skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's been used by people to harass people in the real world.

And libraries have been used by people to learn effective methods to harass or harm others in the real world. Quick! Let's shut down all the libraries!

> I think we'd agree that it's an issue that needs to be handled with moderation and the law, but it's also a real problem.

We already have such a law. It's called Section 230. Forum operators should not be subject to tortious interference, criminal harassment, or other manner of extrajudicial punishment because they choose to exercise speech that you find repugnant.
The existence of that simplification is however often exploited. A lot of malice gets dressed as stupidity. Its also especially easy when stupidity is triggered maliciously.
Most states have rules against driving too slowly and impeding normal flow of traffic. Furthermore, most states have specific rules for bicycles and other slow vehicles to drive furthest to the right they can with exceptions allowed for left turns, obstacles etc.
Ah, that's a good catch. Hmm, I wish Techempower listened to the issues brought up, and made the changes asked.

There's unfortunately no other comparable as-comprehensive web framework benchmarks that I'm aware of.
You missed a fill-in-the-placeholder in Section 8 of your ToS.
> in the rest of the world, we don’t even have free speech.

It exists to varying degrees in various places. It's not absolute in the US, as much as people like to pretend it is - incitement to violence, the old "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" canard, criminal conspiracy, defamation etc etc. There is a line drawn, it's a fuzzy one that people pretend does not exist, but it's there just as it is in other nations.

For more information on how freedom of speech is codified in Europe, for instance, see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#E...
Eh, these UFO hearings are fairly bipartisan, and to any degree that they diminish the credibility of their organizers, it cuts across the aisle...
I'll take a crab juice!
Hey, just an FYI, phind-codellama-34b-v2 was just released, which performs even better! Just letting you know in case you wanted to add the new model to the lepton chat you guys set up.
Currently probably biggest advantage is electric car charging. It is easy and cheap to add high power fast charger when there is already 3 phases available.

400V between phases so 230V per phase. Safety is provided by making plugs not expose contacts while half plugged. US plugs are really unsafe compared to plugs used in most of the Europe.
A bonus to self-hosting is now you’ll have an XMPP server you & your chatmates & org can use for decentralized, federated chat—may as well add a new virtualhost & ditch that proprietary chat option.
I was there when it happened, I remember it well. Python displaced Perl, when Perl was a dominant scripting language, way back in the 1990s. What motivated people to replace Perl with Python is that we started using scripting languages for serious software with non-trivial complexity. In this context, Python was much more scalable and maintainable language than Perl, it was just an easier scripting language for software engineering purposes. I used to write apps in Perl and moved to Python for the same reason everyone else did.

At the time this was happening, neither Ruby nor JavaScript were credible alternatives, Python won by default. The only other scripting language I can remember being used in similar contexts at the time was Tcl.

The other half of it is that Python had a great C binding story, which made it easy to integrate Python with almost everything since C ABI was the lingua franca of interoperability. You could wrap high-performance code in a thin layer that would allow you to efficiently script it in Python. This is why Python became ubiquitous in HPC/supercomputing decades ago. It allowed Python to have a vast library of functionality with good performance and minimal effort by leaning on the vast number of C libraries that already existed to implement that functionality.

Another underappreciated advantage of Python, a bit like C++, is that it is promiscuous language. It isn’t so in love with its purity that it won’t happily do slightly dodgy things to hook up with things that were never intended to work together. It may not be pretty but you can actually make it work and the language doesn’t try to prevent it.

As time went on, a school of thought emerged that you could efficiently do almost anything you needed to do in software engineering with a combination of Python and C++. There is definitely an element of truth to that, and the ease with which you can combine those languages made them common bedfellows in practice.

Python initially won because it was better for writing complex software than Perl, but its staying power was based on its easy integration with literally everything.
I'm not surprised, the tongue is probably the second most (or third most depending on how you count the hands) "touch interactive" body part we have. Nothing else apart from the hands is as dextrous. It feels fine details just like the hands do but also with added taste ability.
My hypothesis is that they want to get the absolute mindshare and adoption and decide the right product/solutions along the way. Note that there are trends (web 1, web 2, mobile etc.) and the leaders tend to grow significantly.

It is a mad rush time with the new generation of AI, and future products are going to be amazing. Meta cannot afford to have just 1 cash cow. Metaverse failed, but they have a real shot here.

A few things I can think of (beyond social networks).

- Enterprise push, starting with very high-end enterprises. Their license structure (free below X million users) allows it nicely. They can afford to have a small team and yet win big. Note that typically 80% of any enterprise products revenue comes from say, 10-20% of top customers.

- Build a platform. Meta learned from Google, and then Apple debacle on how dependent the world is on platform. What would the new OS look like?

