skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find anything specific on how these ANSI colors could be converted to rgb, other than that they are actually just color requests and are dependent on terminal configuration.

Could you share what are your RGB expectations for every message type you have set in your code?
relevant pre-print is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.08665.pdf

that'll be my evening reading :)
Should they also be allowed to swap out their cola products with generic brands? RC Cola instead of Coca Cola won't hurt anybody (much safer than tampering with a dairy machine!), but franchisees are made to buy Coca Cola specifically. Agreeing to this sort of thing is part of the deal of being a franchise.
I think they meant back before either Ruby or Python hit their stride, not afterwards.
Yeah the only situation I can think of only 120v being available in a house is if it is a separate unit running off a 120v sub panel from the main building. The other option would be some off grid setups for like a tiny home might only run 120v. That is mostly because anything that would require 240v would be too power hungry to run off of the solar system.
Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud

Yes it’s commercial but you can run it on any cloud or on prem.
> Many tools shipped python as an embedded scripting language.

I had dabbled with Python before encountering it (in its embedded form), but once I started using it inside ESRI's ArcGIS software, it became my go to language for many, many tasks.
fwiw this is from 2018 and i would say the conclusion from those who were around pinterest at this time and shortly after would not be nearly as positive
Puppet was pretty awesome. We used it to maintain and provision nearly every kind of software across a few thousand machines, even though it had a worrying tendency to remove user accounts (we once got locked out of the master...)
The VAX had byte addressable memory, the DPS8/M word 36 bit word addressable, so I suspect that byte oriented instructions might have an edge on the VAX. Contrawise, the DPS8/M memory bus width was 72 bits, so it might have had an edge in double wide operations. I suspect the dominate factor would be that the DPS8/M was core memory at 1 us access time; I don't know the memory bandwidth of the VAX but I would assume it was faster.
Are safety concerns alleviated here by GFCI breakers? In what cases could this appliance pull more amps than it was designed for? I know it's not required for circuits outside kitchen and bathroom, but I was thinking about just replacing all the breakers with combined GFCI/AFCI ones (especially given that my circuits are so old that there's no ground on them, in which case code I believe mandates that the outlets are GFCI-protected and labeled as "no ground").
Nothing to do with well built usually, just designed to work in all regions (specifically, Japan, which has 100V power for because of... reasons).
I don't know why they bother cutting those American shells open, after all there's lots of ukrainian petal mines lying around.
For me, the Ruby community's comfort with monkey patching was a big turn off. In Python, you can hack around on class and replace its methods, but if you do, it's expected that your coworkers might stick you in a dunk tank and sell tickets. It's just not the thing that's done.
The community-building/maintaining aspect of religion is actually appealing to me, as a non-believer. It has the potential to be very pro-social (when it realizes that you have to attract people now, not via religious fiat) at a time when everything else is just a trainwreck, societally-speaking
Ooo we can help (I'm affiliated with Weaviate). You mind posting it here? https://forum.weaviate.io/
McDonalds employees pretty consistently can't even get "no pickles" right. Does it really surprise people if McDonalds corp wants all dairy machine maintenance done by actual professionals instead of overworked/disinterested/whatever/etc teenagers?

If Taylor were scamming McDonalds, or were bribing somebody in McDonalds corp to go along with it, McDonalds corp lawyers would be crawling all over them. That evidently isn't happening, so it seems safe to assume that Taylor is doing exactly what McDonalds corp thinks they should be doing. If a burger shop proprietor doesn't like this, they're free to open their own burger shop without a McDonalds franchise. It shouldn't be hard for them to sell a superior product, but they'd lose access to McDonald's reputation. And protecting that reputation is probably the entire point of this ice-cream machine drama.
Someone else linked to https://thennt.com/nnt/screening-mammography-for-reducing-de...

