skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conservatism has always been opposed to democracy from the moment “conservative” and “liberal” as political labels were created.

At most, they might abandon pretending to support it as cover while working to chip away at the edges when that pretense stops working for them, but that’s not a loss for democracy.
> run a Python function as a UDF

Is that a differentiator? I'm unfamiliar with Snowpark's actual implementation but know SQL Server introduced Python/R in engine in 2016? something like that.
Spicy Takes
Europe, USA and the rest of the world can easily turn into what Russia had become, if certain actions are allowed to take place.

If Trump had his way (change constitution/replace/kill his opposition), we could have authoritarian state in USA in 5-10 years. EASY.

Whats happening in Russia should be a contestant reminder for the rest of the world of what happens when you dont have a system of check and balances. When you dont have functioning legal system. When you dont have freedom of speech / freedom to protest.
> Nature reached out to more than 170,000 scientists who were, or still are, users; nearly 9,200 responded. More than half reported that they have reduced the time they spend on the platform in the past six months and just under 7% have stopped using it altogether. Roughly 46% have joined other social-media platforms, such as Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and TikTok.

7% attrition doesn't seem much. Half using it less than before isn't surprising if the other half are using it same or more than before. 46% joining other social media platforms isn't surprising either - social platforms come and go all the time.

Especially when 90% of those asked didn't answer the survey at all - upset users are probably more likely to respond to the survey.

Basically: I don't think the presented data backs up the sentiment of the headline.
i'm very glad to hear you are finding it useful :)
> I later got an iBook with OS X and loved the new experience, but I always missed (and still do) the look and feel and sounds of the earlier OS.
>
> Simply opening and closing the Control Strip was a joy.

It’s too bad that Classic Mac OS soundsets didn’t make the cut when selecting features to bring over to OS X. I can understand why they might disabled by default but they would’ve been nice to have as an option.

Same for Appearance Manager themes, really. That feature was never really marketed much and many users probably didn’t even know they existed since OS 8.5-9.2 only included Platinum, but it was cool to have theming capabilities on par with the third party Kaleidoscope (which is unparalleled on modern operating systems — not even Linux can compare) built right in, but that’s just not something that could’ve happened worth Jobs at the helm.
I've tried all the new networks, and I get the most engagement on the smallest: T2 Social - There's only 14K users but I routinely get more views, replies, & likes than Twitter/X where I have over 8x the followers.
I'm using this on Windows 11 and it's locking up trying to copy a single cell. As in, here's the entire repro:

1. Open Modern CSV.

2. Open any file.

3. Select any cell.

4. Hit ctrl-c.

Expected: The cell contents would be copied.

Actual: The program becomes completely unresponsive with high CPU usage and must be force-quit.

Happy to help however I can, because so far I really like this product and I want to be using it.
This is definitely as corrupt and not as nuanced as you might think. I recommend the book Cadillac Desert whenever this discussion comes up.

The history of water management and delivery in the American west has been one of corporate greed, regulatory capture, and massive environmental damage in the interest of profits.
The author details all of this dating back to the Dam boom and the Army Corps of Engineers being in cahoots with agro-giants early in the 20th century and damming rivers all over the west with the primary (but not admitted) purpose being cheaper water for corporate farmers.
The most pressing question to me is: Why don't you wear a seat belt? How can humans be that stupid, sparing 1 second of time when entering the car? I really don't understand it.
Articles about these colors never seem to have enough pictures of their usage
Interesting. I understand that "what is not happening" is homophobia, but that "it is good that it is happening"?
Designs for Learning
According to medical professionals I trust, Long Covid is likely to be multiple diseases with multiple causes, and any individual can have some of each.

Autoimmune reactions may be the longest covid; cell/organ damage is another; it is also possible that people may have less-than clinically detectable viral activity, or viral activity in some "pocket".

I'm not a medical professional, this is not medical advice.
take as an example "bytes" as input, with no further parsing or interpretation given to them. with enough input data and enough time spent iterating on it, you might well come out with decent wordlists, instruction sets, and things like that. if you work the statistics on the wordlists they give you some table based stemmer and thesaurus implications too.

if you go in with a trimmed and parsed dataset its harder to get (what i call) introspection pattern recognition from it because you haven't got enough disparate samples to build a decent universe to compare too. what you assume going in stamps its shape on the whole thing.
This was really interesting, thank you. I found myself playing "would i really ignore this color or would i ignore any color given the contrasting castles etc that are drawing your attention" in all the pictures
No, they'll catch it on camera and arrest you for destruction of public property
It is more like 50x.
GPT can understand l33t-speak just fine
Michael Clayton (2007) also deserves an honorary mention, though it's a fictionalized version.

