skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone with +20 years in finance (hedge funds/trading) and knows .Net, Java, Python, C++, shell, etc, the first question I'd ask is: where's the data?

If I'm being asked to do data analysis, it's because we need the answer yesterday. So, the tool I choose always going to be a matter of which gets me the answer fastest and with the least amount of friction. That's almost always dictated by where the data is _now_. Not where it'd ideally be.
You are missing a key point of their worldview: *Everything* comes down to 'critical theory' in one way or another. Whether you are focusing on race, sex, or anything else that can be the subject of criticism the outcome is the same.

Women CANT be sexist, because 'men' have more privilege and historically have less authority. So as the oppressed sex, they can't be sexist because they 'lack power'. So statements like "I hate all men, they are stupid violent thugs" are not viewed as sexist.

The same goes for race -- while you didn't call it out specifically, it's the exact same mindset. It doesn't matter if a BIPOC person literally kills a White person and says "I hate all white people and I killed them because they are white". This is not racist to these people, because that person supposedly lacks 'power'.

They (hypothetically) had and utilized the power to kill, but that isn't 'real' or 'institutional' power, so it simply does not count.

Both concepts are equally stupid and fly in the face of reality. And the inevitable outcome is CONSTANT conflict.

The conflict stems from being 'critical' of these different institutions and people who have 'power' or 'privilege' -- but the cycle never ends, so even if you manage to remove all Men or White people from existence, a power vacuum will exist and the criticism will be levied on whomever fills the role.

It's the perfect way to perpetually conquer and divide, where you get to claim perpetual victim status, while ensuring the voice of the majority -never- matters because of their supposed 'institutional power'. The end result of this thinking will be less tolerance, less diversity, and more asinine stuff like this python situation.

They mean EXACTLY what they said, take them at their word.
Honestly those new smart washing machines with large graphic LCD displays full off sensors to detect the water quality, detergent quantity, how soiled the wash is, etc, are annoying me to hell an back with their constant nagging.

"Oh sorry, your drum is a little light , consider putting more clothes in to save the environment"

I throw another towel in.

"Oh shucks, drum weight overload, consider removing some clothes from the wash"

The problem with the new ones is that they're too smart for their own good and instead of using their smarts to make my life easier (I don't know what can be easier than the old washing machines where you throw the was inside, with the detergent, turn the program knob and push start, and why we need smart ones) they instead use their smarts to be annoying and require more user input and more steps just to fucking wash clothes.
> and likely have been advised they need to enforce it uniformly due to regulatory scrutiny.

I'm not certain what the category difference is between Patreon subscriptions and Youtube/Amazon/Spotify subscriptions, all of which don't allow payment through the app.

This is actually something I would really genuinely love Apple to clarify because Patreon's statements on it are surprising; why is Patreon not allowed to stop offering payment options at all in the app. Are they lying about that? Why wouldn't they be allowed to turn it off when other companies clearly are?

> as written,

That being said: if their policy as written has these terms in it, then that doesn't make me feel better about Apple. I would still question why Apple is so scared of consumers being notified about payment options across the board.

An abusive policy designed to give customers less information about their purchases is still abusive even if it's applied uniformly. It still speaks a lot to Apple's priorities and about whether they are genuine when they say that they believe customers prefer their pricing schemes. You don't have to hide things from customers that they prefer.
Further lead: there's a reference to "Jesus, and his Religion" in Learning Today, Vol. 6, p. 11, 1973, though I can't find an online accessible copy.

Via Google Books (useless preview): <https://www.google.com/books/edition/Learning_Today/eaZOAAAA...>

Hathi Trust has the edition but I've no access to it. Someone with university affiliation should be able to check the reference:

<https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000678503>

Fuck copyright.

Worldcat: <https://search.worldcat.org/title/178530>

Library of Congress Call No.: Z675.U5 L5

OCLC: 1785308, 214449214, or 567480646

US Library of Congress: <https://lccn.loc.gov/73641566>

The essay appears in Myth and Religion: The Edited Transcripts (1996), edited by Watts's son Mark Watts, but without any indication of the initial publication / broadcast / lecture date:

<https://archive.org/details/mythreligionedit00watt>

I've left an inquiry with the Alan Watts Organisation <https://alanwatts.org/>
For runtime cost analysis, you could try Steampipe [1] with it's Powerpipe "thrifty" [2] mods. They run dozens of automatic checks across cloud providers for waste and cost saving opportunities.

