skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost 40 as well, also tired of social media but I do miss social networks. This seems to hew more closely to the social network concept than being a media outlet which is lovely to see coming back.
I've seen Python in use at various places and I've been hearing about PyPy for years and years but I've never seen anyone using it. Who does use it, and why don't more people use it?
Up to 2022 Lucee had a bug that caused increased files upload times and made it unused able for my application.
The big ones eat fruit
"management by walking around" is definitely a thing.

Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing depends on your experience with it, mostly.
I think you're forgetting this:

"often turns out to mean is: hire professional fakers and let them drive the company into the ground."

That's not low risk, that's higher risk. Letting the founders continue in Founder Mode can be both lower risk, and higher expected value, at the same time.

> hiring good people and letting them do etc is all just details of dynamics emanating from this unreasonable risk taking ability

I think not. Instead, the founders have unique insights: in the product, in the business domain, in the people in the company - which lets them do Founder Mode things a professional CEO cannot.

Sth else:

> only really unreasonable people can make huge changes in society.

Nice way of phrasing it :-)
To the owner, that is the state. No reason why dividends can not be returned to some government entity that then moves them to general budget. It is not actually horrible model if free market people are to be believed. Companies are more efficient than government. So separating companies from bureaucrats should be improvement.
I'm not an overclocking enthusiast, but my read on it is that it's mindblowing for reasons alluded to in a sibling thread and enclosed in quotes to reference the video creator's remark on the extreme, almost nonsensical measures taken (though understandable in hindsight) to spoof the hardware[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7C_x5EI-fQ&t=7m40s
Unbearably slow query and batch job
Vampire Domestication: Taming Yesterday's Nightmares for a Better Tomorrow
The UK does extremely well in oldest schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_schools
The polarization of society may show that social media are net negative.
No, I moved abroad and when sm was good it let me preserve my friend networks. Now it’s a wasteland. I miss it.
> It's not clear that what humans do is not "just" a memorization.

While I agree that there is a lot of gray in-between I think you are misrepresenting my comment. And I'm absolutely certain humans do more than memorization. Not all humans, but that's not the bar. Some humans are brain damaged and some are in fact babies (and many scientific do agree that sentience doesn't appear at birth).

If you doubt me I very much encourage you to dive deeper into the history of science and get doing deep deep knowledge on any subject. Because you'll find this happen all the time. But if you apply a loose enough definition to memorization (that isn't one that would be generally agreed upon if you used it's logical conclusions) then yeah, everything is memorization. But everything is foo if I define everything to be foo, so let's not.
It's not more used because of c extensions, mostly.

If you have a long running process with a lot of pure python code, you can get a lot of perf boost.

Be aware memory consumptuon will go up significantly.
I wonder if there were families or the equivalent of "companies" in the old Egyptian kingdom, which lasted for about 3000 years, longer than any modern-day civilization (although there may be some cultures that have existed for more than 3000 years)
> I would also like to make a note about haters and mentioning your age on HN

it is not hate. HN hates growth hack and over-professional work and long replies in threads screams “I am not a teenager but i’m pretending to”
That combined with less psychotic girlfriends in your case.
Some people (like me) have a fixed IP for their internet connection. Although this isn't super common any more.
There is even a name for it: Gemba Walk, a LEAN practice.

Management self-help guru Tom Peters (of In Search of Excellence fame) built a whole method around it, called Management by Walking Around. It differs from Gemba Walking in lacking a specific focus.
It's definitely unique, but the "out of the box" experience is suffering for it in my opinion.

I actually recently had to fix something small in a Python project, pip refused to work because of homebrew, homebrew didn't have the dependencies and directed me to pipx, pipx finally worked - It was a strange experience.

And for the record NPM mostly has a bad reputation because of its past... nowadays it's perfectly usable and can lock dependencies and node version "out of the box".
If it's all the same to you we'll keep on putting up signs warning people during Carukia barnesi season.

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Haha, I didn't realize the article was from our beloved friend.
I did my research, but as a non-native speaker, couldn't figure out whether "quite a cry" means you agree or disagree with me.

ChatGPT doesn't know either.
> A NASA engineer and co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies has claimed that his company’s propellantless propulsion drive system has generated enough thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity.

