skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then those people would probably enjoy reading Fluent Python: Clear, Concise, and Effective Programming 2nd Edition, as it explains the Python Data Model in depth and will make you understand the dunder methods and the official docs!
Makes more sense to separate out the U and Pu (almost all of the "spent" fuel) and consume them completely, then the remaining fission products are as radioactive as the original uranium in about 1000 years, well in the range of structures we've built and literature we still read.
Dante tried to backport that into Christianity.
even more concrete instructions like "a teaspoon" or "4g of X" are often best guesses by the creators or recipe testers.

sugar & salt is especially tricky because different vendors ship different concentrations in the crystals. morton's may have a different level of salty compared to whatever the store brand is, and that'll come through the food.

age of ingredients and quality also is yuge. the Bon Appetit crowd is using good stuff they bought fairly recently, not garlic powder that's old enough to graduate 5th grade. obvious concept, but it makes a serious difference.

source: ex did recipe development & food science for a major fast-packaged goods company.
Yeah, I think the best advice one can give to a new cook is : "don't measure anything". You have to learn what makes sense; the hard way, but that's the best way. You can't measure taste and that's the only thing that really counts. So you learn what tastes good and then you don't need cups and scales.

Well mostly. I weigh stuff when I make bread or emulsions (roux or mayonnaise e.g.). But even there, the variability between ingredients makes it all a hazy approximation.
eventually, the consumer over the long term, this could end up costing the tax payer more?

Hedging against loss is a cost of doing business. Theft is built into the pricing at grocery stores and other retailers. Why should shipping be different? Yes, the sums are MUCH larger, but the general point is the business should account for its costs as part of its budget.

This sounds like a variation of "too big to fail" - the answer may very well be require smaller/safer ships. That would cost more, but long term, might do a better job accounting for the costs of loss.
We should just recycle it proliferation concerns be damned
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Build this statue, already in ruins, with a different message on the pedestal with a different warning of our species' dangerous hubris.
Because we consume and interact with so much of our information via browser that it's a natural pairing?

Why does my browser have a PDF reader and print manager built in?
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Ideally they'll put dolphins protecting the piers, but they may be constrained with channel width and location. The key would be to keep the piers from being hit, not to withstand a hit.
I don’t understand why that is a bad thing. Perhaps a closed source fork will end up being superior through incentives only available through closing the source. Humanity still can use an open source fork. More options must be superior, no?
They didn't have to be dunder methods though, they could have used any other naming scheme (e.g. just `__` at the beginning, EDIT: or something else) and remained just as important in the ecosystem.
Is "time zone" even the correct term when we're looking at a different frame of reference? "Welcome to Hawaii, each day here is 23.4 hours." I thought the article would be about how the lunar day is 29.5 Terran days.
IIRC the xz package was maintained by an individual in a place with at least some socialized healthcare, but correct me if I'm wrong (I'm not trying to be snarky here, please do).
Those are the exception that proves the rule. And they basically make those scientific computation libraries Python's equivalent to Boost... Not part of the standard library, but it might as well be.

But in general, Joe Random Developer's library is not that important to justify nibbling away at a function namespace that has no mechanism for keeping two libraries from choosing the same name with different semantic meaning.
You can commit while on a plane, with git. And on many flights even upload these changes. So that's not really a slam dunk.

Everything else: Very interesting!
> there are plenty of legitimate reasons that program could fail to compile

It's worse than that, these small C files are required to fail unless the target build environment meets some specific requirements.
> Do you take out a scale when you need to add an ounce of something?

I have never needed to add an ounce of something. American recipes never really tell you to do this. The only thing they use weight for is large amounts of bulk items (e.g. a pound of chicken thighs).
This is off topic.

I am going to assume this isn't impersonation, but Drew what happen to your old HN account? ( I had it on RSS feed and hasn't shown any update for ages I thought you left HN )
> Illegal miners in the Amazon are increasingly well equipped, with access to Starlink systems that allow them to coördinate work and warn of raids.

What the hell, can't they be tracked down reversely by asking Starlink itself?
Yeah it seems like a common pattern for custom protocols, like the proposed DataFrame interchange protocol[1] which uses a __dataframe__ method

[1] https://data-apis.org/dataframe-protocol/latest/
That was a really, really good answer, thanks.
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What do you mean "don't buy it"?
It's a contraction rather than an offset.