Quote:

> "Two recent data reviews deserve further mention. The United Kingdom commissioned an independent review after dissenting voices swelled, for the purpose of better informing shared decision making and educational materials about the harms and benefits of screening.6 Unfortunately the review concluded that screening mammography trials were inadequately powered to detect an impact on all-cause mortality, and therefore used breast cancer mortality as a primary outcome. They concluded a 20% reduction and used this in their discussion of harms and benefits. As noted above, cause-specific mortality is both scientifically unstable (conclusion reversal is common when all-cause mortality is considered)7 and disease-centered rather than patient centered (patients would prefer to avoid death altogether). Thus, either screening mammography does not save lives or else we have inadequate data to say whether it does or does not. In neither case can a benefit be scientifically claimed."

> "They concluded a 20% reduction and used this in their discussion of harms and benefits."

We want to do things that will help people. On an individual level, people have the right to make decisions for themselves. At the population level, we should do things that can be proven to be helpful. This leads to decisions that feel heartless - denying people a vaccine during a deadly pandemic while it is being tested; delaying or denying introduction of a new medicine that shows only marginal improvements over an old one.

So their independent review showed benefit by changing the criteria for comparison. We want to help people, and medical interventions feel like helping. Unfortunately, sometimes they can be the equivalent of The Politician's Fallacy: "There was a problem. I did something about the problem. Therefore the problem is fixed"

> "As noted above, cause-specific mortality is both scientifically unstable (conclusion reversal is common when all-cause mortality is considered)7 and disease-centered rather than patient centered (patients would prefer to avoid death altogether)."

People die of /something/. That thing becomes a target to fix; and we deploy resources to fix it. We become emotionally connected to some interventions. (Speaking personally, I'm participating in a bike ride in a few weeks to raise money for breast cancer screenings.) Some of those resources are beneficial, some are not, some may be harmful.

> "Thus, either screening mammography does not save lives or else we have inadequate data to say whether it does or does not. In neither case can a benefit be scientifically claimed."
Interviews with Donald Knuth and Niklaus Wirth from 1985
You can just put noise canceling headphones on and completely turn off the distractions when you need periods of focus.
I knew about Python in 2006 or so when got into Linux, and at that time (when Python 2 was a thing, iirc it just came out) it was very popular between the FOSS world for doing apps and GUIs (I even toyed a lot with PyGTK), whereas I felt Perl was much more about more "serious" stuff like text processing and kind of a sh language with steroids. I just barely heard about Ruby and wasn't sure what it was its purpose - I just heard about its "gems" but not about Rails. Still as both Python and Perl were FOSS I supposed their niche and user base were going to be around it, as many things FOSS at the time.

At 2008 I started my graphic design studies and I just pretty had to forgot about programming (which in hindsight if I had kept doing it I would have a very strong programming background and maybe my life would be much better now, but it is what it is) - but was very surprised to discover around 2011 or so that it seemed _everyone_ was using Python. Like I just blinked and it took over the world somehow.
The author mentions it in the first paragraph as something he was comparing his laptop to, then inexplicably decides that 8 hours of battery is good enough.

What planet are you from where battery life is an unimportant metric for a portable computer?
Well my point with the examples was not the ".78" part, it was the "7" vs "17".

In your counter example, I would just round the imperial units to 5 feet 11 inches or 6 feet in everyday conversation. My point is that whether it's 180 vs 18 vs 1.8 all of those powers of ten are just a little bit less ergonomic because they do not fit nicely onto my two counting hands. 5 and 6 do fit nicely on my hands (and in my head) and so are just a tiny bit nicer to use every day.

To be honest, if the meter was closer to the size of a foot the metric system would have the same advantage. The powers of ten part is the good part of the system, not necessarily the absolute sizes of the base units.

I agree that if I grew up with it I would think it is fine. It is just what you're used to. I'm just expressing an opinion, I don't know why everyone needs to downvote me, I keep saying that metric is better.
Good timing, our company is in the midst of migrating from Go and JS over to Python. I'm struggling with this. Yet, most developers feel they will be happier writing Python for our web application.

