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python was pleasant in the python 2 days. Now there's so many confusing ways to do one simple thing.

and one thing Golang has made inroads is there's only one way to do something.

and ruby is pleasurable because the interface is consistent i.e everything is an object.
The album cover is from 1968. This article is from 2020. Just to clarify the ambiguous date added to the title on HN.
Yeah, but should that math equivalence hold for programming though? Programming is different. x=x+1 is perfectly legal in programming but does not make sense in algebra math and could confuse mathematicians.
> with hate to the unix philosophy

It's a suit of a tools each doing one thing and communicating together via a message bus. How exactly is that hating the "unix philosophy" whatever that means? From where I stand, it's extremely close to the way Unix has ever done things. The design is even directly lifted from the boot system of a certified Unix.
For now yes. The idea is to have a disposable checklist. Maybe I will add collections or projects with multiple lists.
Again, there's no operator deployed infrastructure, it's Jibe, which works in NZ since 2020 like in most of the world:

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=97&topicid=275...
Todoist exists but both require a more complicated setup.

It’s been established the main point of the posted app is having shared lists with no install or account creation required, just share a link.
> however they scale down gracefully with window size

Can confirm. Screenshot of the minimum width, the paddings all disappear: https://i.imgur.com/iv7frHI.png
Software engineers are constantly investing their expertise into the product.

Measurement (if any) should be on the realised gains in the short and long term, not the visible investment. LOC, tickets closed, hours spent etc can all have negative payoffs.

Unfortunately that is hard to measure, as Rachel points out.
Since everybody else would try to preserve what is really important, I would go for a random sample. So that future archeologists can form their own opinions about what this era was really about.
Now that I use matrix.org extensively for friends and work, I see invitations to slack, discord and mattermost communities as a strange thing.

Why would someone use a walled-garden instead of a protocol ?

It's a very similar feeling for Bluesky.
I don't think I'm splitting hairs here. The difference is that your name isn't in "gule sider", since it's a directory of businesses.

"Telefonkatalogen" was what other countries call "white pages", which is a directory of individuals.

The GP comment was indeed about the pre-Internet, but the whole point is that nobody publishes a big, widely distributed book with everyone's names in it anymore. You could literally get a book with every living adult in Norway listed. Sure, you have online services like 1881.no and gulesider.no that are the successors to this directory, but they're not at all the same thing.
This type of dishwasher is made to be integrated in a kitchen with other cabinets (i.e. covered with the same door material as your other cabinets).

So the entire front of the dishwasher is customizable and can't have any buttons/indicators.
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This problem is entirely self-imposed from the CLA bullshit they're trying to pull off, which also defeats the point of FOSS. I bet they "love Open Source".
I reckon that depends.

Coporate culture encourages adding. Half your job is justifying keeping your job. It takes a lot of swagger/social capital/clout to subtract and be loved for it. Or you need to work somewhere (a company or protected team) with a first principles thinking culture (and not a cargo cult one) which is very rare.

In personal life I think people do often subtract. They give up X where X is harmful. They simplify. Not everyone but many. It feels like a natural part of life.
yes, when writing this as other_bool_variable=!bool_var you make it much better because the code speaks for itself ("other_bool_variable is the opposite of bool_variable").

The risk is that you may end with such concise code that nobody understands what it does. I went that dark path with perl 20 years ago, form "oh what a cool language for someone who comes from C" to "let's squeeze that in half a line, and either do no understand what it does, or add three lines of comments to explain".

But yes, there is a good middle-groud somewhere
I assume everyone who has someone with an AI safety job title uses unlearning to make sure their models don't remember how to make common illegal drugs, poisons or explosives.

The threat model here is probably more accidental un-unlearning these facts and distributing those models (as is common with quantized models). Most of this "dangerous" information is readily available in textbooks, patents, amateur chemistry forums etc. But as a society we generally assume that those smart enough to find and understand that kind of information are smart enough not to abuse it. We just don't want Mythbusters to explain it on prime-time TV, or ChatGPT explaining it to people
Had the same experience. The invite came from a server that was possibly down because of spam reports. I guessed the error came from that.
This misses "negating realized losses", which I believe is a very important area for engineers to perform in.

Perhaps I am wrong.
Polymorphs are actually super interesting scientific challenges in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

I remember one drug was about to be launched, they had settled on polymorph A, but then during trial manufacturing runs polymorph B started to showed up. They couldn't use polymorph B because it messed up the absorption of the drug.

So they tried a ton of different methods to see if they could force the drug to polymorph A, but to no avail since it was the more thermodynamically stable version.

They thought they were ok because another plant was successfully still making A. However, after a few months polymorph B started to pop up, likely due to cross-contamination of some sample or even some microscopic type B crystals falling off a notebook page. Once B showed up, the entire plant was useless for making type A.

