skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait....Starcraft 2 works on Linux?
> How can this be stopped?

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/...

Power comes from the people and can be taken away by the people. Modern surveillance and control technology will make this harder but ultimately the possibility revolution is always there.
For a laptop, you should feel pretty comfortable running -current :)

It's actually very, very stable compared to how other OS's development usually goes.
I have worked on firmware that has plenty of fixed point arithmetic. The firmware usually runs on processors without hardware floating point units. For example certain Tesla ECUs use 32-bit integers where they divide it into four bits of integer part and 28 bits of fractional part. So values are scaled by 2^28.
getting permanently banned from a website is the reality nowadays. any website membership needs to be an "enjoy it while it lasts" sort of thing.
> The US government is considering seeking the break-up of the world's biggest search engine, Google ...

Sorry, that BBC article reads like it was written by a nerd on HN or something. Google/Alphabet, first and foremost, is the largest online advertiser via its acquisitions of YouTube, DoubleClick, and others, in addition to selling ad placement on Google Search via AdWords, plus a growing number of consumer portals for price comparisons etc. integrated with Google Search (leaving out tracking your activity on Android devices, Google's cloud business, and Books/scholar). The immediate antitrust perspective starts by looking at Alphabet/Google subsidiaries both providing search results and ads on the pages listed in search results (and to a lesser degree even by pushing Google services via Google Search). This is what had ruined the web.

US antitrust is a lame duck anyway since it allowed the aquisitions of DoubleClick and YouTube in the first place, as well as the aquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook. The US stance of protecting business and turning a blind eye as long as US online hegemony and intelligence superiority is served isn't helping their case against TikTok today. With the antitrust enforcement's glacial pace, it's not clear if and when a breakup will take place to help the deranged market or if it's just political theater anyway, so other countries are well advised to take their own antitrust actions.
You're looking for blocks-as-expressions, e.g. the following is valid Rust:

let x = {
whatever;
5
}; // assigns 5 to x
Experience is quite janky on mobile. Adding a new “task” and the UI elements disappear.

I’ll try again on desktop later.
Old scientific code broke for many people with the introduction of the mac m1. I would think this would be a continuing trend in the future. Staying on old versions simply isn't possible over a long period without keeping the hardware going with it too.
I feel like as a scripting language Python excels. Glad to have this PEP, but it would be more pythonic have except be optional.

The reason I pick up Python for projects is because it grows with the application; opportunities to add typing etc. Who knows maybe in a few years Python will enforce all the types and it will be as verbose as Java. Personally I’d like to see how they handle declaring a method or function throws exceptions.

Pretty narly we have compiled Python apps with poetry, it’s starting to punch out of its weight class.
Windows runners are consistently slow compared to Linux and macOS
Yeah, but at least the examples wikipedia has, are for similar words, not just applying random other grammatical rules:

informations (French) -> informations (English)

compétences -> competences
Nepal dam-building spree powers electric vehicle boom
I thought spacetime was a fundamental concept of physics which explains gravity and not merely a human invention for measuring change...?
Surely if you’ve seen any non-trivial amount of code, you have seen pure FP applied piecemeal even if not broadly. A single referentially transparent function is pure FP, even if it’s ultimately called by the most grotesque stateful madness.
It's an interesting idea but why would I sign up and give you personal data without any idea of the site's features or UI?
The 'Beautiful Confusion' of the First Billion Years Comes into View
I entered the working world in the aftermath of the dotcom bust when JS was a nightmare of footguns (much more than now) and Microsoft literally had zero developers working on IE, the most-used browser in the world, for YEARS. Web dev was therefore stuck in an archaic prison and there was much rejoicing the day Microsoft announced they were once again assigning a team of developers to work on the browser. Fast forward a decade and a lot of terrible things in JS were being rectified at the language level. A dozen years ago, I tried a SPA for the first time and it seemed cool to have a framework (Angular, the first version) to provide more abstractions than jQuery and Backbone. However, the groupthink bandwagony insanity that ensued was ridiculous, and I felt like such an old codger trying to tell the kids to just be grateful that JS was finally working pretty well and move on and build stuff instead for a while instead of spending so much energy remaking the tools every 5 weeks. I'm not trying to be dramatic--I really do feel like companies have no idea how much they overspent on web app development in the past decade versus how much more working code they could've gotten for the money they spent. It literally felt like people were creating extra work, and had no idea how much easier it was than a few years before.
So it was a death-duty style tax - that makes more sense. For a minute I was imagining a lawyer reading a will. "And lastly, I leave my entire 7 billion dollar fortune to... the U.S. Government."
If Google isn't allowed to use search data to train LLMs, would the same apply to X and the tweets found there?
They had to put David Baker on here, his work on protein design if nothing else was ground breaking. I've expected him to win it at some point in a, it's not a matter of if but of when.
Funnily enough, the scholastics thought of philosophy as the handmaid of theology. Ultimately, it's in the name (love-of-wisdom). You can learn wisdom from science, but that body of wisdom eventually becomes a philosophy. And the older philosophers definitely saw something, even if they are not completely correct.
From the doc it does not seem to be the case.

