skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Python distribution and packaging is just fundamentally horribly broken

It's clearly not because most people successfully use it fine.

The problem of distribution and packaging is often a matter of user expectations vs. the actual problem.

The user expectations is that Python is a high level language and will run the same across different machines regardless of OS and Hardware.

The actual problem is Python is a glue language often depending on lots of libraries that are sensitive to how they were compiled and what hardware they are targeting. So people can end up moving the the glue of the project first and then expect everything else to just work.

Things are getting better (e.g. https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/python-packaging-must-be-...), a lot of people have put a lot of work into standards and improving the ecosystem, but it is a hard problem that most other popular languages don't interface with nearly as much.
I wonder what lawyer at Apple thought that the EU would not investigate Apple's malicious compliance, or Apple has done this to see how far the EU will go.

This isn't US legislation where you can find loopholes, EU legislation prohibits malicious compliance and not following "the spirit" of the law, the latter Apple has publicly admitted to doing.
What? Of course there is. Starlink satellites have a five year lifespan before they deorbit, and can be commanded to do so earlier if there’s an issue.
I don't think a CFO has any role in pushing policies.
The current Opera has pretty much nothing to do with the old one you remember.
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Amazon too. These companies aren't just monopolies, they are groups of related monopolies.
In a SPA, you want to change routes in the URL so you don’t break people’s expectations about being able to share deep links to specific pages, but those sites don’t really exist. Eg if your site is www.example.com and you have a SPA on there, and one of the pages is www.example.com/products, you want to still serve index.html from the root even though the /products path is not a real directory on your system. If you don’t serve for this URL then it’ll work fine locally but if someone hard-refreshes or shares the link, it won’t load.
I was actually wondering - what is the last company that the US actually nationalized? In 2008, some banks were shutdown and their assets handled by the govt but not sure that qualifies.
I agree, but that doesn’t mean CNET is a reliable news source.
That would only explain why "ß" and "ẞ" can't both be files in the same folder. "ß" and "ss" are different letter just like "u" and "ue" for example.
Don't understand Apple here. This was a clear cut case of malicious compliance, what did they expect? That they just get away with it? Of course the EU would see the provocation and will take the opportunity.

Yes, they might gain a couple years till this is settled, but they can't use the time to crush a competing app store in between, as there is currently none. I am sure I am dumb, but IMO the smart move would have been to work with the law and a couple of years down the road point out that alternative app stores never caught on (which is very likely, IMO)
I'm guessing you're new here.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-googl...

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-wraps-up-antitrust-case-aga...
Chrome needs to be addressed, too. It’s achieved near-monopoly status (especially if lumping in Chrome reskins like Edge) and posing meaningful competition to Google’s cross-promotion, marketing, and army of engineers working on the project is for practical purposes impossible. Prying away significant marketshare would be incredibly difficult even for the best non-Blink browser imaginable.
This disaster culminated from changes in the Boeing culture that was years in the making, so I very much it would be an easy fix. They would have to prioritize engineering excellence back over profits, but I doubt the current executives even know what that looks like. At the very least, they’d have to move their HQ back to Seattle and sell off or lease their skyscraper they built in Chicago so that the leadership can ignore the engineers.
> "Who says plasticity is good"

In Machine Learning, we might think of this idea as "setting your Learning Rate too high"
There is a difference between anthropomorphizing it and demonstrating that humans are a subset of Animalia and some characteristics of Animalia are not human-specific, even if they're very different from humans.
"modern architecture" is a following the same pricniples of most architecture, engineer it to be strong enough, for as cheap as possible, if you are very very lucky somebody may be willing to pay extra to make it look good.

usually the church was more than willing to pay extra for beauty, but the average apartment building or urban mixed-use building built in the last few decades is likely focused on being affordable and efficient.
Indeed, outside Hackernews hardly any user cares about the browser.

