skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the section "conclusion" is a good summary of the article, of major usenet design decisions and also of it's shortcomings.

It seems it has ~~degenerated~~ evolved to a niche file sharing platform for obscure contents?

I remember the days when comp.os.linux.announce was a good place to keep a pulse on what's cooking in terms of fun FOSS software.
Openpyxl and input sanitization before writing to your database. You don't want a user to feed a funky spreadsheet (say, a cell containing funny SQL) to your backend.
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I think it’s related - the use of the word simply in any new software description. Simply install… simply click on… Just open up…
When it doesn’t work it’s so condescending/patronizing?
Which will be supported longest: CarPlay, Android Auto, Ultifi?
If you search for a picture of alonzo church now on google, the image from your article is near the top.
TMDB, TVDB, AniDB & Anilist (anime)
I don't really have a dog in this race as I don't use Python much, but this sort of thing always seemed to be of questionable utility to me.

Python is never really going to be 'fast' no matter what is done to it because its semantics make most important optimizations impossible, so high performance "python" is actually going to always rely on restricted subsets of the language that don't actually match language's "real" semantics.

On the other hand, a lot of these changes to try and speed up the base language are going to be highly disruptive. E.g. disabling the GIL will break tonnes of code, lots of compilation projects involve changes to the ABI, etc.

I guess getting loops in Python to run 5-10x faster will still save some people time, but it's also never going to be a replacement for the zoo of specialized python-like compilers because it'll never get to actual high performance territory, and it's not clear that it's worth all the ecosystem churn it might cause.
Project wise probably little, though I'm sure hiring will be affected by economic conditions set by economic policy. More materially, I'm a less productive coder when I'm filled with anxiety and dread from headlines everyday.
Just to answer your edit, nope, I wasn't mixing distros or anything. It would either be all Nix or all Debian.
John Koza has something like three or four books on Genetic Programming. It's all in Lisp and I enjoyed working with different examples from his books. If I ever have enough free time, I'd like to go back and work with it again for a while.
How about adding a feature list here?

What's the difference to croc, sfk or rclone? What makes it the Vetter choice?

Did you consider DNS multicast to auto select a host in the local network?
Simply because I find it gets me much better results. I know that to run a 15 minute 5km I need to be able to run that pace in training. I don't really care what my lactate threshold or VO2max is other than it's just interesting to know. I use a critical speed (pace/duration) model to know what paces are metabolically steady state and which are not. So based upon how I perform in training, I know pretty much what paces should be within the realms of possibility for a maximal effort and I use that to guide my training.

edit: I'll just add that I do use physiology to guide the training paces. But when you've been training for a while you know that 1) Marathon pace is aerobic threshold pace. 2) Half maraton is lactate threshold pace. 3) 5km is critical speed. 4) 10km is between critical speed and lactate threshold. So whilst I do use physiology to guide trianing paces I don't use a zone system or anything like that. I just design workouts which I know touch on the various systems I need to improve.
> Probably from exercising it with anxiety.

Or empathy with an imaginary self & kin.
Are you talking on the consumer level or the banking level?

On the consumer level, you need to have mortgages as I don't think most people have 500K lying around in order to purchase a home. As such, there needs to be some way for the common person to borrow the money to finance a home. Obviously there is no way to "sell" your mortgage, you can only sell your home. And yes, you can borrow money against your home in the form of a HELOC, but you doing so doesn't affect the price of the home or the market, just what you have to pay off.

Most banks on the other hand, bundle mortgages and sell them on the open market in order to recoup their cost of them rather than servicing the loan. To me this shouldn't be allowed. If a bank wants to sell their mortgage portfolio to another bank or group of bank, that's ok, that doesn't affect the market and is a private transaction. What I have a problem with is them bundling the mortgages and placing that portfolio on the open market as that causing collapse like we saw in 2012.
As someone not in the field of mathematics, I actually didn't realize there was such an emphasis on attempting to prove famous conjectures correct. I thought the famous conjectures were famous precisely because knowing the veracity of the conjecture (or independence with respect to some formal system) would be a monumental event in any case.

I also assumed many mathematicians utilized the strategy of attempting to disprove something as a way to reveal the proof. Sort of like how the best chess players tend to spend most of their thinking time mentally challenging their planned move as opposed to novice chess players who tend to look for reasons confirming why their move will be a good one. Is this not the case?
In a supply-restricted markets taxes and subsidies are ultimately paid by a supplier independent on who actually transfers the money to government.
> entity-name-matching to wikipedia articles

I thought I made it clear that this was a strawman. Literally no one is proposing that. If you think OP is good actually, feel free to argue that on its own grounds.
I believe that the problem here is that there isn't an agreed-upon answer to a fundamental question:

>What does an algorithm look like?

