skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I (rather to the displeasure of many people) refer to that kind of OOP Python as "Java fanfic"...
I assume the temptation to use the electric tea kettle whilst having a bath is too great...
I remember when python started, perl was there, and when I wanted to write scripts for some pentesting, perl was the choice over python. But I think the whole “data scientists” crowd is what made it popular and mainstream, they are usually non-programmers, and looking for an easy way to manipulate the numbers, speed or performance isn’t really the priority, that use case is fair, what is not good is the other crowd, people who want to use python for everything and shove it everywhere, backend!? Sure, embedded?! Absolutely, heck even frontend I saw some are trying to use it and marketing it “pure python”.. even ML I believe we would be at a better stage of Python wasn’t the main tool used in that domain.

I can’t say much about ruby, barely used it, but if I were you I will look at Go, it’s definitely better than Ruby and still ahead in terms of performance, not the top one but for its easy of use, it is probably the best choice.
*huge not Hughes
YMMV, but I've only seen Rails fans use any of those.
DOS/4GW was a limited version of DOS/4G. Early versions had trouble with secondary DMA channels on the ISA bus (wreaking havoc with certain 16 bit soundcards). The 4GW version especially was also considered slow and bloated, and allows only up to 64MB of memory to be used. DOS/32A allowed allocation of up to 2GB, and has better performance and a smaller binary.
nah. Amazon's brutal reputation, both in the white collar as well as blue collar worlds, is well known.

and RTO is a discussion topic everywhere now. getting the axe from a known bad-actor for changing their RTO rules wouldn't be a discussion topic.
SF fast food prices gone nuts
The DOSBox wiki only provides a vague statement:

> Once a game uses this, it is expected to run faster and better in DOSBox.

The references on Wikipedia could shed some light

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/32

The most concrete I've noticed is
https://web.archive.org/web/20171224010653/http://dos32a.nar...

> DOS/32 Advanced DOS Extender provides full compatibility with Watcom C/C++ and features one of the most complete software emulations of DOS/4GW, thus allowing the users to "plug" it into the protected mode programs which use DOS/4G, DOS/4GW, DOS/4GW Professional and any other compatible DOS Extenders without the need to modify a single line of code.
>
> DOS/32 Advanced DOS Extender has been designed to be fast, flexible and reliable. It features very fast mode translation and interrupt servicing, ability to configure and bind the DOS Extender to applications, protected mode executable compression, support for allocation of up to 2 GB of memory, Null-pointer protection and more.

There's also HTML docs in the repo:

https://github.com/yetmorecode/dos32a-ng/tree/main/doc
> You must have had at least 35 high-earning years in your wage/earnings record.

Almost half of those years were the opposite of high-earning, and I don’t have 35 years yet. If it is near the max then it is because the fraction of years that are high-earning are carrying a lot of weight. I have been quite poor for a large fraction of my working life.
This is horribly depressing, to the point where if we're so doomed in the next 10 years I ask:

- Why do I care what happens?

- Why do I go on living?

- Most importantly, what is the solution, or mitigation, or any level of alternative other than accepting defeat?

It's harsh, but I feel that at this point, if you're not offering _some_ kind of solution to this issue, then what is the answer other than to smile and wave as we descend into this "apocalypse".

I understand this may not be a popular approach, but I have to _believe_ that we can avoid this scenario, because otherwise I lose all motivation to even try. Even if all is doomed, I have to try.
Yes, I agree. And I think the obvious outcome is that the fines would be unavoidable, in that the solutions would be financially prohibitive. Thus, scooters would be effectively banned from the city.

Either way, I would be happy to see them gone.
For some statistics, "U.S. electricity customers averaged seven hours of power interruptions in 2021." [1].

