skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The context the author was working in was a large corporation with a demanding collection of services that needed to be managed. Many of the tools to manage those servers were written in Python, since many people know it, it was already widely used at the org, it had good support for C++ interop (also widely used at the org), and Java was found to be really clunky for sysadmin tooling.

I've seen both sides of it- I worked in the same sub-org as Jos, and my very first job was cleaning up a large pile of incredibly important and variable-quality Python code used to manage a fleet of database servers. the code was tools to do useful things like implement failover of the replication master (across ~90-120 shards) from one region to another for maintainence. Or apply schema changes across all those master shards. Or monitor the shards at runtime.

At times, the code would Exception (literally, crash with a Python exception) during the middle of an important but routine maintainence, and the migration would be half-done. I was hired- literally, this was my job- to add tests to the code until it was much more reliable. Working on that convinced me that rather than type-safety (which is nice, and can be used optionally in python), high test quality and high test coverage of paths used in production were more important to keep the code running smoothly.

I just wish Python hadn't made strings a sequence type, as one of the most common errors at the org was accidentally e m a i l i n g e v e r y s i n g l e letter in a To: string. IE, if it was "To: bore-sre@stoogle.com", then b@, o@, r@, e@, etc, would all get an email saying "Process failed..." And r@ would reply (because he's rob pike) saying "your python program has a bug...."
I purchased this from amazon: Express Water – Countertop Reverse Osmosis Water Filtration System – 4 Stage RO Water Filter with Faucet – Simple Set Up Faucet Filter
Currently $121 Amazon

We were taking bottles to Publix and filling them.

We use this to dispense water: Drinking Water Dispenser Pump, Automatic Electric Drinking Water Bottle Pump for 1-5 Gallon Water Jugs, USB Rechargeable with 2 Switch Control, Stable and Portable for Home, Kitchen, Office, Camping

We were tired of planning trips. We also had set up an Aquarium, but the local water turned out to be VERY hard and high PH.

The water comes out slowly as there is no pressure based bladder. We have a new house and in a spare bathroom I fill the bottles. Bottles sit in bathtub in case I forget ...

After 5 months, very happy with the solution. We use 3 gallon bottles (Walmart - they have 2 styles square and round, prefer our round ones), as the 5 gallon ones were a bit of a chore to lug around.
It's been a while, and overall I'd like them to succeed, but here are the first issues I remember.

The fact that scoped elements are not yet part of the standard is quite a turn off. Every web component is global and the first one that uses a name wins. Even if you are not competing with third party libraries you will need to have multiple versions of your same component very soon to handle breaking changes.

The string only passing is an headache when you'd like to pass object/functions to compare later on.

The fact that some CSS properties can bleed in the shadow Dom, while others don't.

To introduce them into an existing codebase you need support, and last time I checked the support from React was clunky
This is good, albeit very late.

I already consider the telephone to be an unusable form of communication due to the amount of unwanted and unsolicited calls that I receive.

Telephony is completely and totally dead to me, now.
Wealthy individuals already pay a far lower rate of tax on their income from investments than employees do on earned income.

For a single filer in 2023 the standard deduction is $13,850. After that income is taxed differently.

Income tax rates for single filer earned income (excludes social security tax of 6.2% each for employee and employer up to $160,200):

10% $0 to $11,000

12% $11,000 to $44,725

22% $44,725 to $95,375

24% $95,375 to $182,100

32% $182,100 to $231,250

35% $231,250 to $578,125

37% $578,125 or more

Long term capital gains tax rates paid on most investment income (excludes 3.8% NIIT of 3.8% for those with income over $200,000):

0% $0 to $41,675

15% $41,676 to $459,750

20% $459,750 or more

It's perfectly possible for a flat tax to be far more progressive than the tax system today, though its rate would be far higher than 20%.

The highest effective marginal tax rates are often faced by those on lower incomes as the various transfer programs (earned income tax credit, medicare, healthcare subsidies, etc.) have uncoordinated phase outs. In 2012 it was particularly egregious and effective marginal rates approached 100% for those earning around $20,000. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2012/11/taxes-and-cliffs....

Personally I think it would make more sense for everyone to pay a flat tax of say 50% paired with a basic income for all (including children) and publicly funded healthcare.
As I said, IANAL. Sorry, I'm not following. This stuff breaks my brain.

> No criminal charge against the owner is required because criminal punishment isn’t sought...

Are you saying these "Robin Hood" style civil forfeitures are simply not legal (constitutional)? Vs some kind of cunning legal hack?
Cool! When I asked my eye doctor, he didn't have that term for me, but he did agree that the brain is pretty amazing.
Sci-Fi Masterpieces That Blew My Mind
Wow 250T is pretty high. Was that measured or extrapolated?
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, seems pretty spot-on given their track record...
> First, they amortize the cost of home charging infrastructure over 5 years, but personally, that's not how I think about those costs. When I'm comparing prices between cars, I'm considering the home charging as a one-time upfront cost. Once I've paid that cost it's not part of my ongoing costs to fuel the car.

