skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government should set sensible limits on campaign contributions that avoid a system of legalised bribery, aka. SuperPACs, such that actual people get to choose their representatives, not a handful of ultra-rich with the means to steer politics.

The only candidate in American politics that lives up to your idealised, independent politician of the people, is Bernie Sanders. And guess what? He strongly opposes billionaires buying themselves a government.
A Tick Is Making Farmers Allergic to Their Own Animals
It's crazy to me people would rather deny the intelligence of a large segment of the human population than admit to the increasing overlap between it and AI.

That's what you're doing when you keep moving the goalposts of "real intelligence" further and further right on the bell curve. You're denying the intelligence and consciousness of billions of people (and counting) just so you don't have to admit there's nothing magical about intelligence.

Sometime in the next 10 years, you'll have to start thinking of yourself as a soulless automaton to keep up the delusion. Good luck with that.
> TEPCO speculates that radiation passing through camera semiconductor elements caused electrical charge to build up, and that the charge will drain if the cameras are left on in a relatively low-dose environment. It was the latest setback in a very long project.

I found this interesting. I wonder how many of the ICs onboard the robot are radiation hardened, and how many are just COTS with the hope they'll last for the brief mission.
everyone dumps on Linus but no one is willing to take his job

wait, what's that? how can any old Internet Commenter just decide to replace Linus?!?

fork the kernel, call it something else...now you have your own kernel and you can be the BDFL and do all the YOLO merges you want

as it stands I agree with him completely in these threads so you are more than welcome to build your own fork, I will stick with Linux
Money wants to go to where more money is, and accumulate in great pools that can pull in more and more money. Money seeks to erode barriers that would prevent this, so that the money pool can accumulate faster and faster. This force can overcome morals that are barriers to the process of money accumulation.
They aren't defending smoking. They're referring to the industry and its ethos when it originally grew. While smoking was established as being bad for health in the mid-20th century, this wasn't as clear in the late 19th and early 20th, when the tobacco industry boomed and brought many jobs to the southern US economy.
Something that surprised me recently was learning that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a private organization. I assumed it was some office funded by the government in a town, that worked with local businesses—or something along those lines. But no, they're a lobbying group, and they are the biggest lobbying group in the country. I'm not saying they are a monster (I clearly don't know anything about them) but at that size, how could you not be?

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders
Back in the 1800s when the name Dinosaur was coined no one suspected their connection to birds. The point has never been that the word, in most peoples minds, doesn't conjures up pictures of t-rex and triceratops. There's no argument there. The point is that someone writing an article for Ars should have not have perpetuated the common misconception that they all went extinct.
A tool for managing Kubernetes resources as code
I am not sure if you are disputing that such things exist, or making a sarcastic comment, but I know of at least one location where they literally put in a round about, that originally had normal roundabout entrances, but then someone complained a dug up some rule that said that anywhere a county and a city road met, there needed to be a 4 way stop. Now obviously this rule was intended to just make sure that such intersections were controlled, and was probably written before the US had really thought about round abouts as an option and a roundabout met the spirit of the rule just fine, but nevertheless it was a rule, and so they added a stop sign at each entrance.

So, if you were making a sarcastic joke: then yup, they managed to convert a round about into a 4-way stop with a (giant, view obstructing) island. But if you were arguing that no one would do such a thing as put stop signs at the entrances to a round about, I regret to inform you that they absolutely would.

Also, I'm now curious about the existence of "4-way stop with an island". Why would someone build that? It seems strictly worse than a regular 4 way stop.
Impact of Partitioning on Planning Time in Postgres
it would be nice to see all the ingredients and see which ones have poor/toxic additives
Really curious, but seems to be down. Internet archive showing white screen too though, so not sure: https://web.archive.org/web/20240904211947/https://postalage...
You provide excellent examples of the bogosity of the arguments. Let me demolish them in turn.

1) System cost

Sure, it's high. That's because we spend huge amounts of money on energy. ANY system to replace fossil fuels will be expensive, in the trillions of dollars.

But if this is an argument against renewables, it's an even bigger argument against nuclear. Because nuclear is much more expensive than renewables.

2) Recycling

At worst, we can bury the stuff. Recycling it is not necessary. After all, the amount of material is small compared to everything else we do in society, and it's not some special kind of waste (like high level nuclear waste) that requires some particularly unique handling.

3) Lithium and cobalt

Lithium is abundant. If you hadn't been paying attention, the price has been crashing, as it pretty much always does after a price spike of a mineral resource, when the price spike encourages investment to increase the amount available. As for cobalt: probably the same is true, but why do you think cobalt is needed?