I don't know why Python has outshined its contemporaries like Perl, PHP, Java and Ruby. It has done a great job, and there is probably much to be admired.
I’ll take a stab at it:

Python is good enough at everything.
Thank you. I clicked around all over that awful website and wasn't able to figure out how to see the next message in the chain.
UFC NBA and NFL Want to Fight Live Streaming Piracy with Instant DMCA Takedowns
Yup! I've got a 120->100V step down transformer for my Minidisc player.
Don’t see how that matters
Jupyter (Lab) is the best thing since sliced bread. (I don't know if similar environments exist for JS or Ruby.)
When I was young back in 1960s and 70s, many men drove around with a beer can open and drinking.. it wasn't even against the law. And if you were caught driving drunk it wasn't even a big deal.. why did this big change happen? Well a lot of it has to do with a power grab and a money grab by municipalities and police.. and the politicians are always looking for some crisis to opportunitize and grab some headlines and more power.. same thing for seat belts.. power and money.. there was a lot of propaganda put out against drinking and driving and against not having seat belts, and human beings are very susceptible to propaganda especially when they are young
Leadership is remarkably good at explaining what are wholly self-serving decisions in corpspeak, which everyone gets a laugh about on memegen, but then they still buy the most outlandish justifications hook-line-and-sinker.
In theory yes, but in practice, I feel that the transferred value could be ambiguous and obfuscated, even intangible. I would be surprised if McDonald's doesn't have a world class general counsel and legal team that can get very creative. I readily acknowledge this is a cynically conspiratorial take with no evidential basis.
> I'm assuming you will target C89

OpenWatcom (the compiler the parent post mentioned) supports C99.
Even places on the cutting edge of tech, like OpenAI, have no real estate portfolio and require full time in person. Don't even start that it's because they're worried about their $2m house becoming $1m... Or you fundamentally don't understand how much the productivity of these businesses are actually worth.
A small nitpick:

TaylorMade is a manufacturer of golf equipment. They are not related to Taylor Company, the maker of these ice cream machines.
> The paper proceeds by assuming the swinger pumps the swing by forcing [sinusoidal pumping].

I doubt that’s particularly close to optimal. I’ve generally assumed, without proof, that the optimal pumping strategy is to change one’s position abruptly at the highest point. The intuition is that this delivers all of the fixed amount of available angular displacement at the position in which it adds the most energy to the system.
I would dispute that. I always felt Rails was used by a very communicative subset of web developers while the Django users just contracted, delivered, got paid and moved on to the next project without any hassle.
The much reviled Global Interpreter Lock(GIL) slowed python down, but also made it really easy to write libraries for.

If you wanted to do something there was probably already a Python lib for it. Nothing else had such a rich library ecosystem. If you really need python to perform it is usually easy enough to write the needed routines in a lower level language link it in.

Python grew because it was so easy and powerful enough. Now that python loads are getting into substantial computing the efficiency is becoming an issue.
Lol. You two made my day.
And Django was far from the only Python web framework at the time Ruby on Rails became popular. Django gained popularity largely because it was seen as a Python equivalent to Rails.

Before then Zope (on which the popular Plone CMS was built) was probably the most widely used web framework in Python. But there were many, many others too.
That's more a choice a current-day shell etc does for you, wanting to control the editing experience. Run `cat` and it'll switch to line buffered mode, note how your arrow keys just input line noise, and watch the cat process with ptrace if you want to confirm it really receives the whole line in one read syscall.
As an avid swing jumper in my youth I can say with some certainty that 3m is closer to the mark than 2. Also, my brother and I devised a variant that would work for the winter Olympics: jump at the lowest point of the swing for maximum velocity and slide over the snow.
Thanks for recommending Be My Eyes! I would have never known it existed if not for you. I'm very much looking forward to helping people :)
That already happened. Cameras, lights and a computer that can edit are hundreds of time cheaper than they were a few decades ago. Kids can make videos, but they aren't making movies anyone wants to watch.
As far as I know, fingerprints can't be used against my great-great grandchildren 200 years from now if some insane dictator decides he wants to eliminate every person that shares my bloodline for some reason.