At first I couldn't find equivalent European statistics, until I changed my search to "minutes", which is how Europe measures outages. The EU average in 2010-2014 was just over 2 hours, and as low as 29 minutes in Germany, or 20 here in Denmark.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54639

[2] https://neon.energy/Neon_Data-quality_European-Commission.pd... (22nd page, figure 5)
As Jeffrey Dahmer (probably) once said: we all sure do love eating other humans. Amiright guys? Guys? We all want to do that, right? Guys?
Why wouldn't you boil just the amount that's needed? Boiling the whole container is unnecessarily wasteful.
It never seemed to me that "ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL." was a good idea. (FORTRAN, on the other hand, made a lot of sense.)
> I haven't seen anything an "A-type" data scientist needs in R/SAS/SPSS that was intrinsic to the language

Not intrinsic to the language but in terms of the ecosystem, for a purely A-type data science workload R is significantly better. dplyr + ggplot vs. pandas + matplotlib isn't even remotely close.

Now, obviously in the real world nothing is ever purely model work, which is why Python more than makes up for the difference.

> I don't want a "data/scientific" language, or a "web" language, or a "UI" language- I want one language that explicitly supports all the usecases well-enough.

Me neither. *taps sign*

>> The difference is that Python doesn't entirely suck as a general-purpose language.
As an aside: I'm not exactly a mechanical engineer, but based on the diagram at the beginning, I think there's an aspect of a swing-set that the author's not considering (although maybe it's mentioned in some of the papers referenced at the bottom)- namely, the fact that the seat is suspended by a _chain_, which you can pull or push to affect your motion. As far as I can tell, this article assumes a _rigid_ swing system.

I don't have the physics chops to work out how that would affect the results this article worked out, but I have to imagine it'd make it possible to get the swing going faster, sooner.
Disagree with YouTube, I think it’s a rare bright spot that serves a different need than TikTok. I think it would thrive if spun out, Google holds it back.

Otherwise, spot on, I just don’t think the execs care about legacy, just $$$.
Mh. Honestly, I've encountered ruby in about 3 primary ways. RoR and Sinatra, which are kinda the same webdev thing, and Chef as a config management. There are additional things, but more supporting things - Rake and Capistrano as deployment systems, Berkshelf and such as supporting things.

Outside of this, it's been perl and python, with python replacing perl after that whole perl 6 fiasco while the language and distros started understanding packaging python.
Presumably, you would chop off the plug on the UK/EU kettle, and replace it with your own NEMA 6-20 plug. No need to install a UK/EU plug in your house. Also works good in case you need to use some sort of weird industrial equipment that needs 240V.
Don't they mean "illegal immigrants"? When did "migrant" come into the lexicon to distort the discussion?
The T series and the W series are the only Thinkpads I ever considered. They are built to be maintainable and somehow upgradable. The sleeker X series make too many compromises (like soldering the RAM) to be so sleek, and it's not something I value at all.

(Typing this from a T14 running Linux.)
This all makes sense. I just don't see someone like Activision caring enough to make their kernel level anti-cheat work cross platforms... which has the effect of keeping people on Windows for no other reason but to play one or a couple games.

To make this work, there has to be some compatibility layer good enough to fool kernel level anti-cheat into allowing the game to run.

I don't know how that would be possible... but that would be the silver bullet, so to speak.
"Group of people kept track of public information" is not really a story, especially in the age of constant surveillance by the federal government on all of our private communications.
It won being the slowest, and most environmentally unfriendly language.
I wonder if it's because Rails creates such a specific set of expectations that when you actually try to do something without it you run into problems. "Oh, that's only a rails thing? I thought that was a ruby thing..."

Ruby's monkey patching convention might make this worse.
> Who is to say that the LLM won't add or remove data points to make the chart "look good"?

I don't think you're thinking creatively enough here. A good system that makes use of these concept (because it's a research project, not a product!) will likely ensure that actions the LLM takes are non-destructive and inherently undoable. For example, if the underlying data was changed by the LLM, you can statically verify that and show a warning, emit an error, or ... something else entirely!
I never said that’s the reason why they do that. It’s possibly one of the reasons why they can, though.