In the end, they were able to identify yet another polymorph, type C, which could be reproducibly created even from type B. The resubmitted their manufacturing protocol to the FDA and it was approved. It delayed launch by over a year.
Here is a video explaining Colorado's voting system:

https://vimeo.com/842943160

It has a surprisingly(?) low view count for how riled up everyone is about all this.

If you want more insight into this system, here is a test plan from August of this year on the Election Assistance Commission's website:

https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2024-08/ClearVote%20...

It also has a list of bug fixes like:

> Changed the ClearCount API to require authentication before uploading files (such as ballot images and tabulation results) to the server.

And software details like:

- MySQL 8

- Ubuntu 20

- Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021

- Windows Enterprise IoT 21H2 release

- Python 3

- CIS SCAP Ubuntu 20.04 revision 1.1.0

Here is a summary of an audit done on a previous version last year:

https://elections.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2023/10/clea...
I moved into a new apartment with an induction cooktop and radiators with the same type of "buttonless button" controls and those continually give me problems. You can't just touch them, but you have to slide your finger over the controls in just the right way, and hope that (for the radiator) you've hit the 1 in 3 chance of it actually working.

My next cooktop will probably still be induction, but it will definitely have knobs.
Surprisingly a ton of people.

I just got off a QM2 transatlantic crossing(which is about as captive/boring as cruises can get?) Friday. I went on a lark, I have never “cruised”(and had a pretty negative view of it - all people do is eat and drink etc)but had an itch to cross the ocean on a ship in old timey titanic type way. I’m also ~30(which might as well be 16 on a cunard ship - very very old crowd) and went alone. I expected this was mostly a bucket list type thing people did once, or a select coterie of people who both need to travel and cannot fly.

My most surprising takeaway was that almost everyone had done it before, a lot of people many many times. It was legitimately rare to meet a first timer, even among the relatively young group I fell into.

The boring bit is more subjective, it was more fun than I expected. I can see why people love it. “enforced” relaxation, no stops, peaceful, easy, etc.
Die With Me: The chatapp you can only use when you have less than 5% battery
And then makes you pay for it by increasing their product price.
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So they will not use Linux (or any other popular *NIX), nor Windows, by 2026?
> You are using a bank speculating that it will not suffer a bail-in/bail-out/hyperinflation

You’re confusing speculation with taking a risk. If people are putting money in a bank with the expectation of profiting from its government guarantee, we’re in a credit crisis. The system is working as intended. Most of the time, the money in there is expected to stay still.

Most crypto buyers are buying with the expectation of appreciation.
The website states that Reactive Resume is open source, but no matter where I look on the website, I cannot find a link to the code.

Can you provide that?

Also question: does Reactive Resume let you import and export in JSON Resume format?
Not what that means.
Really neat solution to build a nice looking resume! You get bonus points for using JSON Resume. I think it's smart to encode your resume in a machine readable format. That way you can generate any presentation you want from the pure data.

That also answers the question so many people seem to have: why not write HTML/CSS by hand instead of using Eleventy. That doesn't work if you want to separate data from presentation
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>the situation you describe is a classic sign of a shit manager

Well then it means the vast, vast, vast majority of companies with a coherent corporate structure are shit. Welcome to reality
and furthermore, "families that are a bit off" are still plenty today, and people still do the best with what they got.
I don't see the need to say that was that way then...
To clarify what I meant by "pass by reference" here's excerpt from the Lua 5.1 manual:

> Tables, functions, threads, and (full) userdata values are objects: variables do not actually contain these values, only references to them. Assignment, parameter passing, and function returns always manipulate references to such values; these operations do not imply any kind of copy.

I also seen this described as "reference semantics" and "value/copy semantics", maybe that would be a better term?
1968 is over 50 years ago. As a 1961 vintage person, 50 years back was pre WW1.

the past is another country. They do things very differently in Fritz the cat's time. I don't think you could publish that now.
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WHAT. A. RUN. From gigging weddings with Ray Charles to helping Jacob Collier launch his career, and Michael Jackson wasn't even the halfway point.

I briefly saw him in 1990-1, can't remember exactly, when he came to the UK screening of Listen Up! He had already done more than enough to pack an entire film about his life, and that was 34 years ago and Fresh Prince of Bel Air hadn't even screened.

The Soul Bossa Nova album is on now, I'll go upstairs and put Sinatra at the Sands on later, and work my way back up to now.

