skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which is why "JRE is moving from YouTube to Spotify for $200 mil" is a thing.

It's really not. They bought his regular anti-intellectual dribble not because podcasts aren't decentralised, but the opposite: because the inexplicable draw of his particular brand of common-sense-insulting prole-feed might convince people that podcasts are something only big services can do, and to compete with other big services trying to do the same things. They want to give the impression that big content is "locked up" by services, when it's not.

In my estimation it hasn't really succeeded (in his asinine, consistency-free, bloviating world or anywhere else).

All they really did is associated their brand with his twaddle.
While it’s not necessarily simple to do so, having a raw unstyled xml feed is a choice not a requirement. You _can_ style rss feeds: https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/
H2 does not cause any warming at all, it's the reactions that do. So you're correct but that's exactly the problem. That's why I worded it as 'indirect' greenhouse gas.
Professional programmers like to be rude about visual programming, but it only seems to be getting more popular. So it must be doing something right! The problems come when it is applied to problems where it isn't a good fit (as described in the article).
People who speak English and frequent this website will inevitably follow US culture or news coverage and have been tainted by it in some way. At the same time cultures are growing closer together, in part this is visible in poor internationalization of programs. It's becoming hard to draw the line.
https://go.dev/blog/toolchain
It depends on who you listen to. Non coders seem to love Wordpress. I worked in a place with a Django booking site and a Wordpress marketing site. The other two devs knew PHP, while I know python, they advised me not to learn it and to stay away.
Nuclear energy is way more expensive than solar or wind.
Cost is much too high still, so it's not surprising. I can go on Facebook marketplace and buy 3 or 4 good ICE vehicles for the cost of an EV. Most people don't have the luxury of purchasing based on ideology.
>3. China is no discernible threat to Japan.

China is known to make spurious territorial claims. What happens if they produce an ancient fishing map tomorrow claiming Okinawa as their own?
Foreigners that don't live their will probably rent it out, no? If so, they are not contributing to housing scarcity.
Apple releases 'MGIE', AI model for instruction-based image editing
Agreed. Maybe the circle can shrink to it's final size, and then have the word 'restart' appear.
Well, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that there's many use cases out there where you just have no other choice but to use a lower-level language (where, unfortunately or not, the common tool of choice these days is still C/C++) since the application/library is either dealing with too much data or has to be very responsive, or both. Since this thread is about Python, some good well-known examples would be libraries like numpy/pandas; but there's also some like polars that are written in Rust.

Re: your point, I'd still recommend learning Rust even if it's just solving last year's AoC, to see how various data structures, enums, traits, iterators etc work. Even if you don't end up using Rust on daily basis, it will probably affect the way you structure non-Rust code and provide you with a few neat design ideas.
I mistook Jackie Coogan for another child star of the same era, Jackie Cooper.
That's exactly what I'm talking about: injecting one specific strong political position into a pop sci text.

Moreover, I would also downvote an article filled with American messiah complex for a single reason that I don't live there so it is irrelevant and confusing. Nowhere in the article does it say it's not applicable to other countries, moveover it can't stop talking about the whole planet.
I hope Waymo releases videos of the incident.
The main character's name is Hiro Protagonist. He's definitely leaning into it.
These chips are probably aimed first and formost at civil production, in particular for car/plane/boats (for domestic and export needs) and consumer electronics, from rice cookers to door bells etc.

For Japan it's a crucial bet, a lot more than other countries in America or the EU as it's the crux of the economy.
I've been using RustPython for my side project (scripting purpose) and its been amazing ride so far! (albeit with minimal docs which is understandable at this stage). AFAIK, the parser also been used in the awesome ruff project
Any government agency that does not answer every request for information is hopelessly corrupt and must be defunded.
It's unfortunate that the name is derived from a locked-down device, but that was never a limitation of the technology (which had nothing to do with Apple); I used to listen to podcasts before I ever owned an iPod.
| TSMC lost the Chinese market, because their government went along headfirst with US trade war policy(similar to what Japan did in 1986, but worse in fact).

Taiwan is definitely caught between a rock and a hard place. They watched what happened in Hong Kong and no longer is interested in rejoining Xi’s China. So now they are threatened with invasion unless they rejoin China. They are reliant on the US to prevent that’s from happening. So given the choices, it’s not surprising that they are choosing the US to continue existing.

It’s crazy to me that you haven’t see more divestments in China from Taiwanese companies.
For some people growth is more like a religion, than something one can rationally examine that has tradeoffs.

And the religion even comes with miracles, where for any given problem caused by growth throwing more growth into it will fix it, usually by handwaving about non existing technologies that will "surely" arrive, or existing technologies that never proved themselves beyond toy scale.

