skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You should be squeamish about running the code without reading it first, given that you're pair-programming with a bot.

It's funny, the first version of this project[0] let you do exactly that, e.g.,

def main(path: str):
#<<filenames = a list of filenames under path>>

for fn in filenames:
#<<size = size of fn in bytes>>

print(fn, size)

#<<use argparse and call main>>

and then run that program like any other Python script (using import magic):

$ python -m examples.file_sizes /etc
…
/etc/wgetrc 4942
/etc/nsswitch.conf 542
/etc/adduser.conf 3028
/etc/ethertypes 1816

But yeah, it never felt exactly practical. :)

[0] https://github.com/bsilverthorn/maccarone/tree/v0.1.3
I would really like an /r/worldnews clone with joke comments forbidden.
I would guess that most solar fields have 0 full time field operations staff. There’s not much day-to-day maintenance. Everything can be monitored remotely and maintenance workers or contractors can be dispatched when problems arise. There aren’t any moving parts (unless you have fancy tilting panels), it’s a bunch of PV panels attached to metal racking, with wires going back to the monitoring equipment and distribution switchgear.
> Your take is ill informed.

Your comment is ill informed. My comment has nothing whatsoever to do with what you just said.
Any number of cloud services will give you a terminal on a web page to access your VM. You don't need to touch the hardware if you have a web browser.
Yes it was. Next time I need search, I'll try searching for your reply to learn how to do it...
Yes, I understand that theft and property crime is an issue. I appreciate the heads-up. I will keep it in mind.
It's fairly obvious that we are missing at least one field (dark matter), possibly two or more (dark energy). There isn't any reason that dark matter particles could not weakly interact via some unknown force. Such a force would as you say, be pretty much impossible to detect and we can likely ignore it. That's different than it not existing.
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Still got it
I think successful open source projects should turn into contributor owned cooperatives. There’s no reason why companies such as amazon, google, microsoft, etc shouldnt be made to pay for the open source code they use and contributors should be rewarded for their effort.
I’ve only used it for local sharing but sharedrop.io claims to work over the internet via “rooms”?
Hi Chris,

When I started my research on my own ADHD condition and nootropics I found out that 27% of the USA jail population has ADHD.

Curious about other stats about ADHD in other populations, for example how much of the drug abuse population has ADHD for example.

Curious about what you might have found upon such areas of inquiry..
> I'm sorry, but this reads as straight up Dunning-Kruger.

No offense, but I'm not sure you understand what Dunning-Kruger is if you think that.

> Care to suggest any articles about these "easier sandboxing solutions"

Did you even try searching?

> Popular articles on Android security are just as likely to rot your brain as they are to inform you.

Key words in my original statement: reputable. sources.

I'm sorry, but you seem like you want to argue just for the sake of arguing. You also give off the vibe of being an armchair security expert, and as someone that does security professional as has for my entire career, I'm not really finding you to be credible. Same as someone screaming that security by obscurity doesn't work because they read it somewhere an heard other people say it.

The point was simply that there are decent sandboxing solutions that are easy to find, and will protect you sufficiently from untrusted third party apps that are not trying to root your phone, but trying to exfil as much data as possible. That's it. And that remains true.

Not really interested in discussing this further though, since I don't think this is a productive discussion. Cheers.
> There is no physical or mental disability preventing people using modern technology.

> It's absolutely abhorrent that you would begin to think this. There are plenty of disabilities that don't allow people to use technology

Actually, yeah, this is a good point. Ever watched somebody with a nerve issue try to use a touchscreen? Their hand shaking all over the place? You're lucky if they can do it without somehow texting gibberish to random contacts.
The current US debt as of today is $32.71 trillion. When Biden was signed into office, it was $27.6 trillion. Subtract the two and you get $5.11 trillion, which, you may not be aware, is just a smidge more than half of the $10 trillion you claim.

The question is: where are you getting your information? Because it is lying to you.
Indeed, I have ADHD and it's evening now, so I got no meds in me.

With my hamster brain, I saw a wall of text at the top of this page, clicked the link, a wall of text on the landing page, even the title is too much information to digest. I literally have no idea what this thing does, and I won't allocate any effort in diving deeper. Focus is precious, I don't give that away easily.

I don't want to make assumptions, but this seems it has been done and designed by someone that has no idea how ADHD works.

Here's the ideal landing page for a product like this tailored for us: a clear tagline, 3 bullet points, pricing, and a FAQ section. That's it. Anything else is completely wasted on us.

People with ADHD like me don't read, they skim for anchor points. Even under the magical effect of amphetamines, unless I am deeply engaged, reading one sentence after the other is asking too much, especially since I learned to extract a ton of information from skimming and by the shape of things on a page. 80% of prose is filler after all.

In any case, good luck and I hope this help reaches those that need it and cannot afford focus in pill form.
Life should basically be anything that's nontrivially complex, self-replicating, and self-propagating.