RIP QDJ Jr, you were a composing, producing, arranging, making shit happen powerhouse of a Dude.
A previous big discussion in 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20731339
- https://2doli.st/ follows the same principles. but as I said before, state in the URL does not work for me. Every update changes the URL.
- https://moartodo.com/ is local. Can't be shared.
- https://flask.io/ I like it. That's the spirit.
I respect the intent behind the article, which as I understand is that managers should work closely with their teams and know first hand how they are adding value, instead of depending on a chart to know that.

However, there are a few problems here:

- There are more manager positions than there are qualified managers. So you will always have people who are simply bad managers. This is generally more true in larger companies where productivity of an individual team is easy to ignore.

- Even good managers are humans and are subject to emotions and biases that they don't even realise they carry around. The only things which bring objectivity is data and good processes.

- Hybrid or remote work is a larger trend that began much before covid, and while back to office mandates might make it seem that the trend is loosing steam, it is not. There will be more remote work in coming years, and that makes understanding your peers' work even more difficult.

So what is the solution? I believe that:

- You should measure events, but you should have the intent that you want to "understand" what is going on, instead of policing people. Data can reveal a lot, like conflicting work patterns, burn-out indicators, problems in communications etc. Not all metrics are bad.

- You should combine objective data with subjective feedback, as well as more context such as life events (marriage, becoming a parent etc) to understand how people work.

- Processes should enhance focus on outcomes, rather than activity. Frameworks such as OKRs are hard to implement correctly, but they do let you focus on business outcomes. The problem with knowledge work is that you cannot measure it with activities alone. Trying to bridge OKRs with activity metrics as well as subjective feedback can be helpful.

For disclosure, I am founder of a platform called Crewnetics, and we are building tools for measuring performance of knowledge workers.
Long term remission is just a few months extra to live. In the end you have people who die quickly and people that live for years. That's why you get averages of a few months extra.
I can't stand induction stove tops, partially for this reason and opted to put a gas stovetop in our kitchen with an electric oven. I cook a lot and trying to quickly adjust the heat when you have something on your hands makes them completely useless and infuriating. There's the whole sensory feedback side of gas too which I'm so used to but that's a separate topic.
I have a small folder for my important stuff, mirrored on on all my devices with SyncThing, backed up from my phone to Google with FolderSync, and from my laptop to the NAS with Kopia.

I really like the setup since it doesn't require a bunch of time investment, there's no custom scripts to set up or community packages to install.
> ..if your PC has three monitors and two of them are blinking...

Not a good analogy, because dying in a FPS game != dying IRL.

I've dealt with computers that had bad power supplies, bad upstream power, or ground loop issues. When things get weird, you really shouldn't trust the parts of the system that aren't yet acting wonky. Not with any data that matters to you.

That said, I'm neither an aerospace engineer, nor a pilot. In those fields, standard are probably different.
Is this still working? Am I being blocked at the ISP level?

For me sci-hub.pub opens a simple page listing other sci-hub URLs, but each and every one of them fails, ending in "Unable to connect" as if the server did not exist. (Tested: sci-hub.ee, sci-hub.ren, sci-hub.ru, sci-hub.se, sci-hub.st, sci-hub.wf).

Is sci-hub still working for people, I haven't been able to use it for a while.

edit: Wow, it works if I go there via VPN… incredible. So sci-hub is illegal in France?
Here is one piece of knowledge earned the hard way. Do not use the official python GDAL bindings (`pip install GDAL`) unless you really must. Go with rasterio and don't look back.
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I strongly recommend the documentary. But "a little off" is an understatement. By the time of the documentary, his highly intelligent brother Charles is still living with his amphetamine-addicted mother in his late 40ies and rarely leaves his childhood bedroom. He admits on camera that he has "homosexual pedophiliac tendencies" and fantasized about killing Robert as a teenager, and complains that he cannot have an erection anymore because of his medication. Tragically, Charles killed himself shortly after filming of the documentary wrapped. Crumbs other brother Maxon [0], an accomplished and highly talented painter who earns money as a beggar on the streets, tries to find some peace of mind by living a zen-like life in celibacy, in a decrepit hotel room, full of meditation on a bed of nails, and is struggling with his intense sexual desire, several sexual harassment suits, and the fact that he cannot physically have sex, because the pleasure is so intense for him that it triggers epileptic seizures. All three brothers appear to have problems with extreme sexual desire, and Robert is the only one who seems to be able to function at all, although the documentary shows him several times in a trance-like, babbling state induced by the sight of a woman (in older age, he once said in an interview that he is "no longer a slave to a raging libido" [1]).

[0] https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Still-in-the-sh...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/07/robert-crumb-i...
You don't see this sort of "holding onto bad ideas" in low margin industries. The margins literally can't support it.