> Use beartype to assure the quality of Python code beyond what tests alone can assure. If you have yet to test, do that first with a pytest-based test suite, tox configuration, and continuous integration (CI). If you have any time, money, or motivation left, annotate callables and classes with PEP-compliant type hints and decorate those callables and classes with the @beartype.beartype decorator.

Don't get me wrong, I think static type checking is great. Now if you need to add a decorator on top of each class and function AND maintain 100% code coverage, well that does not sound like "zero-cost" to me. I can hardly think of a greater cost just to continue dynamically typing your code and maintain guarantees about external dependencies with no type hints.
Agreed on that aspect, too: the basic idea seems more than reasonable (use my work, just be a good neighbor, remember your roots and give a bit back if our work helps you succeed). And I agree with the author that this is something that’s both coherent and distinct from source-available and OSS.

My discomfort—setting aside whether such an idea is workable in license form—is mainly with the choice of a moralizing descriptor for such a license.
>That one's a bit mean given that data does have a distinct plural, it just happens to be spelled the same because whoever came up with english didn't really grok the phonetic alphabet.

Isn't 'data' already plural, with 'datum' being the singular of the plural 'data'?
Sure but unless you're a state level threat no one will collect your old coffee cups

Once your DNA is in some random company's DB it's there forever and available to whoever has the money

> it's hard to think about what harm can be caused by sending your DNA to... anyone.

Oh yeah ? Is this something that was determined by some kind of god and will be true forever ?

https://theconversation.com/life-insurers-can-charge-more-or...

> In Australia, life insurance companies can legally use the results of genetic tests to discriminate. They can decline to provide life insurance coverage, increase the cost of premiums, or place exclusions on an individual’s cover.
Hence the "Royal Academy of English" -> RAE, as in Real Academia Española.
I hate nixos, but I can't imagine using anything else ever again, because I like that when I screw up while trying to install something, the end result is a nop instead of wiping and re-installing.
Less incentives for the world's most popular browser having a google search integration, less incentives for one of the leading mobile OSes to have a google search integration, etc.
When the qualifier is "granted you don't expose that code to the internet" then yes, it matters.
>>> I'm hoping Python 4 will be a big breaking change similar to the previous one

Python3 did not break enough to justify the jump from 2 to 3, IMHO.

>>> and full support for explicit types will be one of the reasons.

Fair point!
I work in finance, and this sort of setup is pretty common. Yes, I have a USB headset and camera for calls. My USB keyboard and mouse work just fine. If I plug my phone in, best I can do is charge it (slowly), so I use a wall-plug charger instead.

I could easily bypass the policy since I have the permissions to do so, but I won't. Working in the trading/hedge fund space, it's not unheard of to see employees sued for stealing trade secrets (quant models, for example). One only needs to search "citadel sues former employees" for examples.

edit: former Citadel employee; have not worked there in over a decade.
Why protein design and structure prediction won the 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize
https://archive.ph/8FykH
>> Open-source just means you can see the source

No. "Open Source" has a precise definition that includes terms of use:

https://opensource.org/osd
hey that's a really good point - thank you :) Still consider myself a bit of a newbie, so really grateful to hear tips such as yours. I'll get working on it!
Fully flexible color choice is a foot gun. I've definitely made some very ugly themes with that too. The goal is to have very many themes here, including user-submitted ones, so it might be hard to create something that can warn about issues across all of them. But seeing as we have pretty clear foreground and background color settings with primary/secondary I bet we could make something helpful.
Given the long and deplorable influence of German on American scholarly prose, this inspires only Schadenfreude.

I'm not singling out the Germans, mind you. I smirk also when the French complain of American modes of thought polluting their schools: when municipal bureaucrats let contracts not for demolition but for deconstruction, I say that we have injuries to avenge.
You assume we are having some sort of discussion. Like I say sken rational argument, you say something back, than I refute it... Nobody gets cancelled, or death threats...

> want to see how it plays out broadly - I'm sure there are cases where it's good

Old promise for DEI was to improve efficiency by unlocking potential in groups that could not work. Are there some data to suggest it is working? All I see is move from "equality" to "equity" bcos some people are just lazy.
Dad’s Love Tool strikes again
I'd love to see how something like this could handle the bad actor problem. It is what (IMO) is currently killing the web today.

How would you, for example, stop a rouge indexer from spewing an unlimited number of bad indexes to spam their garbage into the distributed protocol? Or how would you address just bad/misleading/faulty indexes?
> If these compiler components were designed to conform to almost implementation-agnostic bootstrapping stages

I'm pretty sure they weren't. The Rust bootstrap chain is ridiculously long.
Then buy laptops made with linux in mind like Slimbook or Tuxedo.

