skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Several years ago I was a contractor on a project for that would sip up data from all forms of sensor and moving objects around a large city.
It was decided that we needed Kafka and a few similar tools to handle it.

It was not hard to calculate the current max traffic or estimate the traffic growth over the next 10 years.

I did a demo of the system running on my laptop (all of it) + Postgres
handling 100x the current data without too much difficulty.

Still they went with the "scale" solution because it was the right design.
(and of course the consultants and me got quite lot more work todo so made a good deal more money)
He's a fascinating character. Erik Davis (author of this piece) collaborated with McCloud's Institute of Illegal Images to produce his new book on Blotter tabs: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048507/blotter/

(full disclosure: i work for the MIT Press)
This line of thinking led me to think: global variables should be, rather, considered good!

Plain text is the problem. We write code so it can be easily read as plain text. Not as living, breathing, running code.

Globals are considered bad because they are hard to trace and reason about. But this is only so with plain text. You cannot click on a variable and see all it's dependencies. We must painstakingly trace these.

If we visualized the dependencies and the flow of our code, we could see the complexity as we go. And the "context" becomes automatic. There is no difference between explicit and implicit context.

The key for globals, is to have one large graph data structure where everything is related. All your data is modeled the same. No mini-databases spread out over the code. No ad-hoc indexes strewn throughout. No modularity. One single giant data model.
Smelting recycled aluminum uses only about 3% of the energy as creating it from raw ore. So yes, recycling allows us to do that more efficiently.
> In other words, if async/await is so good, why not make all functions in the language implicitly async, and instead of "await" just write normal function calls?

IIRC withoutboats said in one of the posts that the true answer is compatibility with C.
He was also a psychedelic jazz musician - his Secret Sauce album from 1975 was rereleased recently:

https://ericghost.bandcamp.com/album/secret-sauce
They didn't introduce the term. It's a standard English word:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emergent#English

> (philosophy, sciences) Having properties as a whole that are more complex than the properties contributed by each of the components individually.

If they've said that it requires a sudden jump then they're trying to redefine the word to mean something it doesn't. But I haven't heard anyone else use that definition.

The emergent properties of AI are like "how can it write and entire Python program when we've only ever asked it to predict single words". It doesn't require any sudden jumps.
Completely agree. Use a raspberry pi or just run a VM on your desktop. Do your initial learning on something contained in your home network before you experiment (and potentially get compromised) on the internet.
This is one of the approaches for FFI taken by other runtimes, however it has the issue that without binding generators (jextract, P/Invoke code generators, ctypesgen), the type declarations are a pain to write.

Thus something like this would need a similar tool.
Blaming the lowly workers is not fair. They must follow procedures. A fish rots from the head down.

Why not replace the entire board if the CEO is a direct reflection of the board?
I'm familiar with the trade-off. But I disagree that there's a choice to make between safe and powerful. It is possible to make safe behaviors by default, while leaving the door open for more advanced behaviors. I guess code linters can help as crutches. But the right abstractions too.

It's the motivating example for languages like C++ in the first place (over assembly): type safety, easier reasoning about control flow, etc.

Note how the case here is very simple - waiting on a variable to change - but advice just boils down to "be more careful" instead of "here's the foolproof way to do this". You can only ask a programmer to watch out for so many things, and C++ has way too many of these things.
h2o (https://h2o.examp1e.net/index.html) is a full-fledged, single-binary, open source web server. Check it out.
Sounds like you're searching for a cultural or political evolution, not a technological one.

That's what influences the people who sign our paychecks.
Yeah, such a system would be great.

A bit like Google Scholar. Papers are indexed and you can access the references easily.
And you would be able to comment and review certain lines. Everyone could add notes that certain equations are wrong, etc.
In best case authors would engage in the discussion too.

But obviously this won't work because some papers are behind paywalls :/
Dig up an old laptop, put a beginner OS on it (like Ubuntu). Pick something you want to do on it - like a shared network folder. Then figure out how to build it.

If you need a full server to do it - that's a toy that'll get in your way.
Research around substances like LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, DMT, and so many others have been absolutely hampered by the War on Drugs the USA started. Hard to get objective results from something that couldn't be studied without putting researchers' careers to death.
I grew up in one of the towns near the Sutter Buttes. They serve as a backdrop and are a key geographic feature of the area... but since they're privately owned and access is so limited, very few people have ever interacted with the area in any way.

I can count on one hand the number of times I've been into the interior of the area (most/all via the Middle Mountain Foundation), but they've all been fun experiences. I especially recommend the North Butte hike -- on a clear day you can see pretty far!
Migrated some small scripts from Python to Go because of the virtual env madness.
OK, here is a radical suggestion:

The list should only include browsers that meet certain security and privacy criteria in the default install.

