skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just completely missing the point of threads... but that wouldn't be the first nor the hundreds stupid thing found in Python's documentation.

The reason to want threads is to be able to share memory. That's literally why they were created. If you are sending messages instead of sharing memory, you don't need threads. You need something like Erlang processes.

The problem is that people who wrote Python never had a plan. They sucked and still suck as programmers. So... they knew there are threads. And it was easy to write a bunch of wrappers around pthreads. And that's what they did. And then they realized they don't know how to deal with concurrency, so they found a simple way out -- GIL.

The whole history of Python is the history of choosing the easy but wrong. And it's probably the only consistent thing about the language.
Aye. For someone building in AI, it's been a heart wrenching few months. Very few know what they're talking about.
> If weed is illegal and the law is enforced then fewer people will use it and fewer will become addicted.

This isn't really a useful place to start thinking about law and policy from, because the one thing that we have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt is we're bad at enforcing the law as it relates to drug usage.
>> For a community that is so gate-kept through imaginary Internet points, there is an incredible amount of disrespect on the forums not through just voting, but also through people commenting, such as people passive-aggressively calling you dumb.

>I don't see this as a passive aggressive calling the poster dumb, but rather an attempt at understanding the shape of the problem.

If you are asking a question on SO, you probably lack the knowledge to understand why a person wouldn't want to use $whatever. So adding a simple contextual clarification ("Public fields are generally frowned upon, as they violate the OO encapsulation principle. So, why are your using public fields here?").

Because there is so much nuance lost in text, some people have (and I think rightly) come to understand that when statements or questions are directed at an individual, the more concise you are, the less respectful the statement or question is. Something like "I don't care enough about you to clarify my intent at all"

The followup, where they say "use a decent IDE" presupposes that the person asking the question isn't. Indeed, this sentence here

>You're making your own life (and the life of your coworkers) difficult (as shown by your question).

reveals that we really shouldn't give this person the benefit of the doubt. If I was an e.g. wikipedia editor removing too much personal flair, the only sentence I'd keep is

>This is anti-OO (encapsulation), doesn't respect standard practices, makes your code inconsistent, and unusable by all the standard frameworks and libraries which expect standard Java Beans conventions to be respected.
um... unclear? you can provide a new answer to the old question and have it bubble up via votes. Does not change other issues though.
Some of us, no matter how much coffee we drink, do not feel withdrawal.

I have found the only thing with me is not drinking coffee after about 3pm. It can make sleeping harder.
As far as I know yes. From personal experience you can just `cd ..` your way out to the top parent directory and see all the orgs which use the system. I could see MIT and JPL(?) users from my cmu account and you can view the other users for each org (at least for MIT and for some of the other unis, I could never get the JPL stuff to load.) You can view the usernames and their public folder but nothing else.

There's also a lot of content from previous CMU classes. It was interesting to stumble upon some older 15151 course material which used some programming to prove certain theorems. They don't do this anymore (I'm not sure they even did this in the first place) and I'm assuming even for CMU CS students, expecting them to be able to programmatically prove theorems in a freshman class is a bit much. Cool stuff to root around in.
Is it just me, or is this completly broken on mobile?
Haha not Windows 10 :) Actually it was Windows XP... I cannot remember which Service Pack, but I believe it is the second. One day I'll try NetBSD on it...
Elon Musk to Split Leadership on Key Teams at X with Linda Yaccarino: Report
> is that I am strictly a mono-tasker

I'm somewhat similar. If there's tv/music playing, I have a hard time working. I believe it's because my brain get hooked/sucked into the current song and kinda sings along internally (if it has lyrics) and grabs my full attention.

However if I'm listening to electronica (no vocals, e.g. progressive trance), I can listen to it while working. The way I reason this, is it's like my river of thoughts is moving faster.

Yeah this sounds a bit weird/strange. Maybe my brain is wired differently (I suspect it might be a spectrum thing).

I'm curious if it's a type of music or you've tried electronica while trying to work?
One thing that’s bothering me - the story text says it’s 32 bn kilometres from earth but looking it up it appears to be about 19 bn kilometres. Which is it?
I was waiting for someone to post this clip (was just searching the thread before I did it as well). It's all I could think of when setting the article.
And blankets. My dad did marketing for a bank years ago. We have lots of blankets (!). I don't remember the toaster as I do the blankets, but I do know they were premiums.
I suspect that BASIC may have got a bad reputation in the same way as PHP or JavaScript did, where the accessibility of the language and infrastructure around it allows people who just want to achieve a specific goal to easily participate.

That influx of people with the attitude of "I don't care how computers work, I just want to know enough to solve my problem" shifts the stereotypes around those language users and may erroneously put the fault of it onto the language itself. It certainly feels that way during hiring, where it seems like developers of vastly differing skill or aptitude tend to cluster heavily around certain "friendly" languages.
My personal pet theory is that it's in the kinetic energy of relative motion of galaxies.

