skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very little to learn in terms of key syntax + a lot of Real Words allows it to be an approachable scripting language for non-computer-specialists. The library ecosystem allows it to be used broadly, but it's not unique in this regard. It just happens to correspond with a huge boom in accessible computing resources & a desire to use them in a variety of fields.
Maz (ruby author) is nice and so we are nice, isn’t so bad. It’s twee sounding but saying you are going to follow the example set by the founder is absolutely fine. Is it any worse than the Python ‘benevolent dictator for life’ example?
That last article indicates that the proposed structure will have to solve the sort of problems that a space elevator would take. We may as well pin our hopes on a pallet of umbrellas launched towards L1.

Has there been any test solar shade hardware launched?
Opendoas isn't immune to security problems, either, [1] but I try to have a policy of trying to use smaller programs and libraries of higher quality and sudo just isn't fitting the bill here. In production systems neither really needs to be installed/enabled (especially just to faciliate a local user to do whatever root can do), and su does just fine for administration tasks as long as you don't do something stupid like leave it logged in on tmux.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15901
Anecdotal, but I've been using the doas in Arch's repository since switching to it. So far, I haven't come across anything that requires sudo instead of doas.
True story some amateur radio hams managed to nearly torch our shops substation relay with radios.

Basically our main transformer switchgear was opening and closing on its own every few minutes. We run a diesel truck repair company and it was killing everything from the front office to the air compressors and anything in between. The electric company told us there's an ultra low frequency "DX" the hams sometimes get into that their own power lines use to communicate with substations. Pretty silly. We lost the air conditioner and the boombox that year.
Ok. I am very familiar with the medical device industry, and how they are used in healthcare. I am not familiar with food services equipment.

What I’m having trouble with is seeing a parallel with the franchisees position in this story, in medical devices.

If you’ve seen something you think is equivalent , I’d be interested in hearing about it , but it just doesn’t match my experience.

From and engineering and prod dev point of view I can see some parallels, fwiw. That is pretty obvious .
When I first moved to China, I wondered what that “pop” was when I plugged things in and out. Turns out, most power outlets aren’t grounded there, and having lived in the states for most of my life, I never encountered that before.
Original asker here, thank you for this comment. Lots of people are arguing about the pure merits of the languages, but the gap in usage IMO is way too big to be explained by “Python has only one way of doing something” or “Python is multi-paradigm.”

Understanding that Python was established years before Ruby was being discussed answers the question of why Python is preferred for many use cases.
Literal Nazi's are also "people I disagree with". How MUCH you disagree with them doesn't change the two stipulated facts their.

They are people.

And you disagree with them.

Free Speech doesn't exist for people to be agreeable. It's only purpose is specifically to protect controversial statements.
>You're not taking the amps into account. Voltage without the amps on the circuit breaker is pretty useless. Quickly Googling indicates that a standard residential circuit breaker in Japan is 30A

Sorry, that's wrong. The breakers on my 100V outlets here in Tokyo are 15A IIRC (I'm not home at the moment). 30A sounds like an air conditioning circuit. 30A on a regular outlet would require huge wires; they're not going to wire a whole apartment with that stuff.

I actually have a kettle here, bought in Japan. It's rated at 900W. It's OK for boiling a single cup of water, but it's definitely not quick. Faster than the microwave though: microwaves here are 500W or 600W (frequently selectable), and the high-end ones go up to 900W. All this should tell you something about the amp capacity of the kitchen outlets here.
Javascript got popular because it was the only option to program for the web. That's it.

Python and other dynamic languages don't "automatically manage types", they just let you not write the types down in the code. The types still exist and need to be managed by the programmer. There's zero cognitive load improvement there.

As for the AI stuff, lol. I see no point discussing concepts so far out of reach they're in the realm of sci-fi. What you're describing is just magic compared to what we can do in 2023.

We already have languages that automatically pick the best algorithms by the way, in the form of declarative languages like SQL. They don't seem to work very well outside of the realm of fetching data from databases.
While I strongly empathize with the author's feelings on this (I've had similar feelings in my own field), I also want to voice an opposing viewpoint:

> Good/useful/valuable/important/positive-ROI science doesn't necessarily require everyone to know what the major discoveries are nor even care when 60% of studies fail to replicate.

Handful of reasons I feel this way:

- If I care deeply about exactly 10 of the 100 publications in my sub-field, and you care about a different 10, it may not matter much to either of us when 60 of them are later refuted. I may have not cared about those specific conclusions, already been skeptical about them, or have several other studies and my own unpublished results to maintain my confidence in the broader idea.

- While we all have great examples of dramatic upheavals in _other_ people's fields — pick your favorite of cosmology, genetic engineering, mathematics, etc. — when you're immersed in it, science is much more incremental, subtle, and complex. Congratulations! You've ventured on beyond the Dunning-Kruger effect. Scientific progress is not a series of miracles.

