skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ren'Py has at least 3 major problems:

1. It predates the fact that the "obvious" one-VM-to-rule-them-all is the web browser. Yes, it has a WASM version, but that's just several MB of overhead; these days it's just plain silly to target anything but HTML/JS-first (not necessarily only; an efficient native version isn't unreasonable if you plan for it) unless you explicitly need backward-compatibility. The fact that you get to write not-quite-Python rather than JS isn't enough to make up for this.

2. The code design is utterly atrocious. Global variables are everywhere in the implementation, and it is common for VNs to write to them from arbitrary places. Expect random breakage if you ever try to upgrade the embedded copy of Python or Ren'Py (either as the end user or as a VN author), even though this also means Ren'Py can't refactor its own code to be sane.

(note that I don't actually consider the mere fact of embedding to a problem per se; for once it's a reasonable decision for the target audience, even if it's a bad idea for most of the cases developers do it)

3. Ren'Py's home-grown scripting system tries to be "smart". In reality that just makes it fragile. The less said, the better.

4. It relies heavily on Pickle, so say hello to arbitrary code execution from data files! Granted, the backward-compatibility problem means you're probably downloading a random binary (plus assorted unsandboxed Python scripts) to execute in the first place ...

I invite everyone to try running the Ren'Py demos by installing them from Debian stable. Yes, Debian sucks for not updating things ... but this kind of error wouldn't even be possible with a sane design.
My uninformed guess is the blood brain barrier is an evolved barrier that's very good at not letting things found in nature through, like various compounds, viruses, bacteria etc.

We have no evolved defence against compounds and materials developed in the last century.
Texas has a lot of incentives for residential solar. I'm not sure where you live, but in my DFW suburb, my neighborhood _is_ peppered in rooftop solar.

https://www.gosolartexas.org/available-incentives

A lot of the incentives are from local power companies like Oncor, but one notable state-wide incentive is that solar installations are exempt from property tax by state law.

I dunno why people act like Texas is staunchly anti-renewable. TX state politicians have said some goofy stuff about "windmills freezing over", but overall Texans are extremely pro-wind and pro-solar. It's a huge economic driver for a large part of the state, and it's seen as an overall part of Texas's strong energy industry, complimentary to oil rather than as a competitor to it. George Bush and Rick Perry were both Republican governors but both were _very_ pro-renewable and oversaw massive booms in wind energy especially. In 2005 Texas (including Perry at the time) passed a law to invest billions of state dollars into building transmission lines specifically to make it feasible for renewable energy generation in west Texas to bring power to the populated areas in the east, which is attributed to the massive wind boom. Abbot, on the other hand, has sadly not been very pro-renewable, but much of the state still is.
In a leaked recording, AWS CEO tells most developers could stop coding soon
Yes, a carbon-carbon bond is around 0.1-0.2nm. At these scales, these "plastics" are closer to monomers than polymers.

A 10-carbon chain with its hydrogens attached can hardly be called "polyethylene"; it is a higher alkane and behaves more like wax or mineral oil than what most people would call a plastic:

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

I wonder if the PE they are finding is actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_jelly
Ok, let me translate it into non-math for you - there can be a goal that is a "highest priority" for the organisation in the sense that no other goal is a higher priority, and yet there are other goals for the organization that are equal to it in priority.

Isn't "a Maximal Element need not be Unique" a more elegant and much more succinct way of saying the same thing?
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They can still be long chains - the quote mentions diameter, not length.
I've rebuilt several motors, transmissions, various other mechanical contrivances. Sometimes with decent documentation, sometimes not so much. Also done a bit of amateur machining, and worked as an engineer on physical products.

Under no circumstances would I claim that rebuilding a motor was essentially figuring out how to build one from scratch. In software, maybe that's like claiming that figuring out how to configure a new Linux box is essentially the same thing as figuring out how to write an OS.
I thought there was recent evidence that shellshock actually was pretty distinct from modern ptsd, where ptsd is psychological and shell shock was just nearby artillery mechanically disconnecting your brain cells
Booo. Well done on the pun.
Just run windows in a VM if you need it for anything.
ASK HN: Startup Dilemma: Product Management or AI/ML Specialization
I’m currently working at a small startup and have been given the opportunity to try a Product Manager role for a couple months. This is a chance for me to gain experience in a different area, but I’ve also been toying with the idea of diving deeper into machine learning and AI, potentially developing a niche there alongside growing as a full-stack developer. Additionally, I’m thinking about potentially starting my own company down the line, so I’m trying to weigh which path might better prepare me for that future goal.

