skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also have the King's commissioner in the Netherlands. I've read interviews with him and articles about him. They say he's like a watch dog against corruption in the province. I tried to arrange for a meeting with him to report some serious corruption. I they ignored me. I called every week for six weeks. Then I was told I'd get a response by mail. I did indeed get a response and from the King's commissioner. He responded that he didn't have the authority to do anything. He didn't even want to heard what it was that I had to report. Then why is every one reporting that he's a kind of watch dog on corruption in the province?

Again, the existence of his role is simply to give the perception that his role is real and actually does something. People think the Netherlands is less corrupt because they have roles like that etc.
It doesn't ignore it; it explicitly says "Lots of work has been done in open source realms to create modern, and improved, versions of these interpreters for pretty much every device imaginable."

That opening sentence may be a bit clumsy, but what it's trying to say is that the games don't run directly on hardware on any of these machines, but instead runs in an interpreter.
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I agree on that logic but what I don't agree with is that France could only sell when electricity is cheap.

If Germany would be subjected to actual regulation on their coal usage during the winter and actually would pay the real cost with externalities then electricity would get more expensive, making the French nuclear way more interesting. French nuclear looks expensive only because of usage of "cheap" coal and natural gas by neighbors, and while everybody is pointing various nuclear cost that may come in the future, we are already paying the price of burning those fossil fuels. In the winter, French electricity is already 30e/MW cheaper; and that is before true cost is taken into account.

Germany is supposedly generating up to 60% of their electricity with wind (solar isn't meaningful in the winter) but that is largely dependent on the weather. One day they are generating over 30GW of electricity with wind but then other days they are barely hitting the 10GW mark. In the past month, Germany has imported over 1.4GW of electricity from France.
In the past 5 years, their wind/renewable share of the total generation has barely gained 4% while their coal/gas usage hasn't moved at all (and Germany do not heat a lot of homes with electricity so that's even worse)
As it is the share of renewable in Germany in a winter month is just hitting the 40% share mark. They have over 60GW of wind capacity installed, to be viable in the winter without relying on coal/gas or nuclear energy imports they would need at least 5 times this capacity.

You should read about "Energiewende" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende
You can see that in 2016 there were some complaints that this political "project" had cost at least 160 billion in the past 5 years, and electricity price in Germany were too high. German citizens are still paying more for their electricity and they had to subvention their green energy even more (while hypocritically burning as much coal as they did 10 years ago).

If we would regulate Germany's coal/gaz usage then French nuclear energy could be making quite a bit of money, just by running the current reactors to their full capacity. But that's hardly possible because Germany is running the show in Bruxelles and it is always about Germany's interest first. Which is exactly what I am saying: the current economics of French nuclear are not representative of what could be possible, first because nuclear was very unpopular even in France in the past 20 years (only recently gained traction because energy bills inflated and people understood the stakes) and secondly because Germany want to make everyone pay for their ideological choices...

I do agree that France itself do not need more reactors, but some will be built in the future to replace the aging ones.
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Google has plenty of money, but it's never enough and so you get this kind of ridiculously hostile activity. I can't even watch my own videos without being bombarded by ads. That wasn't the case when I uploaded it so in my opinion that's bait-and-switch. They can pull these stunts on newly uploaded works with new T&C but to retroactively claim editorial control over the page where the videos appear is just abuse of power. If they were about to go out of business on account of how youtube is such a terrible loss leader it might garner some sympathy but as it is it is just a Google power play and a money grab to me.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but why does it need to read the file into memory at all? Can't it just parse directly as the data streams in? It should be possible to gron-ify a JSON file that is far bigger than the memory available - the only part that needs to stay in memory is the key you are currently working on.
That’s due to ad blocking: it doesn’t make creators not want to make rent, it just means more ads in the content and things like sponsor products being woven into the content. Worse for everyone but people are going to chase money if their income declines.
It does tend to help. I read somewhere that "Germany is financing the EU, but Bavaria is financing Germany", that probably not entirely true, but it is fun to think about.
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> There are countless examples to prove you wrong.

I think there are many more examples proving me right. In my estimate, about 1 in 750 to 1 in 1000 subscribers will donate to a video creator. That's "nobody". If you look at your favourite channels and compare numbers of subscribers with numbers of Patreon sponsors, I think you will see similar numbers.

It's not only YouTube, it's almost everything on the internet. Then people here complain about diminishing quality of the stuff online... Well, people who make that stuff need to eat. If they can't support themselves with producing quality content, they will do something else and that content will not be made. It will not exist. At least YouTube is a way that enables a lot of high quality content to exist. I know hackers think that these creators should go to hell if they don't accept to create their stuff for free, but I side with the creator in this one.

