skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure you could fill a library with how much this topic has been discussed over the years, but iOS doesn't make everyone happy. It's entirely possible to enjoy the stability while also being frustrated by Apple's software design choices.
essentially the adoption of No-GIL Python will depend on:

1. In which version No-GIL will become default option in CPython
2. When that CPython version will come standard in LTS Linux distro
3. When all earlier LTS distros will go out of support
4. When companies switch from outdated to target LTS version of distro

currently quite a lot of companies use python3.6 only because it comes standard with the Ubuntu 14.04.6 which happens to be the oldest LTS version - and companies have habit of migrating from out-of-support LTS version to currently-supported-oldest-LTS
> timepass

Completely off topic but was this a typo or has this expression now gained currency outside the subcontinent?
Fair point. Super critical security updates could go on, while official OS support is dead.

To note, iOS doesn't allow alternative browsers so Safari will also be stuck in time and there will be no option to get any modern engine on the device (I'm not even sure you could get one through jailbreaking, that would be a lot of porting efforts for virtually no one on the market)

I resurrected a third gen iPad a few weeks ago for no reason, and the most interesting part was it couldn't get past Cloudflare's browser check, so couldn't even see some of simpler and primitive sites on the web.
It seems his perfect music platform is Quboz, which is fantastic as a music enthusiast, and I love it, but it’s overkill for most people.

Back in the gatefold vinyl days how many people were saying “oh wow my favorite recording engineer worked on this?” Virtually nobody is likely the answer.

I think his real problem is most people aren’t as in ti music as he is, have bad taste, are bland, and content with a normie life full of normie songs and normie shows.

But that’s a big market.
Indo-European dialects dispersed across Eurasia in waves over 8K years
I mean you can just have a LinkedIn and only ever use it for a job search. That's what I do. I write on top of my profile "email me, I check this once every 3 months."
Shameless plug for my version of this, also written in Rust: https://github.com/clarkmcc/chitchat
Lol, I hadn't heard that before. Thanks for sharing.
They really need to fab their SoC on something better than crappy Samsung 5nm process.
> No, no the same thing.

Well to me it is the same thing.

Two threads sharing state through a common heap, or two processes sharing state through a shared memory is pretty much indistinguishable, at least on Linux.

The question is not multithreading or multiprocessing anymore, the difference to me is more semantic than real.

The question is then just how these threads/processes communicate.

I would argue that shared mutable state is rarely a good idea, and an equivalent message based system is often preferable.

For the few use cases that remain where you would want shared mutable states, as mentioned in my original answer, Python has shared memory support, though with non-built-in types. Improving these shared types should be the only thing you advocate for.
His Spotify boredom theory doesn't match my experience at all, maybe because I am a person who actually seeks out music that I know and want and have huge playlists that gets regularly added to manually. It works fine for me, has been working fine for a long time. If there was a better solution out there I would use that instead.
Steve Jobs was one of America's greatest assholes
Worth noting this bank is an order of magnitude off of the 250th biggest bank in the US. It’s actually small enough that it’s hard to figure out where in the ~4K US banks it is, but it’s in the backend.

Also, this year is still small on the “number of failed banks” list. Banks fail fairly often and this one failing would be no news normally.
Without the last sentence, your comment would be better.
Immigration reform can't be passed through the Senate's special budget procedures (this is what the parliamentarian blocked) and thus will require 60 votes to pass. Partly for this reason I don't think we'll get immigration reform for the foreseeable future, at all.
> Ham radio operators may notice them when shortwave signals fail to skip over the horizon, shooting through holes instead of bouncing back to Earth. Sudden GPS errors can also result from the anomalies. These effects may be troublesome, but they are shortlived; re-ionization occurs as soon as the sun comes up again.

On one hand, Science™ sez it fixes itself every morning. On the other, Elon Bad and Planet Good.