However it becomes relevant once a dominating vendor uses the monopoly to limit the capabilities of the browser to benefit their app store etc. and that is hard to notice. For good competition the EU tries to limit that early.
I think it's a question of how sharp the tool is, and how 'idiot-proof' it's been made. Ubuntu is as idiot-proof as Linuxes go, but the more knowledgeable you get the more you find use for a sharper tool that fits your domain requirements better.

Debian is molded to the server domain pretty closely; Red Hat / Rocky is ideal in regulatory environments; Alpine when the priority is to be lightweight and reliable; I run Void on my personal machines because it's the most BSD of the Linuxes and stays out of my way when I need to do weird stuff.

If you're a beginner, you can append 'ubuntu' to your google searches instead of 'linux' and get an answer that makes sense. You'll know when to move on from ubuntu when you have to search 'foo bar linux' to get a usable answer.
Try this:

shot-scraper -h 800 'https://www.spiegel.de/international/' \
--wait-for "() => {
const div = document.querySelector('[id^="sp_message_container"]');
if (div) {
div.remove();
return true;
}
}"

shot-scraper runs that --wait-for script until it returns true. In this case we're waiting for the cookie consent overlay div to show up and then removing it before we take the screenshot.

Screenshots here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/de75355c39025f9a64548aa3366b1...
Airplanes aren't cars.

Startups have no clean slate advantage in an industry where every single part of your plane has to be approved and whose design stems from gigantic numbers of operations.

Designing commercial airliners requires insane amounts of money, time and know how.

Boeing and Airbus are in near-monopoly status where the only possible competitors can be state-sponsored .
Airbus took over the debts for the project. They paid $1 for 50% of the shares, not sure how much they paid for the rest, but in any case, they assumed the financial burden which was what was dragging Bombardier down.
I .. don't think the EU forced Ford to paint the Model T in colors other than black
That's auper interesting I wonder how much e-commerce happened over telnet before the world wide web took off. Reading this though makes me want to try and build a website that uses Telnet.

As an aside I've always wondered if someone has tried building something like stripe but you can check out in your terminal.
Indeed, I was surprised by the article's assumption that "emergence" is about a sudden jump in ability.

I work in AI and ML but my academic background is in the philosophy of mind. When people talk about "emergence" w/r/t AI I assume they're speculating about how consciousness might be an emergent property of a neural network, in the same way some people speculate that our minds are emergent properties of our brains. I think that speculation is foolish, but that is beside the point. It has nothing to do with a sudden jump in abilities, per se.
It wasn’t even malicious compliance, because they didnt even come close to complying.

The Core Technology Fee is such a clear violation violation of the DMA rules.
That's a great folkexplanation but the wikipedia page makes it sound unlikely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodachrome_(song)#Development
This would be super cool as a browser extention. Turn news articles or hacker news into a language learning tool.
What I often use to just get the full key paths is yq (https://github.com/mikefarah/yq), piping into grep when necessary

yq -o=props <file>

e.g.

kind = Ingress
metadata.name = hello
spec.rules.0.host = localhost
spec.rules.0.http.paths.0.pathType = ImplementationSpecific
spec.rules.0.http.paths.0.backend.service.name = hello
spec.rules.0.http.paths.0.backend.service.port.number = 80

The one drawback I've encountered so far are multi-doc files - yq can certainly handle those, but you have to script the loop yourself.
> I'd avoid part-time as at this time we are looking for very committed ppl that can help us doing the 0 to 1.

What's your mental model about identifying / fostering commitment?

One traditional way to buy commitment is via equity. But since you also have investors, that might be a tough balancing act. I'm curious what other approaches could work.

Also, is there a viable path forward even without high commitment? E.g., can the work be structured in a manner that's resilient to occasional churn in this role?
Your friend is doing an actual refactoring (kudos), according to the definition. Otherwise it's more like restructuring
The chair of the SEC should step down for pushing a company like Boeing to keep giving quarterly earnings reports. Pursuing stock value is the ultimate root of all the evil in Boeing.