"I am Shiva the god of death."
I think the only reason pen's gratuitous violence stands out is because the tropes and the narrative structure are outdated. a trigger happy scrapper is played for laughs in children's cartoons today, but the joke is telegraphed so that there's no confusion. j.m. barrie instead relies on the reader's ability to keep context in long form.
fun addendum: StepmaniaX doesn't have note receptors because konami's patents for DDR are so broad that the idea of notes scrolling towards a visible note outline is something they can sue you for.

I believe that patent has expired now at this point, but it's the reason StepmaniaX doesn't have receptors.

Similarly this is the reason games like Guitar Hero/Rock Band/ITG have hallway style viewports instead of straight lines. It was to mitigate the patents on having things scroll towards receptors in a straight line.
For now. It's a two-site race to see if Threads will add a web-facing front-end before BlueSky can come out of private beta.
Marijn Haverbeke (CodeMirror/ProseMirror) wrote about the pitfalls of contenteditable:

- https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html

- https://codemirror.net/5/doc/internals.html

Things may be different in 2023. In fact, CodeMirror 6 was designed on top of contenteditable:

> It's underspecified and very hard to implement (and hence, not implemented all that well), but if you know the pitfalls (only some DOM/style structures are well supported, cursors vanish in some circumstances, etc) and avoid them, and implement non-trivial editing commands yourself (because you can't really rely on the browser to get them right), contentEditable is a functional way to represent editable content in the browser.

- https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/17858947

- https://web.archive.org/web/20181109055050/https://codemirro...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20180828134646/https://codemirro...
In my 3 software engineering jobs this has been true in 1 case and thankfully not true in 2 cases. I have extreme difficulty promoting myself in a work environment but I have had good people as bosses enough times that my work hasn't been quietly ignored.
> ethically corrupt to give them views/money

I think it's just become a bad experience. Twitter / X has really just become no fun. I have enough stress in my life without adding the stuff Twitter's algorithm thinks I'm interested in.
Want to pay less for your X ads? Just place them next to spam
“Gilding the Mickey” would be an apt description of this article.
Anything in excess is bad. Having a couple drinks throughout your week is fine, going on a bender and downing 20 drinks one night per week isn’t.

Having a snickers bar is fine if you make it a rare reward, eating several every day isn’t.

Etc etc etc.
Nice, need one for python too.
Real-time generally means near-real-time and even then I liken it to availability.

If asked people would say "I need to always be up" until they see the costs associated with it, then being out for a few hours a year tends to be ok.
> at risk for generating dead CSS

For what it's worth, in SvelteKit CSS is per-component and you get warnings for unused CSS selectors.
As sympathetic to Georgism as I have found myself to be, I still cannot understand why proponents view it as such a panacea. It amounts to shifting property taxes from the improvement on the land to the land itself and ensuring that the tax is high enough to push owners to make use of the land. So the rich, who can afford the ongoing tax rate and can afford to make use of the land by developing it, are the ones that benefit anyways and take it off the market in the same manner as current.
Disclaimer: Snowflake employee here.
You can add any Python library you want - as long as its dependencies are also 100% Python. Takes about a minute: pip install the package, zip it up, upload it to an internal Snowflake stage, then reference it in the IMPORTS=() directive in your Python. I did this with pydicom just the other day - worked a treat.
So yes, not the depth and breadth of the entire Python ecosystem, but 1500+ native packages/versions on the Anaconda repo, plus this technique? Hardly a "walled garden".
I would like to see HN require a comment in order to down vote something.

I think it would encourage better discussion and community.
You have to think about how the data looks like while you are editing the data. But I do think my comment was clear.
not sure I understand the hostility to Red Hat, or how they might be hostile to OSS .. didn't they create podman on OSS, continue to develop and support it and give it away?
I was surprised the payouts from a small convenience store were so high. And the spending were so high.
I'm a very infrequent gambler..

When I was at IBM one of the mathemeticians had a bumper sticker on his office door. “the lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math.” or some such thing. I took it to heart.
>Am I more clear now?

Nope
I was a small child when the iMac and its hockey puck mouse came out. I remember being a small kid and thinking the hockey puck mouse was actually pretty great, it was way easier for my small hands to handle and the single button made things easier to click on for the educational software I was using at school compared to the Packard Bell or HP or Dell mice I would use at home or at friend's houses.

I'm actually looking for a similar kind of mouse for my small child today. He can't quite palm a mouse very well, and he often gets mixed up with right click and scroll and scroll click. When I get him focused on the right mouse button he can play some basic mouse-based games but he'll often end up getting distracted by the mouse wheel or right click which can sometimes drop him out of the games he's wanting to play.

