skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly have no idea why anyone still uses Conda, it's a right pain in the ass. Python package management in general is a nightmare, but whenever I run up a project that uses Conda I immediately disregard it and use uv / pyenv.
shameless plug: I also made a single HTML metronome in js

https://github.com/est/metronome
There is a small hole near the floppy drive and there also was a pin to eject a disk when the computer was off, similar to how SIM cards are handled in modern phones. Good design, actually; harder to damage data.
What happens to our culture when websites start to vanish?
Oh yes, I forgot all about those. I've never seen one in person but it's a very odd one.
Oof.

I had more written here but I deleted it to just oof. What a terrible situation.
Hundreds... personally?
> The etymology is not green/yellow/red. It's just not-Yellow or yes-Yellow.

Um, no.

Today, Google has Code Reds, Code Yellows, Code Purples, and Code Greens... and this is after standardizing to remove other made-up terms like Code Mauve.

I wish I were making up these terms.
It's too bad it's sold out everywhere. I've tried the ESP32 projects (little cube guy) for voice assistants in HA but it's mic/speaker weren't good enough. When it did hear me (and I heard it) it did an amazing job. For the first time I talked to a voice assistant that understood "Turn off office lights" to mean "Turn off all the lights in the office" without me giving it any special grouping (like I have to do in Alexa and then it randomly breaks). It handled a ton of requests that are easy for any human but Alexa/Siri trip up on.

I cannot wait to buy 5 or more of these to replace Alexa. HA is the brain of my house and up till now Alexa provided the best hardware to interact with HA (IMHO) but I'd love something first-party.
If's fun to think that our Sirius tech cousins at the BBQ under a Texas sized parabolic dish aimed at Austin would be jamming Nelly's "hot in here".

Over distance its about fighting the noise in between the source and the receiver while also fading because of the free space loss, think of a flashlight - not a laser. So nelly volume ticks down while the local stations ramp up..

To keep your car jamming you'd build a growing antenna attached to your ford festiva that as you made your way would compensate for this loss by collecting more signal to focus back to a feed horn, a parabolic - like a larger magnifying glass focusing more ant burning heat in the winter versus the summer.

Very roughly it seems it would be the size of Texas when you arrived at the BBQ, assuming you are traveling the speed of light and left in the early aughts.

You wouldn't hear the song until you hit the break because its the frequency over time that pumps the jam.
I can only speak for myself, but Pocket is barely usable (half the time it just loads the live page instead of the snapshot), Mozilla VPN is only sold in a handful of countries (while Mullvad is sold everywhere), Lockwise is gone (I like FF Password Manager, but it's very basic, you can't store anything more than URL, username and a password). And etc. (shrug). It wouldn't be a problem if they were focusing on alternative products for profit, if they were any good, but the thing is - they're not even good.
The original titles are:

* "How to disappear completely" (top of page)

* "What happens when the Internet disappears?" (<title>)

Both are click-baity and neither describe the article well or at all. I used a phrase in the subtitle.
All those came after Python/C/C++ etc which were all from the wild-west of the "what is package management?" dark ages. The designers of those languages almost certainly thought the exact thought of "how can we do package management better than existing technology like pip?"
John 8:7-11
It gets worse: A manager in those kinds of organizations that is truly scared also doesn't want people under them to make decisions either, so eventually everyone learns inaction.

At sope point the organization comes up with a code freeze, and a manager is afraid of changes near the freeze. Them said freeze keeps expanding as you get down to ICs, and eventually nobody gets to release anything in December, even if something is wrong and is costing the company users and money.

It's bad when people choose to quiet quit on management, but it's scarier when they basically are told to do it, in not so many words.
If you walk into a steakhouse and order the porterhouse and you get taco bell Beefy™ meat, that's one thing. If you pay the restaurant a monthly retainer to feed you steak whenever you feel like wandering in and you get such treatment, you weren't really ripped off.