They should allow them to provide quarterly safety reports instead. We as a society should value companies like Boeing based on safety, not based on earnings. They should be exempt from capitalism and just focus on transporting people alive.
This seems big. Or is it just a golden parachuted executive sailing off to gleeful retirement.
Are they better off than they were four years ago?
"Счастливый случай" is more of an equivalent of “happy accident”saying in english. It is an almost literal translation of the saying that just happens to work the exact same way in both languages.

That doesn’t mean that “happy” (in english) is synonymous with “lucky” or that it makes sense to apply “happy” the same way outside of that saying in english. Same thing in russian with "счастливый случай". If you use "счастливый” to apply to something outside of that saying, it will mean “happy” 100% of the time. If you try using it in place of “lucky” in russian, I can guarantee that people will be very confused even after you explain your reasoning for doing so.

P.S. “случай” literally means accident/happenstance, it doesn’t mean chance. There is a word for chance in russian that is extremely commonly used, and it is pretty much the same as the english word (“шанс” pronounced as “shahns”).
This doesn't make any sense to me. It's definitely possible to send push notifications to Android apps without Firebase Cloud Messenger.
Exactly, Germany's economy has grown quite a bit since the 1970s. It's energy usage is indeed trending down. Which means they are doing more with less energy. Back in the nineteen seventies they had inefficient cars, trucks, electricity generation (mostly coal based), and industry. Now they have a bigger economy and are not using a lot more energy. That's progress.

Michael Liebreich [1] refers to this as the primary energy fallacy in his recent articles on why reaching net zero is both hard and easy. He traces back the origins of this fallacy to the nineteen seventies when people started tracking the notion of primary energy during the oil crisis. The issue is that this is based on the gross energy usage, not the net useful output of that energy. Which with fossil fuels is pretty terrible (<30%) and with clean energy typically a lot better (>90%).

The other problem is that to this day, people base their policies on reports that still center on primary energy by agencies such as the IEA. It's a fallacy because any policy or plan based on the notion primary energy is off by about 3x in terms of actually needed energy. So, any plan that assumes replacing dirty energy gw fo gw with clean energy is technically bullshit.

A good example is petrol which has about 9kwh of energy per liter. A typical car might have about 50 liters of petrol. So, that's about 450 kwh. Or nearly half a mwh. Comparable EVs tend to have more modestly sized batteries of maybe 60-70kwh. Does the petrol car go 7 times further? Not even close. Most of that is transformed into heat and noise rather than movement. Primary energy of nearly half mwh. Useful energy under 100kwh. That's a 5x difference. That's why EVs can be cleaner even if you do charge them using coal powered electricity plants. You simply get more km per kwh.

[1] https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-net-zero-will-be-harde...
The EU has said they’re going to fast track the enforcement of these. Apple lawyers, simply, fucked up.

They lost so much good will with developers over this, have lost any goodwill with negotiations with EU, and are now going to have to speedrun compliance.

I’ve dealt with lawyers like this before in various company situations. They are sometimes really, really stupid. Not always, but it happened often enough to be terrifying.
Apple’s revenue was over 100B last quarter (https://valustox.com/AAPL) and about 380B over the past four quarters.

Looks like they make about 30% of that in Europe.

Sounds like about 80% of their headaches come from Europe.

If they get fined 10% of 380B, and the EU becomes ever more fine-happy, it will at one point make sense to simply shut down in Europe.

As an aside, it’s baffling to me why an aging continent with a sluggish economy would want to start a trade war with its only friend.
I wrote a similar tool long time ago.

https://github.com/varbhat/serv

* Serve the SPA (fallback to index.html): `serv -spa`

* Serve the directory and all it's contents: : `serv -dir=/path/to/my/dir`
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Doesn't Pyinstaller also require CPython to have been built with '--enable-shared'? I _think_ this is the default for most system-installed Pythons that I've seen, but it's not the default if you build Python from source or install via pyenv.
More biased than interesting, they've done lots of things that aren't particularly user friendly... the long history of proprietary connectors and dongles for example.
> having lots of vertical space, nice carved/moulded ceiling, etc.

