skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never mentioned any advantage or disadvantage. I am only stating a fact about the current state of Python.

Python does not have a specification or a standards document, it has a reference that describes how Python happens to work and the reference is a great resource for people to familiarize themselves with the language but it should simply be clear that its purpose is to reflect the existing state of the language rather than to specify how Python works.
Looks like Media whatnot went looking for bad ads with anti semitic content = that made them a bad ad 'magnet' and wherever they went, their stick-ons attracted these bad ads = that is what tracking does. Browse to IBM and up come the trackers targeted to them and now you wear that same badge.
They were literally Nazis. There is no whataboutism here.
I was under the impression that subscriptions are not where the money was ever made. Advertising was it. And to get good advertising money you needed a high circulation. So then, shenanigans around discounted subscriptions and mostly free ones in the trade professional press. And so then the work of auditors who established more reliable audience numbers than the size of the print run or some such. Auditors -> audience size -> advertising money -> profit.
Is it an aquihire if the original product line isn't killed off?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38300990
> You might understand how badly this can (and will) turn out, but can’t seem to do anything about it.

To be clear, I think this is the major differentiating aspect of ADHD. Most people suffer from everything else on your list to varying degrees, but if they actually care they can make changes. ADHD people can really, really WANT to change, yet end up making the same mistakes over and over and blaming themselves.

Still, if anyone deeply resonates with this ^ comment, you should seek psychiatric help. Whether your issue is ADHD, OCD, bipolar, or something else, there are meds or other interventions that help.
You don’t need a disclaimer for something which nobody reasonably expects. Although an “available today only” notice might be useful, since people might reasonably expect a lemonade stand to be available the next day.

Regarding examples, basically any software project web site which talks about the project as an ongoing thing, gives links to where “new releases” will be available. Stuff like that. All that implies that the software is actively developed and will be developed for at least the near future.
Businesses and individuals should not be able to sell their products and services at different prices than competing businesses and individuals.
This comment is unnecessarily rude and off-topic. Of course there's a difference between human labour and easily-replicable things.
Plenty of languages have a specification. C++, Java, C# all do.

Some languages do not, such as Python and Rust.

The ISO C++ committee even uses quite strong language about the C++ standard and makes it a point to differentiate between the C++ specification and C++ references:

>The standard is not intended to teach how to use C++. Rather, it is an international treaty – a formal, legal, and sometimes mind-numbingly detailed technical document intended primarily for people writing C++ compilers and standard library implementations.
>In a regular employee-employer relations there is a big difference in negotiating power.

Not necessarily, it depends on the state of the labor market. You remember a few years ago when the Valley was incredibly hot. Workers had a lot of negotiating power despite being non-unionized.
Same experience here, to a T. Equivocation, excuses, fear for their ancient jobs, I've seen it all, got the t-shirt and am recovering from the PTSD.

I've been fired with pride from places like this for butting heads against similar thinking (and of course, failing) and moved on to much greener pastures.
Gentlepeople! Remeber people have opinions, like they have fingers to type them...

These could be red flags for the author, I respect that. These are not universal, yet they could be good conversation starters.

Consider that if you don't hear the answer that you expect, maybe you can contribute something of great value to the company... Or receive a lesson on the complexities of a particular business.

Also, language-itis itself can be a problem. We love the shiny, and forget the old... I am not saying that punch cards and FORTRAN are the tool of the future, but maybe FORTRAN is the right tool for a specific problem...

I don't know if you have noticed... But programming languages could potentially mean very little, soon.
An interesting side-note: this would never happen in the US as the ILWU is actively hostile to other unions, specifically any in the AFL-CIO. So the solidarity between unions in Sweden is on another level.
No that's just the point of the first two paragraphs. Everything past that is claiming that we're taking this idea too far. It specifically used the hypothetical situation of Asian folks deciding that being called "Asian" was bad and that they should be called something like "People of Asia" (I forget the exact replacement phrase and the article isn't loading for me right now) as something that shouldn't be respected. I believe the point was something like the slur for Japanese folk was rooted in actual discrimination and so that's an understandable reason for not liking the term, but if a group of people just decide they want a different term, that's bad and we shouldn't respect their wishes because it makes life harder for white people.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-67011369
We try to support YCombinator companies where we can :)
The Pentagon is on track, for the most part, on their auditing project. But what makes you say it doesn't impact their budget?
It's an incredible crime that basically no american can live within 5 miles of their work. Car companies ad the government that capitulated to them fucked us so bad.
What setting on the TV controls this?
They did it by not trying to land a huge fueled rocket on the Moon (on its tail!) and then have the whole thing take off again. The rocket equation bites you in the ass very quickly once you commit to a 1950's sci-fi style landing with a big silver rocket that you insist on taking home with you.