The standard way of looking at things is that galaxies are roughly locally stationary and spacetime between them just inflates. But you could take the opposite look, which someone told me has exactly the same mathematical representation, that galaxies are moving away due to their kinetic energy and sort of drag along the spacetime between them, stretching it.

Also I'm not sure about matter-antimatter asymetry. We might be just in a place that locally had a little more matter than antimatter initally. This place might even be the size of the observable universe but we don't know how small part of entire universe is the observable universe. The thesis about matter and matter asymetry comes from the fact that we kinda assume that initially universe was pure energy. But we really can't tell. And everything that doesn't check out in cosmology might be the result of initial conditions being slightly different than the simplest ones we assume.
It's not corruption; people in power don't want nuclear, and so the industry is regulated into its current quagmire. No other industry faces moving goalposts like nuclear does.

The USA can move mountains if it really wants to. But as it stands, the country is doing everything it can to keep that mountain right where it is.
I think that any drug/substance that changes your mode of thinking has the potential to create mental health problems. I also think those mental problems were latent or even fully present when the user chooses to try a new chemical/drug. Trying to fill a void or fix a mental issue using chemicals doesn't usually work out too well, and I think it exacerbates the problems. You might get a little "mental vacation" from your problems, but when you sober up, those issues are often worse because you decided to ignore them. This is what leads to addiction, chasing the ability to cover up your issues by making yourself dead inside, or changing your mode of thinking to ignore what is really going on deep down.

I'm a believer that psychedelics, including Marijuana, can be helpful. It really depends on the circumstances of why you are using the chemical, and what your intentions are going into the experience.
Barbie yes ... but what about tons of others released mid may til now. Last summer in 2022 many movies made well over 100 million. So the pandemic?

Also Youtube is the most used streaming app followed by TikTok ... how many are watching for free? See Google results for this data https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=are%20people%20using%2...

My thoughts are based on the data above, other similar data Ive seen, my own shortening attention span and these years lackluster box-office compared to 2022 (movies from 2022 that opened above and or well above 100 million https://www.boxofficepro.com/the-top-10-movies-of-2022-at-th...)

To me Hollywood needs to worry even more so the writers, actors and etc ... a younger demographic the future's attention span looks to be elsewhere and they aren't paying to watch their media.
The US Navy builds many reactors for the price of this power plant.

A Virginia class submarine in 2023 costs $4.3 billion (that's for the whole submarine), it has a 210MW S9G reactor.

The Vogtle Unit 3 was $17 billion over budget, for a $30 billion total budget, for 1,100 MW.

$204MM / MW for the US Navy vs $273MM / MW for Georgia Power et. al.

This project makes nuclear submarines look like a bargain!

Sources:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_submarine

* https://apnews.com/article/georgia-power-co-southern-climate...
Thank you! That’s very helpful to know. First time I’ve even heard of things like this but when using low quality networks I can see how this would be great!
Apparently that's what they're doing: https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1684960318718406656
There is also the wrong uses of the tech. Some people think you can train a model with any amount of data you may have and that the model will be useful somehow.
There’s a SaaS company in Brazil which has a solution for recruitment that is a text book case of bad usage of machine learning. Not going to mention them here, but their “resume matching by AI” is completely bonkers because of that.
But, enterprise don’t care if it works, it just needs to have this bullet point so the HR director can say he implemented a selection tool powered by AI on her next presentation.
That would mean it's insanely difficult to reproduce.
I don't think it's that.

The real problem is that the BBC must be in a position whereby, should the government decide to link TV license and BBC access in a hard way, or (god forbid) fully privatise the service, they can flip a switch and make it so. So everything has to be behind a registration wall.

They have been under 13 years of pressure from Tory governments, run by friends of Murdoch, who don't believe in free knowledge and public broadcasting; the BBC had to be seen to go in the general direction of preparing for de-facto privatisation. This is the result.
It never fails to amaze me how many people comment on Problem A: "Why aren't we paying more attention to Problem B?"

As though all the people who struggle with marijuana use need to wait in line, and all the world's experts on substance abuse wasted their money getting a degree in something other than nutritional science.

By the way, you're clearly fine minimizing the suffering of people struggling with marijuana use by calling them "pot heads", why not stay consistent and call people struggling with weight problems "fatties"?
"echo *" just prints "*" on bash unfortunately.
> They will instead generally pursue arts/crafts

Didn’t we have this experiment during Covid where many people found themselves being paid, sometimes for 2 years, to just wait till their job comes back? I don’t think many became artists (surely, some did). But there were also a lot of stories of increased depression, addiction, and despair.