- Relatedly, I'm guessing most scientists are much more aware of the shortcomings in their own and their peers' research. Do keep this in mind while reading the perspective of an insider. Be skeptical, by all means, but not only of psychology.
I'm not a psychologist, but I believe CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) has made pretty good progress in the recent decades. Is that correct?

I think studying well defined and important things is... extremely important :) I think for example it should be possible to measure remission from depression.

I also think though that psychology could 'make philosophy out of its physics' (in an analogy with an experimental field like chemistry or material science), and form theories about happiness, well being, etc.. that are grounded in insightful philosophies. And then try to measure or make some progress and recommendations to guide the field (like, how should we define well being, how should we measure it, and what kind of interventions help it).
Yes management should change their stance. Workers make the thing go, managers are just an offshoot.
Arm-assembly.com is now leg-assembly.com
also see: https://twitter.com/fox0x01/status/1696216492440703435
> Yes I am. If Jehovah's Witnesses come to my door I am perfectly within my rights to tell them to go away. I don't have to go to church if I don't want to. I'm perfectly allowed not to associate with racists and homophobes.

> Businesses are not allowed to discriminate against protected classes, true, but being an asshole is not a protected class, and every bar and restaurant still has a sign saying they can refuse service to anyone.

Clearly I'm not talking about interpersonal association. We're talking about your freedom when conducting business, which is normal to regulate in the U.S in this way.

> I'd be willing to agree if I didn't remember the last few months of vociferous support for repealing Section 230, having the government take over social media platforms and make TOS's and most forms of moderation illegal. Even make "algorithms" illegal.

Do you think I support repealing section 230 when I said "Not saying sites can't have a TOS"?

> On the one hand, I get the free speech argument

Nothing I said has anything to do with free speech. As stated above, I think it's fine for sites to moderate themselves in a partisan manner.

> but on the other hand, there is a right-wing accelerationist agenda using that argument to push the Overton window of acceptable regulations far enough that it becomes illegal, de facto or de jure, for any site to engage in any form of moderation. I don't believe for a second that people are going to be satisfied with simply regulating ISPs, even if I'm far more sympathetic to the argument that they should be considered infrastructure than websites themselves.

There are other threats besides right wing extremism, like the centralization of power. Even if the power is wielded by some collective consciousness, I have interests that are not shared by the collective, so I don't want them having the ability to dictate my life. I think many people would also share this concern, so the government is a good way to solve that.

> For the time being, the market seems to be working. Conservative and right-wing alternatives are rising to take advantage of sites being pushed out of the mainstream, and I think that's acceptable.

That seems to be the exact opposite of what you want, doesn't it?Extremism is very popular and profitable.
Goes to show there is no pleasing everybody
Was python really ahead of shell for scripting in 1994?
From an outsider's perspective (NZ) Germany's democracy looks a lot healthier than the US's.
GFCI is not a magic “make everything perfectly safe” - you could electrocute yourself to very dead without tripping a GFCI if all the power went down the main wires and none went to ground.
> the best college level introductory course probably should not have been SICP based but Python

i saw this linked on here recently: https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/
Noise cancelling headphones do nothing for some kid kicking your seat from behind or a kid so squirmy he can't stay within the confines of his seat.
Instant interbank transfer is basically everywhere[1] - China, India, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc...

[1] https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2022/Engli...
It's certainly possible; whether it makes any economic sense at all is a different matter. I can't imagine much of a market for a device like this. Basically you're proposing a relatively complicated device (compared to a simple tea kettle, though modern ones have a handy auto-shut-off feature) for the sole purpose of boiling water a little faster. Americans aren't big tea drinkers in the first place, so it's hard to imagine many would pay 5x-10x as much (guessing) for a fancy battery-boosted tea kettle just to boil water a little faster. I suppose it's possible though; Li-ion batteries are pretty commonplace these days.
Excellent observations, allow me to propose a semi-ironic counter position: at the time of its greatest success, SC had a very unique value proposition: instead of pay to win, it was pay to imagine winning. They were selling the daydream of getting one's entire attention and and ambition consumed in a game like a fourteen year old, to greying forty-years olds who grew up core gamers but who stopped a long time ago sinking quality hours into games. Now either hardly any hours at all, or just downwinding hours. The reality of PvP might be bleak, but an imagination of PvP is the best of all imagined gaming. Of course this form of virtual virtual entertainment can't go on forever because it's always been built on the promise of one day ditching one of the virtuals, but it's been quite a ride, one of its kind.
Good thoughts. I think the idea that a lot of our mental disorders are actually rational responses to a disordered community/society has a lot of merit. We are social creatures, we need to be considered in that context.
> Most of us are comfortable oppressing people we disagree with. The reality is that you can't silence voices you don't like without making yourself vulnerable to the same treatment.