Do you mean that being habitable without air conditioning is a negative feature?
It's true though that in most cases single-threaded event-loop concurrency is sufficient. I wasn't attempting to make a generalization, I was saying that in cases where the CPU-bound work _is_ more voluminous, I prefer process-parallelism over threaded parallelism for such workloads (of which FaaS is just one possible impl).
The question is if Apple think maintaining their monopoly is worth more than 'up-to' 10%.

I guess 10% would be reserved for absolute refusal of compliance and malicious compliance might attract a smaller fine?
Co-founder/CTO here.

We are building a modern spreadsheet and experimenting with different ideas around improving robustness of spreadsheets, making it easier to tell stories with data, and helping both casual and power users to speed up their work with AI.

On a technical side we wanted to make an online spreadsheet that exceeds the speed of a desktop version of Excel. We are doing it because I had to often juggle between GSheets and Excel for different use cases in my previous company. And also because both myself and our team love performance optimization.

In the blog post above we are sharing early benchmarks. We will write a separate article about our tech stack, but in short - we are running all calculations on the client-side using multithreaded WebAssembly (C++) & CRDT for collaboration. We also wrote our own optimized Canvas-based spreadsheet renderer.

Running calculations locally allows us to minimize cost to serve a user, to eventually implement e2e encryption, and to provide an offline mode. We will also ship a native desktop app next month to get around 4GB browser WASM limitation and to get an extra 30% speed boost.

We are still in early stages, but we'd love to hear your feedback about the product.
Who is the "we" you refer to here?
new york city's brownstones are considered beautiful and iconic now, but when they were built they were described as cheap eye-sores and a blight upon the beautiful city.

i imagine a similar trend must exist for most of the European cities. people's aesthetic usually rejects the new, but recognizes the beauty once it is seen as old and classic
Really fascinating, I love the implication that domestication is tied to juvenile characteristics (getting along in a group means acting more like a kid than an adult protecting your territory / breeding rights).

> "Are we domesticated in the sense of dogs? No. But I am comfortable saying that the first thing that has to happen to get a human from an apelike ancestor is a substantial increase in tolerance toward one another."
Or just don't draw it from the grid to begin with. Test enough really big power supplies, and the cost of a big set of batteries & inverters starts to look like a good investment vs paying the electric utility for it.
You don't need to shift all the energy from the long days in the summer to the long nights in the winter.

The cheapest solution varies depending on how close you are to the arctic circle, but for most of the world's population the best is to have a bit more generation capacity than you need on a winter's day combined with a mere few days worth of storage.

This is about x100 less energy storage than shifting from summer to winter, at a cost of x3 in generation, and generation is still the cheaper part of the two.

Close to the arctic circle, the only solution is a power line to somewhere further south; this is much cheaper than the nay-sayers claim (in $ terms even a planet-spanning 1 Ω grid is only about $265 billion), but is still a political PITA.
A shuffling of the C-suite at Microsoft (eventually) led to it becoming the world’s most valuable company. Certainly not a guarantee, but it’s a step in the process
This only makes sense if you believe a capitalist economy can produce anything different. These guys acted exactly as expected of them.
> All those conflicts you mention with the exception of Israel are guerilla warfare wars, which this is not.

“Guerilla warfare” is just what happens in an modern invasion/occupation/regional separatist warfare when the local/peripheral side is sufficiently weak in conventional military terms relative to the invader/occupier/central authority.