Slimbook Execute, Slimbook Excalibur, Tuxedo Infinity and Tuxedo Pulse are amazing machines.
calculator app on latest macos (sequoia) has a bug today - if you write FF_16 AND FF_16 in the programmer mode and press =, it'll display the correct result - FF_16, but the history view displays 0_16 AND FF_16 for some reason.
Starlinks are being dropped for free by volunteers all over the Helene disaster area. They were being blocked by having to setup payment, so Elon made it free in that area to unblock them.

This is an absurd article, the people who need Starlinks in NC and such can't even log on to this page to order one, they by definition do not have internet access at the moment!
Yes, from PEP 760's draft: https://peps.python.org/pep-0760/

> This change is not backwards compatible. Existing code that uses bare `except:` clauses will need to be modified. To ease the transition:

> * A deprecation warning will be issued for bare `except` clauses in Python 3.14.

> * The syntax will be fully disallowed in Python 3.17.

> * A `from __future__ import strict_excepts` will be provided to invalidate bare except handlers in earlier versions of Python.

> A tool will be provided to automatically update code to replace bare `except:` with except BaseException:
I went more in depth in another reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41788460
Given that most billionaires have their billions as imaginary ownership of gigantic corporations, how exactly would someone steal their shares from them such that government needs to enforce their property rights? Can I just walk up to the bank and say "hey, I have $100 billion worth of Facebook stock, gibs me da money"? You know, but for the feds swooping in (or possibly the Delaware state troopers) and shutting that down?

The government may indeed enforce property rights in a meaningful way, but it doesn't seem like it's doing this for billionaires.

> Why shouldn't they pay the entity that made it possible for them to accumulate their vast wealth?

If this were indeed a true description of how that process occurs, why are you so comfortable with letting the government "make that possible"? Where in the Constitution (or even common law) does it grant the government this power?
Or the more obvious answer: newer binaries/libraries/kernel for Linux. Is it still hard to believe Windows leaves a lot performance on the table? And it does mention powersave governer for Ubuntu.
> Advertising means you look at stuff in exchange for a service you don't pay for, and removes friction in visiting sites. Lots of people want that.

Except the "free" here is a lie because the advertisers pay for you and they are only going to do that when they can (on average) get their money back and more. There is no free lunch, just a lunch paid with the money you were robbed.
What do they use? Not float I hope.
Plus given that some currencies have different precisions...
Don't tell me it's rounding errors over trillion monies?! :o)
The thing with available ligand + protein recorded structures is that they are much, much more sparse than available protein structures themselves (which are already kinda sparse, but good enough to allow AlphaFold). Some of the commonly-used datasets for benchmarking structure-based affinity models are so biased you can get a decent AUC by only looking at the target or ligand in isolation (lol).

Docking ligands doesn't make for particularly great structures, and snapshot structures really miss out on the important dynamics.

So it's hard for me to imagine how alphafold can help with small molecule development (alphafold2 doesn't even know what small molecules are). I agree it totally sounds plausible in principle, I've been in a team where such an idea was pushed before it flopped, but in practice I feel there's much less use to extract from there than one might think.

EDIT: To not be so purely negative: I'm sure real use can be found in tinkering with AlphaFold. But I really don't think it has or will become a big deal in small drug discovery workflows. My PoV is at least somewhat educated on the matter, but of course it does not reflect the breadth of what people are doing out there.
> Yes, Chrome was absolutely superior to Firefox in every way at the beginning.

I can't speak to the technical capabilities early on, but I will say that I distinctly remember many of the computing people I knew explicitly not preferring Chrome early on. I distinctly remember a discussion in one of my college CS courses, shortly after the release of Chrome, where everyone was in agreement that Chrome was just "that awful browser that Google made".
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I think both Byzantine iconography and Botticelli’s works were invented to be ostentatious. Gold toilets/plates/etc come off as obnoxious because the use of gold is actively detrimental rather than simply eye catching.
I think it was around 2007 when I was setting up a new netbook for someone. I plugged a mouse, an old Microsoft USB mouse, and got a popup saying that windows needed a network connection in order to download the driver for my new USB device. That was the day I abandoned all hope for windows as a user-friendly OS.
The "Fair Source Software" is an interesting idea, but it's just a variant of software with a proprietary license to me.

I like the built-in commitment to open source the software after a period of time. That's the interesting part to me. (I'd drop the term "fair source software" -- whether it's fair or not depends on perspective and details -- and just call it delayed open source publication software.)

But let's be clear here: the idea is for the author to benefit from the popularity and acceptance of OSS while protecting their own financial interests. I think that's inherently a dodge. It's an effort to make it seem as free and open as possible, but if you figure out a way to make nice money off it, the author will come after you for payment, which means it's not free and open.