Don't get me wrong the hockey puck mouse was probably atrocious for adult hands but as a little kid it was actually pretty nice.
Do not confuse this with a problem with the employee. There is a serious problem with the business if the main factor for advancement is not related to the work that the employee does. If that's not rewarded, you are explicitly asking them to do the minimum.
Netflix views attention as the resource it competes for.
In this article: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/18/netflix-thinks-fortnite-is... It was worried more about fortnight and phonegames than HBO.
I don't want to bag on Htmx but if you're looking to just use vanilla HTML (seriously, no extra/custom attributes or weird syntax gotchas), please check out Joystick [1]. UI framework that's part of a full-stack framework that uses vanilla HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for building components.

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
That is the talk I've watched before coming to the above conclusion. The faceted search demonstrated in the talk is still an order of magnitude simpler then what I have build. It is still a cool example of what you can do with htmx and it certainly pushes the envelope but the UX choices are dictated by what is possible in htmx. I also think that the talk is somewhat dishonest, it is by a backend developer that want to keep writing Django while I would suggest replacing that with Postgrest. I estimate that what is shown here can be done with 500 to a 1000 lines of SolidJS for the entire app.
Remember that week when people were jumping up and down to give Zuckerberg more power? That was a good one. How is Threads doing anyhow?
(Not a parent, but have been thinking about this for a long time)

There are situations where I'd think not giving a device to my kids wouldn't necesarily be all benefits

People that do get smartphones will develop ways of interacting, which you only "get" when you participate
which you can't even know you're missing out, because you don't know what you don't know

A lot of it currently is "codified" in GenZ/Gen Alfa quirks, because they were the first to get smartphones so young, but it is there, and it can cause friction with older generations that feel it's all nonsensical
Frankly, screw them. They have had decades of warning and done nothing about it but whine.
I actually welcome the return of easter eggs because that was a time when Microsoft programs were sincerely awesome.
Welp, found the bad driver.
This is a complex one. On one hand, cracking down on distracted driving is absolutely a good thing. Thousands of people are killed by negligent drivers every year, and every single one is an unnecessary tragedy.

But, there need to be some guardrails on this program. The UK police have a habit of keeping massive amounts of data around for years, and storing it inappropriately. I have no doubt all of the images this system takes will end up on a public S3 bucket or left open on an insecure email server within the next decade.

For the Americans/Canadians, also consider that there are already a LOT of speed cameras in the UK already -- far more than there are across the ocean. The only new thing here is that instead of connecting it to a radar system, it's using computer vision to decide to fine somebody or not. It's new technology, but not really a paradigm change for the culture.
Have you worked on a FE team with 5 or more people?

There's a lot that is easy and shouldn't be a problem when you get to define the scope and technologies and shared conventions used.
> people from the outside see things significantly more clear

Somebody isn't seeing things clearly, that's for sure.
The benchmarks - https://github.com/ymz-ncnk/go-inter-server-communication-be...
Show HN: Llm.report – Open-source logging and analytics for OpenAI
Hi hacker news,

My name is Dillion and I'm the creator of llm.report.

A few months ago, I was frustrated by the lack of observability into the OpenAI API.

All of us are left in the dark about API performance, latency, cost calculation, cost breakdown, and more. I just wanted to know more about how my AI app is performing in production and make data-driven decisions to improve the product.

So I ended up just building it myself.

There are three parts to the platform:

1. OpenAI API Dashboard (no-code) - Enter your OpenAI key and get access to detailed insights straight from the OpenAI API itself

2. Logging - Log all your requests / responses to OpenAI to analyze cost, latency, token usage and more

3. User Metrics - Calculate your cost per user to figure out who your power users are, and how much they cost you per day

Would appreciate any feedback you have! Would you use something like this? Why or why not?
Because it's so extremely rare that the reverse is true. Most companies couldn't give a single shit about true believer employees. I worked in game dev, I've known many true believers over the years. None remain so.
First it’s not all farmers we’re talking about, changing things would be beneficial for far more farmers than get harmed.

Anyway, for farmers in CA and you get different results than optimizing for say everyone in the CA or even better everyone in the US. Cheap land + old water rights is profitable for individuals but extremely wasteful or water and results in massive and unneeded infrastructure to move water around. The amount of water wasted due to evaporation is a direct result of subsidizing wasteful use.

Such inefficiency is bad for humanity but profitable for a few individuals.
>What exactly is wrong or dystopian here? AI bad? Cameras bad?

Well no, not by itself. The way I look at it, this is a precedence. It works, and there is not a lot of resistance. That's huge. And there will be next steps to this.