Eeeehhhhhh... I don't think it's unfair.

The way I think of it would be capital cost to operating cost break even point. If it costs me $X install the equipment, but reduces my per distance operating costs, eventually at some point in the saved operating costs will overtake the initial upfront costs and you're outright saving money. Until that point through you're still technically behind in what you paid though.

I do think it's really weird to try and include it in a per KM operating costs as they did though. That's about as twisted up as Tesla saying the real cost of a car is the purchase price - the gas you don't burn price.

But at the same time, ignoring the cost of it is also weird to me as well if you want to talk about total cost of ownership. Once you've hit that break even, sure, but until then, eh.
If I have a random picture, video, text - it's not easy at all to verify its authenticity. Hopefully a media organization has it, but even then are there any services I can use to validate? Definitely not family/personal media, any media that wasn't reported on by a large organization with the ability to manage large archives of data.

I'm saying this is going to become increasingly important fast, and we may miss the window where now almost everything not properly indexed by a large media organization is invalidated as there is no way to verify it.

I have a picture of Frank Sinatra at Disney World riding the tea cups. Who is the Frank Sinatra media authority that can tell me if this ever happened or not? A very small example to extrapolate from. It's going to get worse when everyone can create audio/video/pictures/text of anything they can dream.

The past may very well become a fictional dream, mythology, most of it impossible to verify.
Don't just tell people what to do. Help them understand why they want to do it and how it's good for them (and everyone). You'll be much happier with the results

#friendgineers #purpose #alignment
People don’t see industrial meat as a key cause of global warming
More recent 3- and 4-year Phase 3 CheckMate metastatic non-small cell lung cancer trial results were also good, if less dramatic.

ESMO summary: https://dailyreporter.esmo.org/european-lung-cancer-congress...

4-year trial PR: https://news.bms.com/news/details/2023/Four-Year-Outcomes-fr...

3-year trial abstract: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.8521
good Lord, when did things get to be like this? if I shipped a free web framework with opt-out telemetry, I'd feel like a massive douche
I can't remember the last time I _wanted_ to pickle something. Parquet and JSON pretty much cover it for me. I guess pickling made more sense before tools like Pydantic were good and popular?

If I want all the python-specific nuance on disk, I know I'm in a bad place!
- It was naive to think a simple recipe was going to play out with everyone getting what they wanted easily when they tried to follow it.

- It's still a huge deal if the manufacturing is as easy as it appears to be, even if most of the replication attempts aren't getting _quite_ the right thing. It's hilarious if room temperature superconductors were always "Put these two things in a lucifer furnace and roll a die" away.
Isn't Apple known for demoing pre release versions of everything on stage?

I think that fairly counts as a "marketing ploy"? Apple is so good at it that folks that folks don't even realize what is happening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVthxoS6H9k
Although it may work brilliant minds in the Perl community such as Lincoln Stein and Randall Schwartz spent a significant amount of their career in the late 90s hunting down all the edge cases you're probably unaware of and produced CGI.pm. You can still learn a lot about CGI from this module but your exposure to vulns will be that much lower with something tried and tested.
Cool project, I might recommend ordering the language list alphabetically
The population levels of threatened species is a straightforward model with predictive value unlike the climate models. One issue with the climate models the algorithm frequently changes, not all inputs are accounted for, measurement problems & factors introduced (the 1930s thermometer measurements were higher than the equal thermometer measurements today but factored to be lower in the model), and the length of natural cycles (many are longer than modern instrumentation & some last > 1000 years).

The most outlandish sensationalist claims grab mainstream attention (no snow by 2020) and when the predictions turn out not to be true, the advocates retreat to "well it was never a mainstream model". Classic Motte & Bailey. So in this case, the models that predict doom & gloom in the mid-term future saturate the media (Bailey) and when the predictions turn out to be false, it was claimed to never be a mainstream model (Motte).

If it's not a mainstream model, why are news outlets scaring the population with these fringe models? Even the IPCC director is chiding the doomsayers to not be so extreme in their prognostications.

Weather reports now use scary red color schemes to represent highs when a few years ago, higher highs were represented with a sun & blue color scheme. News coverage of heat outweigh coverage of summer time record lows & record sized hail in the mid US & Europe.
Sync is back on the Play Store, but it's not a third-party Reddit app anymore
What? You can return Exceptions instead of raising them. Since the language is dynamic, the caller can introspect.