So, I'm torn.
Canada's isn't all that much better.
The only thing I’m reading from your pasteboard is a routing path that I’ve put there from my webpage, so what’s the risk exactly?
DA won’t file charges now against pair accused in S.F. carjacking crash
Strange. There's a whole me, Me, ME essay, which seemed like it was a lead-up to a personal machine they built. But no.

There's a startup with a round phone.[1] But they announced in 2021, and haven't updated their web site since 2022. They need to get that out the door, make it in pink, and get it into the next Barbie movie.

[1] https://www.cyrclephone.com/
Tight borders make everything easier.
Yep. Leeching is mostly used in the context of torrents. Generally, while you're downloading, you're "leeching." But also, if you don't seed a file after you download it, you can call that leeching.

Lurking is when you frequent a forum but never post.
Some of the sound effects from GOLD TAPE: 32 Electricity sound familiar to me. The notes accompanying the effects say the effects come "From Flash Gordon's Spaceship". But compare G32-01-Giant Electrical Discharge [1] with the opening to Pan Sonic's Rähinä I [2] and you might hear a similarity too.

[1] https://archive.org/details/GOLD_TAPE_32_Electricity/G32-01-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMR1HWODT4
> broke the Enigma encryption

Poland?

> and the World Wide Web

CERN is a country?
Well said. Ever since I started reading Taleb and Harari I have become really skeptical of anything that sounds like a story.

If your theory of some historical development sounds like a nice complete satisfying story with no weird loose ends then it's probably not what happened.
I under-appreciated the forward comparability. So this partly a framing critique. If you’re going to frame it as “how this won’t be like before”, good to really highlight the how.
What is the nature of the data?

ACLU is often manipulative in how these stories are framed. They are an advocacy group advocating for their priorities.

If the headline was “Researchers publish confidential student data through litigation filings”, the crowd here would be pearl clutching about that. You may recall years ago when NYC released taxi data on their open data platform, that data let you basically track the movements of frequent taxi users.

The other question is… why don’t the researchers file a FOIA, which has no restrictions.
AI Can Predict Hit Songs with Frightening Accuracy
>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.

I can't speak for your specific situation, but I'll give you an example. In Australia we have mandatory data retention laws. If you don't think private companies (that are exposed to data breaches [1]) should have access to your activity then Tor is the solution to that. That's a more practical solution than waiting for legislation which may never come.

https://www.optus.com.au/about/media-centre/media-releases/2...
Plans develop for high-speed rail in the PNW
Maybe charisma is the wrong term. I've found pleasantness and willingness to communicate to be strongly correlated with engineering ability amongst those in the profession. Likewise, the worst engineers I've worked with all had major anti-social personality issues. The profession has always involved soft skills in my experience. When I've hired people I designed small tasks similar to the actual day-to-day work they would be doing, and that filtered out candidates who lacked coding ability quite easily.
Did you see my point later in the thread about moderators like me explicitly approving all the posts which were arguing forcefully (but respectfully) against WEI? I think it's pretty clear we're not shutting down respectful disagreement, only abusive and threatening disagreement.
Likewise, a lot of people know (and use) me for my supposedly deep knowledge of Git, even though it took me years to fully understand and feel comfortable enough with it so that I’m no longer terrified when using the CLI — I can cherry-pick and rebase with the best of them. YET, I still feel it’s a bit intimidating and that there’s some mysteries behind the internals I don’t fully grasp. I suppose like DNS, it does take time and effort to learn, and when I really think about it, it’s actually not that hard, but for some reason, so many devs struggle with it, mostly (front what I’ve observed) because it’s intimidating due to o it’s somewhat odd terminology and unintuitive workflow, but also because there are so many GUI/IDE tools that hide a lot of the complexity, which simultaneously good and bad.
The buyer gets to sniff around and accept the offer for the accounts and balance sheet. The insurer, FDIC or sometimes NCUA, takes the difference.
This guy's post is a painful read. The "I don't give in to criminals or bullies" part is just bizarre. The entire premise of WEI is so incredibly obvious that "inauthentic traffic" and "safety" is hard to read without cringing.
To lurk, to be in the state of lurking, and to be a lurker — has been around since the BBS days. Thanks for calling it out!
'Drive defensively, drive a Sherman'

(seen in the USA on a bumper sticker a long time ago).
CZUR ET24 Pro book scanner review with Ubuntu 22.04 Linux
> That seems incredibly dubious.