- Weaken Google and Apple. Some indications on why they partnered with Microsoft - this also ties to the point above.
I have a server and it's decentralized? Isn't that a contradiction of terms? Wake me up when my teammates and I can message each other from our mobile devices without the involvement of any other computer...
My first laptop was a thinkpad and I grew to love the nub (this was accidental, I had purchased a mouse, but found that I didn't move my fingers to use it unless I was gaming or something like that, much nicer to keep the fingers on the home row).

My point is, on any other laptop you might be right, but the trackpad doesn't matter much on a Thinkpad.
How to make sure decentralization doesn't enable more of those illegal things?
To me what’s cool about this is he came up with this theory about IM1, went out and figured out how to test his theory, and found exactly what he was expecting to find on the ocean floor. This is how you do science, kids.
Paper straws harmful and not better for env than plastic, researchers warn
Hey, just an FYI, phind-codellama-34b-v2 was just released, which performs even better! Just letting you know in case you wanted to add the new model too!
Irritated that the abstract did not include the modality of measuring sensorimotor activity.
That’s Social Democracy which is just capitalism.
Ah but that's quite unfair isn't it. Green+socdem had greener plans which were stopped by the following Conservative+liberal government in the late 00s. Then fukushima happened and in a knee jerk reaction conservatives rushed out of nuclear, paying off the remaining providers, all while shortly before then fucking over solar development in Germany.

Now green is finally in gov again and can only look on the ruins left for them after 16 years of Conservative led power policy.
The end of cool small cars
I think you basically nailed it. Python won because of data science: numpy -> pandas -> pytorch. Django is ~just as good as rails / nodes, but it isn't symmetrical, ruby and javascript don't have the mature data science tooling.

Python happened to be either competitive or dominant in the two biggest niches outside web frontends.
> they may not have even existed if they were written in staticly typed languages

This is pure speculation. There's no way you can back this up with any sort of real data.

The inverse isn't true either. StackOverflow was written in C#, and it's been doing perfectly well.

I've addressed another commentor making a similar presumption as you, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37312297

The only thing I'll concede is that using a statically-typed language without a good type inference system, might slow people down a tiny bit.

The serious downsides of dynamic typing means you might still win out (in terms of developer productivity, code readability, code reliability, and ease of debugging) even if you use a language like Java instead of PHP.
>Meanwhile the conservatives in the US are saying that corporations have a right to choose who they serve based upon their religious beliefs. See the SCOTUS Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling on whether they must serve a gay couple.

Unfortunately you are misinformed. The baker was quite willing to serve a gay couple. The Supreme Court never said the baker can not serve gays if he doesn't want to.

What the Supreme Court said is a baker cannot be forced to engage in an activity (gay wedding) that he disagrees with even if it is as remote as a baking the cake. The baker made it clear if they wanted a plain cake he would have sold it to them.
It is a great solution. If you write Python, nobody will mistake it for fast code, it stays where it belongs.

JavaScript for example is much worse, because people are convinced it can be fast for some reason, and keep trying to write nested loops in it.
They dont need to be equivalent, they just need to be treated the same. What do you think will happen once "your side"/"the correct side" gets removed from power and replaced by the unguided reaction it created?

Thanks to all this stupid nazi fearmongering and virtue signaling i am currently faced with a far right party possibly wining my next election as a reaction. With the government having gained unprecedented powers to quell and control dissenting opinions.
Reaching back even further, we were told in the very early 1980s by the University of York computer centre that all line printer overstrike images were henceforth banned, after it was noted the operators had printed a reasonably hi-res full length nude, burning at least one ribbon to shreds doing it. I think it was 6 sheets of fanfold in 3x3
doas is much much nicer to type to, though.
He's numerically sound (astrophysics is a lot of math) but stretching things on alien interpretations.

His wikipedia page captures both facets:

Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University. He had been the longest serving chair of Harvard's Department of Astronomy (2011–2020), founding director of Harvard's Black Hole Initiative (since 2016) and director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (since 2007) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Loeb is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Physical Society, and the International Academy of Astronautics. In July 2018, he was appointed as chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA) of the National Academies,

and:

In June 2023, Loeb announced the project had found interstellar material on the ocean floor..

These claims were criticized by other scientists as hasty, sensational, and part of a pattern of improper behavior.

Peter Brown, a meteor physicist at the University of Western Ontario, argued the material can be explained as non-interstellar, [...] Brown further said he was disturbed by Loeb's lack of engagement with relevant experts.

Astrophysicist Steve Desch, at Arizona State University, commented "[his claims are] polluting good science—conflating the good science we do with this ridiculous sensationalism and sucking all the oxygen out of the room", and said several of his colleagues are consequently refusing to engage with Loeb in the peer review process.