History has shown the horrible things mankind is capable of, and DNA can be utilized to facilitate it. Fingerprints cannot.
Does Microsft use Gaudi 2 or Ponte Vecchio much? If Azure offers them, I never hear about projects using them out in the wild.

And Microsoft is seemingly shooting for their own AI hardware: https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/12/microsofts-chiplet-c...
Personally I refuse to signup just to check out something I'm only passively interested in, and I will never understand why startups do this. I imagine they're immediately turning away >80% of potential customers vs. just letting people try out the damn product
The color scheme on that site is horrendous
Meta AI releases CoTracker, a model for tracking any points (pixels) on a video
Python 0.9.0 February 1991

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/python/cpython/master/Misc...

Linux 0.01 Sept 17, 1991

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2109.2/03485.html
It’s way past the first step. Contemplate the terminology “Human Resources”.
GPS interference can, and has disrupted airports. The incident last year in Dallas where there was 24 hours of significant GPS interference of unknown origin disrupted operations. And while GPS is not safety critical, the interference degraded the operation of many different systems that provide additional layers of safety.

https://www.gpsworld.com/what-happened-to-gps-in-denver/

The advisory also said the Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) and
Ground-Based Augmentation System (GBAS), both designed to make
navigation with GPS more precise, as well as the ADS-B collision
avoidance and traffic management system, would be unreliable.

Pilots reported other systems affected such as transponders that help
radar controllers keep track of aircraft, traffic alert and collision
avoidance (TCAS) equipment, autopilots, electronic flight bags and
terrain warning systems.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-18/faa-warns...

Flights into the Dallas area are being forced to take older,
cumbersome routes and a runway at Dallas-Fort Worth International
Airport was temporarily closed after aviation authorities said GPS
signals there aren’t reliable.

https://rntfnd.org/2022/10/18/faa-warns-airline-pilots-as-gp...

Stanford researchers have determined that the interference event
lasted 24 hours, though it took the air traffic system another 20
hours to reset and recover.

From another incident:

https://www.gpsworld.com/nasa-report-passenger-aircraft-near...

A report filed with NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System and
published in June outlines how a passenger aircraft flew off course
during a period of GPS jamming and nearly crashed into a
mountain. Fortunately, an alert radar controller intervened, and the
accident was averted.
Dremel / Parquet, which helps facilitate much more efficient joins and filters versus sawzall on mapreduce.

For streaming there is flume and beam, or just load important data into Spanner.
Excellent point. I moved from Perl 4/5 (writing fairly involved RADIUS code) to Python (doing other stuff, but still intricate) and the fact that I could actually read my code six months later made all the difference.
Touché my friend. Accurate. But Touché.
Why use a good password while testing your login screen? I use "iamroot" and "password".
I’m strongly considering a T14 gen4 and if this turns out to be correct then that will likely tip me over the edge. Hopefully we have some early review in the next few weeks.
It does - and tech workers definitely think they're not "the proles." They have no idea that management sees them the same as the janitor. They think they're above that.

Hubris.

Now maybe they'll figure out they've been the janitors all along. They thought they were changing the world. All they were doing is making a boatload of money for somebody else. Tale as old as time.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07635

Github: https://github.com/facebookresearch/co-tracker

Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/facebook/cotracker
Might be wrong but I think it started with Jupyter/MatplotLib + Python's permissive license. Heard it started all with a physics professor unable to use Matlab for teaching.
> You will also want to start with a 16-bit C compiler like Borland Turbo C or Microsoft C

The parent post mentioned they're going to use OpenWatcom which is an actively developed[0] C and C++ compiler that targets 16bit DOS (among others).

