skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the strawman? Your claim of the average person not liking to read and what we are actually discussing of reading/writing being a good form of communication are two different things.

Plenty of people like lots of bad things because we have monkey brains, stop thinking that just because a group likes something, it is good. I watch the behavior day in and day out...people watch HOURS of content per day, and at the end they have synthesized almost none of it. A majority of social video and audio is just a way for people to entertain themselves and a buffer against being alone with their thoughts. I wholeheartedly agree that audio and video can be great learning and communication tools. To say that is what is happening on a majority of social media is extremely misguided.
Another explanation:

Interstellar travel takes so long that any lifeform attempting it would be extinct by the time it arrived. Accordingly, intelligent lifeforms don't attempt it (and lifeforms lacking intelligence can't). We don't see VN probes because they're pointless from the POV of the sending civilization: by the time the probe's return signal reached home, the sending civilization would be extinct, and it knows it, so it doesn't bother.

We're at a stage in our development where just one lifetime ago, we didn't know other stars had planets, we didn't know there were other galaxies, and no human had ever been to space. We're still wide-eyed about the idea of space travel. But really, space travel is so difficult and expensive that almost any other use of resources has a better ROI. In a coupla hundred years we'll have calmed down (if we're still around).

Why no VN probes? Perhaps we don't know what to look for; it's pretty anthropomorphic to imagine they're going to look like Voyager 2. Or perhaps VN probes are just silly; there's no point in sending a probe to a distant star, if we'll all be extinct before it arrives.
Yeah, assuming you mean radar cross-section (which has surprisingly little to do with volume) as opposed to the conventional kind.

If a non-flush screw can muck with the stealth profile, then surely flaps/ailerons can.
Humans cheat at chess using computers and often times the only way we can tell is using statistical analysis. It's not always apparent from their games that their cheating.

Humans will use ai to aid their art and most people will never have a clue.

If I'm playing video games I couldn't care less if some of the artwork is ai generated.
> We don't know that and this is the very first prototype so it could absolutely evolve over time.

The high-pressure air must come from a compressor, either a separate compressor or the jet engine compressor.

Obviously it is much cheaper and much more compact to use bleed air from the jet engine compressor, than to include a second compressor, only for maneuvering.

On an aircraft without a turbo-engine adding a compressor would increase the cost and the energy consumption a lot in comparison with the traditional methods of steering the aircraft, so it is not advantageous.

However this method without control surfaces should also be usable with turboprop engines, not only with jet engines.
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/131916#issuecom...

This is entirely server-side UA sniffing going wrong. You get an empty HTML doc, only a doctype, with a Firefox Android UA. You can reproduce this with curl and it seems that this affects all UA strings with versions >= 65. <=64 work.
But then, the same can be said of a computer with a finite-sized memory.

I think the real thing in the paper is the computational complexity of calculations. With turing machines, each step is O(1), with transformers it's at least O(n), where n is memory size.
As we have to maintain many servers for app operations, offering one one-time purchase option won't be possible. You can view our server stats here https://uptime.loaderapp.info/status/loader
Finally!

Regardless of the work being done in PyPy, Jython, GraalPy and IronPython, having a JIT in CPython seems to be the only way beyond "C/C++/Fortran libs are Python" mindset.

Looking forward to its evolution, from 3.13 onwards.
I think if you asked people under the age of thirty what they prefer, 90% are going to choose video over books.
So with the various comments about workarounds for mint, which distribution does hn recommend for “working out of the box?”
In lots of applications, all the computations already happen inside native libraries, e.g. Numpy, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX etc.

And if you have a complicate computation graph, there are already JITs on this level, based on Python code, e.g. see torch.compile, or TF XLA (done by default via tf.function), JAX, etc.

It's also important to do JIT on this level, to really be able to fuse CUDA ops, etc. A generic Python JIT probably cannot really do this, as this is CUDA specific, or TPU specific, etc.
I feel like Wikipedia is one thing that helped take down a lot of topic-specific indie sites or home/about pages. Before, you could make a site about anything and find it via a search engine. That was part of the exciting surprise factor of the old web.

Now, Wikipedia coverage is kind of like an expected existence for a lot of things. When Google started to rank Wikipedia very highly for search terms, that was the beginning of this shift
I dont like this. What i would like is somekind of virtual layer on top of the codebase which describes the code just a little better. But only by changing variable names, code build up. Not by adding comments. Because good code doesnt need to have comments everywhere.
I don't think I have zoomed with another SWE that had a headphone cable in a decade.
I disagree entirely. In 20 years ai art will be pervasive and we won't be able to tell in the nominal case. Art has already been augmented beyond human abilities many times over (Photoshop) but we stopped worrying about that decades ago.
Could you describe some essentials functionalities/data models that you want ? I could generate a customiable admin dashboard for you per requirements.
Unladen Swallow was massively over-hyped. It was talked about as though Google had a large team writing “V8 for Python”, but IIRC it was really just an internship project.
I think the thing with python is that it's always been "fast enough" and if not you can always reach out to natively implemented modules. On the flipside javascript was the main language embedded in web browsers.