If that’s true using the conventional interpretation of “enough thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity.” (= can lift itself off form earth) it should be extremely easy to at least show half the effect:

- put the device on a scale

- notice its weight

- switch the device on

- see the scale show a much lower weight (even hitting 10% would be huge)

- wait an hour or so

- switch the device off

- see the weight return to showing the original number (to show the device didn’t use propellant)

Because of that, I think that claim is, at least, highly exaggerated, more likely utterly false.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41423541 points to a video about this device. I didn’t watch the 45+ m8nutes, but from scrubbing it it doesn’t show anything at all. It just has the author making this claim in a 45+ minute video.
This doesn't really say anything about religions. Constructions company can build a lot of thing. Temples are just happen to be good business at that time.
> Can you cite the deterministic part? And I don't think fixing your seeds count as making a model not statistical, though yes deterministic.

I was thinking temperature=0, but what more do you need than that?

(nb there is also some randomness from non-associative FP operations happening in different orders)

> I also don't like the term "black box." While they aren't transparent they aren't completely opaque either.

A white box is a subset of a black box here. The important part is that the sampler/text generation is wrapped around the transformer model and is not actually the same thing as it.
Because most people rather rewrite their code into C and keep calling it Python libraries still.
Perhaps not directly trade related but there's also the recent discovery that the 6 tonne Altar Stone at Stone Henge was transported there from 700km away in Scotland at around 2600BCE.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altar_Stone_(Stonehenge)
Windows already has WSL2 and Docker would run natively on Linux anyway.
Probably it depends, on when and where. In areas with excess existing capacity like hydro it could periodically increase the prices. In other areas it could develop power infra and generation capacity making it cheaper.
Just to clarify, are you disagreing with me? Correcting me? Adding context for others? I guess I'm missing the intent
Just curious, what did you have in mind? I cannot think of any extant religious institution with the kind of centralized singular organizational structure that the RCC has. Many “religions” (using quotes here because the concept of a religion is a bit of a complicated topic) are older than Catholicism but are or were more decentralized - like Hinduism.
Not a technical comment (as cool as this is), but I love the name.

We always say naming things is one of the hard parts of programming. They avoided the default option of something like tawk.
> Vikings had offered service to the Byzantine courts presumably sailing down the rivers from the north, or round the coast. Maybe one of them brought something back north

"Väringar"[0], traded, traveled, and fought from the Baltic to the Mediterranean sea. And they most certainly brought a lot back home.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
> It's definitely unique, but the "out of the box" experience is suffering for it

The tooling that ships with Python could be much better, I'd agree with that. You can go pretty far with venv and pip, but just the python3 -mvenv .venv isn't exactly a great example of user friendliness at work.
We may be choosier than most about social media, but here we are typing our thoughts into a web page expecting nothing in return except the possibility of hearing other peoples' thoughts.

We all know people who are truly tired of social media, we're not going to hear from them here.
Not to mention various other wars and random fires, such as the Ōnin War 応仁の乱 in the 1400s, a civil war between many feudal lords, which destroyed much of Kyoto among other areas.

The world's oldest extant wooden structure is the Kondō (main hall) of the temple Hōryū-ji 法隆寺 in Ikaruga, in the Nara Prefecture of Japan. It was initially built in 607 but completely burned down due to lightning. It was rebuilt in 670, but again nearly burned down by accident in 1949 [1].

It's interesting to contemplate how across these timescales war, disasters, and accidents make it so difficult for structures to survive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C5%AB-ji
once there are more productive alternatives that require less specialized "skill", your condescending "skill issue" becomes a devex issue, and basically a productivity gap which will doom your language or tool.
From Wikipedia: “Some observers consider Stora Enso to be the oldest limited liability company in the world”.

Interesting, especially considering that Sweden didn’t have limited liability companies until 1st of January 1849 [1]. Any ideas how this worked?

1. https://www.foretagskallan.se/foretagskallan-nyheter/lektion...
I know this is not relevant to the post, but I had to comment for the sake of my username!
Axenic (bacteria-free) mice (and other species) are bred and raised in labs everywhere and are not very different from wild mice, so while it could make a difference for a de-extinct mammoth, it may not.
The confusion, especially on X, is caused by focusing on what the loudest dumbest users want vs all else.
I mean, I assume because there’s nothing you could plausibly call Judaism Incorporated, or Islam Limited, but the Catholic Church arguably does look like a corporate entity if you squint hard enough (though it's actually really the remnants of a _state_).

It would be impossible to make this joke about Judaism or Islam, or at least, if you did, it wouldn’t make any sense.