As noted elsewhere about a competant brain surgeon believing pyramids to be hollow, it's entirely possible to reason well about physical forces and black holes and to also be utterly incorrect about material science of metallurgy.

quotes from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Loeb
I've used both ruby and python extensively, and I don't actually consider them to be any different, really, on any of these points.
The incursion that Kelsey was demonstrating happened at a very small airport, in fact, and indeed, several things had gone wrong.
Cuba hasn’t fared well?

Has socialism been tried without American and western interference?

The Nordic countries aren’t socialist.

Have you read Marx? What do you find is the issue? I haven’t read too much myself but I don’t see why you think capitalism will keep working out the way it is now when we have never been at this point in history with technology and globalization with the continued western hegemony?
I don't think attacking and maligning someone else while ignoring the substance of their comment is what HN should promote in their comments.
Sorry, I didn't express that well. I guess in that specific case I would use a ruler.

Normally I would take measurements from my pre-existing pieces instead of the ruler. It's more accurate because it accommodates for any slight inaccuracies.
Python came way before JavaScript became good. And today it is on the way to lose as a back-end language to TypeScript and Golang.
7390s have been sub $200 on ebay for the last year or more. They are circa 2019.

Great machine, I'm looking for a replacement currently but the new latitudes have moved the power button onto the keyboard and removed the touchpad buttons.
> I haven't interacted much with Ruby

“Matz is nice and so we are nice” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/MINASWAN :)

The Rails community is another story, unfortunately.
Show HN: Chatmate: Discover and create chatbots
Chatmate.dev allows you to easily make gpt4 based chatbots by combining multiple chat completions and/or document retrievals. You can chain different components together or run them in parallel and then use their responses in future prompts/components.

To get started, create a project and then create a chat component. A single chat component is the same as one chat completion. You can add more chat or document components that use the responses of previous components in their prompts.

There are some simple demos in the "discover" page. You can also publish your own chatbots and share them at the share url.

The first demo is a simple document extraction. I copied a few posts from today's hackernews and fed it as a pdf. I then used the document retireval in the prompt for the final chat completion.

The second demo is a teaching assistant chatbot for a data structures course. It is made up of 4 components, 1) Standalone query, which converts the user input to a standalone question (so that the document retrieval can be improved) 2) Thought generator, generates a sentiment based on the user's input (i.e. the user seems stressed about their data structures homework) 3) Document retrieval, retrieves lecture notes from over 400 documents 4) combines all the components into one system prompt for a better response.

Roadmap:
1) Code components - run any code (including network calls)
2) Conditional components - uses gpt functions to decide which components to run (components are the functions)
3) Multitenancy (i.e. publish your bot at {botname}.chatmate.dev
4) Verisoning - chat with multiple versions of your bot (easy comparison of prompts)

If you have any feedback, feel free to reach out at "jmiran15@jhu.edu".
Here's a video essay from an astrophysicist about Avi Loeb (though she's transitioned to the private sector, I believe software engineering but I may be mistaken):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY985qzn7oI [1 hour]

The video predates the spherecule stuff and focuses on his assertion 'Oumuamua was "most likely" debris from an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Tl;Dw: he doesn't seem to have a good reputation within the SETI community, and Dr. Collie's personal opinion is that many of these papers are insubstantial; he often publishes a couple paragraphs proposing a thought experiment or cool idea, more blog posts than research.
> What do you mean by "mix and matching"?

A bit of a contrived example, but think of multiple inheritance but dynamically.

> maybe there's a concrete thing you're thinking of here

Genetic programming would be the main use case of this (of table dispatch, not the "mix and match thing", which ok, is a bit of a corner case

> I've never been more convinced that it is best to make code as statically legible as possible

Given how the average academic code is, I don't think I can disagree with you much

And I think it's also a question of syntax. For those kinds of things a lambda might be more readable, but a typed lambda is still a lambda.
It's infinitely more dangerous to reduce the world to the kind of logic that underlies implying "if you feel a way about one case of X you must feel the same way about all cases of X ever in every context".

If someone bad mouths a cesspit by mixing up which stalking cases they're involved with, when said place was literally founded and named around stalking someone... I reserve the right to say that's an acceptable mistake of absolutely no consequence to a conversation about censorship.

I also reserve the right to do say so without unilaterally declaring that it's ok to make up facts about anyone in existence the moment said they're deemed to have done something wrong. That's the kind of nuance in thinking we aim to instill in children from a very young age.
Blocking a country due to scam call centers is kind of horrifying collective punishment.