For me, I look forward to the day when YouTube is completely behind a paywall, so that penny pinchers are left to wallow in the filth to save their precious dollars.

This is also why unhealthy slop food is sold everywhere. Most people will happily destroy their own health and keep buying the cheapest crap so they can pinch their precious penny, instead of spending a little more on quality.

But what I've always wondered is what people want to do with that penny that they've pinched for so long?
With an ETF who cares about price. Buy BTC onto cold wallets, short the ETF, and you can't lose more in dollars than the cost of shorting plus risk of losing wallet .

The major issue with BTC before was you could only hedge in the same gambler shitholes that would go bust as soon as BTC did, making the hedge useless.
As part of RedHunt Labs' Project Resonance Initiative, we scanned ~170,000 buckets deployed all across the internet only to discover that several thousand of them were misconfigured and leaking secrets!
Click to know more about our findings: https://redhuntlabs.com/blog/massive-cloud-scan-revealed-tho...

This was all achieved by our in-house scanner BucketLoot (https://github.com/redhuntlabs/BucketLoot/) and for the source of targets, we used none other than our very own Attack Surface Recon API (https://devportal.redhuntlabs.com/)
Yeah. There's a large difference with restarting an individual application and the whole system though. Sometimes several minutes difference. ;)
You for real? I invite you to try (for one day) to not let anyone discover your gender assigned at birth or your skin colour or let’s make it really easy - hide that you’re left handed or right handed. It’s a life or death situation - game over if anyone finds out.

And of course, while suppressing all that, don’t forget to enjoy local “hospitality”, the Python event - networking, creativity, conversing with your peers, learning and exchanging ideas.
Recently visited Chicago for the first time, and have been back once or twice since. I really liked the vibe there. It felt like it had a lot of energy (similar to New York) but felt much less claustrophobic, a bit more open, and a bit friendlier? I don't know if that is Chicago's reputation, but I really liked it there. Great freakin food too. Monteverde, so good.
but but but BTC just hit $44k?!? /s
uBlock does not prevent tracking. The only way to keep Google from tracking you is to stop connecting to Google’s servers.
You can also add a property to all objects with an array of keys in the order you want (if you can guarantee it won't conflict with existing properties, or can escape those), or turn them into a {k, o} array where k is the key array and o the object or if you don't care about looking up keys then either a {k, v} array where v is a value array or an object where keys are prefixed with their position or putting the position in the value as an array of value and position.
Time to move...

I have a freestanding house for a reason. I've seen more than one place go up in flames because someone figured their attic gardening project would compensate for the mortgage.
Before workers rights, regulation, and public education the industrialized world was much more privatized and also quite bleak.

Private industry has its place. Doesn't mean it's a good idea to outsource governance to them in all but name.
Of all the natural numbers in N, how did it turn out that the last two were so small: 41 and 19? I’d have guessed that maybe some huge number would have been the most difficult.
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I see that there is a lot of signal coming over my push notifications ... how would using this signal make spies incompetent?
The European Commission is not appointed by some unearthly deity, nor is European legislation divorced from the national governments.

Also, a lot of important decisions are still national (even if they might be dressed up as European).
I think looking at the examples and their rating of toxicity, there's a difference between a Semmelweis who says, "I think you're killing people with established practice" and a theoretical one who says, "You [expletive] [ethnic slur] ... should be shot like a dog in the street."
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Does what it says on the tin! Any feedback and suggestions are much appreciated.

- Alex
>> Political pluralism should be the default.

> Agreed.

> But that doesn't mean that EVERY and ALL political view should be respected.

Exactly, the difference is called “relativism”.
Worse, too many emails don't even get delived to Spam by Microsoft. Being able to tell people to check their spam folder would be a blessing.
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There are many good tutorials, free and paid books.

However, if you just want to get started and have a minimal thing working without much fuss I recommend this one:

https://clojure-doc.org/articles/tutorials/basic_web_develop...

I haven't directly used it but I reviewed it once and it seems to be one of the most straight forward and carefully written web development tutorials for Clojure. It uses a very minimal set of libraries and it really goes from A to Z. Perfect if you want to just get yourself familiar and have something working.
Presumably because ‘axolotl’ and ‘axlotl’ are very similar words?
Usually these types of articles are total nonsense, but this is legit.

A very cool result!

It'd be interesting to see how many other systems can be approximated by the system they've solved for (without incurring an exponential penalty in the translation).
It looks like that from outside but it really isn’t.

Stallman fir example was very clear about free software having nothing to do with communism, but of course people take just what they want from facts and ignore what they don’t want/like.