4) poison the environment

This is just emotional bullshit. No, renewables would not "poison the environment". You beclown yourself with this nonsense.

5) absurdly high energy cost

As opposed to those still burning fossil fuels where they are foisting off the cost of the externalities on others? Ignoring those external costs doesn't make them go away.

In any case, the place that's normally pointed to is Germany, where they made a large investment in renewables from 2009-2012. Solar was much more expensive then, and they are still paying that down. But the costs of renewables crash with time, so pointing to past expenditures is grossly misleading. Going forward renewables will be much cheaper. That's why we're seeing so much investment in them now globally.

One can tell the intellectual barrenness of the pro-nuclear position when you have to resort to this sort of deplorable nonsense.
I'm only smart enough to play checkers. But I'm happy with my lot in life.
At Listen Notes, we recently removed over 500 fake podcasts generated by Notebook LM in just the past weekend.

It's disappointing to see scammers and black-hat SEOs already leveraging Notebook LM to mass-produce fake podcasts and distribute them across various platforms.
Implausibility of life extension in humans in the twenty-first century
It's not power when it's a voluntary prize. My kids' school only awards raffle tickets to kids that go to the school. What an awful concentration of power, because power is the only lens through which to view anything.
HuggingFace Accelerate 1.0.0
I've been working with RoR since back in 2008 (Rails 2.1 yay!).

I'm still working with RoR.

It's still an incredibly quick, powerful, flexible, versatile framework. I'm able to build pretty large and complex apps all by myself, quite quickly, without fuss.

I'm looking forward to the deployment improvements since that was one of the shortcomings that was still around. Kamal v1 didn't really do it for me (currently using Dokku instead). Maybe Kamal 2 is it.
Congratulations on launching.

The landing page hero graphic looks enough like Kanban to surprise me given the title of your post. Then the sales pitch in the article begins with a critique of Agile and Kanban. I was already two scroll screens in and still didn't know what Swinlanes does.

Some random advice from the internet:

Forget about why Agile and Kanban are bad...in fact, forget about them entirely. Tell people why Swinlanes is good. People already have fully formed opinions about Agile and Kanban. They don't know anything about Swinlanes.

"Try Swinlanes" is an easier pitch than "Abandon Agile and/or Kanban" and people can find Swinlanes good without being convinced agile and/or Kanban are bad. In a group setting, the reasons for using particular methods go beyond the technical...business cases are behind business decisions and risk aversion is a major factor.

Sure the shortcomings you perceive with agile/kanban were your motivations for making Swinlanes. But the reasons someone else might try it are much broader and that is to your advantage. Good luck.
Modulith - you still program app usually as single repo project, but you take care about code level modularization so in any case you are able to simply extract separate (micro)service.
Hiding Images in XMP Metadata
You can view it sliced various ways here:

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying
Do not use secrets in environment variables
Python doesn't do hash table lookups for local variable access. This only applies to globals and attributes of Python classes that don't use __slots__.

The mental cost of multithreading is there regardless because GIL is usually at the wrong granularity for data consistency. That is, it ensures that e.g. adding or deleting a single element to a dict happens atomically, but more often than not, you have a sequence of operations like that which need to be locked. In practice, in any scenario where your data is shared across threads, the only sane thing is to use explicit locks already.
For my biology, L-theanine (200 mg) rounds out caffeine by stamping out the anxiety-inducing effect. By itself it just gives me a headache sometimes.
Scotty Factor[0] is the on-call tech’s best friend.

[0] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/99114/source-of-sc...
I am not sure about being the best, but one book that really felt special and still does is :

- The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch.

This book really ignited my love for
epistemology in general, and the nature of scientific progress and understanding.

Another notable book for me :

Finite and infinite games by James Carse.

I find the book fascinating if only because the concept the author is describing is both intuitive and counter - intuitive at the same time.
a better strategy would be a follow-up question on how it changed their life

i'm with the parent commenter here as i find your response very much telling on how you evaluate things and frankly, more idiotic than someone's life being changed, even by the "intended" interpretation of the book

e.g. would you say that everyone who liked / was influenced by reading "mein kampf" is a nazi?
For those of us who really hated HPMOR and didn't finish it, this review explains the issues in it better than I can:

https://danluu.com/su3su2u1/hpmor/
> morphdom-swap

this https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx-extensions/tree/main/... with 159 stars is a basic tool of htmx? is this the community consensus?
And this is where I usually come clean about the exercise.
My FAANG working spouse thinks that AIs and Robocallers should be mandated to identify themselves. She thinks a audible "Beep-boop" at the end of a sentence for calls and video would be appropriate.
Definitely been possible for at least 5 years now. Would probably be a weekend project now.
I agree with you. After seeing some internal prototypes at my job abusing htmx boost.
I'm slowly going on the anti-htmx bandwagon.
I'm still not pro-react or pro-vue. We need a stabler frontend js framework.
The real question would be: what tracking happens when you opt out of location sharing?