I don't know what you mean by more'capable' in this context if the system needs 20 times the launches and nonexistent technology (in-orbit refueling) to achieve the same goal.
> Taking a 4k stream as an example, a compressed 4k stream is not going to exceed about 50Mbps, so even a 100Mbps data rate will have a 2x safety factor

That’s average throughput. Peak can be much higher, especially on high bitrate content and remuxes, and especially with newer HD audio formats. Modern smart TVs have a pitifully short buffer, so you can run into problems. I did on my Sony, and switching to wifi solved it.
> No patience.

Or maybe they want to stream UHD content?
Scientists battling orcas sinking yachts tackle problem with heavy metal music
I credit 2 books with helping (hopefully?) with the ability to question the overlap between what I see as truth and orthodoxy.

But What If We're Wrong [1] by Chuck Klosterman and Against Method [2] by Paul Feyeraband.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/But_What_If_We%27re_Wrong%3F

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method
Very easy - just don’t do it. Was never a problem for me. If I ordered food, it was because I didn’t have time to cook, not because I needed it to wind down etc.
Unfortunately so - sorry about that.
Click crowbar and start hitting ...stuff.
Wait, you don't think "James'" is acceptable at all? What about "Jesus'", which is pretty common as an affected archaism?
I loath walking more than any other activity. Your utopia sounds like hell of earth for me. I don't want any of those things you mentioned.

I don't want to waste tons of time just getting places, I want to live in an area that is not so congested that traffic is a problem, I want space to live. I do NOT want to be near other people just to get somewhere, or worse live very close to others.
Well how do you define “uses it” because your paperweight story sure sounds like use to me. They probably don’t need all those engineers, but there’s a long-tail of features people use beyond weekly lights.

Also, Alexa works better than any car control ever has, and at a fraction of the price. You obviously need internet connectivity for the majority of features people care about. Like controlling devices over the network, getting weather, streaming music, etc
Once that trigger is pulled you have already lost the war.

And just because China still has more large cities does not mean that they could effectively wage war.
Well atleast others are using all the research coming out of Google for all of this. DALLE and chatGPT are both the result of research papers directly from Google research.
So... everyone? I mean, I put my needs above my neighbors, and yet I've never filled in for a striking worker. This is not a useful description.
I think there's still a huge amount of work to go through the codebase and add appropriate (and safe) hooks for the AI to act upon. That means a complete pivot in what the staff work on but i don't think layoffs make sense as since there's an urgent need to pivot to be first in this space.

The context recognition is there sure. But teams working on old models of context recognition (more hardcoded methods) are still engineers and there's a need to throw engineers at this to be first.

Imagine saying in winter "Make my living room feel like a summer beach party" leading to blinds up + lights on with yellow hue + heat + ambient beach music turning on. That needs hooks into every first and third party home automation system. It needs the ability to choose specific genres of music on a playlist. etc. There's so much work to do and it needs to be done before the competitors. Firing engineers, even when they would need to pivot to achieve this doesn't make sense to me as this is one of those winner takes all technology races. You really really want to be the first to set the standard for how third parties integrate these hooks.

It's an iPhone moment in the making and Amazon is firing staff.
Then why are different implementations of Python all implementations of Python? What makes them implementations of Python rather than different languages?

I've already given my answer: they all meet the language reference I linked to (yes, the word "reference" appears in its title, not "specification"; that's just another quibble).

What is your answer?
Obsessive-compulsive symptoms underpin ideological obsession
Morether. Like further but with more.
Opportunity cost? Steam was created shortly after half-life 1 and existed prior to half life 2's release. It was already a huge cash cow when they released games like CS go and TF2.

But further, the skills to write a game are different from the skills to manage a game distribution system. It's not like by having the HL2 devs valve was squeezed for cash or resources to expand steam.
Believe it or not, the Pentagon isn't really the problem; Congress is.

https://rollcall.com/2023/05/23/hill-favored-projects-called...

Congressional representatives push all sorts of weapons "programs" that military leadership doesn't want or need, because it's an easy way to be able to go home and tell your voters how many jobs you "saved" "protecting America."

Well over a decade ago Pentagon leadership declared that their budget was not sustainable for the country...just like they declared a long time ago that climate change was a serious threat and started working on decarbonization (the US military is still the single largest generator of carbon dioxide on the planet.)
Insanely uncomfortable for me lol I dig it.
I never mentioned anything about Nvidia GPUs...
Thank you, I'll check that out.

In my case I sought help only once my marriage and career were falling apart. Things are better now, but there's always room for improvement.
If you can get your hands on a VR headset, I cannot recommend Alyx highly enough. An incredible experience inside a very high fidelity City 17.