[0] https://github.com/open-watcom/open-watcom-v2
Python's only implicit return value is the default `None`.
The key difference is: if you are concerned about your heart, you can diet and exercise better - today.

Epidemiolists can and should study heart disease as a public health issue, but as a individual health issue, the solution has been discovered and is available to almost everyone.
it’s open source you can add the feature to download the code yourself if you want it. being open source is also just a good thing in itself because it’s contributing to the total body of code available for others to extend and use in whatever way they want.
Its not clear there will be small banks in the US to use this tech in the future. Here's why:

1. Deposit flight. Small banks are struggling to attract deposits at a time when money markets pay considerably more than deposit accounts.

2. Investment scarcity. Small banks are struggling to find places invest deposits where returns are safe, on a reporting adjusted basis. Meaning, small banks invest(ed) in US Treasuries, but as the Fed has rapidly hiked rates, the mark-to-market value of these investments has declined (though the funds are safe). The same can be said of new lending, which has similar problems due to credit risk, primarily in commercial real-estate.

3. Perceived risk. Rather than allow depositors to purchase additional FDIC insurance (above the $250k limit), which insurance would generate revenue for the FDIC and banks, the USGOV had done nothing. If you want to insurance excess deposits you must use an IntraFI account that spread deposits among different banks, and/or brokered CD's which does the same for that banking product. Both are higher friction, and both prevent instant access to
funds - regardless of one's tolerance for penalties.

4. FISERV missteps. Small banks rely on Fiserv and a few other vendors to for back office and retail banking systems. In Fiserv's case their software is well behind big bank products that provide more features and easier user interfaces. Younger banking customers prefer big bank systems.

5. Regulatory overreach. Complex issue, but in sum its not clear bank regulators understand the banking business, or if they do, that they have any flexibility. By way of a few examples, its not clear to me regulators understand the safety & utility of brokered deposit use by small banks; the worthlessness of many bank capital asset appraisals, or the immense risk real-estate heavy loan portfolios are facing.

6. Asset-based lending death. Pre-2008 one could borrow against many types of capital assets, allowing businesses to purchase those assets with, say, 20% down. The asset secured the loan, with little or no reliance on personal guarantees or recent cash flow analysis. This practice led to problems in the 2008 GFC, but instead of tweaking the approach, lenders and regulators simply eliminated asset-based lending. When I write 'eliminated' I fully understand its still advertised as a lending product, but underwriting is reliant on cash flow, personal financial statements, and other factors that make 'asset based lending' a marketing term, not reality. This was profitable business for banks and didn't need to die.

More threats lie ahead for small banks in the US. Folks in the know speculate USGOV prefers the Canadian model, where most deposits are held by several big banks. It might be the case FedCoin opens new possibilities for small banks, reducing Fiserv and friends hold on small banking business. One can always hope.
Google Cloud and Nvidia Take Collaboration to the Next Level
Taylor knows how to build proper ice cream machines. They only sell the constantly breaking down model to McDonalds.
Mentioned first thing on the link for primitives.
Snap and Flatpak are both (theoretically) distro agnostic. That's their entire point of existence, to solve scenario three of your list.

Yes, Fedora defaults to and prefers Flatpak and Ubuntu defaults to and prefers Snap, but you can install either on either distro and it should Just Work. In which case, distro-specific differences are an even further moot point.
I agree the language is very readable overall but I find the whitespace based syntax less readable and practical compared to just using curly braces. Editors can color matching pairs, let me jump between start and end of a scope, select all lines between two braces etc and all that just doesn't work in Python. Also I find it more difficult to see where a scope ends. It has upsides too and is not a huge deal but I often wonder why people prefer this so much.

Imho the reason for Python's success is mainly how easy and quick it is to learn, and how little time it takes to get something running. That alone removes so much frustration and perceived effort.
a million different ways, but all with liberal use of human-unfriendly symbols like dollar signs, at signs, pound signs, etc.
Wait you're moving to Python? I hope you have benchmarked it.
Wasn't my downvote.