The problem is expressiveness of such a diagram is bounded by the size of a screen or a sheet of paper, and once one starts to scroll, or can't see the entire flow at a glance, things get complicated.

The node/wire programming folks have this a bit rougher to the point that there are sites such as:

https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/

https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/

I prefer to work visually, but not sure if that's actually valid --- unfortunately https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ doesn't support all of OpenSCAD and https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor has problems with a stylus (I have to leave the Windows Settings app open to toggle stylus behaviour which is enough friction that I don't use it as much as I would otherwise).

There are promising tools though: https://nodezator.com/ and https://ryven.org/ are very cool.
But isn't the idiomatic Go solution something like this?

func checkPermissions(success func())

Like anything, you can still screw it up if you try hard enough, but it should nudge most in the right direction. The talk of error handling seems like a distraction or a case of someone confusingly trying to write code in another language using Go syntax.

Obviously you are not forced to think of the user when designing an API, but you don't have to be mindful of the user in any language. Not even Haskell can save a developer who doesn't care, as noted in an earlier comment.
(As a happy pypy user in previous jobs, I want to chime in and say python _can_ be fast.

It can be so fast that it completely mooted the discussions that often happen when wanting to move from a python prototype to 'fast enough for production'.)
> Jobs had a sneak preview of the logo and loves it. As he awaits the verdict from his stuff, he can hardly contain his excitement. Assertive as he is, he values consensus.

That was just ... weird.

Knowing how temperamental and petty Jobs was and seeing how excited he was about the logo and Rand, all others present simply had no choice but to praise it.

No way of knowing what they really thought about it.
I'm confused.

Are you saying the article is false?

Or that the map illustration is false? Although the map illustration doesn't come from your post.

How did you even find the LinkedIn post? Are they the same author? Is TFA based on the LinkedIn post? How do you know?

And it seems like the TFA doesn't even have an author, nor can I find an author for their whole blog...

Maybe you can clarify all of this, since you seem to have some context here?
>That's just divorced from basic supply and demand economics.

Myopic views of demand assuming unlimited supply and no consideration to political and long term economical independence from a neighboring authoritarian communist regime pointing nuclear weapons at you threatening forced unification is divorced from reality.

Short term sales never negate long term consequences of golden handcuffs at the cost of freedom and democracy.
I don’t use the physical HP50G i have that often, but i love it emulated on the phone. It’s for semi complicated quick calculations where scientific calculator interface really shines compared to anything else available.
> Your only criticism of SO is how it improves the task of providing meaningful information to users... the value you place on gratuitous ladder-pulling

How is wanting others to learn ladder-pulling? Also, how do you assume people will have this kind of information handed to them when the people who are interested in deeply learning stop doing so, die off, etc.? If you say AI, first of all, best of luck with the hallucinations, but secondly, who is going to work on and train the AI?

> No. Writing is a skill. Producing content that the target audience is able to consume and brings value is a skill. The moment you, as an end-user, feel the need to hunker down and decipher arcane texts is the moment you should realize the documentation is bad.

I think I see the root disagreement here. You continue to mention "value," as though reading is itself not valuable. Sitting down to read a work of fiction arguably brings no value to anyone (except perhaps the author and publisher), yet millions do it anyway. Similarly, if I find a way to do something, I usually want to know if there are also other ways, and if so, if they're better. There's not much "value" there most of the time, but it brings me happiness, and enhances my knowledge of the subject.
I said "risk adjusted", so I think you're agreeing with me.
Python 3.12 will be officially supported until October 2028, so there's plenty of time to migrate to no-GIL if anyone wants to.
Case in point, SEA-ME-WE-3 launched with a capacity of 20gbit back in 2000. Today it's been upgraded to 4600 gbit, a 200 fold increase.
For a syntactically friendlier option there's METAPOST, see:

https://www.learnmetapost.com/

that said, even MP wasn't friendly enough, hence the development of other options such as PGF and TikZ.
> so we we are looking at 40 to 60 years after that then it would be within living memory

Again that is the conservative perspective. One that I don't actually think looks likely.