The argument in the article is suggesting that blocking something so bad they will not defend it nor do they even want to look like they are defending it should not be done because of the slippery slope, meanwhile you've leapt straight to partitioning the internet cutting off billions of people.
"My friends are reasonable people, if they decided to jump off a cliff it means whatever is chasing us is worse than the fall".
> What is Loeb's reputation among astrophysicists?

Not an astrophysicist but several friends are. The consensus seems to be that he was a good scientist at one point but has turned into a sensationalist attention monger.

> He's written "over 800 scientific papers". Is that... a good thing in his field?

He's been an author on over 800 scientific papers: that includes his work, work he's been a significant collaborator on, and student work he's supervised. 800 is a lot for someone his age but not unheard of. People care much more about paper quality (or less charitably, citation count) than quantity.
Whether or not other formations of molecules, Carbon(organic-based), Silicon, or otherwise similar elements of modest combinational reactive potential (Germanium?), outside of our planetary gravity well, have managed to arrange themselves -- despite increasing entropy, yet due to gravity itself -- in a manner of complexity large enough (in magnitudes) that, as an emergent property of its own existence, has given rise to awareness of itself and, obviously, its abilities to manipulate the environment.

Does 'life' exist, outside our planet, or solar system?

"Are" - awareness of object permanence
"we" - the collective consciousness of our species
"alone" - the ability to distinguish ourselves from our environment
"?" - the ability to ponder abstract thoughts
It does in theory. There are a few taps in the UK that are marketed as being able to produce essentially boiling water (which is what our typical tea bags require). Though we tend not to put quite so much money into our kitchens.

And we would wear those things out, I swear! :-)

I think Americans think British people drink tea out of poshness, when it is the opposite. Most of us also like a posh tea now and then, some of us drink expensive leaf teas... but the majority of what we drink is optimised for fast brewing off boiling water: tea that goes black in the mug in thirty seconds in boiling water.

There is a concept here of "builders tea" -- the kind of thing a builder drinks -- which is sort of the functional equivalent of cheap electric coffee-pot coffee. That is, it's the kind you know isn't the best, but you will still drink it, and that cuts across all class lines. [0]

There is a parallel thing: the "tea urn", which is like an enormous samovar with a lever -- that you still will see in industrial canteens and at church coffee mornings and at gatherings that aren't at cafés or restaurants. Those things actually need a different kind of tea, which brews more slowly and at slightly lower temperatures. The end result is a bit like builders tea. But we wouldn't bother with them at home.

[0] We do absolutely drink coffee at home, but aside from appalling instant coffee we tend to skip over the coffee-pot coffee in the UK, to slightly more expensive ways of making coffee or to dreadful Nespresso machines. You'll see more of those or Bialetti mokas here; old style electric coffee pot percolators are now rather unusual. But Alan Adler's Aeropress particularly caught on here among coffee nerds, because that is really compatible with electric kettle life.
My friends are pretty level-headed, if they are all jumping off the cliff, I bet there’s something really bad chasing them, I should jump too.
In case you want to fix your own machine Ifixit just posted this on youtube:

https://youtu.be/2uCpY3tFTIA?si=3QKEVGyt3hYsbGng
I doubt this is due to illegal things. There's kind of a limit to how much you can do illegally on a video feed. Nevermind that whatever you would be doing would be recorded and streamed to whoever popped into the anonymous room.

The auth requirement is probably just a way to limit load and force people to at least attach their usage rates with an identity of some kind, so if one person or org is using thousands of hours of server load they can start charging for the service.
This is spin at best.

There have been various systems which attempt to reuse existing frequencies by feeding them over un-shielded power lines. And as experts have warned so many times, it will always end up in tears.

If you put radio energy on un-shielded lines, the signals will leak out, causing interference to licensed services. Or will leak in, causing interference from licensed services. And because of the risk of outgoing interference, the signal levels must be kept low, which means that any interference leaking inwards will be much worse.

The only possible remediation is to use good error correction so that the effect is minimised. But of course that slows down the communication rate, so the power authorities don't bother.

And of course this interference can be caused by a large number of industrial electronics, eg motor speed controllers, welders, and so many others.

The point however, is that even if the fault was caused by a flaky VLF control system, then it is very unlikely that it was caused by the relatively low power transmission from an Amateur Radio setup.

To try and blame Radio Amateurs when they are legally operating on a licensed Ham band, using very low power levels is ludicrous.

And to rabbit on about "ultra low frequency DX" only further demonstrates that the power authorities don't have a clue. It's not ULF and whether or not it is DX is irrelevant.

If the power authorities were concerned about interference, they would not have relied on a notoriously unreliable system, or would have run an Optical Fiber along with their Earth/Neutral cables.
Linus Pauling is another example. The only person to ever receive two unshared Nobel prizes, considered one of the top 20 scientists of all time, and he was a huge proponent of megavitamin pseudoscience.