skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never broken my Python installation on Windows (official installer) despite recklessly installing anything. If I had broken it, I would have just uninstalled and reinstalled.

While not familiar with macOS (topic of this article), I think the Mac installer works the same.

On Debian of course you can cause great damage because the system Python is used for critical system functions. This is silly, I think the system python should be an isolated install in /usr/sbin. Better yet, move back to Perl for the system.
Are you sure it's absolutely necessary? Or do you just want it? Is it worth someone potentially knowing your precise location at all times?
This would be the sane advice.
I think the term is simply ownership. You choose what to own, and often good founders (and honestly managers) own anything that is important. There’s no “delegate and go home”, there’s “trust, but verify” and when verification fails, you get involved. You also own the failures. There is no CYA, there is only do.
Check your pricing page amounts are weird (e.g. strike through $10 now $420), and and links are broken.
I suspect it depends upon the person. Plenty of people have difficulty remembering commands, and only the clever ones in that population will create a cheat sheet to help them along until they do remember them. On the other hand, they may have no trouble remembering where something is or what it looks like.

That said, I do resent people who claim CLIs are harder because of that. What works for one person may not work for another.
I’m no mystic but one idea with slim evidence I just can’t shake is that anything and everything that’s theoretically elegant will find application or explanatory power in the fullness of time. Besides noneuclidean geometry, integer partitions come to top of mind as something that looks pure finding applications that we didn’t know we needed, and surprisingly fast.

I can only barely understand the explanation for things like monstrous moonshine, but I’m with Conway on this stuff anyway.. there has to be a reason, it can’t just be a coincidence. Or in more classical terms, maybe nature abhors a vacuum, but not in the original sense. Lots of math is just too cool to not use somewhere.
definitely agree. the information density of well written article (or even 'blog- spam, in this case) is far higher than almost any video
Just moved back to ABQ from Shiprock last month, after 8 years. Not every day you see Shiprock featured in an HN post!
What I usually do is make a venv using pip, then use that venv to install poetry in it, because I don't want to clutter my system with outdated poetry package. Then use Poetry to install packages inside the venv. So the pip part is merely for bootstrapping.
I think one point is that there is no shortcut to building a great product/company/society/nation.

You seem to be looking for a checklist where none exists. As many people have outlined in this thread, the difference is a founder takes everything about the company personally as an extension of themselves, and as a central point who can keep everything aligned. A manager ensures that directives given from top are followed and results delivered to the best of their abilities and any prevalent constraints.
It is very unusual that someone would go to this much effort instead of using a real dead CPU or re-lasering a lower spec one.
You would be amazed at how much FedEx, UPS, and Amazon traffic moves by train. BNSF (at least) even has "guaranteed delivery" trains.

Last mile I will give you. Those shippers use trailers and containers on railroad cars, and trucks do the last mile delivery.
OP talks about asking humans what good code looks like, and that's the scope of my response. Code as a communication tool between developers is not its primary reason to exist.
> You can walk or cycle in all of those conditions.

YOU can do that, sure. You need to look past your own nose to objectively weigh in on these topics.
Not saying you are wrong, but this is anecdotal. I’d rather try to interpret crash statistics than use my own experience.
My problem with rich-text paste is that it transfers unwanted presentational formatting, resulting in mismatched fonts, sizes, and typography. I generally either want plain-text paste or preserving semantic elements (like bold/italic emphasis, links, and bullets).

More generally, when editing a document I want to be able to view both formatted text and "escaped" contents (like "view source"), and when copy-pasting or saving text, I want to be able to convert formatted text into "escaped" text to diff, and also paste text without misinterpreting asterisks and angle brackets as formatting information (until I explicitly copy text as source and paste as formatted).
Note that NJ called for volunteers - in other words, free.
The problem is that they just won’t pay for maintenance
And low enough rate of thermal conductivity.
The guy whose writings the american right loves and quotes constantly? IDK how he views himself. But his argument is a modern variant on "the weakness/degeneracy of contemporary youth" which has an inherently reactionary heart.
Reduce the number of passwords the user needs via SSO.

Be absolutely strict on password sharing via non approved means.

Bitwarden enterprise for whatever is left, with collections per team/department.
Somebody here commented long ago about Bill Gate's style of management which reminds me of this piece. If you presented something to BG he would start asking questions and get deeper and deeper. He was merciless. It seemed that he was just making sure that you knew what you were doing. So your really had to be prepared. Someone as knowledgeable and smart as BG was able to keep the Bull shitters out of the development org.

I think what I am remembering is this story from Joel Spolsky. Good read. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
> an auto company, or an aircraft company,

In both we are seeing how professional management can decimate a company with several decades of history. e.g Boeing.
The closest one because why does this matter, again?
As a physics student, I feel compelled to point out, to any readers who might now go read Hossenfelders other articles, that many of her views are generally not shared by a majority of physicists today.