I’m not saying it’s better to do a bullshit job that getting paid to do nothing. I’m just saying it doesn’t seem to be as simple.
Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux
It could be worse, you could've been playing that weird, racist Atari game named "Custer's Revenge."
Because every house has a single, unchangeable IP...?

You clearly never worked in an ISP.
> If ChatGPT kills Stack Overflow and Reddit/Twitter block API access, where will it gets its answers from?

nowhere, they are cannibalizing their own source of data. They own Github so that's helpful, but still mostly just code, not a whole lot of discussion.
From the Bitcoin whitepaper: "A common solution is to introduce a trusted central authority ... The problem with this solution is that the fate of the entire money system depends on the company"

The vision of course did not include centralized authorities, it's counter to the entire purpose. We already have had digital banks, crypto is not about having digital convenience. It's not the "exchange" part that wasn't envisioned, it's the "centralized" part, because that is the same thing as a bank. That's what the SEC (rightly) made their case on with Coinbase and others. Bitconnect, FTX, Coinbase... that kind of thing was not envisioned originally and is counter to the whole concept and purpose of crypto.
How about addiction or mental health treatment center patient, possibly involuntarily? Throwing someone in prison is not the only possible state intervention.
Thanks for the link - I’ll check it out tonight.
Ideally there should be a few storefronts you can viably choose from as a provider of goods or services.

For example, I can walk to a Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, SuperValu, and Spar from where I live, there are a bunch of clothing shops relatively close, phone shops, off-licenses, computer shops, etc. etc. And all that in a town of ~25,000 people.

It's kind of unusual that for a lot of online stuff there's so little choice, especially from the seller's perspective: it's "Etsy or bust" (or "Amazon or bust", "YouTube or bust", "Android or bust", etc.)
... Huh, never knew Netflix was that old. That's less than a year after DVDs were released!

Interestingly, Netflix has its origins in a... more typical dot-com-era story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Software
I love edibles but think smoking should be banned in public. It smells so horrible, it's a pollution in NYC.
> Open is its own area, proprietary general models are a race to zero vs OpenAI and Google who are non-economic actors.
Agreed

> Make models usable is really valuable
Sure... but is there really a moat here? Seems like OSS can address "making models usable" and without lockin from a startup.
My list also includes some light research on when various brands tanked their quality either for profit or to keep their price stable under inflation. Lava Lamp, for example did it in 2003.
I've even seen small VPS hosts have discount plans if you turn off the v4 address.
There is a pretty good evidence that making a drug illegal may reduce usage rates, but it does this at the costs of increasing the amount that is used in a sitting. This increase in binging leads to a higher rate of addiction and ODs. So while you might argue that the number of people using can decrease, this is often paired with an increase in the overall harm that drug abuse has on society (even before you account for the harm caused by treating drug abuse with jail time.)
Disability straight up laughed at me. I should have gotten a lawyer, but I couldn’t think straight or effectively communicate for a couple of years.
In Firefox it’s possible to disable behavior of visited links, thus mitigating this. Go to `about:config` and set `layout.css.visited_links_enabled` to true.

If you do this, beware this from the PoC when testing:

> Additionally, I included some fake squares to catch if visitors are trying to spoof their results.
With Bootcamp on the Intel MacBooks, Apple supplied trackpad drivers that made it about as good. There was also an open source trackpad driver that you could install.
BASIC is explicitly a beginner's language. It may not be the best design for advanced programming, but as an instructional tool for someone who doesn't even know what a program is, it's almost second to none. The lessons it teaches are profound: that programs are ordered sequences of instructions that computers can follow, that control flow can involve branching, loops, and conditionals and what those are, and the rudiments of breaking out a program into subroutines. This is a real mindblow for people who've never actually programmed before -- it means they can make the machine do what they want, even very sophisticated (from their perspective) things. It's only when you've seen better -- Algol, Pascal, Lisp -- that BASIC seems miserably wrong in comparison.

As for Dijkstra -- arrogance in computer science is measured in nanodijkstras.
Ginger shots made at home with some orange juice or apple juice help a lot.
Overpass turbo – a web-based data filtering tool for OpenStreetMap
The main appliances (Google, Amazon) already go through a pre-installed BBC app to serve their content.
Ah, interesting. I completely abandoned diff style updates in favour of AST substitution, but that was only possible because my tradeoffs are different to yours.

I'm building a bot that's building itself, so it doesn't have to support large legacy code bases with different languages.
This is... great... A part of me loves it... but I agree with the author, there's significant possibility for data gathering if someone were able to find a way to convince people to go through these regularly -- boxes probably would raise a question mark to visitors (but worked perfectly fine as a POC).
> every Tom Dick and Harry starting an "AI Startup"

Producthunt has basically become that these days, none of it is inspirational nor value adding, just constant "X but with AI"
Is any ISP actually providing users with no v4 access? I've never heard of this. It's always that they provide v6 and then some kind of CGNAT or bridging service so that v4 still works.
I get funny looks when I go walk (say a 90min) the dog, without my phone (so no podcasts/music). I find it really helps me solve tech problems.