I think the only wiggle room there is "nontrivial".
Strawman? Spring was not designed for solving simple problems.
> How do you devise an icon for “load language model”, for instance?

In the words of Eleanor Shellstrop, "No, it's annoying, and I'm right not to."

Not everything -- not even close to everything -- should be an icon at all.

Looking up at my browser toolbar, I can count several icons that are so abstract that I can't remember what they do without wasting about 4 seconds on each button waiting for a tooltip. Some "UX Designer" thought it was important to not label icons, because of either aesthetic "elegance" or space worries, and as a result they've wasted a 3-inch strip of space with 4 icons that I'll never use. If they'd used text or labeled-icon buttons, they could have fit the top 2 functions. Same situation but even more intense with VS Code. So fun to teach someone how to use this by speaking to them. "Click the button with the three tiny circles connected by lines." "In the Find window, click the button with three uneven horizontal lines." (Obviously that conveys "Find in selection" right? Much better than those 3 words with a checkbox!) Or in that same UI, how about "Letters 'ab' relaxing in a boat made of a knocked-over square bracket" icon?

I don't get it. This absolute trash style of UI wasn't needed in order for us to get advanced and detailed tasks done on 9" 512x384 4:3 screens. I have a 4K screen and plenty of space and every desktop app seems to think the most important thing is squeezing its entire UI into a tiny strip or floating bar.
You might like EdgeQL https://www.edgedb.com/docs/edgeql/index
Anyone know why this chart[1] hasn't been updated in a while? One of my favorite displays of incremental improvements in a project.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/cpu.html
100%. Whenever I read somebody's response on an article, the first thing that lights up for me cognitively - "is this a reddit-level comment?".

How many times have you seen a deeply nested Reddit thread where each reply is maybe a single sentence long, and they're all low hanging word puns? Just completely worthless threads that are all noise.
What’s a CDN?
Tropical rainforests could get too hot for photosynthesis, study suggests
What protects skin is more food and outdoor activity, for example tomatoes against sun burns, other vegetable as raw and ripe as possible, etc..

Cosmetic products are just business
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/wordlist
Any source? No support for FreeBSD it seems.
You say infinite like it's one thing, but there's more than one infinity.
Like I said: "If you have never sat in a conference room with a bunch of lawyers"...

Typical internet. HN isn't immune. Some of us actually live the reality of what is being discussed, others think that a google search makes them experts. It's like people making categorical statements about business when they never ran anything even close to a non-trivial business.
The original invention of PoW, as well as the idea of using it for email, was years earlier; see Naor and Dwork's "Pricing via Processing, Or, Combatting Junk Mail" in CRYPTO'92.
Yeah, I had similar experience with https://eclipse.dev/windowbuilder/ in java swing. You can use the drag and drop for most of it, and if you need to hand edit some code, it mostly works and is reflected in the gui tool.

I thought it was pretty productive and honestly sort of miss that kind of development
In This Essay I Will: On Distraction
+1.

I have in most years learned some nicher languages: Elm, Rescript, Racket, Common Lisp.

But nothing is even remotely bad as Haskell is.

Even just setting up an IDE to have basics like syntax highlight or go to definition is a giant chore.

On the official Haskell devcontainer offered by GitHub is nearly impossible to add any external dependency, so having a one-click shareable Haskell environment in the cloud (the very basic to onboard people on the language without wasting them days into having their own inconsistent environment) is a must.

Another thing that I feel sucks is the default documentation for Haskell libraries. Doesn't say anything useful at all, bundles few definitions here and there, 0 examples, and more often than not there's 0 documentation.
C# tooling is dense, but the build tools generally "just work" TM. Occasionally I have to purge my build artifacts because the build tool doesn't clean things up completely, but that is a small pain compared to working with python. Another commenter noted that Poetry is quite good and it is (I've noticed they added venv support directly into the tool - you still need pyenv to manage multiple venvs, though).
Definitely agree with you in terms of limiting functionality built on top of WYSIWYG UIs. 2 years ago I developed a non-trivial app using Retool and it became an unmaintainable spaghetti monster "code" base. (Side note: Retool was pretty solid, my application was just way too complex for it)

The result was I wasted 6 weeks of time when I should've just spent 2-3 days prototyping and then throw out the tool once I had a good idea of what we actually wanted. In the end if didn't matter since the project died anyways :/
There was a time when downvoting someone was accompanied by an explanation of why the downvote had just happened, but I think that didn't live long.

Either way, after the divisive last few years I don't think that that many people care for downvotes anymore, i.e. for what "the other side" thinks.
I made a VSCode extension to do this but never published it. All it required was that md code snippets had a language annotation/label, and that you either had a default interpreter pre-installed or could configure an interpreter.