She is a real physicist and not a kook, but she has been criticized for presenting her views (e.g. superdeterminism) as having much more acceptance than they actually do. She ignores and misrepresents counter-arguments regularly. Her ideas about, e.g. the explanatory power of entanglement wrt processions of moons around (IIRC) Jupiter are certainly well outside what I’d describe as regular astrophysics.

The golden standard of science communication was set by Sagan, and he always carefully pointed out when he was expressing a personal opinion, as opposed to one shared by the majority. Sabine Hossenfelder is no Sagan.

So proceed with caution. :)
This inspired me to create this:

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-Y4dDzwpLF-grogggpt
paul finally added https to his site. woohoo!!
He is an economics professor, not a CS professor. His students may be going into jobs that require programming, but that doesn’t mean they are “programmers” or that the purpose of the class is to teach Python.
Show HN: Metashade GPU EDSL at ASWF Open Source Days
I got to speak about my Python-based GPU EDSL https://github.com/ppenenko/metashade at the Academy Software Foundation Open Source Days 2024 (https://opensourcedays2024.sched.com/event/1e2Gx), and here's the video: https://youtu.be/yC8VMLXYs5U?si=rXnEeCxmBym7bwaq Hope it's easier to digest than the slides I shared before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40110072
Neither the author of the GPT from scratch post, nor eclectic29 who recommended it above did ever promise that the post is about building LLMs from the ground up. That was the original post.

The GPT from scratch post explains, from the ground up, ground being numpy, what calculations take place inside a GPT model.
You literally skipped the part where I said I'd be happy to be limited to a set number of videos per channel.
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Indeed, attention and listening is undervalued in the mostly male, high-on-ego dev culture.

And it's also easy to speculate in a forum about super stars and "10x coders" and what team you should have.

But in reality, you have to play with the cards you have been dealt with. You can search for better folks, but until you find them, the show must go on.

In many card games, being dealt 8 Aces means losing the game, and the same is true for startup teams with all-alpha animal "leaders" who are all super smart but cannot agree on anything.
https://archive.ph/hXxNo
In contrast, I have only met companies that don’t invest in real training nor schedule/budget for any knowledge gains.

The only exceptions so far have been FAAMG, but all of them also have it as optional not mandatory and rarely encourage it tbh.
Just a random "vagus nerve story". A while back, I started having weird heart flutters that turned out to be extra heartbeats (doctors call them PVCs and PACs). Sometimes I'd be fine for days or even weeks, but then they'd come back pretty bad. After a bit, I noticed these flutters were linked to what I ate, which seemed really strange. I couldn't figure out how my food could make my heart skip beats.
I saw a bunch of heart doctors for almost a year before I found one who knew what was up. He told me I had something called "gastrocardiac syndrome." Apparently, not many heart doctors know about it. It's basically when acid reflux in your stomach messes with the vagus nerve. The doctor gave me some medicine to stop the acid (PPIs), and just like that, my weird heartbeats went away completely.
What did they do that was so bad that it cost him 3 locations?
It's not the second biggest search engine in the world :(
No phones, though.
Same. Was immediately worried since I bought a 7800x3d for a “too good to be true” price off Aliexpress earlier in the year that works flawlessly and appears to be the real deal.
Yes, my University library covers access to many (but not all) IEEE articles, but the ability to download and read IEEE articles from a library is completely separate from being an IEEE member.

IEEE membership costs ~$229 for 2025 in the U.S. for Professionals [1]. This fee typically is not covered by universities in my experience.

If you're asking why I don't simply access articles through my library and forget about the membership, members typically are given fairly significant discounts and enhanced options for publishing in conferences and open access journals.

[1]: https://www.ieee.org/membership/join/dues.html
Yes but if OP posted the video it would have been killed by HN’s filters.
The funny thing is at one point the bureaucracy becomes so big that even BillG shouting couldn't get anything done. One great example is his mail on Movie Maker being dysfunctional and in response several VPs playing musical chairs saying not my problem. Once you hire enough of them, there is no way out. BillG might care about Movie Maker but a random VP cares about his own fiefdom.

https://www.techemails.com/p/bill-gates-tries-to-install-mov...
I use LastPass, and know that they have been breached before. I am in a smaller company, and force strong master passwords, as well as monitor password security. Assuming that LastPass is not the solution I should use, is there a simple way to migrate to another service such as 1Password? I see people mention the UI being difficult for LastPass, but I do not find this to be true, and it makes a lot of sense to me from a security standpoint. I have specific groups, and use shared folders with group and/or user permissions.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated, and thank you in advance.
> The weight of a vehicle is a critical factor in car crashes, with heavier vehicles causing more fatalities in other cars, pedestrians, and cyclists.

In a high speed collision between two cars I can see how a weight difference could greatly increase the danger in the lighter vehicle.