Check out the global battery supply chain
Because human behaviour is often predictable en masse, systems can model human behaviour, including music and writing styles and some aspects of visual art, with implications for how people intuit "creative" input

But I write here to say: mimicry of outcome from almost the philosopher in the cave isn't intelligence, despite what thought experiments imply, or people want to believe.

Machine hit picking isn't new btw.

Intelligence is a massive hill to climb. Picking off the edges is more or less useless to emerge a theory of mind, or anything else.
Find a good quality dvd recorder, sony made some great ones that can be thrifted for $10 or so. A good quality hifi 6 head VHS is about the same money.

Hook those up, record to DVD.

Rip DVD.

No need to fool with terrible capture cards they sucked back in the day and have not improved. The biggest problem I found with VHS is mold growth.

Edit: bonus with dvd recorders is that some have firewire ports so ripping portable video vamera tapes is automatic.
Wouldn’t that require running an interpreter in each thread? How on earth could that be a “sane multi threading model”?

>offer a safe path to concurrent programming

Uh, doesn’t Python support this already? Python has “concurrency” from async and parallelism from multiprocessing. What it doesn’t support is thread-based parallelism. What you’re suggesting (if I understand it) is an implementation of parallelism that is barely different at all from the typical Python parallelism approach of using multiprocessing to achieve parallelism.
If the CPM is lower, we need more ads achieve the same amount of revenue. Basic math.

We don’t want to pack our experience with ads, but we literally need to post IDFA nerfing.
tbh, I believe those people behind WEI deserves a bit of the blames of intentionally devising tools that breaks open web for some corporate profits.

Chromium is popular enough to force feed WEI to the world, and most of users would have no choice but to accept this pure evil.

Imaging that you are planning for a campaign to nudge all chromium based browser users to switch to non-chromium browsers by showing a banner everywhere, the list you could provide as alternatives are literally next to []. (maybe webkit, imagine persuading someone to switch to Apple just for this)

(btw, there's a gecko based browser Waterfox which is awesome)
Reddit r/news moderators banning users that comment about UAP hearing
So I made a fairly innocuous comment on a thread yesterday that popped up in r/news about the recent congressional UAP/UFO hearings, and this morning I woke up to see that I'm banned with no explanation.

https://imgur.com/a/1FfrfyU

Link above with my comment and their message. This is quite stunning for me, as I've been on Reddit for nearly 12 years and the only other time I've seen something like this was when r/Pyongyang used to ban people for being mean to North Korea haha.

It is quite interesting to see however, because while its not in the rules there at all, each and every time an article about this news is posted they delete it and ban the user.

Thought this would be interesting to share.
You should look at the costs of most of the high-end Android phones. Apple does not sell the most expensive phones!

"People don't need high-end phones" perhaps, but somehow I don't see people making this comment about Samsung phones.

iphone 14 is only $800! Meanwhile loads of high-end Android phones are at $1000+. The meme is dead
For this reason, this is actually big news. Small banks are the back bone of the US financial system. They are conservative where big ones are not. They are historically the ones that keep afloat.

Too early to call, but this might be a signal of things to come.
I remember an R. Crumb interview about the paper and pen nibs he uses[1]; this reminded me of it.

I also really respect good tools for drawing (and other things), especially things that last a long time.