Someone tells Spotify "I want to listen to the latest Lil yachty album" and it plays, expectations were met. Someone says "play whatever I just need background noise", expectations were also met. You can't ask for elevator music and be upset that that's what you get. The fact that you can still pay a flat monthly rate and get access to almost any music you'd want to hear, that's like still getting the porterhouse every day for a monthly fee. That's amazing and fantastic. Don't expect it to last much longer. And don't ask for the soup of the day if you want something fresh.
Looks like Microsofties are sensitive birches. Why would you downvote the truth?
> and if you have a bunch of third parties running bad software, consumers would lose faith in the platform altogether.

Famously the reason no one ever used Microsoft Windows.
Interesting take.

For my part, I'm grateful for Spotify's "exclude from taste profile" feature. This lets me leverage my personally-curated "Flowstate" playlist ^1
for hours at a time while I'm working -- tracks that I've hand-picked to facilitate a "getting things done" mindset / energized mood / creativity or go-time vibe, and can stand to listen to on repeat -- without "polluting" my regular music preferences. It's apples and oranges, mostly - there's music I want to listen and attend to (as a guitar player and lifelong avid music listener across many genres including "serious" jazz), and there's audio (which could as easily be programmatically generated / binaural beats, whatever -- eg brain.fm) that I use as a tool specifically to help shape my cognitive state for focus / productivity.

I think it's kind of funny how some people get confused about the fact that there are many reasons to listen to many kinds of music.

When it comes to music discovery on Spotify, the "go to radio" option from a given track or album is a reliable way to surface new-to-me things. I usually prefer this proactive seeking to the playlists spotify's algo generates for me. (shrug)

1. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UScdOAlqXqWTOmXFgQhFA?si=...
As someone not that familiar with haas, can someone explain why there's not a clear path to replace Alexa or Google home? I considered using haas recently to get a gpt like response after being frustrated with Google home, but it seems this is a complete mess. is there a way to get this yet?
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Rux ignores one of the main bottlenecks of clinical trials: finding the clinical trial managers whose expertise is necessary to manage them and surface candidates for them. Pharma would run as many trials as there are managers. And managers themselves could run trials more quickly if it was easy to find good candidate matches for a trial. LLMs are beginning to help them solve the problem of candidate discovery, since the right patients need to be a high dimensional match, and their fitness can only be discovered by perusing their EHRs for hours.
> why would you want to let a LLM have any agentic interface to the real world though

The various arms race type dilemmas that actors face will create that outcome.

If you're a nation state not doing that, you'll lose to a nation state that does.

If you're a company not doing that, you'll lose to a company that does.
The most sensible solution in the short term is to keep the distribution that we have in place and aggressively invest in large solar plants coupled with very large battery systems to ease the duck curve.

Individual homeowners can do their part with solar + heat pumps to shift that duck curve. Power rates should see way more wild swings: 0c at the trough around 11am-2pm, $.50 at the 5pm peak. That aligns consumers to make sensible investments, either the energy they use or the energy they produce/store.

Smart charging of cars, so that those car batteries can help shift the load? But that requires global coordination that is nonexistent today.

Solar is no doubt the energy solution, there's really nothing better. It's low maintenance and lasts a long time, capital scalable, and can be deployed basically anywhere. Solar is far and away the cheapest thing for about 70% of our energy needs. For the last 30% that is very tough to squeeze out -- that baseline power for 24/7 stuff like aluminum smelters, datacenters -- you basically have: high voltage transmission (only available if you have land to your west), big battery banks (tenable, but only if batteries follow solar's dramatic reduction in cost), or nuclear (but requires a big culture change that I cannot really imagine). Or fossil fuels but those are not good obviously.

Basically any of the other green stuff (hydro, wind, geothermal) can't be built at any price most places.
maximizing profit is expect and desired behavior in a perfect market

perfect competition in open market is supposed to push all profits to zero, maximizing value for consumers
I had that model. Modernized it later by adding more memory, more video memory and eventually a Sonnect G3 extension card that made it very fast. With that card it did run Mac OS X, 10.3, as far as I remember, and was fairly usable.