There has been a lot of competition to make browsers fast.
Nowadays there are 3 main JS engines, V8 backed by google, JavaScriptCore backed by apple, and spidermonkey backed by mozilla.

If python had been the language embedded into web browsers, then maybe we would see 3 competing python engines with crazy performance.

The alternative interpreters for python have always been a bit more niche than Cpython, but now that Guido works at microsoft there has been a bit more of a push to make it faster
Yes, but not so good when the JIT-ed Python can no longer reference those fast C code others have written. Every Python JIT project so far has suffered from incompatibility with some C-base Python extension, and users just go back to the slow interpreter in those cases.
> This entry was posted on Thursday, February 26th, 2009
I am describing what I see as a societal shift and commenting on it. You are making this (and your other comment) into some moralistic activist argument, which is entirely missing the point and frankly just uninteresting. As I said, it’s not about what is better, it’s what ends up being used by people that drives culture.

Adding to that: the critique of writing has a long history going back all the way to Plato. This is not a new topic.
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Meta has actually been doing that — helping improve python's speed — with things like [1,2]

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643670
'Missing washer' found in a Boeing 737 Max operated by an Indian carrier: DGCA
> the wings and tail of the plane metal-free

At some point that's like trying to make someone invisible by making their skin--and only their skin--transparent.

It'll backfire when all the twisty complicated still-important stuff on the inside stands out even more.
I have been screwing around with Microsoft C 3.0 in DOS. What a breath of fresh air it is to install Vim for editing and still have nearly all of its modern functionality (macros, syntax highlighting, folding, splits, regex, visual mode) with absolutely NO keystroke changes.
The article will be a confusing read to someone who does not know what a JIT is.

Look at the paper after the heading "What is a JIT?"

The first paragraph moves towards an answer - "compilation design that implies that compilation happens on demand when the code is run the first time" But then it backtracks on this and says that it could mean many things, and gets wishy-washy, and says that python is already a JIT.

The second paragraph says, "What people tend to mean when they say a JIT compiler, is a compiler that emits machine code." What point is the author trying to make here? An Ahead of Time compiler emits machine code. But then it goes on to say that an Ahead of Time compiler also emits machine code. So what is a JIT?

The third paragraph starts talking about about mechanism, which is a distraction from the question it posed above - what is a JIT?

The article talks around points instead of making points.
Gaslighting now just means scammed, or tricked into, or lied to, unfortunately.
and FORTRAN.
You are right of course. The plays are plays. And ”commercial” minus the poetry ;) and yet, the poetry is there, for the non-commercial reader. (I hear they exist)
I'm onboarding my second cohort of beta applicants this week, I hope to have a public beta by the end of the quarter or so!

I noticed a lot of signups from this post, I'll try to do another round of onboarding this month.
I have and don't consider MLX to be production ready. I've tested it on M1Max and M1Ultra (128) machines. It's completely non-deterministic in its resource consumption, sometimes using the GPU fully, sometimes getting seemingly stuck while processing, sometimes the GPU throttles.

However, there's one curious thing: llama.cpp _always_ leads to GPU throttling on Apple Silicon (e.g. the M1Max GPU will go from 1200MHz to around 700MHz), and then fully saturates it. In the rare cases I could get MLX to stay on the GPU, it was able to keep it at the maximum clock rate. However the unpredictable pauses and seemingly unoptimized prompt processing makes it hard to pick a winner in end-to-end tokens/s
Because it's already fast enough for most of us ? Anecdote, but I've had my share of slow things in Javascript that are not slow in Python. Try to generate a SHA256 checksum for a big file in the browser...

Good to see progress anyways.
I can confirm that holding the remote next to the head doesn't work, but touching chin, temple or the back of the head does extend the range. This works not just with car remotes, but also with garage door openers.
You know the answer, you just don't want to believe it. Something trivial to you might be non-trivial to someone else and vice-versa.
I'm really excited about Polars and it's speed performance is super impressive buuutt. . . It annoys me to see vaex, modin and dask all compared on the same benchmarks.

For anyone who doesn't use those libraries, they are all targeted towards out-of-core data processing (i.e. computing across multiple machines because your data is too big). Comparing them to a single core data frame library is just silly, and they will obviously be slower because they necessarily come with a lot of overhead. It just wouldn't make sense to use polars in the same context as those libraries, so seeing them presented in benchmarks as if they are equivalents is a little silly.