An interesting question is what the frame of reference for this time is - if the Moon's orbit changes significantly and the contraction factor changes, then this timezone shouldn't be adjusted - almost "de-pegging" it from Earth's time, right?
I thought Don't Look Up was pretty solid satire. It's not quite so obvious at first, but by the time of the post-credits scenes they really hammer the point home and I found it very funny.
probably less than it needs for a few dozen open tabs based on my past profiling experiences...
Seems like debian is mixing too many things into the package version - version used for deciding on upgrades and abi version for dependencies should be decoupled like it is in modern RPM distros.
It may be paying for minimal (including the SDK), but able to do a good enough job, ultra stable in time reference software/network protocol/file format maintainance.

It excludes nearly all software out there (even open source, and closed source are de-facto excluded), because most "developers" are only a bunch of scammers heavy on planned obsolescence.

That includes software "maintained" by the academic sector, like your have with MIT media labs and the nice "donations" from bill gates (to probably steer it the way he wanted, I would not be surprised this is not alien to c++ in gcc... one of the biggest mistakes in open source software), that revealed in the epstein files.

To say the least, it is far from ez. If you are an _honest_ dev, you know it is extrutiatingly hard to justify a permanent income.
While I agree the danger is overstated, if I'm wrong about that then it is important that humans were doing substantial mining even in antiquity.
That would be very small indeed, I interpreted it "favorably" as as 6 interviews but each did yield more than 1 datapoint per category.
Counter point: first unmanned US soft landing attempt succeeded 3 years before first manned attempt.
Surveyor 1 - 1966
Apollo 11 - 1969. I bet that NASA learned a lot from 7 unmanned Surveyor missions and that contributed to the success of Apollo 11.
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I'd say it's at best engineering, not science, otherwise everybody would be making the exact same bread. Which is demonstrably not the case.
> Most of the time they don't need infiltrators. Governments can just pressure companies with export controls or warrantless surveillance to get backdoors into commercial systems.

Or they simply pay companies with a “support contract” in return for embedding spyware that sells out customers. Seen that first hand (private key exfiltration), resigned the same day.

Lots of comments saying we need to do something about the OSS supply chain but in my estimation the problem is much worse with closed source commercial software.
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You can already use intel GPUs (both ARC and iGPUS) with llama.cpp on a bunch of backends:

- SYCL [1]

- Vulkan

- OpenCL

I don't own the hardware, but I imagine SYCL is more performant for ARC , because it's the one intel is pushing for their datacenter stuff

[1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
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That has been a popular opinion since FreeBSD was a complete operating system and Linux and bunch of disparate tarballs. Yet here we are.

There have been other examples where copyleft products have competed with more permissively licensed products as commercial products. The results are overwhelmingly in favor of the former.

Empirically, cooperation works much better on a level playing field where your company's work won't be included in a competitors closed fork.
I think you're missing the reciprocal nature of the arrangement here. Since you seem to assert that it's acceptable to release software under a proprietary license (and I agree with you, most of the time), you must believe that the authors of a work have a right to distribute it under whatever terms they like. So: is it appropriate for someone to say "I am willing to offer my labor to this collaborative project, and release the source code for free, and allow people to build from my work, under the condition that they extend the same rights back to everyone else"? It's much more generous than what proprietary software offers, after all.

Why is copyleft subject to more scrutiny than proprietary software for you? You suggest that permissive licenses are better because they allow permissive derivatives of the software, which suggests that permissive derivatives are good. But copyleft derivatives are... not good? Copyleft offers more freedoms than proprietary software.

Moreover, this line of reasoning completely disregards the social contract. Many people worked on, used, popularized Redis under the presumption that they were participating in a collaborative effort from which all participants would benefit, only -- surprise -- now the trademark holder has changed the terms so that only they benefit from a product of which, by objective measures, 80% was made by the community.
Their explanation

> And yet we use the diaeresis for the same reason that we use the hyphen: to keep the cow out of co-workers[0]

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
The bubble is getting more irrational.. wonder when it will pop.
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Why is it okay to call the game a nonomino or kakuro, when it's entirely unlike either game, but so obscene to call it a sudoku, the rules of which it includes?

And it's not called a sudoku, by the way. It's called a sudoku variant. And yes, with classic sudoku requiring 17 clues, you just have to add additional hints to make anything with 16 clues or less solvable. And a lot of variant puzzles are still a lot harder than anything you'd find in a newspaper.