Side note: I’ve opted out of giving Google my location on the web but when I search they still use my “approximate location” based on my IP and past searches. Trackers gonna track I guess.
Why not μRNA, damn it!
Let's take a step back and recall what I'm arguing against: I never argued or meant to imply that there wouldn't be tremendous suffering and death. I'm only arguing that nuclear war is extremely unlikely to end industrial civilization (though it can sure suppress industrial capacity for a few years and possibly if we get very unlucky for a few decades) and is extremely unlikely cause human extinction.
Wouldn't surprise me if in a few years Google, for certain keywords:

- autogenerates URLs (tha look legit)

- autogenerates content for such URLs (that look kinda legit)

All of this would be possible if one is using Chrome (otherwise the fake URLs wouldn't lead to anywhere). Of course, full of ads.

Think about it, some people are not really looking for some web site that talks about "baby peacocks". They are looking for baby peacocks: content, images, video. If Google can autogenerate good-enough content, then these kind of users would be satisfied (may not even notice the difference).

Maybe Google ditches the URL and all: type keywords, and get content (with ads)!
"After I saw Tao post his impressions of o1 online—he compared it to a “mediocre, but not completely incompetent” graduate student"

for math, to be a graduate student of 'not completely incompetent' skill level, still seems like a pretty big leap for AI.
Where's the beef?

The video shows something spinning inside the cylinder and then a drawing of two circles connected by a line. WTF!?

What altitude did this reach?
One must imagine Atlas shrugging.
Personally I would argue that the addiction simply shifted for most Americans. It was cigarettes, now it is food, particularly ultra-processed food.

There's a large subset of people, the majority in my opinion, who are somewhat prone to addiction. Most are just a wee bit prone. They certainly won't peruse the streets for drugs. But, if something is readily available and socially accepted, they'll do it.

Before this was smoking, now its ultra-processed foods. Fast food, junk food, sweets type stuff.

It's probably still a boon, I'd say. I mean, I think being obese is probably healthier than smoking. But we didn't really "solve" anything, we just moved the problem.
One of those cold-calculus-of-war things is that if you’re out-producing the enemy by (say) 5x, you can suffer 4:1 costs on an operation and still be “winning” in terms of causing more harm to their war effort than to yours. That is, you can spend four abstract units of war-fighting-capability to destroy one unit of theirs, and that’s still a net-loss for them. If you don’t have more effective ways to spend that (abstract) productivity, it may still be in your best interest to use it that way.

It can make evaluating things like this tricky. So a raid that lost dozens of bombers and cost weeks in training time only put some part of their industry out of action for a couple weeks and diverted a week or so of other factory productivity for the rebuild and retooling effort—that looks bad, but could still actually be a deal you should take every time under certain circumstances.
Wow, happy Ada Lovelace Day!

P.S. Happy to see so many games with macOS support
> It’s doing hash table lookups per variable access.

That hasn't been true for many variable accesses for a very long time. LOAD_FAST, LOAD_CONST, and (sometimes) LOAD_DEREF provide references to variables via pointer offset + chasing, often with caches in front to reduce struct instantiations as well. No hashing is performed. Those access mechanisms account for the vast majority (in my experience; feel free to check by "dis"ing code yourself) of Python code that isn't using locals()/globals()/eval()/exec() tricks. The remaining small minority I've seen is doing weird rebinding/shadowing stuff with e.g. closures and prebound exception captures.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/10094a533a947b72d01ed...

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/10094a533a947b72d01ed...

So too for object field accesses; slotted classes significantly improve field lookup cost, though unlike LOAD_FAST users have to explicitly opt into slotting.

Don't get me wrong, there are some pretty regrettably ordinary behaviors that Python makes much slower than they need to be (per-binding method refcounting comes to mind, though I hear that's going to be improved). But the old saw of "everything is a dict in python, even variable lookups use hashing!" has been incorrect for years.
Sorry about that, I had an issue with Cloudflare and had to purge the cache, does it work for you now?
My eyes were opened when I started realizing the Wikipedia pages of luminaries in the software field had blue links to their famous parents and those parents also had blue links to _their_ famous parents

Hell I’m guilty of some myself. I was surprised early in my career when I found out that most of my peers did not have a computer and internet access as children in the early 90s
I hope you're calling the `backup` command in sqlite. A simple copy can leave sqlite db files in an inconsistent state from which sqlite can't recover.
Seems like the food producer would have a clear incentive to mark their products with sell by dates.