I’m deeply ambivalent about a site like Cloudflare censoring anything but the logic here… absolutely not.

You can classify speech. It’s not terribly difficult to classify when something is an outright call for racial warfare. If I were a person calling for a ban to such speech my own speech wouldn’t automatically be subject to the same criteria.
I'm confused because the issue seems to be about Crunchbits but most of the article seems to cover Kiwi Farms and only mentions Crunchbits once.
50 shades of Cray
That’s usually because the lights draw such little power that a short at line amperage could turn them very hot without tripping a breaker.

The fuse prevents that.
For what it's worth, I used to play GTA online a lot and was getting bored with it. For a last hurrah, I had my account hacked by a friend to give me billions. I bought all the stuff I wanted even though I was told to be careful with buying too much (as if I was money laundering).

I opened it up recently and my money was back to normal. I imagine I did something that got me detected. In all honesty, it was a blessing, because I realized I was only playing the game for the addictive grind and I didn't enjoy the game itself. The online mode is like a second job, and it's exacerbated by the highest rewards being specifically designed to grief new players. Rocket bikes with car seeking missiles really killed the game for me
Yeah, the updates I’m still getting on parity-with-AWS tickets from before the pandemic just reminds me that nobody at Google gets promoted for removing warts.

They did close my textbook example of that but it took half a decade to implement HTTP to HTTPS redirects, which basically every large customer wants to make compliance easier:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35904733
Yeah, YOShInOn ingests enough arXiv articles that I think it should give them special processing (e.g. i have a pet peeve for cs papers <4 pages that might support a conference talk but don’t really stand alone.) The link to a GutHub archive that hasn’t been opened yet is another pet peeve, really I should queue those until the Gitahub link works although that ticket will wait itself wait in a queue for a long time.
I'm curious why you think a newer version would be easier. The Wii, after all, is from 2006. It used an IBM processor that used what's essentially PowerPC G3, which Apple started using in 1997.
Mastodon isn't one use case. It's a collection of radically different use cases. The way personalized follow suggestions works is completely different than how home timelines work, which is completely different than how tracking followers works, which is completely different than how search works, and so on. I can list dozens of features that work completely differently from one another. Yet they're all expressed elegantly, scalably, and with high-performance on the exact same set of abstractions.

If you peruse our blog post and documentation, you can see for yourself how general purpose Rama is. You can even try it for yourself with the build we released.

https://blog.redplanetlabs.com/2023/08/15/how-we-reduced-the...
https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/index.html
https://redplanetlabs.com/docs/~/downloads-maven-local-dev.h...
I think perhaps your comment was misunderstood (hence the downvotes), but I think it was a fair take. If a company wants to engage in arbitrary (and especially partisan) censorship then they should not be afforded safe harbor. Why should safe harbor be granted to a company which allows hate speech from one group, but actively censors identical speech from another group? By doing so they create an actively hostile atmosphere toward one group or another, and they are no longer "simple carriers", but active participants.
I am 100% okay with deplatforming fascist genocidal maniacs spreading hate
This probability model doesn't seem to add anything to just straightforward reasoning about how each barrier attenuates the intensity of the sound (or other signal) by a certain fraction.

E.g. 50% is -3 dB, then 25% is another -6 dB for at total of -9 dB.

1> (log10 .5)
-0.301029995663981
2> (* 10 (log10 .5))
-3.01029995663981
3> (* 10 (log10 .25))
-6.02059991327962
4> (* 10 (log10 (* .5 .25)))
-9.03089986991944

Just logs turning multiplication into addition, like your grandpa's slide rule.

In electronics we use a factor of 20 for voltage cuts/boosts. Half the voltage is -6 dB, because power/intensity (Watts) is voltage squared: half the Volts is a quarter the Watts (P = V^2/R).
> Congratulations! You've ventured on beyond the Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...

I find the irony in this context particularly rich.
Was simply for readability, as in similar to English prose. What if the length of my list is greater than 10?

if len(mylist) > 10:
pass

Only general things dealing with common needs are global, list-centric methods are on the list where they belong. I learned Java before Python and don't really miss value.toString() or value.length() much.
Chicago TV Crew Reporting on Robberies Is Robbed at Gunpoint
They killed the apple watch app which has made my life more difficult. App switching, getting out my phone when previously I just needed to look at my wrist.

All in all this is a pass from me because I don't believe Okta are focused enough on their end users. Too guided by the critical mass that exists at the top.
Beginners and non-coders find it really easy to start with, because so much code reads and writes like psuedo-code.