And, as we can see from the "degrowth is murder" the religion comes with ethical deadly sins and fire-and-brimstone too.
There was something like this a few years ago, "Elixir for Rubyists": https://thoughtbot.com/blog/elixir-for-rubyists
BlueSky lets people add their own algorithmic feeds, and customize which feeds they subscribe to. Currently I have "Following" (strictly reverse chronological feed of the people I follow), "What's Hot Classic" (reverse chronological feed of posts that are "hot", by some unclear metric, but not tailored to me), and "Discover" (described as "Trending content from your personal network"). I can remove any of those feeds, and use any others I want, including curated feeds of: scientists, furries, black users, cats, authors, people you follow who follow you back, people who follow you that you don't follow back, or just create your own feed.

If you want to only ever see a strictly reverse chronological feed of the people you follow, then remove all feeds other than "Following", done. If you don't want to see reposts, then turn off seeing reposts. If you don't want to see replies, then turn off seeing those too. I'm not sure what you experienced which isn't easily solvable. The only QoL feature I can think of that isn't yet supported is the ability to selectively turn off reposts from individual people you follow.
As a Canadian you're spot on!

Sorry to drop by like this.
I think that's just VLC being VLC, or maybe VLC's youtube support doesn't get the high quality streams. When I play youtube videos with mpv (which uses yt-dlp), 's' to snapshot produces clean images.
How did that work out for OS/2?

I understand his is completely different. For starters the interface being able to completely avoid the standard desktop is awesome, which Windows doesn't seem to be able to.

Secondly I get better performance with Linux and Proton on the same hardware.
There's a countdown in light grey at the bottom.
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If you use ffmpeg with png you will get sharper images. I was trying to extract a numberplate once and this worked out best.
I live in the American South, where it is absolutely accepted by society and the law.
Yes, C++ definitely tends to rely more on binary dependencies, shared objects. Rust will probably have to as well, once frameworks and libraries get to size and maturity that you want your OS vendor to take over responsibility (and compile time!). And note that even MUSL doesn't help create a package that works seamlessly on any Linux OS/release — maybe WASM will (or more accurately: WASI).

But I think, the point GP is making is more about the dependencies Python ads to your C++ (or Rust). Ie.: build RustPython project to produce artifact that works on my machine, but relies on my python interpreter, my (which may have C dependencies) as well as a rust edition and cargo. How can I bundle this into a package for a different Linux? Preferably do it following the existing packages and lore of that distro, rather some python and some rustup version?
Such a great source of information. Thank you.
Both Kurt Vonnegut and Neal Stephenson seek to plumb the intersection between technology and religion, between science and popular culture - but where Vonnegut adheres to the literary traditions of the Western Satirical Canon, Stephenson choose to plough a far more meta-referential narrative path that is weighted by all the detrimental issues associated with Young Adult fiction without representing any of the strengths of the genre.

This is fairly understandable when you look at their respective backgrounds. Vonnegut was a Combat Infantry veteran, earning a Purple Heart in World War 2. He was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned - emerging to find an alien landscape not unlike the moon. This was, in fact, the eponymous 'Slaughterhouse Five' from which his magnum opus takes its name.

His use of satire, gallows humour and science fiction was rooted in the tradition of the golden era of Science Fiction - namely, the use of these literary devices to try and make sense of a seemingly uncaring and alien world and society that was changing with unprecedented rapidity.

You see Joseph Heller doing very similar in 'Catch 22' when utilising similar narrative devices like non-chronological timelines, omniscient 3rd person narrators, and satirical paradoxes to describe and to try and make sense of his own brutal and often paradoxical experiences serving in the Korean War.

Stephenson, in contrast, is mired in the self-referential and meta posturing of late 80s American University culture - as befitted his first and possibly most insightful book 'The Big U' - a scathing indictment of the homogenisation of the American University system as it geared towards research over pure academia.

The book he is most lauded for - Snow Crash - is in many ways a poor facsimile of Gibson's Neuromancer. Even the title, which Stephenson contends was a result of his computer crashing with a malformed bitmap that '...looked vaguely like static on a broken television set—a 'snow crash...' is lifted conceptually from the opening pages of Neuromancer - "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.".

The plotting characterisation and story beats when not directly lifted from Neuromancer, are reinterpreted chunks of Philip K Dicks 'A Scanner Darkly' and the 'The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch' respectively, and what little innovation he brings to the world building is mired in a comic book aesthetic, versus the film noir salience of Neuromancer.

Many would content that this is the point - that Stephenson is playing with the tropes of the Cyberpunk genre. Unfortunately this doesn't explain away his stylistic choice (or sheer lack of ability) to avoid huge explanatory passages that destroy any semblance of pacing or advancing a narrative midway through the book. This, in many ways, is indicative of the 'tell, don't show' fumbling of Cory Doctorow in the way he punches down to his predominantly YA audience.
PostGraphile didn't have any first-class migration solution back when we started using it. It looks like they have a `migrate` tool, but I can't speak to that since I've never used it.