There's probably some older small retail businesses out there who are still using almost wholly paper records but they're a rounding error.
A large project where the end goal is replicating (and possibly correcting) existing data outputs is much more likely to succeed than one that is integrating new data sources or building new data models. For the latter type of project, it's very common to find that the team is disconnected from the business users and original motivation for the project, with poorly defined success criteria.
Mattigames, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, mattigames, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it.
No, that isn't what this is. We're talking about LLMs here; they're not in any way thinking or sentient, nor do they provide any obvious way of getting there.

Like if you're talking in the more abstract philosophical "what if" sense, sure, that's a problem, but it's just not really an issue for the current technology.

(Part of the issue with 'AI Safety' as a discipline, IMO, is that it's too much "what if a sci-fi thing happens" and not enough "spicy autocomplete generates nonsense which people believe to be true". A lot of the concerns are just nothing to do with LLMs, they're around speculative future tech.)
I have no idea what this does or if you are joking. Could use some explanation
That's very kind, but people doing the wrong thing with passion and energy is functionally worse than them not doing anything
For me it would be (after BASIC, which came with my Apple II):

GraFORTH (build the program up rather than down, mindbogglingly fast 3D graphics on the II)

TransFORTH (same thing, with floats)

Pascal and C (build up or down, convenient syntax)

APL (because it's extremely concise, and taught me the value of understandable code - focus on why, the program already says what and how)

Actor (like Smalltalk, but with a less surprising syntax)

Smalltalk (because the syntax IS important)

Visual Basic (because an integrated interface designer is immensely helpful)

Python (because batteries included)

Haskell (everything is clear once you rotate the program 90 degrees on the time axis)

Rust (because the compiler saves me from myself)
Just an idea: remap your Caps Lock key to Esc. I already do that with all my devices anyway.
It's called Malicious Compliance.
An example from my company - sometimes on a few of the many thousands of identical devices in field something fails due to bug or hw failure. After recovering the device we get the dump of all info we deem interesting, including all logs and journals. In a small but not insignificant numbers of such archives the journal has multihour gaps in the logs. And they are gaps, so there are logs before the gaps and after. I think we never succeeded to reproduce or fix this issue in the lab, and relied on duplicating logs to the file on the device fylesystem (not optimal due to storage size and wear of the ssd memory).

PS: personally I like systemd more that the script mess which preceded it. But the are some outstanding issues with it to be improved.
must say one of the most interesting applications I've had so far, even though I'm at the start. nevertheless, you made this process interesting and kinda even enjoyable. :)
Legally speaking, once they own the copyright, is there anything stopping the PSF from selling out and changing their policy to permit proprietary licensing?

I have this same concern with GNU. I can imagine a future where some key figures have died or retired and the new org sells out and changes the license to something RMS never would have agreed to.
For me the idea of any kind of interface in vehicles should tend toward audio anyway. Anything that takes your attention away from the road, wether it's tactile or touchscreen is a potential distraction.

Voice control seems the obvious solution but there are probably better ideas, especially as someone who's accent confuses all but the best recognition, or well trained, software. I end up talking in an "American" accent to my car ... but then I do enjoy pretending I'm Michael Knight.
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Holding cash is a valid proposition for a belief in radical change in stock value.

The thing is that it also represents the fear side of "margin call" and "the big short" -it's the astute move which translates to millions and millions of people suffering the consequence of holding the inflated stocks you sold out of, to have $300B of cash.

So, I don't entirely like BH but they are very smart. This cash concerns me, more than Apples huge cash holdings. Apple is not diversifying its cash into general investment outcomes, it wants to use the cash to butress apple stock value

BH is across all markets (big in RE and retail but they anything) so if they hold this much it does say they see risk of big changes, inversions of value in virtually every aspect of global markets.

Thats not a pro-crypto position: It's "we may be at war" position.

When they move it into gold, I think it's time to really worry.
Funny to see the discussions of instant pot vs rice cookers in the comments. We use one of each, often in conjunction with each other. Cheap and easy way to make a curry, for example. Never had any problems with the 3rd hand Zojirushi we have. Just follow the instructions and it gets the rice bang on each time.
> Why not be impressed?

Because it's obviously useless and a regression from the kinds of robots we already have.
This is true, and, in this case, "confusion avoided" and "what Python does" coincide. The "double equals doing the right thing" is only confusing if you're both unfamiliar with Python and familiar with language design, which is a very small set of people.

People unfamiliar with programming will assume that "if a == b == c" is only true if all three things are the same, and people familiar with Python will know that that is, indeed, what it means.
Do you think preserve for future historians, or for my immediate use in an apocalypse?

For historians - Wikipedia and YouTube.

For my use? Google Maps (or actually Mapy.cz, local Czech map provider data). I think it might get useful when hunting for zombies.