I still have no clue why I did it NOR why I never published it.
My least favorite to do but most favorite to get done were the hex listings for the machine language games in Ahoy! There were a few that had a Basic element that were quite rewarding for the ass pain of getting them entered. I must have had 5 backups of all the typed in programs :)
Clean Code Is Slow, but You Need It Anyway
I don't know the answer to your question, but it did make me learn that a driver is covered as soon as they are available on the app.

I find it interesting that they were able to cover drivers under 25, considering the whole rental car under 25 thing.

https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/insurance/
I thought love was the seventh wave, according to Sting.
The article says that there is only a factor of 6 in solution time between a high end server and low end phone. How is that possible? The server likely has much more than 6x the ram and cpu count (and faster cpus) than the phone.

Also, since it is DDOSing, the server’s work is embarrassingly parallel, but the client work isn’t necessarily parallelized at all.

Even if it is only a factor of 6 (or one) they are talking about 1 minute solve times once a DDOS is detected.

At that point the service is basically down anyway, right?
I think complaining about Python's tooling has become like complaining about the weather in some cold and rainy country. Good for chit-chat and noding in resigned consensus.

In the meantime I cant recall any instance in the last five years (at least) where a project would fail to get going based on a simple venv and pip setup.

An exception is CUDA but I think we can agree this is not what you need to setup every day.

I wonder if that benign view due to Linux and people experiencing something very different in other OS's.
The original article’s headline is “DigitalOcean Announces Leadership Transition” and nowhere in the article does it say that the CEO has been removed.
If government agencies are free to pursue and sanction political opponents, what's the end game on that? What if ICE had taken a real long, hard look at Obama's papers in 2008, and "deported" him to Kenya?

Is this just one more tool in the box of a government of the people, for the people, and by the people?
Obsidian is a great product, thank you! And the optional Sync service works beautifully to keep my files synched between Windows, iPhone, and iPad.
You want a polished product and something that can run all sorts of different models. I don't know that both are possible at the same time.
If you are interested in full sentences there's a "What if?" [1] that explains how to generate sentences using a single row of your keyboard (with a link to code [2]) or stranger stuff like "We reserved seats at a secret Starcraft fest".

[1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/75/

[2] https://xkcd.com/markov.py.txt
I can argue that "bidenomics" (printing money) was started by Trump
> in exchange of +10T of government debt.

Compared to what baseline and, most crticially, where is the argument that there is an alternative set of policies that would have avoided that additional debt and had outcomes that would have been better than those of Bidenomics including the additional debt?
> To the creators of Obsidian.md: I'm probably violating the TOS, and I'm sorry. I'll take down the repository if asked. It's not ready for production and is highly inefficient; Not competition, so I hope you'll be lenient.

Brother, don't be a wimp. You're giving people an open-source plan B to a closed-source product. Do this with your head and middle fingers raised high. Do you think Richard Stallman apologized to HP for reverse-engineering their printer driver? No, he started the whole open-source movement.

If you're worried about legal consequences, learn what people used to do 20 years ago, which is use pseudonyms instead of their real names. Create a burner email, burner identity, new Github account, and give American tech corps the finger as you write what you want.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Martian is a phrase explicitly tied to life/ beings/ organisms on Mars.

Martian isn't a broad synonym for alien or extraterrestrial. It just means life on mars
There's nothing particularly natural about a promotion system. It's just a different set of arbitrary league rules.

As for building a portfolio of clubs, come on be serious. Most of the current pro major league owners don't have the capital to buy multiple teams even if the league would allow that. The valuations are enormous. The whole concept is just silly.
Never heard of Bolt, and looking them up, they're not even in the US. So I'd say Uber is very much still a thing.
Indeed, "realtor" is a brand name.
Haha. I was an engineer on Honeycode in 2017. I initially joined the project because the best talent was flocking to finally make a frontend builder for developers. When I was there, the vision was there (allow people to build apps with spreadsheet skills), but the execution was all over the map: we had engineers mostly interested in getting promoted, so it was super political. I remember that every team had their own redux store (including one for the navbar, one for the login screen, one for the home screen, etc.). It was totally dysfunctional, but a lot of people got promoted. All while we didn’t have a single customer!

Today, I’m pretty skeptical about no-code. It just feels like the citizen developer is a dead-end. I think Honeycode was in this uncanny valley where you can’t really use it for real applications. Honeycode didn’t have source control, custom React components, nor testing).

Now, at my current company, we use Retool (https://retool.com). It comes with source control (not perfect, the diffs can be overly complex at times), custom React components (so I can import whatever libraries I want), and good developer ergonomics.