We also no that you can have cults develop a whole host of false believes in far less time. And just because it is in theoretical living history, doesn't mean that itself proves that the documents themselves are actually deeply informed by that history.

Also, for most historical documents, where we hear about a guy going around doing magic, we don't tend to think 'ah this must be detailed oral history'. And the documents themselves show a huge amount of mystification.

Also, conservatives have to defend these dates, because if they don't, all the huge amount of church history built on top of those assumption collapses like a house of cards. There is so much mythology built on these foundations.

> Presumably source material would be even earlier.

Nobody question if 'source material' existed. But you can't just assume it existed and then assume what's in it. That's not how history works. Yes it would be awesome to have documents from that time period, from within the movement itself, but we don't. The fact is we have virtually no confirmed evidence from the first century.

And you can't just take 'Church tradition' as a substitute. Because that is a mythological history built by the church built over generations.

We have a lot more in the second century and the waste majority of that, isn't interested in the gospels or even the Pauline epistles. That is troubling for the assumption that by 70AD there was a document that everybody considered the most important document very close from the source. You would think if we had such good evidence of Jesus own direct words, people would talk about that much more. But they don't.

> Agreed, and there is good reason to think that, but some are generally accepted as written by Paul, right? The point of studying it is to try and work out which are which.

Yes. But just because we have some writing with some original content from Paul, doesn't mean the other names attached to other documents are also correct.
I had to scroll down pretty far to find out what "good blood sugar control" means:

> Maintaining low blood sugar levels, even within the normal range, shows promise for preserving a younger brain, especially when combined with a healthy diet and regular physical activity.
Is your concern about committing a binary object that is difficult to diff or not being able to recreate/edit the diagram.

Particularly in the latter cases, most of these tools embed the machine readable diagram inside of the PNG. So you can just open the PNG inside of draw.io or excalidraw (if it was created by that tool) and edit the diagram. This is because the plain text file is embedded.

It’s great that lots of tools are going this way. Notably, if you’re doing image generation with Stable Diffusion or Flux, you can just drag a PNG from ComfyUI into the ComfyUI window and get the same whole workflow. It’s a great learning tool.

As for diffs? Well, that’s hard - even if you were diffing the “source” text files for excalidraw or plantUML, a lot can change that makes it nearly impossible to understand. When all that really happened might’ve been a small styling change and moving a node.
I don't, I wasn't born. But I read about it and its magnitude was conveyed.

I do know that it was and is highly tied to promiscuity as a risk factor. I also know that since it's not as lethal now, some people in those risk groups just risk it more often, with condomless prep even.

Also a pandemic is a spike in cases that needs to be considered over the long term. The risk of contracting diseases includes contracting a previously untestable slow onset disease and being an early patient of a pandemic, which usually happens to people with high partner count.

It's like computer viruses, we fill a package.json with 100 dependencies which in turn have a supply chain (partner's partners) and install it on a vm anyways. That would be unthinkable 30 years ago, but now we have better cryptography, open source auditing OS level and kernel security. Yet ransomware attacks are not less common than the early trojans.
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An interesting aside about your last paragraph - there are some results in number theory (like Linnik's theorem) where the original proof was split into two cases. One where the existence of Siegel zeroes was assumed (a famous conjecture), and another where the converse was assumed instead!

Sometimes a statement A is a non-trivial consequence of both a conjecture B and it's negation independently. So in a technical sense A doesn't take you any closer to a proof or disproof of the conjecture in question (and it can be difficult to tell whether your consequence is of this type or not).
Thank you mrmooss, good luck with your ongoing journey. In my experience we are hurt most when we return evil for evil, which is something that evil tries hard to get us to do.

Regarding the gospels, yes, and to my original point, in John's gospel there is "the disciple whom Jesus loved", implying that Jesus didn't love them all equally.
Like all things a computer can / can't do; DRM isn't inherently bad: It's how its used that's a problem.

IE, DRM can't change peoples' motivations. It's useful for things like national security secrets and trade secrets, where the people who have access to the information have very clear motivations to protect that information, and very clear consequences for violating the rules that DRM is in place to protect.

In this case, the big question of if AI watermarking will work / fail has more to do with peoples' motivations: Will the general public accept AI watermarking because it fits our motivations and the consequences we set up for AI masquerading as a real person, or AI being used for misinformation? That's a big question that I can't answer.
I use my blog (https://codereviewvideos.com/) for a combination of sharing / remembering solutions to weird / interesting technical problems, and for documenting my learning.