There are lots of interesting patterns and strategies emerging from variants that scratch just the same logical itch as sudoku does. And sometimes ideas from variants get picked up by setters for classic sudokus, like the Phistomefel ring, which was popularized by a setter who mainly sets sudoku variant puzzles.
That does provide a method to the madness, thanks.

But... butter being measured in "cups" and "tablespoons", which are multiples/fractions of a 1/4lb block, is therefore fundamentally a unit of weight, not volume?!?

That's even more wild.
New Dystopia: replace(programmers, AI)?
I used GPT4 and Claude to generate code, different requests and different results. Some results are spectacular: very good an complex code in seconds. Some others are stupid: long time to fix bugs and big effort to redefine requests so that to guide algos to work.

But I can see this it is just the beginning. I suppose in 2-3 years, the human race will have smart enough AI to generate code better and faster than humans, in all areas. But the humans will supervise the "backend" and the voltage. Programmers will become AI-coders and the power will belong to those who have the combination: best algos - big relevant data - fastest speed. Or, in fact, creativity cannot be formalized? Dystopia or another level of metaprogramming? Remember: everything that you can code I can do it meta? ...
I've heard this topic before, but I never find it a big deal (I'm sure I might be naive).

Surely the future human being would have ways to detect nuclear waste before digging around, regardless if there is any sign?

And even in worst scenario, they did dig without testing -- they will learn their lesson very quickly. It's not like one accident would be too catastrophic, in the grand scheme of things.
Are earthquakes in Taiwan as frequent as in Japan?
> Chinese middle class to be converging up to European standards

Depends where in Europe and where in China.

Beijing, Shanghai, and Greater Bay Area have definitely converged with Central Europe (eg. Praha, Warsaw, Budapest, maybe even Wien)

The rest of urban China has converged with Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Türkiye, Serbia) and Thailand+Malaysia.

Rural and some of the poorer provinces are still stuck around India levels.

There's a reason why household incomes per capita are still around $450/mo [0] - significantly lower than Thailand [1] or Serbia [2]. Per Capita Urban Household Income is around $7k/yr but for Rural Households it is around $2.5k/yr

I know some Chinese will find this a hot take, but this urban-rural divide is very similar to Brazil and Mexico, both countries that share similar developmental indicators to China.

[0] - https://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202402/t202402...

[1] - https://www.nso.go.th/nsoweb/storage/survey_detail/2023/2023...

[2] - https://www.stat.gov.rs/en-us/vesti/statisticalrelease/?p=15...
Would it not be simpler for everyone involved to just use UTC?
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Gentoo also considers the repository (+overlays) to be the entire set of possible versions so simply removing the bad version will cause a downgrade, unlike debian and RPM systems where installing packages outside a repository is supported.
What an amazing problem to have, both as a bureaucrat somewhere in a dark office and as the whole humanity...!
What agenda is that?
I've sometimes thought that if the intent is a ten-thousand-year warning, the best way to achieve it would be a relatively shallow cave ending in a pit or chamber full of high-level waste vitrified just enough to prevent environmental dispersal.

It seems plausible that over a long enough scale of time, the only reliable way to communicate "everyone who messes with this will die" regardless of language is by ensuring that everyone who messes with it does die.
> most content creators get paid a pittance compared to what they did in the old world

My local 1-hour photo lab clerk has been struggling as well
It's basically there because of dataclasses, we use it all the time.

Python painted itself into a corner when they came up with a clever way to auto generate __init__ implementations but then also sometimes you need to modify the auto generated implementation. I kind of like their solution relative to alternatives I've seen... C++ is the worst offender to my mind in this case, because it has extremely complicated auto generation rules and the moment you want to do something special, you are now writing two dozen lines of code to make up for the fact that you got in the way of the auto-gen logic.
> its not a secure way. consider a person has throat infection

Sadly providers' narrow view of "security" fails to recognise that as a lack. It considers it merely an access interruption, workaroundable by fallback to backup methods of authentication, even if that's a costly in-person visit to the bank.

The bigger problem though is the whole idea that something so unsecretable and reproducible as voice should ever be considered for ID.

The sooner voice ID dies, the better, IMHO.
It makes it possible to do, in half an hour, tasks which were completely unnecessary to do before.
I propose that we refer to the practice of modules declaring their own dunder methods as “Dunder Miffling”.