But, as i grow older, i realise itself not just software and it, it’s like that in most things.
This is not grant driven acedemia. This is the PSF, not encumbered with layers of beurocracy, audits and regulation. An expectation of a turn round time of a few weeks is entirely reasonable
It is detailed comments like this that make me feel very fortunate for the community here. Thank you!
I wonder what style of non-realistic graphics would be best suited to gaussian splats. Like how pixel art and low-poly came from limitations of yesterday's technologies, but became distinctive styles in their own right.
It’s about this statement:

> no one is going to ask your sexual orientation at the airport

This is not ensured, even if the Tanzanian people are themselves renown for their hospitality.
I tried Resilio (formerly BitTorrent Sync) years ago and it was quite slow and unreliable, but indeed there are no good Linux + Mobile solutions in this space, so you have have to sacrifice something.
> Outlook are a pain. If you don't regularly send email to outlook.com they forget your IP and start responding with 550s.

All providers should be doing that. Most will remove IPs/domains after 90-120 days.
> where owing a bible is forbidden by law

That's not a great comparison. You can choose if you bring a Bible with you or not - this seems like a law about Bibles, not about being a Christian. You can't choose to not be gay/trans for some time - even if you hide it, the relevant records may be public and easy to find if some law enforcement.
What % of the overall benefits would you attribute to the JVM vs. Clojure (the language)?
There’s no need at all to rely on Chrome: If Google wanted to, they could enable DRM for all videos on Youtube today. Almost every desktop and mobile browser supports it.

They’d lose a couple of legacy client apps, but much less traffic than they would if they were to make it Chrome-only.
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It doesn't seem like it was so simple as the open letter puts it? From the boards blog post

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/10/september-october-board...

The first vote had 6 abstentions and 4 yes votes. The second vote had 10 yes votes and 1 abstention. It seemed there was enough outstanding information/questions for 6 total people to abstain, though perhaps 1 of those 6 was using it nefariously? Hard to say
I agree with you, I tried ONNX, more or less the same problem as converting to CoreML, plus issues of iOS compatibility.
I'd agree those needs haven't been solved permanently. Hence the need for vigilance and a strong government that's controlled by the people, not the rich or high born.
I'd love to be able to use a Qubes like OS on my phones. There's so much vile garbage I need to run on my phone yet at the same time, I want my phone to have access to my passwords and email. Segregating apps is long overdue.
This reminds me of a business colleague of mine who truly does not understand why anyone would write software and then release it for free. There are many people willing to do that, and many people willing to create content on YouTube for free. We aren’t all driven by the almighty dollar.
Cultural. Many American companies think they can skip unions and/or collective bargaining when they come to Europe, and find out to their detriment that they can't.

Or they try to find as many loopholes in laws as they possibly can to avoid unions. See McDonald's in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_and_unions#German...
That bottom link says Salt Lake is below the national average in violent crimes, but higher in property crimes. Well, for "dangerous", I think of violence, not property crimes.
Flask and Django are web frameworks that are more geared towards general app development - you could build anything with them. Dropbase is an app builder that makes it easy to build certain kinds of app: internal apps used to support customers, business operations, build admin panels, or trigger tasks or processing jobs. You can’t build absolutely anything you’d want with us, but for a narrow set of uses cases, you can build it very quickly.
Its a good set of exercises, and we do it some already (we bake together). Right now she really wants to "make things on the computer". Of course there's always paint apps and the like, but I was doing advent of code problems the other night and she asked what it was, and she got excited when I said it was "programming puzzles".
Much like how theres critique how different countries must conform to Western standards, there’s the assumption that rule of law works the same elsewhere.

At some point you have to scan your passport.

The US already had cases where travelers have had to disclose social media use [1]. I don’t think it is a stretch for this process to be copied for more nefarious uses.

1. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/31/20837448/social-media-dhs...
You are perfectly right that asking people to not care about the laws of a country is problematic. For personal safety and also as a moral stand point.

But that should not be a reason to not fund conferences in those countries, conferences which are a way to learn, to discover new things.

What do you think about conferences organizers, of every country, having to put on their website a little explanation of the laws of their country.

Each explanation would be something:

"In our country, the law forbid XXX. We are very sorry for the people concerned by this law and we are sad about those laws. We would ensure that the conference space is a safe space but they should be aware of those rules still apply in the whole country.

In every case, always choose safety. We are missing you, we hope to have the chance to meet you in another time.".

I feel like installing a tradition of such a disclaimer for every tech conference in the world would:

1. Force people to acknowledge issues in their own country (instead of minimizing them). And I guess every country has its own problem.