What it did not have though was true color; the video card simply did not produce it, even with maxed out video memory. As far as I understand the cause was that the memory was too slow for that.
Not sure what year your WRX is but my my suggestion would be "cup holders". And I don't mean "leave it in a cup holder"--pop the boot off the hand brake and there's like one screw and some clips to remove the cup holders from the center console and then an absolute _ton_ of space underneath. Even if someone _was_ looking there, there's room to hide it (hell, it's carpeted so a discreet hole in the carpet could hide it well).

If you put it towards the back near the center console storage, even with a phone someone's going to be checking the cup holders, the center console storage, down beside the seats, the seat back pockets, under the seats, _in the seats_, etc first. Then rechecking them. Then checking them again. Like you say, those would all be "normal" places to put it or drop it.

But you'll be able to pull it out and replace the battery or something in like 20 minutes when you had to do it once a year with nothing but a phillips screwdriver.

Alternatively, if you don't mind listening to it rattle around sometimes, from what I hear from people who have dropped rings and things into the under seat vents... you basically need to remove the entire interior to get in there. I'd get the 10 year battery first though.
> is less of a nefarious plan from Spotify to replace famous Katy Perry with AI

Has that been shown?
Isn't uv to conda what uv is to pip?
I'm sure you know what you're talking about, but Duke energy is running the program, and they wouldn't be paying people to grid tie their EV for disruptions unless they could use it: https://news.duke-energy.com/releases/illuminating-possibili...

The lightning extended range has a 135 kwh battery and can backfeed 90A@240V. That's a heck of a lot of power.
Could be a good option for driving a TV in the living room.
It's probably going to be vendor-specific or you will implement your own auth. At ZITADEL we decided to offer all the standards like OIDC and SAML, and offer a session API for more flexible auth scenarios. You will also be able to mix.
> Colonization would, I think, not require economic justification. Using transportation and communication barriers to facilitate isolation or at least localization may be important to some people. […]

> A colony in Antarctica would be much more practical than one on the Moon, but a Lunar colony is more romantic.

This really highlights the problem with the belief of “space colonization”: people have a romanticized fantasy of what it would be like: because it's so remote, and dangerous (and expensive), a lunar base would be the exact opposite of isolation: people would live packed in really tight space with little opportunity for isolation or intimacy except in the bathroom. It would be the modern version of being a sailor in a 17th century merchant ship, hopefully without the scurvy.

> but a perceived threat in Antarctica would be easier to eliminate than a perceived threat on the Moon or in the Large Magellanic Cloud.)

What makes you think that? If we have transportation mediums able to build a colony on the moon (that is, able to send tons of material out there) we have the means of transportation needed for carpet bombing it! But you wouldn't even need that, as a moon base would be as dependent from earth as an antarctic base is from mainland (you're not going to put a TSMC chip fab on the moon anytime soon…)
For me the Alexa devices I own have gotten worse. Can't do simple things (setting a timer used to be instant, now it takes 10-15 seconds of thinking assuming it heard properly), playing music is a joke (will try to play through Deezer even though I disaled that integration months ago, and then will default to Amazon Music instead of Spotify which is set as the default).

And then even simple skills can't understand what I'm asking 60% of the time. The first maybe 2 years after launch it seemed like everything worked pretty good but since then it's been a frustrating decline.

Currently they are relagated to timers and music, and it can't even manage those half the time anymore.
Sam Altman once owned some equity in OpenAI through Sequoia
I am also squarely declarative, but currently use a language for work that forces me to be procedural pretty much always and it kinda sucks. My code always feels bad to me and the cognitive load is always super high
It means, myself and my two partners are in a relationship with each other, and do so without seeking sex or love from other people. It's just the three of us, no more, no less.
It's rare to see something as systematically broken as Python package/dependencies ecosystem.