Also I was almost exclusively talking about a specific group in Israel:

50% or so of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel do not work (instead they spend their days studying religious texts or something…). They have massive amounts of children and are supported by the state and/or their wives (78% of whom do have jobs).
Yes, but do they grow because they can? Or do they grow because they should?

Put another way, how many users are going to understand ALL those shades and subtle signals in a don't-make-me-think (i.e., Steve Krug) sort of way?

And how accessible are all those (too often) lower contrast combos?

I appreciate the finer points of your answer but it still feels to me like designers are imposing their form-over-function will on the users, and shouldn't we be past that at this point?

That is, ultimately, was HSL The Problem? Or was is more guilt by being in the wrong place, used in the wrong way, at the wrong time?
I'm so curious to know how hard it would be to make another Linux deck.

Back when Steam was trying to make consoles, they were recruiting others to make the hardware. I'm not sure how available software was then, how open options were then. But I so want to know it compares to today.

It sounded like the whole Deck UI was fairly custom at start? And there has to be a decent bit of custom integration, beyond the shell itself. Tweaks to the base Arch OS & it's packages. Supposedly the Big Picture Mode in Steam has gotten a decent overhaul that makes it more Deck like, but I haven't tried it nor a Deck yet!

I hope someone else out there has the courage to try a Linux gaming deck!
Higher diagnostic skill would be checking the highest-likelihood scenario (that the interviewer had created) first.
"we don't hire unlucky people" is a lame hack to solve the problem of too many applications and not enough time.

this is an attempt to cut bodies, and hire on new workers at a lower rate. AZMN knows damn well that most of them won't move and is counting on them self-terminating.
Working with images just got easier in Visual Studio
PyPy and IronPython
It does seem feasible to equal the performance of a 3 kilowatt kettle with batteries!

=-=-=

Question #1: Can we get 3 kilowatts of power out of some lithium ion batteries?

There are high-current versions of lithium batteries. Conveniently, they're widely available because they're used for vaping.

I found a battery that looks reasonable (https://www.18650batterystore.com/products/molicel-p42a). Its stats: 4200 mAh capacity, 3.6V nominal, 45A continuous discharge, and retail cost $4.99.

At 3.6V and 45A, each battery should output 162 watts. Rounding to 150 watts, we'd need 20 of them to make 3 kilowatts. So $100 worth of batteries.

=-=-=

Question #2: How long will they last? Long enough to boil water?

At the 45-amp discharge rate and with 4.2 amp-hour capacity, it should take 4.2/45 hours = 6 or 7 minutes to discharge them.

By my math, it takes 335 kilojoules to heat a liter of water from 20°C to 100°C. A 3 kilowatt kettle should be able to do it in 335/3 = 112 seconds.

So the batteries should be able to boil water around 3 times before discharged.

=-=-=

Those calculations are for running on battery alone. Since you can get 1500W out of an American 120V outlet, you could make a kettle that draws 1500W from the wall and boosts it with 1500W of battery power. (I'd use two heating elements.) Then you only need $50 of batteries.

The kettle is going to be a bit heavy, though. The batteries are 70g each, so 20 of them is 1.4 kg. Also, I don't know much batteries heat up when cranking out 45 amps, but I bet the answer is a lot, and you may need active cooling and/or thermal shutoff.
I'm not sold on this. Often I type the output I want to get, and reverse the code to get there. and that's faster because it's now all auto completing.
I don’t understand why downloading code is such a difficult feature for a website builder — I get the competitive aspect. BUT! It would bring so many users to your system and really would be great marketing — why not compete by giving people what they want and just practice love in not lock in? Especially when you’re already there with the OSS license?

Seems a real missed opportunity.
AI is coming, AI is coming!!!

Sure it is. We just have to wait with religious conviction for intelligence to "emerge" because no one really knows how to define it or produce it.

Generative "word salad" produced from ingredients found on the internet has little in the way of intelligent nutrients. Not just my opinion but also that of Stanford researchers.