The way I set everything up, there's one schema containing just the bare tables and data, and then everything else (stuff that PostGraphile generates and all of our stored procedures with business logic) are in a separate schema. That way the migration process is a shell script that essentially 1. drops the entire non-table schema, 2. runs through all of the SQL files that define the application (there's some custom logic to control dependencies by looking for a `-- PRIORITY N` comment on the first line of the source files), 3. attach all the triggers to the tables (since they live in the schema that was dropped). It means we didn't have to worry about figuring out what all needs to be dropped to make a change because literally everything is dropped and recreated from scratch each time we deploy a new version.

I'm speaking in present tense because this application still exists, we've just (more or less) frozen the code base and are slowly migrating all its functionality piecemeal into a ASP.NET Core WebAPI project.
It seems like RADAR can continuously be analyzed and improved with more and more compute power.

When RADAR is the eyes and ears on the modern battlefield, you want as many computers on it as possible to find as many targets as possible and to differentiate them.
They are saying it's too expensive. I think it's too expensive too, and although it's not my area I think the AI is unnecessary for that cost; not every solution needs to have the latest trend shoehorned into it. Presumably people with sight issues are like me in not wanting to pay extra for the technology used.
God dammit I wish I had seen that a few months ago when there was a dozens-long HN thread where people were arguing that that wasn't what he meant or that it wasn't important to the success/failure of the different branches of that project in the book.
Some hints:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venn_diagram

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_(psychology)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_a_negative

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness (that which is actually being described) - see also: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/12/29/the-perils-of-java...
> if put a podcast URL into my Webbrowser I just get a bunch of raw XML

And if I put a web URL into my telnet client I just get a bunch of raw HTTP! Not everything on the internet is part of the web. There have always been other protocols: IMAP/SMTP for email, IRC for chat, NNTP for newsgroups, XMPP for instant messaging, and RSS for subscriptions.

The idea that everything has to be done over the web is what’s really undermined “the idea of HTML as a markup language”. If HTML is a markup language, why would you use it for all these other use cases, most of which were handled with much better performance on hardware from twenty years ago?
I haven't tried this myself, but you could probably save yourself the wrapper script and execute your script directly by adding a shebang pointing to the Python executable from your virtual environment.

printf '%s\n%s\n' "#!path/to/venv/bin/python3" "$(cat path/to/app.py)" > /usr/local/bin/myscript
Due process does not mean that, in theory, you could sue to get a trial, but that in practice you can not afford to.
Expressing sorrow is not the same thing as an apology. If you doubt that, swap them out at a funeral:

"I apologize for your loss".
Expanding it to full page would work.
I would argue the sci-fi indeed gets so hard, that it becomes soft again by nature. The technology falls away from the focus, as it should, but it is still very much there.
this should say 'is as a red flag'

we deeply regret this error
Do you think that EU could have enforced browser choice on Microsoft worldwide? Patents? Copyrights?
I've been building data projects for real estate for a while and applying LLM's for conversational products but I've never mixed both of them. I think something like a conversational buying/renting assistant could be feasible but I don't think it's something interesting to monetize.
Reminds of that story of that girl that was driving without a license, so she got arrested. She then developped a very, very painful spinal fungal infection and was on the verge of dying while medical overseers just thought she was faking it for drugs. She finally managed to get medical treatment where she was told she was hours away from dying and so fortunately managed to live. Unfortunately, when she tried to sue because of the negligence by the prison staff, she found out she had a very small window to make the suit otherwise she waives her rights and it had already elapsed.

Point is that people just don't care about anything related to prisons, everyone just assumes it's all guilty trash.
I'm not sure if I agree, tbh. You've certainly brought up some good cases of failures, but what about:

Tesla in Sparks NV, BMW in Greer SC, or Mercedes in Alabama and SC? It seems like those have more than paid for themselves by now. In at least one of those cases, they've had huge regional impacts.
Being able to run REPL session directly on MCUs and interact with the hardware live with short development loop is such a great idea.
The digital beyond: Is an eternal existence within grasp?
I've used pypy in anger a few times. I haven't needed to do reasonably performant webdev in python for awhile, but there was a time when PyPy and the cffi-based database drivers could not be beat by CPython interpreters for non-trivial code. This still might be the case, but I haven't profiled it at all (recently). This was back in python 2.7 days in the mid 2010s.
and the dot changes are not smooth but jump when the browser gets lost on other tasks.
OTOH, it could be as trustworthy as the Montreal protocol of 1987 which agreed to reduce CFC production by 50% by 1999.

Instead production in signatory countries hit 0 by 1996.

Measured scepticism is rational. Blind scepticism isn't.
I love the world building of the 2nd half, and would argue it doesn't need a clear ending. Your imagination gets to fill in the blanks.
Very much both. Plenty of pieces like this are PR-driven, but quality publications are always looking to write interesting pieces independently of PR pitches.