If you want to automatically make these changes (with optional approval in Slack) you can use the Flowpipe thrifty mods, e.g. AWS [3].

It's all open source and easy to update / extend (SQL, HCL).

1 - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe
2 - https://hub.powerpipe.io/?objectives=cost
3 - https://hub.flowpipe.io/mods/turbot/aws_thrifty
Some of you may die...
But that's a sacrifice i'm willing to make.
This piece mentions Harari’s new work. Has anyone read it? I find his style appealing but I have also read comments here that are eyerolls similar to how Malcolm Gladwell is received, so I am wondering if I should even bother.
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Is the article worth finishing? It opens with a CIA agent complaining it's harder to be an authority when people self organize into communities and don't just listen to newspapers and political figures.

Which, yeah. Of course it is, and that's a great thing. Sure, we get some fringe communities but on the whole we get so many more communities of people who want to help each other.
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
Climate change is a global problem. Please look at the problem globally
I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)
In the US. Great!!!
What do you think is being obfuscated? It’s normal to give money so you can name stuff.
Sounds like a natural born computational linguist...
Yes. So in effect this means that - conditional on the bylaws - they (a coalition of majority shareholders) can agree to deals without doing (proxy) votes. But since it's a public company the deal has to be fair to all (!) shareholders too. (And usually that's why a vote is "nice to have", but not sufficient. See the case of Tesla and Elon's compensation package, where laws protecting those who voted no on the package will override the shareholder vote. [thought it's pending appeal, etc.])
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That's another promising alternative that I've been looking at.

From what I could find however deployment gets quite complex when you want sharding/replication, it really doesn't like deduplication of data and storage might be up to 3x larger than InfluxDB.

Other than that, it was in my top 3 (VictoriaMetrics, Clickhouse, QuestDB).
>AI is replacing human beings too fast.

citation needed.
This https://lit.dev/ ?

I haven't got too deep into components but at work we have a React application that our partners embed on their web sites. A previous version of this could get the wired crossed with CSS, we just overhauled it to use Shadow DOM.
I agree with most of your points. However, I stand by my point that corporations looking to cut costs moved those production jobs abroad. This will happen time and again under capitalism. I think blaming the working poor is not the right conclusion to draw.

The only way to prevent this is to reign in capitalism. Neoliberalism does not work.

> Yet it has been proven time and time again that people regularly vote against their own best economic interests in the ballot box and with their wallets.

Unfortunately, yes. People are strongly influenced by propaganda. Propaganda is often bankrolled by corporations. A good start with be curb lobbyism and make it more transparent.
Flight with Disabled Controls
HTTP/1.0 also introduced transparent support for caching: that is, you can ignore all of the cache management-related headers and it will still work just fine. HTTP/1.1 added some more features, including support for persistent connections, payloads of non-immediately known sizes, plus it somewhat clarified the rules about how messages should be proxied (although those rules still were pretty murky in the end but eh).

And HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are, if you allow me to borrow OSI terms, actually transport-level protocols designed specifically to carry HTTP/1.1 on top of them, so learning them is only of interest if you want to develop Next Shining Better TCP or something like that: inside them are still old, boring HTTP/1.1 messages.
> So, what next? our organs?

Yep, they started with our eye balls. In exchange, we are getting "relevant ads".

Also our frontal lobe. In exchange, we get depressive dopamine releases.
This has been posted here a good bit before, but adding it in as relevant.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-l...

We've let everything go to rot for the sake of a giant financial ponzi scheme that we call the U.S. economy.
What you learn by making a new programming language
I don't think you read this thread correctly.

At this point, we are talking about Apple not paying fees for its apps on its marketplace.
I seriously question that 8M stream test number.

I've worked for some large CDNs that have video services and I have no idea how I would test 8 million actual video streams at once. I mean, I have a general idea of how I could pull that off but I have absolutely never tested anything anywhere near to that degree and I don't think I could get every single cloud I have available to provision that many containers/serverless/lambdas to even test that many at once.

There was a point in my life where I had to deal with Lady Gaga (et al) releasing new music videos on Vevo.com which was probably the biggest load I've seen on any service and we absolutely did not stress test millions of streams prior to a release. I'm pretty sure we didn't even know they were releasing until I walked in that day.