The EU law should not be abused to give the new data stealing Opera more downloads.
Although I think it's not going to be as easy as picking one up at the corner store, I do not think supersonic flight (which occurs every day on thousands of airframes) will compare to the level of complexity of landing a human being on an irradiated airless rock 238,900 miles above the earth's surface and returning them safely.

Edit: There are private groups that own supersonic aircraft and maintain them. EG:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draken_International

They can get a hold of existing models and diagrams to produce their own copies since the patents have long since passed and been declassified for decades.
I love Brent and his redesigns of existing buildings are really eye opening. It really shows how bad people fail at building traditional buildings today. He makes a compelling argument for why his redesign makes more sense and to my eye the buildings tend to look much better and simpler too. It's based around some basic theory that had served builders well for a long time and has been thrown out to build gaudy things that imitate very poorly.

One of my favorite observations of his is that a modern cheap door isn't even really a door - it's more a simulation of a door than an actual door. It is made of plastic and filled with foam but is made to look like wood and has stiles and rails and fake paneling pressed into the moulding to look like what people think a door looks like. And it comes in a pre-fabricated frame and is installed, not crafted. But it doesn't feel like a door or sound like a door. Just a flimsy thing that closes a passage off. And we admire installers today, not craftsmen.

One thing about him, and I think he acknowledges it, is that efficiency and mass production are why so many more people can live in relatively nice homes today. Not everyone (in fact most people can't) can live in a well crafted home made from the best materials, etc. But I do agree with him that developers could at least try and make things that are rooted in some sense of design principal.
The supporters don't seem to understand how much of their lifetime gets wasted with clicking through those popups. This should be a once for all setting in the browser that the websites can access.
This is my favorite toolset -- pyenv and pyenv-virtualenv! So good. Such a great system imo. This is my preferred path through the forest of options here. :)
Happy to see so many tools created for PostgreSQL, Thanks for your great work
Telehack changed my life, quite significantly.

I was homeschooled in a heavily locked down home.
Internet was effectively not allowed, and when used, only whitelisted sites permitted.
Everything was tracked.

Our home work/life was strenuous.
Both parents holding advanced degrees and living on a hobby farm led to ~10h a day of homework, and another ~3-4h per day of taking care of the place. Very little room for socializing/free time, and even when there was, it would usually be filled with more homework/chores.

I was around 13 the time (this would be 2010), and I'd discovered the Terminal app on the Macs we used.
Toying around with it when nobody was in the room had led to some discoveries.
I'd spend hours looking through the file system, when I discovered "man" and started reading the manuals for them.

This led me down the rabbit hole of learning everything I could about the world inside the command prompt, and even opening up telnet ports on other macs throughout the house and connecting to them.

Eventually, (and unfortunately I cannot remember how), I discovered that I could connect to Telehack, a BBS with real other people on it, and our internet tracking software didn't discover it.

Whenever I had any longer than a minute alone, I'd connect and talk with the people there.
I learned things about the old internet, got sent places I could FTP to download books (The Cuckoo's Egg being one of them), found friends and joined their "ssh server" (where we set up custom ways of more live-chat), and I learned basic programming in Bash, Python, Ruby, and other languages. I always had to disconnect (Apple+Q) as soon as I heard footsteps.

Now I'm double the age I was then (26) and have worked full-time as a software engineer for 4 years.

Telehack changed how I talked with people, learned, and my entire career path. Thx <3
Resignation. That's not even a hard call.
Oracle cloud has a great always free tier. You can get a 4 core 24 GB ARM server which is awesome. Of course, it is obvious ARM so while support for that is generally pretty good there may be some quirks.
The amount they are charging for this product has no relevance to the expected payout for any future basic solo work.

Lets say I wanted to make a simple ball bouncing animation using Rive for my app. That would take me around 8 minutes to make. Rive editor is an online tool so I'd have to pay $39 constantly to have access to it if I wanted to adjust it at some point as the data is stored online.

Lets say I wanted to create a more complex animation. That might take me 2 days. But I've been forced to pay for the entire month and I need to pay forver to have access to it if I cancel.
No retaliation for Swiss 'invasion' of Liechtenstein (2007)
> The bean counters will always be against anything cutting into the profit margin even if that extra expense the engineers are pushing for will actually make or break the thing.

I think they key point is: you can't competently make a tradeoff between two domains if you don't understand both of those domains.

Engineers want to make the best engineered thing, and have a harder time prioritizing costs. Accountants/business types want to make some money number go up this quarter, and will reject good engineering ideas to penny-pinch. Someone needs to be able to (competently) keep both groups aligned.
That man may not have the respect of any academic community but damn it if he isn't entertaining to watch.