[1] found it! https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2010/07/r-crumb-supplies.html
Rural people, whatever that means, can be smart and crafty. And there should be a risk management committee and there are services to help provide insights. I was on a rural BoD and don't recall ever seeing a crop loan.
They just didn't have time. If Rome was still around it would have developed science and technology. They already did a lot of impressive things during their period.
https://archive.is/deahH
and that's not even the worst effect. i have worked on implementations of AML/KYC/CTF at many financial institutions, but last year i saw them used to block banking access to citizens protesting the Canadian government. these procedures were not built for blocking civil dissent.
but now any citizen is just one step away to having a "terrorist" label attached, and banned from accessing their accounts.
> disables input when disabled is passed

That's exactly the kind of test double I'm talking about
Yes, but anyone with the alarm system and not just the doorbell usually gets it. It's only $10/mo, far less than the $40-60 you pay for ADT etc.
> Move fast and break things, especially the law.

I prefer to say "innovating on the regulatory side". ;)

https://youtu.be/Ysh9ILpvBpg?t=5m15s
A new Python high-performance compiler that could compete with Mojo before it even releases.
This archive is especially a treasure. The sound effects library here is very comprehensive for its time. Foley artists and musicians can save themselves a ton of money by using this library instead of yet another rent-seeking cloud service that parcels out samples instead of allowing one to acquire them permanently and in bulk.
I think it's pretty disingenuous to suggest that I "tarred all opposition as criminals". Still I admit my wording could have been better, please see follow-up: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/Ux5h_....

> If he can’t differentiate between “negative feedback, delivered abusively” and “negative feedback, delivered forcefully” then he should not be someone involved in this decision-making process.

Have you ever managed a large team of people? If so, do you think a good manager would really tell people that part of their job is to accept threats of physical abuse?
Listen at your peril. Once you hear it, you can't unhear it.
This articulates really well all the things I don't like about Spotify.

I've always been someone that reads liner notes and researches a band I like and I really hate when I hear a cool song and want to listen to the rest of the album or more from the same band but Spotify forces me into some bland anonymous algorithmic playlist. I'm happy for the algorithm to show me things but I want to actually know what I'm listening to and listen to a whole album at a time.

What's even more frustrating is that Plexamp is stealing all of Spotify's design cues and has similar algorithmic playlist creation. I do get more control over sticking with the same band but it doesn't always respect this setting and it still tries to give me anonymous playlists I didn't ask for. It is my library and I have a decent familiarity with what's in it, but I use Plexamp
specifically to avoid all the things I hate with Spotify instead of just a private Spotify.

I never thought about Spotify's search feature being shitty on purpose but it makes perfect sense. Despite all this and how terribly it treats artists I still pay for premium because of peer pressure, so I can share Spotify links with friends and play Music League.

Every time I've tried to explain my reasons for barely using Spotify to them I always sound like an entitled crazy person. I just hope something better replaces it in the near future, since they will never be profitable, but I'm not optimistic.
If you cannot simply explain why I am wrong in a short form context, that is fine, but please think about the possibility that I am right.
Rural does not mean crop loans, and that does not seem to be in the press release. Loans against property is different than a planting loan.
Sam Altman: “Jobs are definitely going to go away, full stop.”
> I have done contracts back to back for 4 or 5 years for the same company, which should show that I don't just jump ship all the time and am able to commit for a long time.

The harsh reality is right now, there are a lot of applicants were for many recent years hiring meant active recruiting so resumes aren't getting the attention that they once did. People aren't going deep dive your history unless you seem like the perfect candidate.

So short stints even mixed with a few long stints aren't going to balance out as you are suggesting in many situations.

What I can recommend to try and soften this, is be more generic, don't list ever single job, but something along the lines of "Various contract based projects from yyyy to yyyy" and bullet point detail the more juicier bits of the contacts.

but admittedly I base this solely on my own experience, so take it with a grain of salt.
"Text was generated by a computer using a means more complex than a trie-traversing spell check algorithm."

Grammarly can get lost too.