AFAIK Twitter/Musk brought all of their systems in house so they'd be severely limited on hardware scaling because they lost aws/gcloud/etc scale speed.

It's absolutely possible to do this, I'm not saying it isn't, it just seems like a pain in the ass logistical nightmare so I doubt they did it. What would you do? 8 million HLS/RTC/TSP processes spread globally to not hit ulimits/socket limits/edge cases that are doing a single video stream GET and holding the connection open?
> it is normally hard to get a job.

It isn't normal for it to be hard to get a job, what is hard is to get a better job than you have now since you worked hard to find that job.
Eh, many many times it’s ’doing only the work someone will fire you for if they notice you’re not doing it - and no one is paying attention’, which is often very different from doing the work one is nominally paid to do.

It’s a wide spectrum.

But yeah, folks stopped busting their ass to do stuff that wasn’t even in the job description - the horror.
>Why do we need to build so many warships?

Igitur quī desīderat pacem, præparet bellum ("Therefore let him who desires peace prepare for war").[1] While I think there's immense scope for debate over what constitutes appropriate preparation in this or any other context, I believe the core idea, that effective preparation for war can prevent it, has merit. (Though it should not be the only way a country works to prevent war!) And there are ancillary uses for militaries, such as the prevention of piracy mentioned elsewhere.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum
I recall only once seeing Flash being used to do something "out of the ordinary". It was a video at YouTube (back when it used Flash for its video player), which in the middle of the video "escaped" its container and exploded over the whole page filling it with an animation (playing over the rest of the page elements), going back to normal once the animation finished. That probably required special support from YouTube's flash player, and would never be allowed with its current use of the browser's built-in video player.
Something similar (but not quite the same) exists through sources like CCF ( https://www.cloudcarbonfootprint.org/ ) or Climatiq ( https://www.climatiq.io/docs/api-reference/computing ) thought I don't think anyone has anything built-in to Terraform or your editor, which would be neat.

Disclaimer: I work at Climatiq
Thanks to all of the peer answers here!

I pretty much settled on what all they were saying. I was taking the exact path you outlined. Since that seems to be working fine for me, and I'm also adding weights, I figured I would wait and try again later. Probably in a year or so, if I can keep up this schedule. Good luck on your exercise!
System Quality Attributes: how to explain your project “itties”
Fourble turns lists of .mp3 files into podcasts
In the video they talk about the features of the magazine and he spends a bit of time on the letters page and one thing that is missing from the internet is that comment sections and fora have not faithfully replaced the dynamic of letters to the editor. They were an artform of their own. I pursued it (admittedly) under various names with some success in prior decades.

They were refereed, the constraints of brevity and civility had the effect of refining thoughts down to their essential pith and gravity while elevating the discourse and the reader. The internet has not replaced that feeling of reading a weekend edition in a corner cafe, finding your devastatingly understated opening salvo after "Sir,..." the customary harbinger, and then, dragon slain, coffee in saucer, all was right in the world. Indeed, we were the lunatics. I wish these upsetting people luck.
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What Is the Ruliad?
The plugin is using the CLI under the hood - so it should work as if you're using the CLI
I definitely have mild asthma. I also have that beast known as old age. :D
> read the second quarter of the book

And then never get to the third and fourth quarters because the practise you get from actually typing stuff is far more valuable? :)
The "--only-binary=:all:" option should force Pip to only install packages that provide wheels, which doesn't run arbitrary setup.py code (right? I've been assuming it doesn't and really hope that is a valid assumption).

That will cause some installations to fail if wheels are not available. However, given that wheels are increasingly common (even for pure-python "source" packages), this can be used as a sort of bisect to enumerate and isolate/audit/file issues on/sandbox/etc. the remaining setup.py-based distributions.
So, if AI trained on AI generated data tend to perform worse, and you're trying to have AI generate the data that ultimately props up our civilization...

Clearly this can only end well
Affordable housing, with subsidies for no/low income people. Medical care, addiction care, mental health care. The "best" ways to help seem obvious but unrealistic given the cultural and political landscape.