BTW, I'm not much of an OSS zealot. As a software developer, I heartily approve of software developers being paid for their efforts. I just think it should be done in an up-front manner.
It's also hardware - even the worst of laptops have decent mobile CPU+GPUs, of course with improving kernel and driver support, it's helping the OS.
'Cocaine of the seas' – how a luxury food is wreaking ecological mayhem
> Are you aware that the US ranks below Romania, Belarus, Serbia, Cuba and Thailand on the UN's sustainable development report from 2024?

Are you aware of how shit of a metric that is? It's literally the %age of GDP spent on sustainable energy, so the US could still be spending more than all those countries combined and still have a lower %age.

Let's also not forget who gives out the loans for sustainable development, and who sets up the economic incentives.

This is also the equivalent of saying "You're much less likely to get robbed in Africa, they have a faster declining crime rate than Europe." As a baseline Europe is safer and it's therefore harder to decrease the crime rate further[0]. Going from 100 murders a day to 89 is not better than going from 10 to 9.

[0] I made up this example - no clue if it's true
Google workspace is expensive and a big money maker on any scale - except compared to the Google ad machine. This would be a very successful independent business and killing free gmail would not necessarily be a bad move.
Never said otherwise. I wasn't aware of a need for such a thing before just now and wondered why that would be a nice thing to have.

I could go off and RTFM, but then we wouldn't get to talk about it.
McCarthyism for the blogging generation.
Most cloud instances that people actually use on a day-to-day basis underperform their laptops by a lot!
> If Google isn't allowed to use search data to train LLMs, would the same apply to X and the tweets found there?

If a federal judge finds X/Twitter to have a monopoly on short-form nonsense, yes.
This is really cool. Coincidentally I am currently in the process of building one myself (just for personal use), though mine has much less features than this one. I hope this I can take some inspiration from your site.

Some issues I faced after trying it out for few minutes:

- When creating itineraries, I filled in the country field, but upon pressing enter or the arrow button, it just disappeared?

- On the same text field, I'm on dark mode, but the color contrast is quite poor (can't read the placeholder text)

- When I'm on the per-day itinerary planning page, when entering the hh:mm field, it didn't move my focus to the next one (so if I want to enter 08:00, I have to enter "8" then <tab> then "8" then <tab> then "0" then <tab> then "0"

- After I entered the hh:mm and press the plus icon, I suppose we're supposed to enter the plans starting that time. So I enter some stuff to it, and upon pressing enter, it appears there. It's fine, but it feels like the UX would be better if the text box is autofocused again, so we can quickly enter several plans for that timing

- I'm confused with the "edit"/"editing" button, not sure what it does... but when the text goes to "editing", I can delete some items I guess?

Anyway that's all I have for now. Sorry for the long wall of text.

Cheers~
I found this annoying as well. I just give a junk first and last name and throwaway email.

Would be nice to make these optional. Just throw me into the canvas and if I want to add people then make email required.
> There are also a measurable economical issues for non-English-native nations to have to use the de facto lingua-franca of the day that is English. Of course neither German nor French would be a better alternative as a global international neutral language.

> To my knowledge, the only proposal that gained some modest but significant results on that side over the last century is Esperanto. You know, the language against which France has put its veto has it was proposed as language of communication in League of Nations (1920s) or UNESCO (1954) and still is unhelpful with its adoption in United Nations.

Esperanto is not a "global international neutral language" either. While artificially constructed, it's functionally a Romance language, deriving over 80% of its vocabulary as well as the majority of its grammatical structure from Latin and/or Romance languages. The majority of the remainder comes from other European languages, primarily Germanic languages.
clearly biased: https://corbado.com
The bill comes due for Elon Musk
About -25%. Current campus size is roughly what it was in early 2014.

The difference in the housing market is that instead of being 28-year-olds who live in apartments, all those MTV Googlers are 38-year-olds with families who are sitting on a couple million in stock compensation each.
Costa Rica already gets almost 100% of its power from renewables. I guess they could create massive dams and then sell the power to nearby countries.
If you remove FB and Reddit from the list you can definitely see a larger number of queries for "forum" over "forums" on the trends. It's not a lot of traffic but it's significantly higher for "forum".
These are more like scheduled rituals than holidays for me

I guess at some level that's sort of all a holiday is, but I think there's some amount of "taking time away from work and tedium" implied by the word holiday

I also think there's a sort of shared cultural meaning being lost from holidays as well. Is it really a holiday if no one else observes it, or is it just a personal thing?

Holidays are something that people share with one another, with their families, friends, their neighbors, etc

Maybe I'm being much too pedantic about what is ultimately just a list of days that this person has scheduled to take care of things that are important to them
No more than usa’s