Hell, let's exclude things that were written by a committee's input instead of 1-2 professional writers.
To leech, leeching and to be a leecher has been around since people used to download warez. It far predates torrents.

I remember a local sysop in the 80s who ran an Apple II ASCII Express download site with two 5.25” floppy drives. You’d write him a text message and save it as a file. He was a cab driver and he’d come back home once in awhile and check the messages. If you were lucky he’d put your requested software in the second drive and maybe you’d check back in time before he fulfilled someone else’s request.
We are so back.
UV Index Scale
It occurred to me, perhaps a difference is that price point of restaurant isn't full of megachains in Europe? In the land of cookie-cutter strip malls, buying into heavily corporatised consumerism in the presence of more 'authentic' options is responsible for part of the stigma of such places.

In Australia at least where there are some chains for casual/fast food but not so much for restaurants, I haven't sensed this stigma because that dining niche is occupied by the local hotel's restaurant or a pub with low to no pretenses but a decent to quite good meal.
https://imgur.com/a/1FfrfyU
Did you read the rest of the thread? Plenty of really good constructive yet forceful feedback on that thread which I was applauding and celebrating.
It's what drives me nuts about "300 miles is more than enough".

Consider:

- batteries lose, best case, about 10-20% of max range over a typical car ownership period

- not charging to the max is very often important to not getting bad degradation, so take another 10% off

- winter can take 10-20% range off

- driving at typical speed as opposed to the alleged ratings is probably another 10-20% reduced range

- headwinds, air conditioning/heating, and other factors can remove another 10-20%.

So suddenly, some 300 mile rated range is actually 150 miles of real world range. So here in the midwest, with underinvested charging infrastructure and biiiiiiggggg states and rural density, a 400 mile range really is pretty much required for any functional long distance driving.
How would you reconcile

The Industrial Revolution was the transition from creating goods by hand to using machines. Its start and end are widely debated by scholars, but the period generally spanned from about 1760 to 1840.

and

It was only after many failed attempts that, in 1807, the slave trade in the British Empire was abolished. However, slaves in the colonies (excluding areas ruled by the East India Company) were not freed until 1838 – and only after slave-owners, rather than the slaves themselves, received compensation.

coupled with the knowledge that the early industrial revolution was very much driven by the mass scaling up of processing the raw materials of the slave trade (cotton, sugar, flax, etc) via power sources, driveshafts, and machines operated by people very much in slave like conditions (not technically slaves but effectively locked into dismal work conditions with no real options for many to leave).
I remember hearing about the case (in Afghanistan?) where US prison guards found that inmates were writing in Qurans to pass messages. They burned the involved books, which caused outrage in the community. I've wondered how they could have dealt with it in a generally acceptable way. I would think that the primary desecration was writing in the Qurans to begin with.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/userdef...

It appears to be the permission allowing access to this API. Based on the description, it sounds like this is how you access the user’s preferences (preferred measurement units, default playback speed, etc)

Maybe it could be used for fingerprinting users? But also, this seems pretty innocuous to me.
Kind of looks like you’d need to stick your head on top of the toilet while flushing to be affected.
The other day someone asked me if I watched a TV show on television. I realised I haven’t watched any TV in over a year.
I’ve just come from Bogotá where the tap water was said to be drinkable. I still bought bottled but didn’t see many/any other locals carrying water, or shops selling it particularly cheap. I’m in Cartagena now and I don’t think the tap water is drinkable. I also see more shops with crates of bottled water. In general I think the answer is “it depends”.
Wow very neat. I had not seen this before. Thanks!
Modifying your own machine’s kernel does not make you “inauthentic,” it makes you a worthy heir to a line of clever tool-users.
Even though we have MyQ and have integrated it into Alexa (and was part of the Resideo system we got when we bought the house), my wife and I still use the old school remotes in our car, and we have keypad access as well (which is the same technology Liftmaster has used for 20+ years)