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-ostensible-emergent-abilit...
Ok, fine. List ten games that work better (not equal, or equivalently; better) with your aforementioned configuration on Linux than on Windows 10/11 and I'll actively go test each one of them and post the results on YouTube.

I can just about guarantee they will all run fine.
> most medical interventions for cancer do not prolong life

Specifically, medical interventions for cancer AS A RESULT of some types of screening do not prolong life.

Medical interventions for symptomatic cancer, and some types of screening, certainly do prolong life, and quality of life.

There are so many confounding factors in this it's hard to do something like a pareto breakdown, but it would certainly be interesting to see.
Not by the time anyone in their 30s (or younger) now will retire. Social Security is running out of money. It’s also barely a pension.
Not every one of us work in ad-tech. And screw those business models also, btw.
I'll argue that python is very alive in the system management/scripting space.

Because of the library support (especially for data) it's also popular as api servers. It's not as popular for entire applications but is still very active.

EDIT: Django is actually about equal or more popular then nodejs based on google trends. Not sure that means anything as idk how many people google "nodejs" when working on it.
> They effectively disabled an entire industry by suggesting an obsolete stack

Interesting opinion but not supported at all by evidence. Most non-Google datasets are small and stored on off-the-shelf heterogenous hardware, so HDFS / Mapreduce for streaming OLAP is a great fit. Cassandra (BigTable) and Parquet (Dremel) plus Cloudera’s Impala had much quicker time-to-market when large-scale BI became more relevant.

“Obsolete” for Google problems sure, but Google problems largely only happen at Google. Stuff like ad targeting and ML look a lot different for products outside the Chocolate Factory.
Metas Twitter clone.
They all offer this, but the key labels (obviously) don’t change, so it’s still a plus to buy one with the layout that’s “correct” to you.
the congo has plenty of hierarchy and belief in strongman leaders.
Google ends Pixel Pass subscription
I don't really ever see Mac gaming growing unless a radical shift in philosophy happens at Apple. Similar things have been said about Linux but the reason gaming has been growing on Linux is because no one body lords over it and Valve and others have made a concerted effort to help Linux gaming. Apple LOVES to have control and unless they can create a controlled environment that can make them money off gaming (i.e. selling games off the app store and taking a % of the sale) we won't see them make a serious effort. There might be a few within who are passionate and make things like GPT that give people hope but higher ups will inevitably ask WHY?
Is that related to toDesktop which was also on HN today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306411)? The download link leads to dl.todesktop.com/{someHash}.

Bit weird, what is the relation here? And why not mentioning?
Lua is actually a much better embeddable language, but it's not as popular and has its quirks.
It's pointless and a waste of money battling baldness. Most real women don't give a shit if the man of their desires is bald or not. If baldness is so 'ugly' why do so many men shave their heads?

As the old sayings go:

"Empty barns need no thatch."

"God made some perfects heads that are bald, on the rest he put hair."

'Why waste good hormones growing hair?"
BS1363 plugs are joyfully oversized, yes (and make excellent caltrops if dropped) but they are in other ways excellently engineered. Inherently polarised, fuses to protect the appliance wiring[0], socket shutters that open on the earth pin only to prevent vigorous insertion of metal by children, sleeved conductors to avoid shock when partially inserted, essentially unbendable...

Plus, I will fight anyone who suggests that 1400W is enough for a decent kettle ;-)

[0] Admittedly this was mostly included to offset the idiosyncrasies of final ring circuit wiring, but it's still better than just a big breaker.
With a Progressive Web App you can just download it as a desktop or mobile app by clicking on the download app icon in the URL bar
Iscabbs Oral History Project
If you are either a current or former user of the vintage BBS system known as ISCABBS please help keep the history of this vintage computer platform alive by contributing your audio remembrances to the project.
Reliable Desktop with Btrfs, Snapper, and Rollbacks on Ubuntu (OpenSUSE Style)
UK is in Europe and yet this isn't true here. Nearly all residential properties in this country are wired for single phase 220V. It's true on the continent though.
> develop its own ways of dealing with people who use it to harm others