If you mean what can you personally do about a large and politically intractable problem, probably not much. You can volunteer, or donate money to reputable charities. You can vote for candidates that have a realistic plan, if you can find one.
You are mixing two things. Learning a language and learning a codebase. Those are not the same thing. Besides, you are also just talking about what happens during the first N months. Most companies I've worked for allow for time to learn the language(s) being used. Some of them will fire you if you can't show sufficient progress over time.
Congrats!

It's almost a REPL for cloud costs! Amazing!
I can imagine this being used to design a better Goodreads UX where you can see your friends' libraries. Super cool!
A lightweight and extensible ls alternative [Tools]
> not just a common courtesy because we're not all sensitive snowflakes

It's not courtesy if it's non consensual, same way that wealth redistribution isn't charity. Statistically and rhetorically speaking, the pronouns enforcers' beneficiaries are the sensitive snowflakes who can't do with a few people not indulging in their delusions.

You completely misunderstand the point. The vastly different level of threat itself is of no importance to the comparison, since the goal isn't to enact said threat, it's to force people to publicly betray their convictions, to mentally castrate them. It's nothing more than Orwell's "2 + 2 = 5", if you prefer this analogy.

Maybe it's a special snowflake thing to want to live with your head held high, standing for what you think is true, what do I know...

> I wonder how you feel about the nearly 1.7% of people born intersex that you meet and definitely work with

There's nothing to feel, these people are neither male or female and would indeed deserve a specific pronoun, but pragmatism would make it as logical as making all cars fit for one-armed people.
Also, your 1.7% is a bit biased, reading its source from Wikipedia's article.
If you are road tripping somewhere remote, having too many fast chargers available can overload very small local power grids.
Diabetes risk in later life if fetus born during famine
Study of people born during Ukraine's Holodomor - Soviet inflicted famine of '32 - '33 - confirms other studies showing increase of diabetes and obesity in later life.

I heard this on the Science podcast. First result in the linked search is Science's related article.

The study is a demographic-heavy study, taking advantage of Ukraine's project to reconstruct demographic records of the time, which were hidden or destroyed by the Soviets.

This particular study's control was Western Ukraine, where Russia had less influence and so was not much affected by the famine. According to the author's interview, anyway.
Sure, modernism could include German Expressionism, but I had in mind Art Deco, Bauhaus and Modernist architecture, along with visual art movements like Dada, De Stiji, Cubism, etc. - the things that are typically referred to by the word modernist. The qualities these things have in common tend to be distinctly different from the qualities that the Gothic has usually had.

According to historian Roger Griffin, modernism can be defined as a broad cultural, social, or political initiative sustained by the ethos of "the temporality of the new". Griffin believed that modernism aspired to restore a "sense of sublime order and purpose to the contemporary world, thereby counteracting the (perceived) erosion of an overarching 'nomos', or 'sacred canopy', under the fragmenting and secularizing impact of modernity".

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

This focus on the new and future is definitely not something Gothic does, which is traditionally very focused on the past.

In architecture, for example, the Gothic lost most of its influence:

New architectural movements, sometimes related, as in the Arts and Crafts movement, and sometimes in outright opposition, such as Modernism, gained ground, and by the 1930s the architecture of the Victorian era was generally condemned or ignored.

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

And again, the purpose of the article was to trace the term gothic through history, not to explain the influence of the Gothic in toto. These films may have been influential, but they were based on already written Gothic works, and they weren't dominant in the way Gothic architecture or literature were in the Victorian era. Gothic in the 20th century was more of an influence on other art movements (including German Expressionism), not a fully-fledged art movement itself, as it had been in the past.

Overall I agree that a line about the films would have been good to add, but I don't think it was necessarily essential to tracing the word gothic through time. The term was applied to music because of the location "in the gloomy vaulted wine cellar of the Delmonico hotel, not because of a reference to the films.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_rock#Characteristics

I'm not sure why this single point "doesn’t really connect the dots" for you, considering that the rest of the post covers dozens of other significant influences over two millenia.
Uh. No. Why would I ever waste my time proving something I said? If I'm right, I'm right. If I'm wrong, you'll be sure to tell me. No reason for my involvement.
> The path forward appears to be radical ISA switches or something besides yet another x86 node shrink

What I'm worried about is that the path they'll choose is the Apple route, and begin releasing SoCs, hurting repairability and upgradability.
I see. Thanks for the input!
Wow this is actually really good
I'm a huge fan of Colter Wall
Have you heard Kate McCannon by Colter Wall?