The Knights of Malta is a similar case, though newer; used to be a state, and kind of still pretends to be a state, but really a non-profit corporation of sorts.
So what would be the equivalent of building temples today, and for the next 1000 years?
I have installed an app called Freedom on my phone and on my desktop browser. It's a pretty simple premise: it blocks the user from opening specified apps or websites (by domain name). This forcibly interrupts the automatic cycle which starts by absent-mindedly opening or navigating. I can recommend it with all of my heart. As the article says, it's not a silver bullet, but as with any addiction the key to taking control is implementing strategies, and for me this has been one strategy that, so far, has worked very well. I noticed the improvement in my mood straight away.
...or the English word "corpse".
Any CPU or Memory-bound one :). Lots of infra apps are just fine in Go too
> Instead of stealing your laptop the attacker takes the harddisk from your laptop while you aren't watching [...] makes a copy of it, and then puts it back.

I've never understood why people keep making this incredibly weak argument for secure boot.

Secure boot makes sense for a college computer lab, where any disk encryption is better than nothing, and you can't give everyone the password or it'd defeat the point.

Secure boot makes sense if you're a Microsoft-only company, as it's a closed-source OS anyway and Microsoft have the code-signing keys. It means your users only have one password to type in - and helpdesk can reset it remotely if a user forgets.

Secure boot makes sense if you're making something like an xbox or tivo where you want disk encryption but you can't give the owner the password, as they're the adversary you're trying to protect against.

And yet people instead ignore these benefits, and go for this spy thriller nonsense as if people are going to be crawling through the air vents and abseiling from the ceiling to interfere with my computer? If you're going to pretend to be James Bond you'd better also be learning ballroom dancing, kung fu, skiing and foreign languages.
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The Roman Catholic Church is more of a country than an enterprise, given the Holy See.
Nobody cares. bryanlarsen has it correct, you need to satisfy demand.

Germany is exporting because it produces useless renewable power. It is useless because it does not satisfy the demand. The demand is on dark, cold days, it is for processes that are useless if they are interrupted.

Have you honestly tried buying steel for a project? I have, the vast majority of European suppliers are now borderline useless. Delivering early is as bad as delivering late, bad enough that if the product was free I'd think twice, and they do both.

And no, storage of energy is not cost-competitive. Not even with nuclear. Not even within two orders of magnitude at the scale required, which is not kWh, not MWh, not even GWh, but tens of TWh. The best I've seen gives you time to cold start a gas plant, and that's it. That is what the battery sector gives as achievement. It's not enough and it's not close.
I'm in a similar position but I need to make sure I run distro kernel (because that's part of integration) instead of whatever OrbStack shipped.

In the end I just run a Linux VM and run everything inside. Zero issues by definition.

I'd actually love to use OrbStack Machines cause it feels much nicer than UTM, but, well, I can't run OrbStack's patched Linux kernel :(
Yes, you’re right. (There’s also the “oldest profession”.) But I’d still like to think that many of these actually are problems to be solved, rather than unalterable facts of life. Look what happened to, for instance, secretaries. Or “computers” – i.e. the profession. Regarding entertainment, I don’t see how companies providing entertainment is an absolute necessity; people can be entertained by each other’s company, and have been for most of history and pre-history. Furthermore, the examples you give all rely heavily on copyright for their business models, a purely legal concept without a guaranteed future. If I had to bet on any entertainment company to survive for 1000 years, I would pick one which does things which can not be copied, like live performances, perhaps at specific historically important locations.
I love landline phones (when they work right, which is not the case everythere) because usually they have better sound quality than mobile (which can be good-to-horrible depending on network quality) and almost zero latency.

But it's time to switch to fiber optics!
I was not clear enough, thanks. Whether it is a pok or zk depends on the chosen signature scheme. In any case, zk signature schemes exist and are implied by the existence of one way functions and publicly verifiable nizk
I found this an weird argument. Does anyone really think we'd round up herds of wild elephants to use the females as surrogate mammoth mothers? Obviously one would use domesticated (Asian) elephants, and if there ever was a plan to raise a large number of mammoth, the elephants to support this plan would have to be bred fist, idependently of wild populations.
Scrolling through these profiles in the age of text generating AI, gives me this uncanny feeling, that what I am reading is just random gibberish spat out by a LLM.

I feel like anything I'd post on this platform, would get lost in giant noise of generated feces.