Headcrabs are about a million times more terrifying in VR
How does interference caused by the radio waves have anything to do with using encryption?
Driving a car if you have not slept is not just a danger to you, but to many other people.
This article:

https://www.noemamag.com/ai-and-the-limits-of-language/
> reinventing the highway pavement system

A number of years ago there was a demo of a technology where they mixed (something like) iron filings in the asphalt. By slowly driving over it with a massive electromagnet they could heat the asphalt from within, helping to fix any small cracks before water ingress could cause a larger problem.
Considering they’ve slowly started moving features behind a subscription already, keep watching because I’ll bet Alexa becomes a subscription for most features beyond timers and weather and controlling your first 10 smarthome devices.

It’s just hard to charge for something that used to be free.
I don't know exactly what you think this but I experience the exact opposite.
Check out https://github.com/apple/password-manager-resources
Cool, thank you for clarifying!

A burning pizza just kicks off the fire alarm, not the sprinklers. Frankly I don't remember much past the the whole drop in pressure detection leading to kickoff of other sprinklers thing to suggest what level of partitioning occurred .
It’s very different than bitcoin prices.

The speculative aspect of stock prices is a reflection of the time-value of money / discounted future cash flows. This concept does not exist for bitcoin pricing.
It doesn't matter if everyone in lubbock drives cars, thats obviously not what this thread of discussion is about and you know it. It matters if everyone in Austin/Dallas/Houston is forced to drive cars. Quit being dense on purpose.
> Whatever you would choose to implement, you will need to have enough buy in from those middle managers and fiefdoms otherwise you will end up with heel-dragging or, worse, malicious compliance. If you've been in any kind of organization that's tried to impose completely top-down edicts, you should have seen the kind of destruction of morale it leaves in its wake.

Even for military officers giving orders in the field, edicts don't work. You need buy-in, including earning trust in you.
Does every C++ implementation do exactly what is in the C++ language specification, no more, no less?

Same question for Java and C#.

If the answer to all of these questions is "no", as I believe it is, on what grounds do you claim that these languages have a specification, while Python and Rust do not?
Sure, but I don't think it's about companies like Google doing their buddies a favor. It's more about not wanting to fight complex and uncertain legal battles with companies that have large and well-funded legal departments. Very few of us would be above that.
It's likely that not every union member is striking, it is probably a sectoral union, e.g. the Swedish Dockworkers Union. There is still a lot of other dock-work to do besides unload Teslas, one would assume. So the union has 500 years of funds but that's for some small fraction of the workers.
Why is it loading all the tables at once? Just trying to list them all crashed it, you mean?
If you are a small shop, sure. If you are a major employer you will either meet market rate and get top candidates (willing to live in your area) or you will get whatever candidates decided to live in Mississippi.
Tracel AI: A New Player in the Field of Deep Learning Infrastructure
The author just casually glosses over this point and never returns to it

> One of the reasons I find these programs scary is that they seem to want to murder humans. They talk about it a lot, even when you ask them to be nice.
It's not a contraction. It's a possessive, and specifically not a contraction of "James his".
Failing to integrate works both ways. My family tree is filled with stories about never speaking anything at home other than English.

It had some terrible side effects of communication in the family for that generation.

Also, would have been cool to be bilingual. Maybe. My family tree makes me quite the mutt.
static_assert() is not a preprocessor thing, so you can use sizeof() there without trouble. It does have other limitations: it’s syntactically a declaration which makes it painful to use in macros without wrapping it in the GNU C statement-expression extension.
Hadn't seen either mentioned
This is a lie that is commonly spread here and on reddit.
Quick theory: Insects & similar-ish leaf-eaters are seriously dangerous to trees...but have minimal brains, and mostly run on instinct. If $Tree1 has leaves that are obviously different from the leaves on $Tree2, then at least $Tree1 will be relatively unattractive to all the little leaf-munchers that "know" to eat from $Tree2.
Isn't it worthwhile enough to the current owner, in the form of a lower utility bill during the winter?
That symbolic AI (vs machine learning) can also be generative (for example, using model completion algorithms to generate new information during ETL/data warehousing cf https://silmarils.tech/ https://www.categoricaldata.net/)
20mb/s is not sufficient for 4k video unless it has been bitcrushed to death. And even then, you are assuming a given network only has a single user.

Also, I stream actual blu-ray rips over my network all the time, not just transferring them.
I have noticed that a lot of people don’t notice when a video or image is squashed or stretched to the wrong aspect ratio. They simply don’t see it, and aren’t bothered by it even it is pointed out and they agree. So anyone saying that they don’t see anything wrong is, sadly, not an indication of correctness. What is an indication is if there are any people (like me, and commenter glhaynes), who do notice it.
My coparent had her bike stolen. It was parked at her work - a government building. In front of the security office with a window facing the bike racks, and security cameras on them.