In a collision between a car and a pedestrian I don't see how weight could make much of a difference.

Yes, I know that if car A weighs 50% more than car B then at a given speed A will have 1.5 times as much momentum and 2.5 times as much kinetic energy as car B, but when there is a large mass difference between the thing doing the hitting (the car in this case) and the thing being hit (a pedestrian) momentum and kinetic energy don't really matter.

Think of it this way. A large freight train moving at 1 km/hr will have way more momentum and kinetic energy than a Ford F-150 moving at 80 km/hr, but getting hit by the freight train probably wouldn't seriously hurt you (unless you happened to fall and it ran over you) whereas an 80 km/hr F-150 would very likely kill you on impact.

From what I've read the problem with these vehicles in pedestrian collisions is with the shape of the front of them. They tend to have high, fairly vertical, front ends which can sweep you up so you are rapidly accelerated to the velocity of that car. Damage would be similar to what you'd get if you fell at the velocity of the car onto a rigid surface. Cars with lower, most slanted, front ends toss you onto the hood and over the car, which is much less likely to kill you.
Have also used 1password. It's great. It has an API that you can code against for automation, and you can also mirror some passwords / tokens into hashicorp vault.
The post misses the advantages of other languages, specifically to make this easier:

> Once you know how to program, learning programming languages is easy. Understanding existing programs is hard. Maintaining existing programs (in the form of what we call refactoring) is the most difficult part, by far.

Static typing, with generics etc means that you can use more proven libraries that are well-understood and not custom/special in each instance.

Immutable data-structures means you can reason about the function being applied without hidden side-effects, accelerating understanding of a new system and limiting unintended consequences, etc.

I worked about a decade in the 90's at a company providing code generation and source analysis tools to (banking, insurance, telco, etc) companies that used Cobol. The language can do everything (I've made Windows and OS/2 GUI programs with it), as can any Turing complete language, but it's not the best. The most I could say about it is that it's like Golang, where you're sort of steered away from over-complicating a program, but with Cobol you still don't have the tools to really simplify it either.

People who don't choose and use better tools are not part of the solution.
Last gen and discounted is the right choice for someone that age. Save "keeping up with Joneses" for when he's older and earning an allowance.
PLA is extremely hydrophilic too, so if some was kept drier than the rest the fit could be terrible.
Would be good to also do plain text benchmarks, not simple regexes. As I assume this might be the best optimized case
Unix history and the `dc` calculator
Probably load up on financing to expand. Expansion floundered and they had to unload unprofitable and profitable locations to cover the debt.
I always appreciate a post about a simple fix to a problem a lot of folks run into thats not esoteric and lays it out simply :)

As engineer of many many years now all I can say with certainty is that confusion, failure, research and eventually small successes have been the central theme of working with computers. I personally love the struggle and mystery but its not for everyone. At the end of the day its about what you want to get out of it. If you want to write programs without learning about the terminal go for it, but I would say there are better gilded cages with GUIs that help you get a lot more done within that constraint.

If you want a deeper understanding,
I think its more helpful to admit you can't cheat the process of learning. Slow is the only speed.
Usually its an over leverage issue. He extends credit to the very limit and then something goes wonky, maybe a few things at once and the core business takes a hit.

Also, the more reach the less control (by design/definition) and QC is always a risk in that scenario.
Bought on OLX, which is an Eastern/Central European version of Craigslist. Not a place that you should be buying expensive electronics without considering a possibility that you’re being scammed
The real problem with methodologies like "agile" or whatever the hell is that:

- they are not magic solutions to a fundamentally flawed business, or a business that is building the wrong thing

- they are not solutions to people issues

To a great degree if you have the right business and people treat each other like humans, you don't need a methodology, just keep doing whatever you are doing.
Best to use SSO for SaaS passwords. This is where your whole team has a Microsoft or Google (or other identity provider) login administered centrally by the company that is further used to authenticate to various services.

As opposed to "login with Facebook etc." logins that are individually administered by each end user for each app.

This is low fruit for many things but often companies require you to be on an expensive SaaS pricing tier to use SSO on their product.

Next problem to solve is Software Engineer's cloud secrets. Use key vaults in your cloud for this. Use SSO to authenticate your team to that cloud.

Enable 2fa as much as possible. TOTP not SMS.

Finally you will need people to save passwords for some stuff. Lastpass or Bitwarden etc.

Avoid shared passwords. Sometimes unavoidable in which case rotate them often and when people leave too.
As described on https://docs.python.org/3/using/mac.html , python on MacOS both ships with an IDE and the ability to run scripts without using the command line.
It is noticeable that large SUVs and pickup trucks are becoming more prevalent in the UK.
Very impressive. I've toyed with using the Pi for an intelligent trail camera. Startup time is critical - a PIR sensor detects an animal passing and you want to be taking photos ASAP so every second counts.