Personally, from the perspective of a number parsing function, I think being passed an unparseable number counts as an "exceptional" situation- InvalidArgumentError- and I don't care which way it's returned- as an raised exception, or as an error object- as long as it's clearly documented, and the use matches the semantics of the function (NetworkNotAvailable is a better example of an exception where you're want to put something in the exception block)
If this is suggesting that we should write off VR for now and re-evaluate in 2033, then I can get behind that.
Software company VS hardware company. That's it.

Meta needs as many people using their products to show ads and earn money, that's all there is to it.
This is the closest I would get to watching Rick & Morty's Interdimensional cable TV :)

Interesting concept!
Your link is missing.

Also, cement is not very sustainable because of CO2 emissions.
Yet another post complaining about Stripe's policies while being vague about the nature of their business. It's a meme at this point.
But you actually don't have a proof you solved these tasks! Where is the arxiv preprint? Make sure all LaTeX is syntactically correct, and double-check that your chosen citation style is according to its latest edition!
i don't have kids. if i did, i don't think i'd reject unknown callers like this.

but for my life, it works.
That's exactly what GP is talking about, the 'guesswork' comes in when you upscale as a function of only the downsampled version.
The thing is that borax (a boron compound) is a cumulative poison.

Keep up adding that boron to your water over a lengthy period and it's curtains. There is a reason that borax is used to kill ants and other creepie-crawlies.
You sure do have a LOT to say about Audible, despite demonstrating here a clear lack of understanding of how the service works, its market position, how much it charges, and so on.

JAQing off in defense of a monopolist is a bad look.
Thanks - yeah that probably makes more sense!
By the way, another nice thing about python is that you can force your program to drop into a debugger with an interactive shell at runtime- and inspect/print objects. In today's complex world of generic types, it can often be hard to see exactly which method is handling your data.
Sad, trying to fight politicians and DA capitalizing on moral panic.
AppleTV sales were estimated at 10M units/year a decade ago - https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/apple-tv-longer-h...
Still small numbers for Apple!

Weird semantics on so far vs lifetime.. it's the same thing.

Meta and Apple are targeting different markets and you can tell by Apple's product videos.

To me, Meta is entrenched in the currently gamer centric VR market. I call it this because 100% of the people I know who have been excited by VR over the last 10 years have been young, single, male gamers. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, but the marketing & people excited about the product, to me, seem to align there.

Apple doesn't even call it VR because they are trying to target a much wider market.
"Nobody should make you feel bad about being able to live a decent life"

I agree. Nobody _should_ make you feel bad about life choices. However, that has no bearing on the truth behind the OP, which is a statement concerning the effectiveness of volunteers vs employees.
Meta acquired Occulus and so far have released only a single popular product.

And no one other than yourself thinks that the Mac Pro is going to be a wild success. It's a highly niche product with the Mac Studio being the mainstream version.
Would a renter be under the same obligation?
The audible drm is also pretty trivially stripped if you actually care about such things. It aint exactly AACS.
Right. The prototypes work. It’s R&D.

We have no idea when, or if, this will end up in a shipping product. If they were to imply it’s a real product (didn’t read that clearly) it’s vaporware.

The Vision Pro was announced. Has a release date (within a quarter), a full public SDK & simulator. They have started the hands on labs for developers around the world this week.

That’s not vaporware. If it is every movie that’s been announced + shot but not released is.

The modern Apple (post Jobs return) had what, one product that was announced but didn’t come out? The AirPower. And that was a real product they were in the final stages of (best I understand) but hit insurmountable safety issues. Not “hey we’re thinking this will be a thing one day”, but a failed product launch that didn’t make it to market after multiple attempts to fix it in the final stages.

Apple doesn’t announce vaporware.
Avatar 3 merchandise will definitely include floating rocks of Unobtanium.
For the record I'm in the reflection of reality camp. I think the simulation camp is silly.
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> without begging people for support

That is a framing issue. How else do you want to get support? If you find a marketing person to glam it up, and have people come to you wanting support you instead of you going to them. The end result is the same though - you're being supported.

If I had something I think could change the world, I'd beg, borrow, and steal whatever I needed, just to get the equipment to be able to get the patent on it.
> North Korea isn't an alliance of the most powerful nations in the world with leading scientific and military capability.

> Moreover, at the time an atomic bomb wasn't science fiction.

After the original Hiroshima bombing the principle reaction of the Japanese government was surprise. The Japanese were well aware of the idea of nuclear weapons, but believed they would be impractically large like the Germans did - i.e. on the order of 10 tons of uranium needed for one bomb, and were surprised the US had that much.

> And if North Korea did indeed demonstrate a space laser that could obliterate a city in a fraction of a second, you'd better believe the US would stand up and take notice, for that matter.

But again: what would make the US believe it? Footage of the thing? Camera trickery was known in 1945. Firing it at field? You can fake that by pre-planting explosives/incendiaries. With modern technology the US might be able to observe the satellite, the laser, and the damage altogether but with the technology of 1945 how would any of this have been communicated?