Just hit publish.

Most of the time you get absolutely no feedback. Heck, most of the time you get absolutely no views!

But sometimes you will get some feedback. And sometimes that feedback is nasty. So you put that in the bin.

Occassionally someone will contribute a really useful and interesting comment, maybe months after you wrote something (and completely forgot about), which can lead to all sorts of places. I've kept in regular contact with several commenters, and when they share their blogs I go there and comment, too. It's like the olden days of link wheels and what-not, instead of the forced "go comment for back links" the web has become in more recent years.

I blog loads - https://cyclingindoors.co.uk/ is another one, tracking my fitness. It's one of the best things I've ever done.

Seriously, just hit publish!
> Now I’m in my 30s and I have no idea when I’ll buy a house, if ever.

This might not be what you want to do, or hear; I know it wasn't what I wanted in my late 20s. But you could own a house within a year or so if you decide you want a house more than living in an expensive area.

I spent my 20s banging my head against an impossibly expensive area trying to find something and perpetually failing (in my case, NYC). In my late 20s I gave up, moved to a very suburban (borderline rural) area and bought a house right away.
Even if you don’t want mopping, the pathing and speed at which it actually cleans a house vs the ones with LIDAR are comically different. It also has trouble getting itself out of small crevices or tight spaces vs the competition. I know, cause I constantly fought these issues. That’s not even counting for how it will get itself stuck on any cord, toy, etc laying on the ground.
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A body that's working properly is in ketosis most of the time, and enters this mode, its normal mode, very easily.

Intermittent fasting is about letting the body be like this, as it naturally would. That's why meals are time-boxed to a small window within the day: To let it fast during the rest of the day.

The more frequently a person eats, the less likely his body is to enter ketosis. Until it becomes unable to; it just gets hungry every few hours instead, where the person just feeds and perpetuates the cycle of not entering ketosis.
The academic paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4

They use the last N prefix tokens, hash them (with a keyed hash), and use the random value to sample the next token by doing an 8-wise tournament, by assigning random bits to each of the top 8 preferred tokens, making pairwise comparisons, and keeping the token with a larger bit. (Yes, it seems complicated, but apparently it increases the watermarking accuracy compared to a straightforward nucleus9 sampling.)

The negative of this approach is that you need to rerun the LLM, so you must keep all versions of all LLMs that you trained, forever.
I am not sure whether it was satire. I personally don't like corp speak - it feels like people talking like that are not humans. I am not sure I would welcome our AI overlords speaking like this, either.

But I find the idea that people will subconsciously start copying AI speech patterns (perhaps as a signal of submission) amusing. I think it's gonna throw a wrench into the idea.

IMHO LLMs either should help us communicate more clearly and succinctly, or we can use them as tools for creativity ("rephrase this in 18th century English"). Watermarking speech sabotages both of these use cases.
> The issue isn't whether it can be built

That's the misunderstanding then. Because I'm specifically answering whether it can be built or not. This was the original question which started the thread: "So it's not possible to design ducting for HVAC/engine exhaust that either closes automatically at a certain angle, or has some mechanism that lets out gases without letting in water?"

> but whether you can certify and insure it.

You said "at any cost". At any cost I buy Lloyds, instruct them to work with my army of engineers until they find a way to satisfy their requirements, and we insure it. That's within the "at any cost" budget you set.

> At anchor, but not at sea, where to achieve it's CE rating, the offending vents would be required to be closed.

Okay. I'm not seeing the problem with that. You will have to explain to me why does that prevent us from making the vents automatically close at anchor when the boat is capsizing. Where do you see the problem with this?
This is a good question, and I think about it as well. My best guess for a simple explanation: Python is very popular; it makes sense to improve performance for python users, given many do not wish to learn to use a more performant language, or to use a more performant Python implementation. Becoming proficient in a range of tools so you can use the right one for the right job is high enough friction that it is not the path chosen by many.
Free = PII theft? Also, look up Europass.
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I tried this, and I have never had such flavorful lettuce! I'd been a little worried: Hydroponics has a reputation for (maybe?) producing flavorless vegetables. And certainly, I did have trouble growing some things. But those things I succeeded with (mostly lettuce), actually had tremendous flavor!
I could see a group being useful, yeah. Must have one of [server0, server1, server2] to continue. Though there is a lot of bleed-over when talking about hypervisors and the boot order of VMs, since hypervisors generally can handle that, at least on their own node.