Lowering the power usage is awesome too.
I’m at a loss as to how this is getting so many upvotes. A typical hierarchy is bad because you keep hiring “professional fakers”? I don’t know…maybe work on that? The hierarchical structure is key to the most powerful companies, organizations, militaries and governments on earth. But the guy who ran AirBNB was bad at hiring so now we can reject all of that.

No. The hierarchy works. There are two key things most managers miss. Learn the skill of hiring and firing well and (perhaps more importantly) incentivize them properly.
Lynx is a lean, efficient, fast-to-compile, low-dependency browser - and has the fewest open defect reports of any major browser.

I'm not sure the metrics you propose capture what makes good software good.
I can believe Discord servers, but not corporate inboxes.
> Can a Ford Focus fit a car seat? Yes!

Sometimes!

I'm 6'3", so it only fits on the passenger side.
But it does make it more difficult to talk about a concept when it's been (re)defined and argued about and gaslit about instead of what PaulG is doing: providing a simple definition backed by some real-world examples that actually are founder-mode being done more or less right.
Considering Epic’s grudge against Apple, Apple should “bless” Godot with some open source support and endorsement.
I still don't really get what conda is or does. AFAIK it ensures ABI compatibility between Python packages that have C extensions? Does manylinux and the limited API not take care of this?
Lessons from ancient civilizations for keeping homes cool in hot, dry climates
That crucial thing was probably being lucky enough to be born 50 years ago before all the low hanging work we take for granted had been done.
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia
If you look closely, there is an option to enter your prescription numbers manually.
Oh yes, continuous glucose monitoring is totally overkill for most people. I just wanted to try it out because it’s a hobby. But yearly blood work or similar should be fine for anyone who wants it IMO. Well, anything that is measuring-only I think should be available to anyone who wants it TBH.

I think you need to go in with the right perspective, and I think the setting of doctors only offering tests when there is something wrong sets the tone that they catch dangerous things. Imagine if blood testing were available at gyms (not a suggestion, just an example) - the data would be viewed very differently. Imagine if doctors’ offices had treadmills, you’d view exercise very differently too.

If your X metric is a bit outside of a normal range, it doesn’t mean you’re going to die or you can’t handle some biological function (generally). It means it may be more strenuous for your body, or you’re predisposed to issues when something else goes wrong, or your body is simply a bit outside “normal”. It’s like someone who is really tall - being tall is “not normal” but it’s generally recognized as not deadly, despite the reality that certain health issues are correlated with abnormal height.
The one with the shortest line. Why does this matter?
Comparing top tier anything to normal people is apples to oranges.

I am a knowledge worker, but I don't often take notes in meetings, because the purpose of meetings to to get agreement, not to forge new knowledge. Sure there are minutes and actions. But a meeting notes is not a "kata" that I practice to be better at my job.

I work in a research org at a FAANG, which supposedly puts me in the "top tier". I do not have a doctorate, or a masters. The thing that makes me "good" is that I am able to communicate how to do x with y, and direct people to use z with building blocks omega and theta. the thing I practice every day is working out how to translate an infrastructure problem to a researcher who couldn't give a shit and just wants put what they have running locally on the GPU farm, but faster.

That is my kata, that is what I strive to be better at.

I write to explain, not remember. that's just a nice side effect. Is that writing perfect prose? fuck no, but its a fucksite better than most of my peers. It has to be because I'm a shit engineer otherwise.

> People seem to forget most of what they read

Yes, and musicians forget music. Sure they have a repertoire of core pieces that they can pull out, but they are often learning one off pieces, or semi-sight reading stuff (session musicians are fucking ace by the way. Some are able to read music like a news reader does an autocue.) That core repertoire is kept alive because they need to play it often. For me, my professional repertoire is threading, message passing, and large scale dataflow. But my sight reading is computer vision shit.

In the same way a phd student will master and expand a tiny part of human knowledge, a musician will tend to specialise in a few composers, styles or periods.

> confusing a sense of enjoyment with any sort of durable understanding

Again, thats not what a knowledge worker does. Learning for fun is not the same as core knowledge/skill required for someone to perform a job. Thats someone pissing about and learning new things for enjoyment, and they should fucking do it regardless of the snobbery from people who want "completeness"

One of the amusing things about this whole argument is that the writer must have been able to write, spell and read well from a young age. The ancient greeks would have been very suspicious of that kind of working, because they thought that writing was the death of memory, deliberation and debate. Socrates would have particularly pissed off with the assertions on memory.

I couldn't write meaningfully until I learnt to touch type. So for me, everything was memory. I work differently to most people, so I'm not arrogant enough to produce sources and say that I have the best way to be a knowledge worker. I don't but it works for me. The author would do well to remember that untested assertions are not science. (yes, even if you cite papers.)