Retool isn’t as powerful as code, but it really scratches the itch of “I just need a CRUD front-end, and don’t want to learn redux” really well. We’ve probably built 30 - 50 apps with it at my current company. I think that, combined with AI, might be the future of programming.
I use KQL (inside ADX/Kusto) at work, it's awesome. Not just saying that bc I work for an MSFT company, I legit enjoy it more than SQL. And with Kusto one can Python inside of KQL as well, which sounds bonkers but is actually pretty neat. I found through teaching people KQL that the learning curve (until they can do medium-complexity analysis) is also much shorter.
I disagree, there is an upload button which delivers the equivalent of thanks. I don't think it's too much to ask that an expression of gratitude also take the time to include something meaningful.

This is one of the biggest differentiators from Reddit.
KeePassXC 2.7.6 Supports NitroKey 3
Thorough code review is why we as an industry stopped shipping bugs.
There are some open source data flow languages that are really just GUIs for code expressed in text that is run through an interpreter.
> I can argue that “bideconomics” (printing money) was started by Trump

Not plausibly can you argue that either of those things (which are not synonyms) were started by Trump (one started earlier, the other later.)
To me, you need help then
"Can we have the investment partly in stock?" "I guess, but our shareholders probably won't be too happy." "No no no, not shares. I mean stock like from a warehouse, we need them cores man!"
I think you are plainly wrong here. Imagine a thought experiment where you'd plug newborn's ears and cover eyes until they are 6yo and see how much data you'd have to feed to them before they can reason about text from this point. I imagine it will be in hundreds of terabytes or even petabytes.

The idea that children learn from little is naive.
An Open Source Mobile Phone Based on the ESP32
"Yancey Spruill will continue to serve as Chief Executive Officer until a successor has been appointed, at which point he will step down from his role and as a member of the Board."

That's corporate speak for removal. Based on the speed in which this announcement was made in regard to the investigation into misleading financial statements https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/08/21/272896... it's pretty obvious.
DM me with your Bitcoin address
You might be misconstruing the point. I certainly wasn’t insinuating more and more metrics. If anything, it’s the opposite: a core understanding of what’s really important helps you focus on the few metrics that matter.

In that context, I’m not really sure what point you’re making, unless it’s just to share a personal anecdote. Are you implying that management shouldn’t have any quantitative measures and should only be qualitative?
you expect me to produce some complete quantitative model here in comments?
Hijacking a thread here trying to ask you a php question.

Linked below, you said something reminds you to a old times when you were using arrays to work through database results.

I still do this, building multidimensional arrays of results to later use.

How should/could I be doing it?

I'm self taught but built a decent sized webapp CRM/project management saas and am trying to learn a few new things before starting a new project.

PS, comically, your style of responding made me want to contact you. Reading some of your post history, we have very similar views on a lot of things. Interesting how that works.

Thank you for reading

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34413404
> We live in a universe with distinct rules, saying life doesnt have to have cells is basically fantasizing about other dimensions where we're made out of hot dogs or something.

That comparison is ridiculous.

We live in a universe for which many of the rules are unclear and we have only grasped some small subset of the possibility space dor emergent structures those rules enable.

We have a hard enough time coming up with a clear definition of which of the emergent structures that we do know about qualify as "life". You seem to accept it as settled that viruses are not alive and are mere chemistry but it seems to me like drawing a line in the sand between two similar processes.

When we're talking about cells, that seems like an easier thing to define, but I would posit that is another definition that could prove to be slippery if an alien biology without a common ancestor is discovered.

We have to be careful about how we define life and cells in relation to each other to avoid just creating tautologies rather than useful definitions.

For example, how sure can we be that by defining life to exclude viruses, we haven't defined life in such a way that we have excluded processes that can support consciousness?

I think it is pretty easy to imagine life which has "cells" that we fail to recognize as such because they serve a similar function but with a sufficiently different form that we would fail to see or recognize them in a microscope.

Now, many of those imaginings may be scientifically impossible but that doesn't justify comparing all of them to "a dimension where we are made of hotdogs."
I think part of the reason that SQL is so prevalent without real alternatives is two-fold:

- It's backed by a mathematical theory (relational algebra).

- SQL has an international standard (although no implementation really follows this correctly if I'm not mistaken).

Lots of other languages have their own take on lists/arrays/dicts, but SQL is (generally) universal and often backwards compatible due to its extremely simple syntax.
On macOS version 12.1 Monterey:

$ grep '^[qwertyuiop]*$' /usr/share/dict/words | awk '{print length, $0}' | sort -rn | head
11 rupturewort
11 proterotype
11 proprietory
10 typewriter
10 tetterwort
10 repetitory
10 repertoire
10 proprietor
10 pretorture
10 prerequire

On Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye):

$ grep '^[qwertyuiop]*$' /usr/share/dict/words | awk '{print length, $0}' | sort -rn | head
10 typewriter
10 repertoire
10 proprietor
10 perpetuity
9 typewrote
9 typewrite
9 territory
9 repertory
9 puppeteer
9 prototype
It was introduced in the 12 Pro models released in 2020.