On a more on-topic note, our growing understanding of animal intelligence has definitely made it harder for me to justify eating certain kinds of meat. My day-to-day is a bit too stressful to make the switch entirely to vegetarianism, but once my financial and personal situations have settled I'm looking forward to a less guilty lived experience. (This is of course not to say that you should feel guilty for eating meat - just my personal take)
Isn't it the OP him/herself? Maybe they just wanted to prevent the issue for their child...
Most systems allow you to keep multiple python installations, no? I think the best way is to specify the python when you do this: python3.11 -m venv env

On most Linux distros you probably don't want to change your system python to whatever, because there are a lot of system programs that may not be compatible with a version other than what is on the system by default.

Then once you activate it you can make sure your python
How about we get an aerospace engineer as opposed to someone in an entirely different field?
This. It's not that expensive; it's not worth your time dancing around over time. I Know it's an entitled view point, but engineers are also generally entitled.
Building and testing C extensions for SQLite with ChatGPT Code Interpreter
> Germany's economic output didn't shrink nearly as much as its energy usage did.

So the demand destruction happened in the most energy intensive and lowest value-added sectors, which make up less than 100% of the economy. That's what I would expect, it's not a contradiction. If a hawk eats the slowest lizard, the lizard population gets faster -- but not because any individual lizard got faster.

I hope your conclusion is correct, but your reasoning around the alternative hypothesis isn't.
It is incredibly ugly
I blame this on watching Babylon 5 when I was younger (spoiler: same souls), but when they started using animal organs and heart valves in human surgery, it made (religious) sense to me that it was going to be pig.

As you say, not a really rational belief, but I always like it when disperate ideologies point in similar directions.

I think rationally, it's far more likely that Kashrut laws were designed to protect humans from eating certain more risky animals, especially 3-4,000 years ago in a place with high heat and little refridgeration, but I'll never actually know.
Generally inlining can happen way earlier than linking. E.g. Virgil's compilation model doesn't have a linker at all, it's a whole-program compiler, and that works pretty well, even for 50KLOC programs.
One of my friend who work at a call center (clearly not wealthy) changed her main transportation vehicle to an electric bike ~6 month ago (just before winter, she's crazy), andshe told me last weekend that this was a net positive in every aspect, on her mood, on her routine (she has to be mindful of the weather), on her money, and on her fitness. She also go out more, since she go through the city center/harbor when biking to her job, and it's easier to stop at our bar (weirdly the bike parking infrastructure is way behind the bike lane infrastructure in our city, which makes parking with bike almost as bad as parking with a car nowadays).
I personally? -- Check out CPython Github repository and build w/e version I need. CPython's Makefile has altinstall command that installs as pythonX.Y rather than just python. And if I need to have multiple Pythons of the same version, but, say, different in whether they have debug info or something like that, I modify the installation prefix.

But, you can also download CPython source tarballs and skip the Git part. I haven't used CPython installers in a very long time... but, I'd imagine that the MSI would have a way to specify at least the location where Python is to be installed...
There is no internet there and also likely interruptions in water service during summer. You'll need a car but it will quickly disintegrate on deteriorated local roads. The reality will kick in quite quickly and painfully.
Lets say I wanted to make a simple ball bouncing animation using Rive for my app. That would take me around 8 minutes to make. Rive editor is an online tool so I'd have to pay $39 constantly to have access to it if I wanted to adjust it at some point as the data is stored online.

Lets say I wanted to create a more complex animation. That might take me 2 days. But I've been forced to pay for the entire month and I need to pay forver to have access to it if I cancel.
It's a bit of a fringe theory but there's a suggestion that the human 'alliance' with wolves gave us the edge over Neanderthals and other predators and ensured that it was us who ultimately survived as a species. It's a nice thought for a dog lover.
The Orthodox Church wasn’t nearly as affected by modernism as Catholicism was.

You can see it directly in church architecture. Compare Catholic Church interiors from the early 20th century and ones now. Now do the same comparison for Orthodox ones. It’s clear that the former desperately don’t want to be Catholic anymore.
WSL2 is basically a lower-memory VM via containerization with auto-mounts of the host OS.
Carpenters are still experimenting with hammers and other tools. Carpentry has been around a little longer than Lisp (except of course the Ur-Lisp the gods used to create the universe).
It seems obvious to me that there are more 'sexy' female streamers than male.

You could argue that they are 'forced by the market' to be more sexualized. Or you could argue that they are taking advantage of the market and using sex to sell.

I mean the whole thing is asymetric, you can't expect men and women to behave in exactly the same way, they have different needs, desires, and affordances.
They did do something wrong because you paid for a service and they did not provide it. Unfortunately to defend that contract you would probably have to decline the substitution plane and sue for expenses incurred because of that. They know nobody will put in that effort.
Bitwarden 2FA is not free.
objective -strong emphasis-

Where would this come from, other than self-reporting? Plus the claims are typically not about 'efficiency', just that ideas people have had under the influence of LSD have inspired, in some part, their real subsequent work - from all sorts of art to code. There are piles of examples of this.