Many pieces come about because an individual journalist pitches an idea to their editor.
Anathem was my introduction and I feel that it has spoiled his other works for me.
It never worked. People behind these just want to make some quick money from the supreme leader and buy mansions/yachts in rotten capitalism countries.
We may be getting close to the limit for 2D density, but have just barely started moving in the 3rd dimension.

Chips are also quite small, limited partly by the ability to cool them once they enter a computer and partly because a single defect often means the whole chip must be discarded (which means large chips generatel lower yields).

I suspect we will see much more development in all of these directions, with individual chips extending deeper into 3d and getting improved tolerance to defects allowing them to get larger, as well as with chiplet, die-2-die, stacking and similar methods of combining chips in a package continuing to move forward at a rapid pace.

I don't think we should expect foundry development to stagnate in the near future. If anything, as AI starts to be used in developing new chips, it may well accelerate.
Children are never good at acting anyway, I wish writers wouldn't write stories that require child actors.
The Value of Atomic Notes
https://www.cpuscout.com/?Brand=AMD

Got a 4xx or 5xx error on this (probably important?) URL. Told me to contact support.
Isn’t the simple explanation the fact that non-human causes of wildfires are likely to start more than one in a given area?

- Lightning?

- Hot, dry winds + sparks from nearby power lines? (Debatably non-human, but usually not terrorists.)

At least in California we have forest ecosystems that practically require periodic fire for regeneration — seeds that require fire to germinate — suggesting forest fires have been common even on evolutionary timescales, long predating humans.
True. That's a whole nother can of worms. You often only get something like 30 days worth of pills per prescription before you have to visit your doctor again. For someone with poor time and tasks management, those 2-3 hours lost (and adding the "resources" spent on mental overhead/stress/anxiety), are actually a significant burden.
>("glaciers will be gone by 2020" LOL)

They're largely gone already.

And speaking of LOLing at failed predictions, do you know how many decades ago "too cheap to meter" electricity you've mentioned has been promised?

>Biodiversity might be a problem, but as with the above, I'm certain we'll be able to solve it.

Of course. With wishful thinking, anything is possible.

To sum up, technology will magically fix all the mess that growth and technology has created. Anything as long as we can have our cake and eat it too, and never make any sacrifice.

Even Alcubierre engines, so we can go and fetch resources from the Galaxy!
China and Taiwan use the same language so China is still very attractive for oversea expansion for Taiwanese companies.
>It can be held in hands and used.

So can a 15" laptop. That doesn't make 15" laptops handhelds.
I kept thinking “all hail hypnotoad” and waiting for a jumpscare. I did feel remarkably calmer towards the end.
If it could tell the difference in socket 2011 v1, v2, v3, and v4, I might use it.
AI is Learning to Decode the 'Language' of Chickens
Some people think those are the best bits of his books!
What about doing whatever you like and/or seems most useful? I am getting a bit sick and tired of either people asking what they 'should' do or people telling others what they 'should' do. The former because they seem to want to outsource that which their brain should be able to do and the latter because they are disgusting dictators. Can anyone still think for themselves and/or allow others to use their brain for its obvious purpose?
Music is already more constrained to platforms and labels than podcasts and yes movies is even more constrained. The reason for this seems obvious, it costs a lot more to produce. If I want to create a podcast I just need to buy myself a mic and sure it costs some personnal investment but it's much less than music and nothing compared to movies. So it's a lot easier for platforms like netflix to fund a lot of projects in exchange of exclusivity.
Psychological Implications of Passthrough Video Usage in Mixed Reality
"Error: cound not retrieve items. Please contact support" immediately after the first click to some chrckbox. Was this even tested?
Most web standards are codifying existing functionality, not the other way around.

Chrome/Blink has exclusive APIs, that often are not on track to be a standard.

This makes Safari (Webkit) and Firefox (Gecko) look bad, because they end up having to implement the same APIs, and then, maybe, it's standardized. Browser extension APIs come to mind.

I wish the situation was more neat and tidy, but it's not.
Yeah, it must be less than 1% of revenue. Probably a lot less, given that it is likely spread over several years.
Short notes that focus on a single idea are generally much more valuable to grow a valuable Personal Knowledge Management system than long and deep notes can be.
We've been waiting 20 years for this – The Blogging Revolution
The problem ultimately isn't Google pushing new "standards", since plain HTML and other existing ways of doing things that work in many more browsers still works; it's the trendchasing web developers who somehow feel the need to make sites that only work in Chrome, and the propaganda that Google to encourage that behaviour.

It's almost as if backwards-compatibility is seen as something to be avoided in certain web dev communities. Lots of "drop support" and "moving forward", zero consideration for simplicity and interoperability.