And on top of that, duckdb, which you might use in the same context as polars and is faster than polars in a lot of contexts, isn't included in the benchmarks.

The software engineering behind polars is amazing work and there's no need to have misleading benchmarks like this.
maybe, maybe not. time will tell. ahead-of-time compilation is even better known for improving performance and yet perl's compile-to-c backend turned out to fail to do that
It is a very big deal, as it will finally shift the mentality regarding:

- "C/C++/Fortran libs are Python"

- "Python is too dynamic", while disregarding Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Dylan, SELF, NewtonScript JIT capabilities, all dynamic languages where anything can change at any given moment
Sometimes we do gold plating intentionally because the new tasks are stupid or will compromise the business and we’re trying to make them go away.
And this is where we get hybrids. Topic specific wikis. If I want to know about quests in a Fallout game I check one wiki if I want to know about alternate universe Lex Luthors I check another wiki.
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>Hobby projects are fragile. They can only last if they’re simple to maintain, otherwise keeping them working becomes tedious and the author eventually gives up.

Literally why I always choose Windows over Linux, Intel/Nvidia over AMD, air cooling over water cooling, etc. for all my computers.

Life is short, ain't nobody got time for jank no more.
Someday there will be a Web 4.0, similar to some of the visions of Web 3.0, but without the money stuff, instead a true p2p web.
well, there were a couple of guys working on it
I’m a robotics engineer. I build real, physical robots. Specifically right now farming robots. There’s no digital or VR version of a robot that’s going to grow food you can eat.

Buying from mail order is okay for off the shelf parts but what about custom parts like PCBs and machined parts? And what do you do when you get your mouser order and realize you forgot something important? Having options nearby just means more speed. And that’s what I’m talking about. We’re settling for slower speed than is possible and I don’t like that. They don’t settle for slow in Shenzhen I don’t see why we should.
The columns with common dtypes are grouped together in something called "blocks" and inside those blocks are 2D numpy arrays. It is probably not in the documentation because it is seen as implementation detail but you can see the block manager's structure in this article (https://dkharazi.github.io/blog/blockmanager/) or in this talk (https://thomasjpfan.github.io/scipy-2020-lightning-talk-pand...).
What I know is that due to Sunday's wet snowy weather my air-source heat pump became encased in ice on the heat exchange coils. You can't physically remove the ice without risking damage to the delicate fins, so I ran it in cooling mode for a while to warm the outdoor heat exchanger and loosen the ice.

I am a happy air-source heat pump user, especially when coupled with solar panels. However there are other issues people need to take into account, especially if it is difficult to access the device for cleaning or the owner is mobility impaired.
Perhaps their comment didn't possess the greatest technical merit but there is no need to be rude like that.
These version numbers are for marketing. None of them are revolutionary, only the web itself is.
But wouldn't it be great if you could just write your libraries in Python

Everybody obviously wants that. The question is are you willing to lose what you have in order to hopefully, eventually, get there. If Python 3 development stopped and Python 4 came out tomorrow and was 5x faster than python 3 and a promise of being 50-100x faster in the future, but you have to rewrite all the libraries that use the C API, it would probably be DOA and kill python. People who want a faster 'almost python' already have several options to choose from, none of which are popular. Or they use Julia.
i think it's 'copy-and-patch'
It's time for enterprise SQL systems to take their turn in the AI sandbox
Ahead-of-time compilation is a bad solution for dynamic languages, so that is an expected outcome for Perl.

The base line should be how heavily dynamic languages like my favourite set, Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Dylan, SELF, NewtonScript, ended up gaining from JIT, versus the original interpreters, while being in the genesis of many relevant papers for JIT research.
Parquet works well as it natively support Apache Arrow, the underlying data structure.
Keep building your stuff, but go back to college.

Find a cheap or online college to get a diploma and keep building. The market is tough right now, so it's not like you'd quickly find a position even with a BS in CS diploma.

Try to position yourself for the tech in high demand nowadays; it seems to be about AI, data, and not so much Web as before.

If you are from Pakistan and think this is limiting for you, you could look into improving yourself so you eventually find a job in Europe, but for that you likely need experience and that diploma. Don't hear people that say you absolutely don't need a diploma to succeed in tech.

While you might not need it, for some of your life goals you'll likely need it. And it will make it easier for you in the rest of your life.

It's a diploma that got me into Europe and that allowed me to build a life here.

If you feel like I can help you with some career guidance, feel free to email me.
That's simply broken though.
> bleed air is pretty hot.

Initially yes. But then it can be cooled by expanding it or mixing it with cold air. This is pretty routine. After all the air you breath on airlines is coming from bleed air too.