It doesn't take too many steps from here to a distopian surveillance state.
Doesn't make the tactic any more or less relevant...let the people with money and motivation become the first real-world usability testers, then optimize for the rest of the population.
People here are concerned for the exact same reason they're concerned about on-device image scanning, they're not pro-pedophilia they're worried about the future uses of this capability.
we do have a client-side template extension:

https://htmx.org/extensions/client-side-templates/

however, I would encourage most folks to use HTML as the network format: it typically isn't much more CPU to generate the equivalent HTML string that corresponds to a JSON string (sometimes even less, as with tables)

for pure client-side, htmx is largely hands off. We support an `hx-on` attribute to address the fact that HTML doesn't support general `on*` attributes, but that's it

it does, however, emit a large number of events that you can hook into to extend things:

https://htmx.org/reference/#events

And it plays well w/ scripting solutions like Alpine.js or, our our own scripting solution, _hyperscript: https://hyperscript.org
Every day I use 4-10 tabs at max. For things that I'm working on or reading currently. I lever leave tab "for later". Instead I use bookmarks extensively. Most recent export showed that I have 672 bookmarks at this moment. I use it for everything from personal sites, to programming resource link storage, homelab ideas, shopping and especially "To read later". I often go to this bookmark folder and pick something from there, and delete if after reading or working through article. Works like a charm.
> I wouldn't call "requiring drivers to not be using mobile phones" a "tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims"

It's the mass surveillance that was called such.

> It's for the good of everyone else on the road

Nope, they too are subject to mass surveillance.
Give me a way "taskkill /f /t" processes from the task bar, and then I never have to visit Task Manager in the first place.
I am looking to set up something like this in my neighborhood. I have a pretty good angle frpmy house. We live on a narrow street with parks on either side, a crosswalk, daycares, really a place where you want to pay attention and drive slowly. Yet every day I see people on their phones. I just don't get it. All it takes is one kid making a mistake and running on the road at the wrong moment. Happened couple of weeks ago at the crosswalk, luckily all three kids survived.

I'd like to set this up using off the shelf hardware to be able to demand more enforcement but also approach the people living here directly and if nothing helps. It's a heartbreaking situation that's waiting for something terrible to happen.

Edit: I'm a noob in some fields that are involved here (image classification, cameras, etc) so if anyone has a pointer for me, I'd greatly appreciate it
> accept that certain regions of the country are just going to be completely effed over.

Pieces of countryside do not suffer. People are potentially more mobile than that.
how would you characterize "the sentiment of the headline"?

I mean, it reads as literally identical to the quote. "thousands of scientists are cutting back on twitter" and "more than half of 9200 (which would be....4600, hmm yep that's indeed "thousands") have reduced the time ("reduced"? Chatgpt whats a synonym for "cutting back" ?) they spend on the platform (ah what's "the platform"? Oh it's X, not twitter. Ha!)"
I think a lot of scientists are moving to Mastodon, but sometimes doubling their accounts. I am quite pleased with the feed that I’m getting on Mastodon now
Oh, sorry. I'm not looking at usernames.
Not necessarily agreeing or disagreeing but I think the key complaint boils down to the level of granular invasiveness that this gives the government.

The fact that a govt couldn’t reasonably do this at this scale without computer vision being as advanced as it is just adds more AI skepticism flavor to the argument.
Because most people aren't into conspiracy theories.
There's something called budget. People are being paid to write frivolous crap, when those funds could've gone to better uses. If you're someone who pays for software, you want your money to pay for the things you want.
> What’s important to know here is that Go Away Green can be a few different shades to match the surrounding foliage or trees.

The two main examples of this green are not just different shades, they are very different hues. It seems like the headline is maybe more that Disney strategically uses context-appropriate colors to camouflage certain park elements, and guide the visitors' eyes to what they want them to see. Not that there are two magic colors that they invented that do this in every case.
Or, like, you could just not do things like texting and letting the passenger hold the wheel while you drive while blind people like me have to navigate around your one ton death machines. Crazy idea I know.
That’s just survivorship bias (or perhaps, the opposite).

You don’t hear the happily ever after stories because they don’t tend to reach out to the media after a few years and say “Hey! FYI I’m still rich and my life is perfect.”. They’re off enjoying their money somewhere. The scandals seem more common because those are the only situations that really get publicized.
I think I have a problem with the term "true believers", though.

I am not motivated to work by wealth, and am certainly not going to engage in more than the bare minimum of self-promotion (which has in no way hurt my career).

But the only companies I've worked for where I've been a "true believer" have been the companies I've started.

I am motivated by the work itself and the working conditions.

I don't brag about myself, in large part because I find it so annoying when others do. I am an example of how doing that, at least in the right sorts of companies, is not necessary. Further, it can be actively damaging as it decreases the willingness of others to work with you.
Microsoft files patent for displaying personalized Ads in games (2022)
The reason global wealth is increasing is because your friends local wealth is decreasing.

The rich stay rich but the more and more zero sum resources allocated to the first world working class are being distributed to the entire world now.