The middle-ground coders - i.e. those that mainly use programming as a tool to solve some specific problems - but rarely delve into full-blown software engineering projects / complex programs / systems programming / etc. found Python to be really easy due to all the provided libraries, and lack of boilerplate code.

The "true" programmers use Python for smaller projects, like proof-of-concept / prototype work, and then continue in a language that's easier to work with as the codebase grows.

Of course, there are many more beginners / novices that will only briefly touch Python, than seasoned pros, hence the rise in popularity. Python is no longer scaring away people from coding.
The guy who said "Deplatforming Works" is now getting deplatformed.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjbp9d/do-social-media-bans-...
I'm a scientist with an extensive scientific/numerical computing background. I was taught PL/I as my first language.

My "load bearing" language path was Fortran -> (Forth) -> C -> C++(YUCK!) -> Python/Numeric/Numpy/scipy/et al.

I'm now dabbling with Julia.

In addition to Numpy (and it's predecessors) making array computation dead easy to express (slices!) for me personally it boiled down to Guido having taste that matched my own.

I'm sure that YMMV...
I swear my little kid self swung further than 2m
Monkeypatching exists in both ruby and Python.
Check out https://readyset.io as well — it’s an incremental view maintenance system
people who optionally break the social contract by pushing hate and genocide as an agenda cannot be protected by the social contract.

They are the ones who are breaking it. Not me. Therefore, they are the ones who are removing themselves from the protections of freedom of speech.
The line isn't drawn at "literal Nazis", because for all the criticisms one can lob at KF it is clearly not dedicated to Naziism. It platforms Nazis, for sure, but if the argument is either that a large blast radius that hits a lot of non-Nazi content is acceptable or the old "well if you platform literal Nazis you are a literal Nazi, sorry" fallacy, it's not good.
I'm building a local tool to read my system, files, and Git in sequence with ChatGPT API(and Gorilla and other LLMs soon)to avoid cut and paste threads by providing file data and specific situational(system) awareness.
Side note, but Wikipedia editors decided to censor KiwiFarms url, which I think is very interesting.
Putin’s Forever War
> But then I saw what reddit moderation turned into

People like the harp on how bad reddit moderation is but I personally haven't seen it. Maybe I'm just in smaller communities or I choose the subreddits I follow more carefully, but I haven't seen cases of moderator abuse and if I ever do (usually as an outside observer to some drama in a different community) then I take a mental note to not follow that subreddit in the future.
I'm not giving my phone number to a company with a history of poorly handled security problems.

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As a person who uses C++, I must say something that also applies, somewhat, to Java.

We have all the cool kids like Kotlin, Rust, etc.

However, when it is about finishing a project, beating C++ or Java ecosystems is almost impossible.

Besides that, C++ has improved a lot over time. It still has its warts and knives but you can code very reasonable C++ with a few guidelines and there are also linters, and -Wall -Wextra -Weverything -Werror. That takes you quite far in real life provided you have a reasonable amount of training.

I would choose C++ over Rust any day. The only hope I have for C++ successors are Cppfront and Carbon and they are highly experimental. As successors those two fit the bill.

There is a third one, my favorite. It is this one: https://www.hylo-lang.org/
but I am not sure how compatible it will/would be.
This would be remotely tenable if the only graph in the article, essentially a histogram and seemingly the article’s purpose for being written, given the domain, also included distributions for other assets, including venture. (Venture isn’t the only fat-tailed asset.)
How can investors get exposure on shorting the housing market in flood areas?
My friends and I used to do the same thing. Even without drawing your body in while spinning the momentum and height make it possible to pretty easily flip off the swing.

Thanks for reminding me of this memory :)
I don't even know whether I should read pop-science books any more. Or read anything any more.

At one point the 10,000 hours rule was so popular that it almost became common sense. And it's bull. Ego depletion was so well known. And boom it's not replicable either. Is everything just food pyramid?
Same here, engineer with no formal CS training. A long time ago I would write macros with Visual Basic. When it came time to jump to a more robust language that is also cross-platform, Python was the obvious choice. It's readable, easy to learn, has great support and the PyPI library is huge.
Freedom is speech protects people from retaliation by the government. It is not and was never meant to protect the infringing upon other people’s right to a good life.

Do you have any more alt-right copy pasta bullshit to spread?
Jassy's reported ~$200M CEO compensation package is spread over a decade (not annual), and Jassy has significant Seattle investments, including a stake in Seattle's new NHL team and a ~$7M house
Not as much as you might think. See, for example, Lynch syndrome. An inheritable condition that dramatically increases your risk of certain kinds of cancer. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lynch-syndrom...
If that blew you away you really should try Ruby:

def call(fn, val) = fn.(val)
call(->(n){ n + 5 }, 10)