> it'll have just as many valves to control the flow of bleed air as a regular hydraulic setup

Sure, but that's not the heavy stuff. The fact that bits of the wing has to be independently movable means that it has to be much heavier. If the whole wing would be just one piece you could presumably support it more efficiently.
There are licence brokers, but they tend to only deal with businesses. You could ask your job to buy it and resell it to you.
I've been holding on on my 6 years old Galaxy S8 for this reason.
<rant>
It's yet-another-battery-to-be-charged, it introduced lag in audio especially where it matters(think video playback or games), the battery degrades over time, can't be used with my laptop as seamlessly as unplug-here-plug-there, and I personally like to keep headphones ON all the time even when I'm not listening, in case something comes up. this would be impossible with the Bluetooth ones. sign such a crappy direction they all headed in.
It surely looks cool. But why would I want it?
In this context does it really make sense to measure the output in dollars? The major reason why China has been doing so well in the last 50 years is a dollar of manufacturing in China goes further than in the US.

Just going by Taylor's response sibling to this comment; he says a PCB in the US cost $500 and China $15 - that is more than an order of magnitude efficiency improvement moving to China. $2.5T wouldn't be much to crow about with that sort of productivity gap, because that would be equivalent to less than $250B in China. Presumably PCBs are an extreme case, but it goes to show that a dollar figure doesn't tell us much about the actual capabilities of the US manufacturing sector.

Given the struggles the US has had with energy [0], down 22% from their peak, it is suspicious that manufacturing is at all time highs. Something got squeezed really hard since the 70s in real terms.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
GP appears to have a bee in their bonnet about wokeness (see post history). Unless they provide some evidence to support their take, I see no reason to take it seriously.
> they don't really read as the default anymore, in the sense of reading longform blog posts/articles/newspapers

Did they ever? I grew up with newspapers, but adults back then were saying much the same then just with books as their example of "things kids don't read these days"[0], to the extent that my mum decided she ought to bribe me to read more[1]. But I also remember reading some claim that most people back then were reading just the headlines of newspapers, and if they were particularly engaged by that, perhaps the first/last paragraphs too.

[0] right before Harry Potter came out.

[1] I can't remember exactly how much any more, but I got at least a few week's worth of pocket money from the New Testament.
Imagine being this guy.
20 GB over 24 hours.
when i wrote ur-scheme one of the surprising things i learned from it was that ahead-of-time compilation worked amazingly well for scheme. scheme is ruthlessly monomorphic but i was still doing a type check on every primitive argument

i didn't realize they ever jitted newtonscript
> It's gotta be a modified engine that lets you extract compressed air.

That is basically a standard feature on every jet engine. It is called bleed air.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_air
A sibling comment mentioned that the wording covers iPhone, and that usb port water ingress is warranty voiding... This is how I possibly conclude that taking the phone to an environment like that would be a no, if one cared about the warranty and cover from Apple (pay of the advantage of purchasing from Apple)
The advent of the smartphone and touchscreen is essentially the defining characteristic of Web 2.0 and we haven't really approached Web 3.0+ in any meaningful way, in my experience. However, I am not a computer architecture/hw guru, yet I still expect the future to be pleasantly surprising despite this, erm, rather unnecessarily difficult time.
And we don't make much of an effort to understand ants, because they're not very interesting.

Let's say we start leaving some scent trails around a nest in the hope of starting a conversations.

Will the ants see that as "communication from an advanced civilisation"?

Even if they do - unlikely, but let's pretend - will they be able to use that communication to power up ant civilisation to the highly advanced and superior technological level that defines the Internet and Hacker News?

It's far more likely that beyond a certain point civs become invisible, because they're doing things less mature civs literally can't imagine.

And this applies even if we share a physical space with them. We could be surrounded by technology and completely unable to recognise it. It would be invisible to us, except maybe - maybe - the very occasional fleeting anomaly.

Because we're looking for radio scent trails, and the galactic civ is using Something Else Entirely which we not only don't have the words or the math for, but the brain space to begin to imagine it.
Assistant with Bard looks genuinely useful in these leaked screenshots
Thanks for making what I use every single day.
bluetooth is a digital transmission. The volume is encoded in the signal, it can't get louder just because it receives a clearer signal.

Unless the reduced power consumption by the transceiver causes the battery voltage to rise noticeably.
Yeah network bandwidth scaling with participant count is the the main headwind i.e. it's quadratic in most CRDTs at the moment AFAIKT
Yes, they did, even if they were reading pulp novels and not classic literature.
I spent a lot of time with Super Mario Flash back in the day, has great level editor, you can share levels by copy and pasting a level definition: https://funkypotato.com/super-mario-flash/
Peregrine mission abandons moon landing after suffering critical fuel loss