> The US also was known to airdrop pamphlets encouraging civilian evacuation of cities; civilians weren't a total non-concern.

> if the Americans said, "we've succeeded in developing one and intend to use it to destroy your cities unless you surrender"

The Potsdam declaration[1] said what was coming, just not the scale.

The US also dropped pamphlets on Hiroshima telling civilians to leave[2] and showing pictures of the first detonation. They were ignored.

[1] https://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/etc/c06.html

[2] https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/warning-leaf...
Well, son of a gun. If you go to their site from the link on Mastodon, https://asahilinux.org/2023/08/fedora-asahi-remix/ HN is "blocked" with extreme prejudice (if you don't turn javascript off)

https://i.ibb.co/mD3Qc6n/fhn.jpg

I'll gladly edit or delete this reply if it's just amplifying some bullshit. In fact, I have never seen anything of this sort, and just being curious, I'm not curious any more about Fedora Asahi Remix.
What Goes Around Comes Around [pdf]
Carbon capture technology goes under the waves
> greenfielding just-JavaScript, though

There are still some frameworks that let you write fancy front-ends without a build-step and associated tooling. And there's people like me who prefer those since they meet our needs.
Building Video into Your App
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...

>The order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved and a message is delivered once and remains available until a consumer processes and deletes it.

>In addition, FIFO queues support message groups that allow multiple ordered message groups within a single queue. There is no quota to the number of message groups within a FIFO queue.
My main takeaway from Bostrom's Superintelligence is that a super intelligent AI cannot be contained. So, the slippery slope argument, often derided as a bad form of logic, kind of holds up here.
> However, the idea of "You can add a chapter to this, call it your own, and sell it" and I won't legally come after you is absurd.

The only part of this that seems legally problematic is copying and redistributing the part that you wrote. If I wanted to buy 10,000 copies of A Game of Thrones so I could staple my fanfiction to the back and sell it on Etsy, there is no legal precedent suggesting I could be stopped. It is a lawful transformation of a legally licensed product, payed for in-full and redistributed in accordance with it's individual license. Absent any extenuating contracts between the owner and seller, I don't see what legal ground you would have to stand on.

> and if the results of said legal pursuit result in you being bankrupt...what was the phrase you used, "then so be it."

"if" indeed. Let's check in with the Author's Guild and see how this fight is going: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/authorsguild-go...
Heh. I don't know about "people" but I work to get paid and I picked my job because I enjoy the nature of the work. Not that I oppose doing things to improve or benefit society but why would I even want to devote my life to doing jobs that don't pay well or that I don't enjoy?

I'd rather donate to people who enjoy doing things that benefit society so they can have a good quality of life.

Ultimately you owe yourself and your dependents a quality life well lived. If that means volunteering in places filled with ungrateful or resentful people (most places), then I can only say I wish I was more like you.

I wonder though, is it people with kids or who plan on having kids that value social contributions so much?
'Galculator' because I often use hex calculations.

I found my hardware calculator the other day and I seriously considered throwing it out.
Anyone got the heart to say all drugs and alcohol are bad and should be banned everywhere? No one? Reminder: Alcohol is a known carcinogen and a toxin as classified by WHO, and drug use frequently ruin people’s entire lives, as well as killing them! The obvious yet unthinkable fact that drugs, alcohol, and many other things are more often than not merely distracting yourself from your problems? Still no one? Oh, come on, folks! Really? <more silence…> Sigh. I guess everyone are addicts of something.
No it's not valuable at all. I'm just replying to a person who got particularly upset by it and seemed to take it seriously. Just ignore them or downvote and move on.
The study has 75% of the EV charging done at commercial chargers at $0.42/kwh. And it also calculates as part of the cost, 12 hours at $33/hour for your time spent driving to, and waiting for, the commercial chargers.
I remember when audiobooks from the library were literally books on tape. You'd get a giant binder with like 20 cassettes tapes in it. I think the biggers one were also split up, so you could checkout, say, 10 hours worth at a time.
Would love to peruse a couple example repos for learning if you can share some public links.
I would like to read more about the circumstances surrounding the memo that the DOJ was successful in preventing from entering as evidence.
As long as political orgs, including the major parties, rely on robocalling of the vilest sort to raise their funds, don't expect Congress to pass any meaningful legislation.
> and there is a third kind of people:

> those that tried VR some time ago, enjoyed the gimmicky novelty back then, lost interest, increasingly don't bother with further gimmicky

Additionally there also exists a fourth kind of people: those who planned and would love to do cool experiments (hacks) with the VR devices, but became deeply disappointed by the fact that in particular Meta (but now also Apple) rather decided to turn their devices into golden cages (in the case of Meta with the intention of including surveillance functionality).