I think my brain is always trying to tell me what to do, if I just STFU for a bit. Also I find that you pick up on strange/interesting things happening around you if you just observe.
> LLMs are a lot more like a generalized processor than people are admitting right now. Granted you can talk to it, but it becomes significantly more capable when you learn how to program it -- and thats where the value will be added.

So... prompt engineering? They're an extremely inefficient processor though and very prone to error (despite what synthetic benchmarks may show).
Any recommendations for games to play from the list?

Edit: The game titled "Word" is very similar to Wordle.
FWIW another design tried ~15 years ago was humdinger energy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100305210816/http://www.humding...

Later on before they shut down they were selling kids kits of the windbelt idea: https://www.vernier.com/files/kidwind/humdinger_windbelt_man...
Penrose: Create Beautiful Diagrams
Has anyone seen this kind of attack in the wild or are we stuck with increasingly far-fetched blog post examples of someone finding out I've been to google.com?
Man who's lived inside iron lung for 70 years developed new way of breathing
Interesting fact: The government agency responsible for the national roads in New Zealand (i.e. big roads that aren't the responsibility of the local government) is the largest purchaser of native tree seedlings in New Zealand (I can't find a source for this online, but I am reliably informed it's true).

I've seen a lot of motorway berms that were previously grass, converted to native plants. This not only captures carbon, but reduces carbon emissions by taking away the need to mow the grass, and it doesn't require 'new' land.
If I go through the drive-thru, will they make me one, too?
I saw a variation of this idea once with a space game. IIRC you control a ship and asteroids attack you. You shoot the asteroids by clicking on them.

The first trick: the asteroids are actually (in)visible depending on whether you had visited a specific website, same as here. If you clicked on an asteroid that's because you could see it, and now you've revealed that you've visited that website before.

Second trick: these asteroids don't actually hit you - they pass close by (close enough that you want to shoot them) but they don't actually aim at you (to keep you playing as long as possible).
Setting up a VPS is pretty easy. Ensuring your VPS is configured to restart your app when the server restarts, maintaining OS and library updates, maintaining security, updating the app itself with simple-enough conventions, and configuring monitoring is not so necessarily easy. That’s not including documenting (even if only for your own future reference) how things are configured.

Digital Ocean in particular has great guides to get you from the starting line to something that in most cases will work okay, but as a long-term solution to “I have an app I want to run on some infrastructure”, I agree that there’s a non-zero cost to managing a server that, like you, I’d much rather not deal with.
Apparently that's not the case, but I'd expect links to be marked as visited only if I clicked them from that page.
This is not obvious. I would show an icon, maybe a question mark, that explains what it is. Or embed the editor in a regular home page and let users go full screen or open a new window.
And Render also handles distribution Elixir which is impossible on Heroku and a pain to roll yourself. Plus, they have free static/SPAs.
The DSM-5 does not use the terms dependence or addiction as standalone diagnostic categories. It unifies them under the concept of "substance use disorders," describing a spectrum of use and classifying severity based on the number of symptoms present.
> As you say, basically nobody uses Python threads.

Not at all. I'm saying that a sizable portion of Python libraries is completely unaware of threads. But they can still take foreign-own object and operate on them as if threads didn't exist.

So, imagine a simplified hypothetical scenario, where one library has a function for counting keys in a dictionary. This library was written by someone unaware and unwilling to acknowledge thread existence. So, if the dictionary it counts the keys of is modified in a separate thread -- boom! But, third-party code using that library has no easy way of knowing if the library is prepared to deal with threads, and may have been using it for a while, until, again boom!

Now, to make this more concrete: have you ever heard of Boto3, the AWS client library? Well, it does roughly what's described in the paragraph above -- it manipulates a bunch of its own objects in a non-thread-safe way. But, you would really want to use it in threads because that makes it so much easier to manage things like rate-limiting (across multiple clients), and, obviously, you don't want to deploy a large fleet of VMs one-by-one. The end result? -- boom!
Isn't eigendecomposition pretty much the same as exponentiation (Binet's Formula)?

https://artofproblemsolving.com/wiki/index.php/Binet%27s_For...
People always think the world is going to shit and it always gets better. Song as old as time.
Keita Takahashi Created the Katamari Games, but They’re Rolling on Without Him
I wonder if we could get ultra cheap VPSs on CGNAT. You might want to run something which only makes outgoing API connections. Maybe it's just a chatbot or something that doesn't need it's own IP.