2. Show support for the victims of those laws and, indirectly, showing supports for the victims in their own country

3. Advance the cause, change mentality. It forces locals and politicians to be confronted with the fact that international visitors (which every country is trying to attract) may disagree to the point of not coming to the conference.

4. It would be nearly risk-free for conference organizer as it could also be defended as a polite way to ask attendees to respect the law.
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Last I checked, it was around 25k GBP per year. I've mostly checked the most prestigous universities, I guess others don't charge nearly as much, as you don't get the worldwide prestige assiociated with the diploma.
The sad part is that this kind of behavior might actually be optimal for Microsoft. Most people won't even see the issue (as senders work around it) or blame the sender wheres they will start screeching if they so much as have to see a spam mail once in a while.
I am not asking anyone to be invisible.
I am just saying we need to go back to reality and see things the way they are supposed to be.

How long ago were the LGBTQ people also at risk in the Western world?
I understand organisations like PSF have their codes to abide by and safety of attendees is and should be a priority.

But if your main mission is to promote python in the whole world. It's not impossible to issue an advisory that LGBTQ people are advised to do this or that about a given location.
Python coders have nothing to do with politicians.
Then you're paying at a higher tier.
Exciting news! Glad to find out Serbia was the pioneer and helped create Apple!
Most people don't use cryptocurrency to pay for stuff, but back when I lived in Cambridge there was a nice pub where you could buy your pizza with it, and last week here in Berlin I passed a Subway[0] that let you pay for your sandwich in BTC. Or at least it said it did, BTC by itself is a terrible idea[1].

[0] And a subway. Except the subway was elevated and the "proper" railway was submerged (but not covered): https://www.google.com/maps/search/S%2BU+Schönhauser+Allee+(...

[1] And to shortcut the conversation: Alice: *something about payment layers*, Bob: *how payment layers destroy the one thing BTC actually does provide*
And if a stranger asks you "have you ever consumed any drugs" you also just cannot help it and make a list of any and all abuse you might have participated in at the other end of the world?

Is reality really that hard for some people? I geniunely don't understand how navigating society can be so difficult?
Financial or not, clearly the notion of maintaining records was not foreign matter to these Persians.

> It was likely closer to a 100 years or so. e.g. it seems that by the time of the Parthian empire the Greeks and Roman "knew" considerably more about the Achaemenid Persia than the Persian themselves.

That is a pretty ridiculous notion. First let's break down what you mean by Persians. Do you mean a Dehghaan (land owner / farmer) or a member of the ruling families or some random Persian cranking around somewhere? How about Greece? Did Greeks uniformly had access to the same knowledge about Greeks and Greece?

So we are talking about either what outsiders or national elite classes knew and maintained. And your 100 year limit is based on the ignorance of the foreigners and various bits of court gossip, (Greek) mercenaries, and whatever else passed for a "public space of discourse" back then. Correspondences, tavern songs, stuff like that.

Iran has suffered 3 cataclysmic invasions and each featured destruction of the state and intelligentsia. For this reason it is 100% true that quite a lot of Iran's history was "news" to latter day Iranians but to claim someone of a given cultural and educational background in Persia in say early years of Hellenic occupation had no clue what had happened does not seem reasonable. At all.
I use my own personal fork of the official Signal app (I absolutely despise the idea of going back to having a separate SMS app), so I do. Sort of.
Yup, but without the handy `classes` prop so people can modify styles.

Plus, I find with v5, I never touch `makeStyles` / `styled`, the utility props / sx are enough.
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I think they meant reserved as in introverted rather than conservative.
I have seen ads on those services when paying for their cheapest paid tier.
I believe you can bruteforce/generate IMEIs somewhat easily. https://github.com/bstein/py-imei-generator
What's the cut-off value for "not safe to hold a conference"? Is it applied fairly?
Makes me wonder if there are real (text) use-cases for the mega context windows we've been seeing.
I don't know how things work where your live, but I'm willing to bet my right hand that there is not a single person in my school that knows what to do in case of a seizure.
I use PlanetScale as well and have had a great experience so far! But honestly I have doubts whether it's the right technical choice to use a startup/scaleup for arguably the most mission critical part of my application.

Side note: I also had to figure out the ways in serverless/PlanetScale's MySQL is different (e.g. you can't have foreign keys, you can't create triggers). On the whole, foregoing these features for serverless makes it worthwhile though.

EDIT: oh nvm they literally just announced foreign key support: https://planetscale.com/blog/challenges-of-supporting-foreig...
There is no Rails for Clojure because Clojure is Rails for the right kind of software architect. Clojure is a language that beat the crap out of me but in a positive way. I don't use it, but learned a lot about what is possible.