What factors should I consider to make this decision? Has anyone here faced a similar choice? I’d appreciate any advice or experiences you can share. Feel like I'm deciding between three very different paths, and having trouble figuring out how / which one to commit to.
Interesting artifact of time it would be. Harfbuzz uses https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime to execute wasm, so when compiled it would be wasm runtime running under another wasm runtime.
The story doesn't prove "only" by itself, but it's a good example of the checklist doing something for liability and not wellness.
Another thing you can do to limit your exposure is to move far away from high-traffic roads. Tire dust is a major factor in exposure.
Also to 'understand' complicated prompts (however far that goes when talking image models). For example, describing two subjects in detail with a relationship between them ("a cat and a man and the cat is standing on the man's head and the cat has red hair and the man is wearing purple glasses") reliably works with Flux, even the 'light' models, but is a crapshoot with SD.
People who don’t use them are using their hobby of being offended to pressure the model makers to censor.
They found some brains have 1% of plastic in them by weight. 1% of the human brain by weight is 14g. A solid 14g plastic ball is 1.2 inches in diameter which is about the size of a golf ball.
This is brilliant as a hobbyist rehabber. Hope it takes off.
> a) Politicians are typically more educated than say in the US.

As exhibit 'A' for the counterargument, I offer Kate Worden: NT's Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water Security. Did you see her interview in Monday's "Water Grab" report by 4 Corners [1]?

One example of her logic: Farmers are planting circular fields, which is what you do for a central pivot water irrigation system, and Woden is saying with a straight face that irrigation is not being used and the cotton crop is only relying on rainfall with no dams or groundwater extraction involved.

Some choice words from the interview are that she is "sick of the science". There are lots of other goodies.

Her interview is a masterclass in ignorance.

[1] https://iview.abc.net.au/show/four-corners
> If you think getting charged asking price is getting fleeced, then you are kind of illustrating my point.

No, that's explicitly not what I'm saying.

Of course, you, as an honest business that stands behind their work, prefers customer who are happy to pay your asking price while not being a pain in the ass. But that's going to be exactly the same stance as your competitor who spends half the effort on their product and double the effort on marketing. They really don't want savvy customers to ask many questions, because they don't have a product to back it up.
Yeah, safety takes decades to study conclusively, it’s simply antithetical to fast-paced industrial world.

Sometimes I read accounts on industrial revolution England and think “how the heck people survive THAT.” Several decades from now there will be people who think of us the same way haha.
I wonder if there's a kind way for the manufacturer to prod the customer and ask for a followup.

Coupon? Careful phrasing? Sending puppies?
absolutely, its very often the gateway to a swap over.

I haven't seen it used much in the enterprise though.
I'm not really thinking about afterlife as much as I'm thinking about passing on my genes... And I really shouldn't pass on my genes... If there's a possibility that my child has the same brain problems that I have then I'm basically committing a crime.
Pig butchering scams are characterized by some number of the following:

- Finding marks by sending out text messages which have the appearance of being a normal message sent to the wrong number, and which invite a response.

- Building a long-term relationship with the mark over text messages.

- Eventually convincing the mark to invest in a fake crypto exchange.

- The fake crypto exchange delivers small wins for a while

- Eventually convincing the mark to make a very large investment.

- Then the money disappears.

- The scam is run by Chinese operators in an illegal call center in Myanmar using human-trafficked labor.

This obviously has characteristics that distinguish it from a generic scam.

Example of a scam that is not pig butchering:

- I got a text message offering me $XYZ/day to drive around town with a Colgate toothpaste ad on my car

- If I had accepted the offer, they would have asked me to send in a downpayment for the ad materials, then they would have vanished
In plain English: There exists a dosage that causes problems, we don't know what it is. If this trend continues, we will most likely find out what it is the painful way.
My download was corrupt and macOS threw it in the trash. That's a first.
Just guessing here, but I doubt PEX piping is a major contributor, seeing as it's solid plastic that doesn't shed and is rarely exposed to the elements. The most common sources of micro plastics appear to be things like synthetic fibers in clothing, particles coming off of car tires as they wear down, manufactured plastic particulate like micro-beads/glitter, and plastic objects in the ocean that break down into smaller and smaller pieces due to physical abrasion, sun, damage, etc.
On your iPhone, recognizing and accepting the obvious risk that a stranger on the internet is telling you to enter some weird input in your computer: pull down Spotlight and type ""::

iOS is a very buggy operating system; they polish the hell out of the top of it, but its internals are hairy and scary. That first paragraph doesn't represent a security bug, but its adjacent to many other, more serious problems iOS has had. Its about once every-other year we get some wild bug where a complete stranger can text you a specially crafted string of unicode characters and it crashes the entire OS.