That the Ukrainian side of the Russo-Ukrainian War is not forced into guerilla war is not a positive sign for the Russian side.
You must not travel a lot. There are huge numbers of historic villages and towns with original or very old architecture. If we were dealing with survivorship bias, we should expect essentially random buildings scattered around cities, not entire towns or contiguous historic districts.
Surprisingly, there exist people doing GPU programming outside of ML. I work in high performance computing and lots of people write CUDA code.
> women are the majority of gamers

you mean like all games?

ime twitch is mostly pc-gaming and pc-platform is male-heavy
Apple has never been big enough to deal with competition authorities. They lack the institutional expertise and mindset for their present circumstances.

They will continue to fail until the penalties are unbearable.
This argument ignores the fact that medical research into the potential benefits of "this nonsense" has been under way in the US for over 20 years. Johns Hopkins has a dedicated research group in this area [1], and has published peer-reviewed research for various applications of these drugs.

It's easy to become cynical about psychedelics, because there's a ton of bullshit in the space. (And it's probably fair to assess that the push of these substances into the black market helped create an environment where only "hippie-esque" bullshit could thrive). But the results seem pretty clear that there's real potential in these drugs to alleviate human suffering in many ways.

Does that mean that these drugs unlock magical insights or enhance the intelligence of their users? Of course not, and no one serious is suggesting that they do. But there's been plenty of real research over the past two decades that makes dismissing the medical value of psychedelics as "nonsense" a fairly silly take.

[1]: https://hopkinspsychedelic.org/
Push notifications are a tricky one because they only really work when there's one central distribution point, for performance/battery/etc. Apple does it this way too, and almost every mobile platform does the same thing. Yes you can sit in the background and hold a connection open or poll on some platforms, but it's not a good experience.

I see a thriving third-party ecosystem around push notifications as a marketing channel. Yes the low level APIs end up going via the central platform, but they are remarkably low level, and the business value comes from the automation, easier integration, tracking, rich notifications, etc. Companies like Urban Airship have been around for well over a decade doing this.

Are these central platforms holding you back? If so I'm interested to know what you're unable to do that you would be able to do better.

(This is all my own opinion, mostly from developing for iOS in a previous role, not that of my employer where I'm nothing to do with push)
It really does look depressing, even in the best photos
Ground-breaking revelation! I should let all my friends at the forum know that CEO man is, indeed, bad.

Thank you!
> Hungarian has a whole bunch of bizarre di- and trigraphs IIRC

Actually, there is just only one trihraph. "dzs" almost exclusively used for representing "j" from English and other alphabets, for example "Jennifer" is "Dzsennifer" in Hungarian or "jam" is "dzsem" in the same way.

Trigraph and digraphs actually make sense, at least as a native as these really mark similar sounds what you would think you will get by combining the given graphs. These letters doesn't cause too much issues in search in my opinion, but hyphenation is a form of art (see "magyar.ldf" for LaTeX as an example).

To complicate the situation even further we have a/á, e/é, i/í and o/ó/ü/ő and u/ú/ü/ű letters, all of those considered to be separate ones and you can easily type them in a Hungarian desktop keyboard. On the other hand, mobile virtual keyboards usually show a QWERTY/QWERTZ layout where you can only find "long vowels" by long pressing their "short" counterparts, so when you are targeting mobile users you maybe want to differentiate between "o" and "ö", but not between "o" and "ó" nor between "ö" and "ő".
Usually, a company does have reasons to play hard ball with authorities, but I fail to understand what it could be in this case.

Apple hoping for a far-right Republican presidency that would create a trade war with the EU?
"hideous blobs of steel and glass" were originally known as glorious and beautiful modern architecture. oversaturation makes the creative into the tired and boring
> An ideal dataset would consist of thousands of hours of speech where source accent utterance is mapped to each target accent utterance and aligned with it accurately.

To put it in terms of text translation, roughly how many sentences or words is this?
Lot of commentors missing the mark re: they need engineering leadership! A publicly traded company is a profit driven enterprise, maximizing profits is their first and last goal. Everything in-between that is called risk. Right now they'll be scrambling to hire the right PR teams and make those risks look less risky so the profit machine can go back to work.
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