Such declarations MUST be preceded by the comment:

# I DECLARE
Might as well put up a sign that says something like "Dig here and find something that can fuel your civilization for 1000 years" or "Dig here and find something to smite your foes with"

The essence of the nuclear "waste" puzzle is that nuclear waste is not waste. that is we have used less than 3% of the energy that is there. If you want it to be left undisturbed the last thing you want to do is call attention to it.
"Regular maintenance and inspection should prevent this."

Not always. We have regular maintenance done on our SMT lines by the company that manufactured the machines. Those things still fuck up once or twice a month, very unexpectedly, and almost always in the middle of a high-value operation (IC or LED placement.)
Exactly that is my fear, too. It's like zero trust in everything.
- Don't trust that any other party do the security testing for you
- Don't trust any developer, it could have malicious intents
- Don't trust the patches, they could introduce bugs/backdoors/...

So we're straight going in the direction of protectionism and isolation. Wouldn't that be a big step back for the whole OSS/FOSS community?

One thing I read the xc-writeups last days (I think it was here https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78b...) was that we at least shouldnt trust any devs/maintainers that have no online identity. Though the argument that you could create a fake ID is possible. So I'm still obsessed from the question, what are the lessons learned for the community from this and how restrictive the participation in OSS will become.
> When, in all of recorded history, has this not been humanity’s sole purpose?

First, by specifying recorded history, you introduce a bias: technology itself is responsible for the ability to record history. Second, there are oral and even written descriptions of tribes who do not have this as their sole purpose. As described in the book "An American Indian Mind in a Linear World" and many others, some tribes focused on relationships to the world rather than the-world-as-a-resource.

In some times, technological development was not the focus of humanity, such as in these tribes where a constant level of basic technology was maintained.

There is simply no reason to believe that the endless development of technology is necessary, especially since there are counterexamples to sustainable societies that don't require endless technological growth.
Your argument falls apart when you remember that the U.S. federal, state, and local governments are critically dependent on open source software – not just directly in things like Linux servers or Chrome/Edge/Firefox but also open source components used in appliances or compiled into commercial software. It is quite reasonable to argue that even a narrow approach of improving only components they run would be justifiable on those grounds and it’d be a tiny part of, say, NIST’s budget to fund developers directly or to pay some group like the Linux or Apache foundations to support an open source maintainership team.
Most of the replacement cost is the battery itself and you're still only going to do that maybe 1-2 times over the lifespan of the vehicle
Such a tragedy.. while the Python docs are excellent, they just aren't _nice_. They always feel like Microsoft chm files from the 90ies.

And their SEO is terrible, I've started to preface all python searches with 'site:python.org' to not end up on crappy monetization blogs..m
Appreciate the response!
I don't see any reason why this is off-topic. Naturally the license change is a distinguishing feature of Redict and a reasonable subject for discussion.

I lost the password to my old account.
It would also be useful to take the longest living languages so far (Hebrew, Greek, COBOL, JavaScript) and label it in those, on the chance that these two cultures may figure out how to be around in 10,000 more years.
Comfortable but kept hungry.
> Unlikely, given that isn't even a partner in Brazil yet

The article mentions thrice the use of Starlink by the miners:

> Cabral said; they must have been warned that the G.E.F. was coming. He pointed to a white rectangular antenna on a tall pole in the center of the camp and said, “Starlink”—Elon Musk’s portable satellite-communications system.

> “Wherever the miners have Starlink, we’re at a real disadvantage,” Finger told me. “They can warn each other there is a raid going on in the territory, and they can organize their work better.”

> The new farm had a Starlink connection, and, as the rains abated, a pilot said that he was sure the farm manager would warn the miners that we were coming.
A tunnel would be ideal here (and the other crossings are already buried). But I doubt it's in the budget.
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Let me just say that I fully disagree, the movie was plodding and preachy and boring up until the "twist" when it got TERRIBLE.

I cannot believe the number of people who have said that its a good movie, the entire movie required a suspension of disbelief far and away of what I am willing to give.
Maybe if you consider your browser to be your OS.
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"Not strategy, not memorizing opening lines, not practicing your end-game technique, not studying the Great Games of History, not drilling with puzzles to get better at tactics,"

"In my games, the player who committed more blunders lost 86% of the time."

Goodness I wonder what methods one could use to reduce their blunder rate.
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