It isn't fair or accurate to say that Android is less secure than iOS in 2024. They both have problems, and both will continue to have problems, but both are significantly more secure than they were 10 years ago, and its very rare for applications downloaded from their respective official app stores to do significant damage to the user. The correct lens through which to view this policy change is: It was a program which exclusively worked with "major applications", and this kind of program is a responsibility which these major applications should take on, not Google.
I appreciate your willingness to push for your rights here. But the situation is surprisingly similar to refusing to let a cop search your trunk. You can say no, but that K-9 unit is going to take four hours to get there from the station 20 minutes away. They will make your life hell.

I've definitely been in hospital situations with my children where I was honestly afraid (perceived or real threat, I still don't know) that they were going to report me for child abuse if I took my kids home and refused care. People with authority are kinda scary, and while I love for us to all choose rights over security, sometimes I just don't want to have to fight for everything.

And this is where police states evolve from.
I wonder how often I've given up and switched to a competitor when it just seemed clear we were going to go back and forth and make no progress.

I know it's more than once, but less than 100%.
Yep. "Web experience" made me think there was an actual website experience. There still isn't a web experience and it's still not open to everyone. lol
I've also worked with a python->javascript transpiler and hooked it into p5.js if your more into that
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10141840/

> Micro- and Nanoplastics Breach the Blood–Brain Barrier (BBB): Biomolecular Corona’s Role Revealed

> The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is an important biological barrier that protects the brain from harmful substances. In our study we performed short term uptake studies in mice with orally administered polystyrene micro-/nanoparticles (9.55 µm, 1.14 µm, 0.293 µm). We show that nanometer sized particles—but not bigger particles—reach the brain within only 2 h after gavage. To understand the transport mechanism, we performed coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations on the interaction of DOPC bilayers with a polystyrene nanoparticle in the presence and absence of various coronae. We found that the composition of the biomolecular corona surrounding the plastic particles was critical for passage through the BBB. Cholesterol molecules enhanced the uptake of these contaminants into the membrane of the BBB, whereas the protein model inhibited it.
This seems like a support issue, not an AI issue. AI is how the code was written, but the issue would be the same if it was amateurs writing bad code. If all you want to do is support your API, a support article outlining the issues you see over and over would be something to point your customers to. Warrant your API against errors, but point out that anything more is billable work. If you're not interested, partner with someone to do that work. You could even offer support contracts that include some amount of customization.
I don't understand that one very much. If walking is going to tear them open, isn't it better to have that happen at the hospital instead of half an hour later at home? I don't think much healing is going to happen in between.

Is the risk sufficiently on a per-step basis to make that worth it?
All my personal sites are effectively dead.

Never put ads on them, nothing malignant, but the SEO wars have killed the small web.
I do generally agree with such approach - information, not messenger. However there's a concept of reputation which doesn't go away in many cases - and this could be one of them.
While it's still debated, it seems likely that the BPAs in plastic will be classified as mildly carcinogenic at some point. It's probably not a big concern to be touching your phone case but maybe more so if it's millions of particles permanently inside you.
They're special case because they don't care about environmental protection unless there's a photo-op and headline that the government can use to look good.
And if you get a partner, they will insist that the part that is engineering is even smaller than it objectively should be and end up leaving you with a minority position in the product you invented.
South Park said it best about the handyman, at least some media gets where we're at.
No, this summer is objectively one of the best we've had in a long time, at least in Austin. The fact that we've only had a few days above 105 is a blessing.

I mean, it's Texas - it's always blazing hot at the end of August, and that's to be expected. What's really changed over the past 25-50 years is that the plus 100 days have been starting earlier and earlier, and we've been having more of them. Thankfully, that wasn't the case this year.
There is definitely a difference between tracking and metrics. One saves and associates information like “when and where did this piece of data come from?” along with other “identifiable” information, the other simply increments a count for things like “advanced feature X enabled”. If you don’t see the obvious difference between this type of data, then that’s on you. The latter can provide extremely valuable signals, and when “power users” disable it (and tell regular users to do the same, spreading FUD) because they think it’s “tracking” (it’s not), that’s their problem when a tool/app/service starts moving in directions they don’t like.
should've been called sen'py
haven't been any studies to move beyond the point of 'maybe they cause issues'.

People don't get any engagement and media sensationalism for finding no evidence. Now that society is biased towards that instead of truth, "maybe" is the best they can do.
It's unfortunate that Google relentlessly axes great products.
> You see this all the time in the more newbie-friendly game engine

games tend to attract young people (read: beginners) but at the same time game programming's barrier to entry is pretty high with maths & physics, low-level graphical programming, memory management, low level language and dependencies, OOP... It's almost obvious that this should be the case, every kid who's interested to coding I talked to wants to do something with games.
Make sure it's organic, grass fed, lead solder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41316195
I would say the opposite. Surprisingly many games still require Windows, at least on Steam. I can sometimes find something interesting that runs on a Linux too, but all the indie games are usually Windows only.
the javascript version of processing is called p5js. According to the creator the 5 comes from "the original domain of processing was proce55ing.net, so people used to sometimes refer to processing as proce55ing or P5 or p5 for short. they still do sometimes. p5.js is a reference to that."

https://github.com/processing/p5.js/issues/2443
structure -> kernel
I'll take a stab at it, but I'm not a doctor or a biologist.