So far, every "way" that's been developed of dealing with people who harm others has itself been used to harm others in more extreme ways than the harm they were supposed to mitigate.
Lenovo’s choices with U vs. P variants are confusing sometimes. For example, why on earth would you try to cram a hot power hungry P-series CPU into the X1 Nano, a machine with tight size/weight constraints reducing cooling and battery capacity, like they do? Everything about that model screams U series but you can’t build one with that config.
That’s a good point. I assume the author meant jumping by ejecting oneself with no momentum transfer. But winning a competition by following the unstated rules isn’t always the right choice :)

You can also jump arbitrarily far by jumping off the swing at its lowest point.
CVE-2020-19909: A Controversial Vulnerability for cURL
It does contain dairy, but they can't legally call it ice cream. (Or at least they can't call their shakes "milkshakes": https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/faq/desserts-and-shakes.h... )

Q: Why don't you call your 'shakes,' 'milkshakes'?

A: Great question. Our shakes contain milk from our reduced-fat soft serve, which makes them thick and creamy. Dairy regulations actually vary from state to state on what can officially be called a 'milkshake.' We like to keep it simple and refer to them strictly as 'shakes.'

(Note they say "reduced-fat soft serve" and not "ice cream")
So the risk would be reduced. Since if the failure causes a electricity to travel anywhere other than the neutral it will cause the gfci to trip. A scenario where a device would pull more power would be a short developing in a heating element reducing its resistance. So it would just pull more power but all of the power is still going to the neutral and wouldn't trip the GFCI.

Also with replacing all your breakers it can increase safety. But first the breakers are not cheap. Second it can lead to a lot of nuisance trips, albeit that is better than it used to be with modern breakers.
I'll bite. 3.x was not that incompatible - I had zero trouble moving to it, because I had handpicked my dependencies throughout the years and the minimal syntax tweaks were exceptionally easy to flag and convert.
Educational Sensational Inspirational Foundational
Whatever in the NamedTuples do you mean?
All imo but in the beginning Python took Perl marketshare for scripting because it was simply less "esoteric". 10 Python programmers wrote similar programs to solve the same task whereas 10xPerl programmers would be more creative. All while coming with "batteries included" which helped to get stuff done quickly. And Python has always played well with C so you could optimize if need be.

At the same time, Python was a pretty early adopter for the server backend (and stuff like Zope existed) and also had great interopt with databases but PHP was a stong contender/#1. I'd say Rails timing was off by a bit or Ruby would have gotten more momentum (at that time there were already many things in Python land to compete like Django etc.). Meanwhile JS was still pretty cludgy to use and required a lot of hoops just to set up an environemnt and things like node came a bit late as well or JS would have taken more "web backend marketshare" from Python immediately. There was a window when the Python 2->3 transition slowed things down (imo) but overall it went slow but smooth for such a big transition.

Python was also an early player in other niches like security (both scripting and tooling).

And when ML happened to take off (grossly simplified) once again Python was there as an early player with good tooling and support for most things and with excellent ties to scientific computing.

It also got good support early from some key players, most noteably Google.

So basically, Python was always there when it mattered and "good enough", came with "batteries included" and the Python community has always been great + willing to quickly get working tooling and libraries in all relevant areas. Importantly Python has always been beginner friendly enough to attract a decent chunk of non programmer specialists from other fields that used it to dive into programming (scientific computing in general but biology comes to mind as a typical use case).
You mean, don't pay the fines & business as usual ;)
That's how you end up fat.
I mean, I can see it going pretty south if some people decide that a certain skin color qualifies as an "oppressive affliction"
This already exists just with surrogacy as there are both egg and sperm banks available to those who need them.

A lot of Hollywood stars these days are using surrogacy, it is quite common: https://people.com/parents/celebrities-who-have-used-surroga...