Maybe it's just, the unknown world of "artsy" people is what is really so off-putting. Maybe I am just getting old and don't understand this joy of childish expression anymore. But the other, most popular platforms, seem to have more appeal for followong reasons:
- Facebook works around ads (pages) & groups about my (technical) interests, there isn't really a reason for AI spam. If any would appearx it is easy to make them disappear. You get some ads here & there, but content generating bots are often named bots & post content we've agreed to.
- Discord gives you high walled gardens for every topic you are interested in. So, one really needs to get out of their way to get content they are not interested in right now. Plus, everything feels like a DM, even the public chats are all just quick chats.
- X is literally a politics platform, so I am not expecting AI content from verified account of a diplomat, or media person.
The classic excercise is: write a poem, tear the paper to pieces and throw it away.
The Leftovers [1], season 3 episode 7.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leftovers_(TV_series)
Ask HN: Best offline-only eBook reader?
During a hike, I crushed the screen of my Kobo Aura HD, a device which I've used and loved for many years. It's never been connected to the Internet, and it's never given me any grief about it.

I want a new device but I'm afraid to simply buy a device in 2024 and expect it to work without access to the Internet.

I don't want, not even once, to have to connect the device to the Internet.

Can anyone recommend an ebook reader that will work without ever being put online ?

It must have e-ink screen and be suitable primarily for reading books.
> wouldn't you start with LFS or some source-based distribution

You don't ever want to actually use LFS (the manual from the LFS project) in the real world as compiling GNU is far too much work. A minimalistic kernel + busybox system is much less pain. But Gentoo would not be a bad option too.
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Measuring frecency (a combination of frequency and recency) with exponential dec
> The few sane are forced to fit in the sea of the mental midgets,
> fact that a lesser human like you

What makes you think anyone wants to see your deranged diatribes?

You might feel better overall if you kept some thoughts like this to yourself (based on what you're saying seeking professional help might be a good idea as well).
I actually like Python's package management (with just pip and venv). It's different to all other modern solutions, taking a per-shell rather than per-project approach, but that doesn't mean worse.

The advantage is that it's less "magic" than, say, npm. No need for rules saying how to find node_modules, you just have a PYTHONPATH env variable.

The Rust and Java approach is to do everything through a build tool's CLI, and I can't complain about that. It's probably the best compromise: Less magic than npm, and more user-friendly than Python.
Hi there! I'm one of the authors of the pgstream project and found this thread very interesting.

I completely agree, retry handling can become critical when the application relies on all events being eventually delivered. I have created an issue in the repo (https://github.com/xataio/pgstream/issues/67) to add support for notification retries.

Thanks for everyone's feedback, it's been very helpful!
While I disagree with the parent I personally think Discord is great. I've been on IRC for over 30 years and Discord is what I always imagined IRC 2.0 would be like.
Awk is blazingly fast for some operations. I remember using it to solve Project Euler problem 67 [0] in a couple of milliseconds, which is more comparable to C/Rust than Python. Weirdly the forum posts from between 2013 and 2023 are missing so I can't see what I wrote there.

[0] https://projecteuler.net/problem=67
Yeah, you're right, I was a bit salty. Especially since I think he was the first chemistry channel that didn't get banned and so, with his innocent demeanor, laid the foundation for all the other chemistry channels, that got increasingly bold.

But he did come a long way. When you go back 8-9 years his chemistry was kinda crude. I think he usually just did the reactions once and took what he got. Guess I'm still salty that he didn't optimize, which he now does.

But then he was basically the random teenager then and is a chemist now.
Still extant? Do you have examples? The oldest Buddhist temples seem to be a few centuries older than it, but there's little reason to think that there's any organisational continuity there.

(Of course, if you want to get super-vague, one could semi-reasonably argue that the Catholic Church is just a successor state to the Roman Republic via the Empire anyway, which pushes it back to about 500BCE.)
If you wanna do it in a flexible way that is very easy to use and essentially the future of ZK, use Powdr [1]. Just write your code in rust nostd and be done with it. It's a compiler, basically. Once you use it, you'll never go back to hand-massaging polynomials. It'd be like writing assembly. Sure, some can do it, and it can be fun, but why do it if there are compilers out there to do the heavy lifting for you? :)

[1] https://github.com/powdr-labs/powdr
> It is in the last part, but for me it is that I don't need to lookup or have to deal with what we decided is software dev in 2024

You still can. If you wanted to write DOS software and games, you can still write them. Nothing is stopping you.

I don't own much of the old hardware because:

- I don't have space

- I don't want to maintain them

But I like emulators and will use them when I can.

> So I do dream of a laptop running on an mcu with an eink screen that has 1 month of battery but no commercial power.

Look into emulators that run on e-ink devices. Most run Android of some sort and can emulate systems of the yesteryear. You don't need to spend 10k.
Pentium 60MHz was P5 though, not P54C ... if I'm not mistaken. IIRC the slowest P54C was the 75MHz one as they all had 1.5x multiplier or greater? Again, I wouldn't rule out my memory being wrong.