Cyanide will kill you. Almonds have trace amounts of cyanide. You can eat almonds till you get sick, but that tiny amount of cyanide won't kill you. The dose makes the poison. On the other hand, those fancy car-fentanyl, if a flake touches your skin, you'll od and die. It's super super toxic.

One flake of microplastics in your body isn't going to do anything.

Now,

> although recent studies associated MNP [micro- and nanoplastic] presence in carotid atheromas with increased inflammation and risk of future adverse cardiovascular events

It's not like every muscle fires on every heartbeat. They try, but some are old or dead. There are a lot of them, all working together. And they're constantly repairing or regrowing new muscle cells. How does the heart shed microplastic? Can it? How much till the immune system kicks in and starts causing inflammation? Inflammation is generally good, but super dangerous in the heart. Too much inflammation, and well, it stops firing correctly.

> what is not clearly understood is the internal dose in humans.

How much microplastic is too much? nobody knows. Seems like, you get too much, and repair systems start kicking in. The repair systems can't actually fix anything, but make you weak/sick, and you're generally worse off. When some other thing shocks the system, your body is already in panic mode, so the "normal" response of panicking doesn't change anything. Odds are, you just die.
> total plastics mass concentration in brains increased over 50% in the past 8 years

I wonder if this correlates with the rise in the use of 'compostable' (i.e. weaker) plastics, that are more likely to break down during use.
The release date of the annual revision is known well in advance, it's in August every year.
My understanding is that it's the latter. "in SCED" basically means they have pre-planned availability that is cheap.

The "Physical Response Capacity" in that graph is the amount of capacity actually available, but it's not part of SCED. However it doesn't say anything about the timeframe it would be available in. Given that ERCOT didn't call for conservation, I would have to assume it was capacity that was "quickly available, but not cheap" rather than "not quickly available", but I don't know for sure.
it's fair to point out that they're different markets, but how many words do you want your potential customers to have type into Google in order to give you money?you're never going to out-seo the Ethernet capture tool Wireshark, so "Wireshark tool wire Ethernet" isn't going to be any better than trying to search for Wireshark.

but I feel you. naming things is hard, even outside of computer science. my friend has a zero knowledge password entry system and we've sat and just talked about names for hours and hours and gone back and forth.

anyway, my two cents is change the name to something that's less impossible to SEO better than. you want your users to find you and "Wireshark" just seems like a difficult name for a product to compete against, especially given all the other animals in the sea. wirefish doesn't seem particularly claimed.
It was practically dogma ten years ago that the CEO that built the business was not the CEO that took you public. In the late '00s and a big chunk of the '10s they swapped board members in order to go big.

But if you kill the culture before the IPO, then you have nothing and nothing.
The purpose of many parking minimums is to protect the type of neighborhood you report living in. I lived in a pleasant neighborhood on Chicago's north side (Lakeview), which was a mix of SFH away from main thoroughfares and apartment buildings where they made sense. A real demonstration of what's possible, and (I think) what you're championing. I do believe it's possible. But it does require specificity and planning, instead of a blind, statewide trouncing of local laws (which CA is attempting).

My neighborhood was an example: A defunct theater behind our multi-unit house was sold to a developer, who built a massive residental building there. Our alderman had promised that new residential developments would be required to include parking with the sale of a unit. That was a lie.

As a result, many of the new residents decided that instead of buying a parking space in their building (where they WERE available), they'd just park on our streets... where we HAD to park because we had no other option. So now our standard of living took a huge hit, because we could no longer come home from work or the grocery store or other trips, and park and go into our homes. We had to circle the neighborhood in ever-larger radii for hours per week looking for parking. Real fun at 1 a.m... in the winter.
I have consider it and done it before. I largely play StarCraft 2 and I simply want the maximum frame rate..I've played sc2 on Linux before but I kinda like the simplicity of just booting into windows, the feeling of having the max performance, and also some games I play do run anti cheat stuff that doesn't work on Linux.

Overall Linux gaming is pretty sweet tho I agree. Lutris is incredible.

Plus I like the work/play divide that booting into windows provides
How do you ensure this? Are you suggesting more analysis pre-building the product, or doing things like increasing the price until you've effectively filtered out enough of the people you don't "want to deal with", assuming that works.
I had no idea this was a thing that could happen, I thought (naively, I suppose) that all they'd get would be the equivalent of a meter reading with a suggestion to limit load at certain hours.