forecasting_i.html

[3] https://mc-stan.org/users/documentation/case-studies/radon_c...
They're not trying to kill Linux per se, it'll just be collateral damage. Only specially blessed builds of browser and OS will be allowed access to sites that use the new api. It defeats the point of the API if the user can control the behavior of the client.
> why do you have your work experience dating back to the 80s?

I kind of disagree. It’s not like people are printing out or even reading back that far. May as well include it, but certainly don’t expect people to read it.

I’m currently hiring and reading a lot of resumes. I rarely read past the first 2-3 pages, but sometime when I’m curious go back to learn more about career path. Has someone been programming for 30 years? Or started as a dba or a support tech?

I think it depends on the risk of including it. If you worked for an embarrassing employer or maybe don’t want people to guess your age, remove old stuff. But otherwise, I suggest just spending more effort on making the first page relevant.
> I find myself becoming my worst self on here, whether I want to or not, in reaction to others being their worst selves too. It's difficult to rise above the fray. Dang must have infinite patience, but I don't, and most people don't seem to either.

Yeah, I know exactly what you’re talking about. For what it’s worth, after a couple of those stern warnings from Dan I’ve started to just flag and move on when other people are getting shitty. The collapse-entire-thread button is handy too: as soon as I notice someone has started a tedious, tangential political argument I can make the whole thing disappear!
If he didn't intend to make specifically that association, then why did he make specifically that statement?

Why not, say, the librarians?

So, he chose to speak about a specific thing, and so it's perfectly fair to critique exactly that specific thing, which he chose to highlight.
You're saying, "just rewrite and re-release all your dependencies, it's easy!" which was exactly what happened disastrously with python 2 to 3.
Spellcheck Boggle.
For reference: I pay roughly $24/year at my colo and that (I thought) is expensive. I had another host which only charged $6.50/year
Indeed. For a compilation of examples of its use, see (among others):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YDpuA90KEY
I mean, they don’t call them FAAMG for nothing. But honestly I do also think some are worse than others.
Aeolus: 'Impossible satellite' takes fiery plunge to Earth
I think what's happening here is that he's just too deep in to google's corporate culture and can't imagine normal people perceiving google as a threat. His first paragraph is basically this,

"Thank you for your comments. We are not going to listen to your comments. We're surprised that not listening to your comments has led to people trying to contact through other means. The only reason I can think of to object to WEI is crime so enough of you are probably criminals that I'm going to mention it in the first paragraph as an accusation."
Just to the same or slightly higher extent as UserDefaults which is on this list
> that doesn't hold for other groups. people that don't want to think about internet application protocols

It is a startup wisdom that it is better to have less users who love your product than many who merely like it. Tech-savy people often have a strong opinions (both positive and negative). By the mentioned startup wisdom, it can be very valuable to have them as users.
Last time I installed LineageOS I tried the gesture navigation and it did provide a hands-on tutorial as part of enabling it.

- Swipe up (from anywhere) to access the app tray

- Swipe up and hold to see the app history / currently in-memory apps

- Swipe from the side of the screen to go back (can be configured to just be the bottom half of the screen and a "thinner" sensitivity area - which I needed because the defaults were stupid and made 'back' such a frequent accidental action).

They're the only gestures I've bothered to learn, and I get by. Still not sure it's better or worse than have the 10 pixel space at the bottom for the navigation buttons.
Do some quick breathing exercises, dang, because if the article is correct about you, that one thing that does enrage you is being mischaracterized or falsely accused, I sense some red haze in your near future induced by the previous commenter. :|
Strange. Not something I've seen, but I'm also very picky about the companies that I have applied to in the past–to the point of picking specific people I want to work with–and never ever go after mega orgs (I've contracted with some of them, and that's enough to know to stay away). Seems like a practice that would actually bias in favor of more junior developers, because of the emphasis on speed and familiarity to CS classwork. Obviously some programming jobs are heavy on algorithms, but that's neither the case for most roles nor what typically sets apart senior developers from juniors.
> You always have a choice. If you display your worst self on here, you choose to do so. You can opt not to engage with comments that are a negative to the community.

Sigh. I would respectfully ask you to perform some self-reflection about this very reply of yours. I was admitting to a common, natural, human fallibility, and you chose to reply in a way that seemed blameful and condescending.

"You always have a choice" is a cliché here in the HN comments. It's not an interesting response.
Yea, this is a truly impressive launch. If even 25% of people who logged in just to see the new shiny thing stuck around and became a DAU that’s utterly remarkable. This framing is absurdist.
An explanation is atonal and objective, the comment said “Having children is just another bucket list item these days.” which pretty obviously implies they don’t think well of the situation.

There is some blaming here, and not just on “cultural shifts” and “expectations”, but also “women’s empowerment”.

And it’s not like the things they mention are things men weren’t doing before that are allowed by modernity. Men travelled all the time (ex: war), while women were expected to stay home. Men’s virginity wasn’t prized, it was to women that having accepted premarital sex was new. Women being able to prioritize their careers was new.

As the bigotry goes on HN this comment is pretty tame, but civility doesn’t excuse ignorance, in fact it makes it more dangerous.
Minecraft website evolution 2009-2022
Scrap AML/KYC Laws
Y’all forget the ultimate choice. None of us need these phones or need to use the Internet. I am sure it will make life much more difficult, but we don’t need to use these devices as much as we do. You have much more control than you think over the situation.
Yes it’s specifically about the British and Dutch. For most white Americans, their “parents grandparents” were in Ireland, Sweden, Italy, etc. Out of the folks who were here before the 20th century, the largest fraction is Germans who came here in poverty and had nothing to do with slavery other than fighting to end it.
Thank you for this anecdote. This is where I am currently at, but I don't feel discouraged at all, I feel up to the challenge! I am finding the process of learning fun and I am in fact improving a ton at the fundamentals. My speed is improving quickly and pattern recognition is developing. I can glance at a problem at now have an intuition for what shape of solution it has.