If I’m making a food product for sale at retail and I can mark it “sell by” some date, consumers get confused and think it’s no good after that date, the store that buys my food product will not want to keep it on the shelf because consumers won’t buy it.

The retailer has to discard the perfectly fine item and reorder from… me the food product producer and then I make more money.

I imagine the food retailers are happy about this and the food manufacturers are probably unhappy.
What type checker do you recommend?
As the generational costs for the waste management should be.

The odds of some weird future generation digging this stuff up for bad reasons already adds enough incalculable costs.
This feature is already available in settings.
You'd likely take an exception for a multi-bit error and the handler would likely just retry the read. Single-bit errors are often just corrected on the fly by ECC logic as you mention.
Congratulations on your independence. May I recommend her other novel The Fountainhead, which is about the war between individualism and collectivism within a person?
He later wrote multiple books on weight loss. Search for "allen carr lose weight" and you will find several. I don't know if his other books are held in as high regard as his quit smoking book. This one seems especially relevant: "Allen Carr's Good Sugar, Bad Sugar"
That is absolutely wild!!

I've put off learning rust for so long. I really tried to get into it once, and ended up learning clojure instead lol. Rust just had too many concepts at once for me to learn, probably because I've only ever used garbage-collected languages.

But hearing this type of stuff always makes me want to try again
Indeed, one of the studies cited supports this view.
Well, nearly all of the Google Images results for "Woman" show a woman with makeup and additionally the photos were altered via Photoshop.

We have been creating our own reality even before AI.
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Still happening here.
OpenBSD 7.6
I was just looking into htmx the other day. Came across the following library: https://github.com/iwanalabs/django-htmx-components

It's an example using django-components. Does this satisfy your comment about component at all?
As a vegan, I have mixed feelings about that.

“We had to stand back and ask ourselves, ‘Did that calf die because we could not care for it?’” she says. “It wasn’t ethical.”

I'm not sure it's much more ethical to send the calf to the slaughterhouse after a few weeks... Ok, the meat is not wasted, so I guess it is.
Did you make it past the opening Stephen-centered chapters? I bounced off “Proteus” for years, but as soon as I managed to struggle on to “Calypso” and the mind & habits of Mr. Leopold Bloom I was off to the races.
I am sure there is a name for this fallacy, but being better yet not enough at something where bar for reaching privacy is so high isn't cutting it. The result is the same, sans warm fuzzy feeling not anchored in sad reality of 2024.
Everybody has already mentioned most of the best books I've read, so I'll mention one that I haven't seen on this thread yet - The Little Schemer.

Unless you're actively working through a bunch of problems/examples, reading most books is a form of passive learning. That is, you are simply being told information. The Little Schemer is the only book I know of that is written almost entirely in the form of increasingly intricate questions to the reader (active learning). There are maybe about two dozen or so statements ("Laws" as the author calls them). Everything else is a question in an extended Socratic dialogue aimed at refining the reader's knowledge of Lisp, how computation arises from recursion, computation in general, and lambda calculus culminating in the y-combinator.

The Little Schemer is the most unique, most fun, most educational (in the sense that it _forces_ you to work your way through it) book that I've read. Moreover, it's a great way to grasp computation in a more abstract sense.
I'm pretty sure that significantly more people were burned by fork being the default with no actual benefit to their code, whether because of the deadlocks etc that it triggers in multithreaded non-fork-aware code, or because their code wouldn't work correctly on other platform. Keeping it there as an option that one can explicitly enable for those few cases where it's actually useful and with full understanding of consequences is surely the better choice for something as high-level as Python.
Maybe they will generate the images themselves and show a mix of both.
Woman gets reply about job application – 48 years on
A person who only uses cash for payments in 2024 is in fact, an extremist.

A person who only uses cash cannot purchase things online either. This entire thread is about online shopping/advertising.

A person who only uses cash has no relevant opinion on this topic.
> You can then optionally send less HTML by just sending the parts that you expect to have actually changed, your "islands".

And then you end up with modern SSR frameworks that do the bookkeeping for you.
First ThinkPad with 12-core Snapdragon Elite, long battery life, NPU
basically no area continues to have lethal levels of bomb fallout 4 weeks after the last bomb explodes

While this may be true enough for 'conventional' nukes, there have been proposals to intentionally salt bombs with elements such as cobalt that can render large areas of territory unfit for habitation for many years.

This isn't fiction or speculation, it's basically what MacArthur wanted to do in Korea.