The cameras were not operational, the police did nothing but take the report.

I have had two very securely locked bikes stolen in years past. They were left in what turned out to be a vulnerable place for long periods of time. Depending on your habits it is a matter of when, not if. If you only take the bike to select locations for short periods or keep it out of sight, this does not apply to you.
I think one of the least headlined, although perhaps not by definition interesting takes, is just one of moderation. This is not AGI (in fact nowhere even near close to it), nor going to unemploy quite as many people as the doomers predict, yet it’s also more than just a stochastic parrot as the naysayers put it. It’s a great new set of productivity tools with zero true existential threats except to some specific creative job categories (marketing copywriter, summarizer, etc).
Thanks, didn't know about that RFC! Will keep it in mind for such an occasion.
I bet even if you did nothing everyday on the moon it would feel more productive and have more gravitas just because you’re on the moon; atleast for the first few decades.
The numbers are just outside comprehension. We can comprehend a dollar, or a hundred dollars, in the hand. We may be able to imagine (or have seen) a room full of a couple tens of thousands of dollars. But to extrapolate one, to 32 trillion of the same...

If a 4 GHz processor core executes an instruction every clock cycle, it would still take two hours to iterate that instruction 32 trillion times.

If you lined up 32 trillion inches, it would be over 505 million miles.

If a dollar bill is 0.1 millimeters thick, and you stacked 32 trillion of the bills on top of each other, the stack would be almost 2 million miles high.

Etc

By the way, we went past $33 trillion in September, and reached $33.5 20 days later. Only a half trillion added in 20 days.
This is really important.

A lot of people think open source is about not paying for software, even some open source devs think this.

You are allowed to sell your software even if its GPL'd or whatever. You are not obligated to give the source away for free, you can charge people for the source and for binaries, you just have to provide the source when someone does buy it. I would like to see more people try this out.

The most common counterargument here is that someone can pay for your source code, and then upload it to github, or even sell it themselves, allowing people to circumvent paying (you) for it. This is true, but most software needs to be maintained in order to be useful, and you are not obligated to provide the updates to people who haven't paid you, and I think you could charge for access to the updates, even for people who have purchased your software before.

You can also use trademarks, anyone who would attempt to resell it would not be able to use your "marks", which could be the project name or logo for example.

Maybe there are reasons nobody is doing this, maybe its not viable, but I haven't seen any cases where someone has at least tried this.
Hell, it would probably take more than four years just to understand the problems the various organizations are trying to solve. If you rush that, you "solution" is bound to miss important nuances that make things worse rather than better.

Sure, you could assemble a team with that experience to short-cut some of that. But you'll likely need a long time to just build the trust necessary to get the right information. You're an outsider and will likely be treated as such.
It’s the most extreme version of clickbait for the situation! You can’t prove that it didn’t!
It's so very nice to hear that big tech companies are being so careful over which authoritarian race-obsessed collectivist ideologues their ads appear next to...
Where I live we get delivery cyclists racing down pedestrian precints at scary speeds. And I've similarly thought "someone's gonna get killed here one day, and possibly not the rider". This was true even with ordinary pushbikes or lighweight electric-assist bikes, but in the past couple of years most of the full-time riders seem to have moved to thick tyred and heavy motor-only bikes, which carry a lot of momentum down those busy shopping streets
You do realize that nobody dies during the operation of a solar farm? Yes people fall off roofs during installation, but effective regulation for that is far cheaper than you would think.
The lectures drive me insane. At the very least, Bard seems to let the guardrails bend a bit here and there. ChatGPT is insanely strict on it. If I run into a problem, I can get around it in Bard way more easily.
> Plus the average internet connection isn't just streaming a video. It's kids watching online videos while adults are video conferencing and music is being streamed in the background. Probably with games being downloaded and software getting updated too.

That's exactly the scenario I gave where 2.5G WAN would be useful, but a 1G LAN to each machine is likely enough for most tasks, for most people - multiple users simultaneous use.
If you are not familiar with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
Good plan! The first time I rode my old bike after some years of neglect and a few extra pounds, I was quite alarmed when I got off the bike and found that some parts of me had fallen asleep. I have a new respect for making sure the seat is a good fit.
They've barely managed to keep me from pulling the plug with the unwanted assanine desperate monetitation suggestions.

I was pleased to discover it finally figured out just last week how to give me my preferred news source when I accidentally say "Alexa news" instead of "Alexa news from..."
> public/cultural perception of China, of Russia, or of middle-eastern terrorists that we have today is of a similar character to the Soviet bogeyman?

I don't think so, i was a kid but remember breaking news on TV of Russian strategic bombers enroute to the US only to turn away at the last second. It was day by day whether society ended or not during the cold war.