Don Hopkins a few years ago with a deep dive into Bill Atkinson, Hypercard, LSD and lots of other interesting stuff:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783040
Behind the plot to break Nvidia's grip on AI by targeting software
Yeah I'm ready to concede this, mostly based on a poll I just saw showing half of canadian catholics not knowing what transubstantiation is.

But still I think these are bad examples. If asked before this thread I would have said sagrada familia is a cathedral. But that's out of ignorance about that building, not about what a cathedral is. The dublin confusion looks similar to me: those people may know well what a cathedral is and just thought the pro-cathedral was one.
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to Step Down in Wake of 737 MAX Struggles
I've found my best bet for getting a solid, enjoyable wine for whatever occasion is visiting my local wine shop, telling them what we're eating/celebrating, and letting them pick (I give them a price range too). They haven't let me down yet.

Or for just a drinking wine, any of the Trader Joes Reserve bottles.
Your definition is at odds with (for instance) JavaScript's implementation of a non-blocking function though, as it will perform computation until the first await point before returning (unlike Rust future which are lazy, that is: do no work before they are awaited on).

As I said before, most of what you call a “blocking function” is actually a “no opinion function” but since in the idiosyncrasy of most programming languages blocking functions are being called like “no opinion” ones, you are mixing them up. But it's not a fundamental rule. You could imagine a language where blocking functions (which contains an underlying blocking syscall) are being called with the block keyword and where regular functions are just called like functions. There's no relation between regular functions and blocking functions except path dependency that led to this particular idiosyncrasy we live in, it is entirely contingent.
I'd suggest setting up a raspberry pi and build your own service locally hosted at home!
The stunning "gotcha" of this witch hunt (undoubtedly brought on by his proximity to individuals that the author doesn't like) is that Andrew Huberman was a bad boyfriend, weirdly flaky in his social life, and not an expert in all of the 100s of topics he discusses on his podcast (usually discussed with actual experts in the topics).

Okay...

Listen, if we stopped deriving information, education, or entertainment from people who have weird personal flaws, we would not read books, go to school, listen to music, or watch movies. Or have friends. What a silly article.
It's kind of a chicken and egg issue. Apple wanted users to stay in their ecosystem because they control it so tightly, which can increase the general security/trustworthiness of the ecosystem, but it also keeps those users for Apple's benefit. It's as though it's Apple's goldmine, which has restricted access, so the guy trying to bring in TNT to blast everything open isn't allowed in for both the safety of the authorized people in the goldmine AND the protection of the revenue stream in general.
NO MORE POP UPS
Experiments with the Google Slides API to recreate slides
> like how humans feel cold and put on a jumper.

This is actually a bad example. Although cold being uncomfortable is instinctual, the way how people deal with feeling cold is not instinctual at all. People use different methods of dealing with the cold depending on situation, culture, experience.

In this way your example actually speaks for the claimed forethought, because in this analogy the octopus knows (from experience or speculation) that he will be uncomfortable when trying to sleep if he's exposed and he decides to 'put on a jumper' by putting rocks in front of the entrance.

Also instinctual behavior is in general much less sophisticated. Like an infant animal starting sucking when encountering a nipple shaped object or a moth circling a light bulb because it always tries to keep the brightest source above it. It could be that pulling debris around him before sleeping could be instinctual, but it would be very unlikely for that to include the process of looking for suitable rocks beforehand.
We underestimate the pressure the world has been under in the last century. In 1950, we had about 2.5 billion people. Today, we have 8 billion. We had to find accommodations for 5.5 billion people who all expected to have a greater standard of living with electricity and living space; something had to give.

We had to be more parsimonious with the materials at our disposal.
You could also use MagicDNS with https[0], although that might not solve it the way you'd prefer.

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1153/enabling-https
Who said anything about free? Have you used Rive Designer? It's $39 per month for a basic animation DCC tool, which is based online and your files are locked away so you can only alter them if you keep paying perpetually. For a solo developer doing basic animation now and then, the price is absolutely insane for the stuff you get out of it.
It's really funny to me that because Twitch started as a game streamer, most of its ads are from big "clean" consumer brands. But usually there's (edited) 3x as many people streaming the softcore porn "Just Chatting" section as any individual game. The only reason Twitch still has these kind of big advertisers is because they havn't noticed what the platform actually is.

I actually like Twitch as it is, I think it serves a good niche on the internet. Most of the female streamers seem to basically use their streams as inspiration to work out (like, if they get 50 new followers they do more sit-ups or w/e). It seems pretty harmless. It's just makes me laugh that the advertisers have no idea.