What I don't understand - what makes this so difficult to solve in Python? It seems that many other platforms solved this a long time ago - maven 2.0 was released almost 20 years ago. While it wasn't / isn't by no means perfect, its fundamentals were decent already back then.

One thing which I think messed this up from the beginning was applying the Unix philosophy with several/many individual tools as opposed to one cohesive system - requirements.txt, setuptools, pip, pipx, pipenv, venv... were always woefully inadequate, but produced a myriad of possible combinations to support. It seems like simplicity was the main motivation for such design, but these certainly seems like examples of being too simplistic for the job.

I recently tried to run a Python app (after having a couple of years break from Python) which used conda and I got lost there quickly. Project README described using conda, mamba, anaconda, conda-forge, mini-forge, mini-conda ... In the end, nothing I tried worked.
How about linking to the original memo from CISA:

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...
in postgresql syntax for data types is stored in the database. how would this tool parse gis expressions, for example?
Your line of questioning is based on an incorrect set of assumptions.

The number of clicks is an implementation detail. It depends on whether or not you're using the web file API, some browser download capability, a browser plug-in, a mobile app, desktop app, a webdav server, or something else.

For people trying it for the first time, they often have the experience you're describing. But for most anybody that actually picks this up and uses it on a day-to-day basis, they use something else that saves transparently and automatically.

All of this is orthogonal to whether or not it's in a single HTML file. I fear you took lelandbatey's original ctrl-s reference a bit more literally than intended, though if you want to be pedantic, I can confirm I use applications in this style all day as part of my daily workflow and I do press ctrl-s and it saves with no further interaction in fully patched versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari with no plugins whatsoever.
In practice, there are a number of factors which make using Kelly more difficult than in toy examples.

What is your bankroll? Cash on hand? Total net worth? Liquid net work? Future earned income?

Depending on the size of your bankroll, a number of factors come in to play. For example, if your bankroll is $100 and you lose it all it's typically not a big deal. If you have a $1 million bankroll, then you are likely more adverse to risking it.

What is the expected value? Is it known? Is it stationary? Is the game honest?

Depending on the statistical profile of your expected value, you are going to have to make significant adjustments to how you approach bet sizing. In domains where you can only estimate your EV, and which are rife with cheats (e.g. poker), you need to size your wagers under significant uncertainty.

What bet sizes are available?

In practice, you won't have a continuous range of bet sizes you can make. You will typically have discrete bet sizes within a fixed range, say $5-$500 in increments of $5 or $25. If your bankroll falls to low you will be shut out of the game. If your bankroll gets too high, you will no longer be able to maximize your returns.

At the end of the day, professional gamblers are often wagering at half-kelly, or even at quarter-kelly, due in large part to all these complexities and others.
> My read is the management team are not very capable and that this gentleman is not a natural leader.

I mean it fits perfectly well for a lot of "thought leaders" like this. They, after all, have the time to write oh so many blogs about it.
Boomers were young once. That's when they voted for the war on drugs at all costs. They may have made some poor decisions but they don't have a monopoly on them. There's no guarantee that the future is progressive.
> If's fun to think that our Sirius tech cousins at the BBQ under a Texas sized parabolic dish aimed at Austin would be jamming Nelly's "hot in here".

OK, but a giant parabolic dish is some parochial 20th century Earth tech.

I was imagining some little guys who create a 100 cubic AU grid of omnidirectional sensors, with a sensor every 1000km, all hooked up the mother of all DSPs. I can visualize that system identifying some pretty faint waves vibing in the noise. Am I wrong in thinking that this system could pickup AM radio really far away, easily... and once they got sick of that, even FM?
Precedent:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/:wiki/Private_investigator

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency)
Yeah, I see the same problem with C and C++ in embedding, too. My guess is that people in embedding were working originally in low-level language like assembly where types don’t exist (at least that's what I did with the PIC and older AVR microcontrollers). So when they introduced higher level languages such as C into it, they did it in an assembly-like fashion and not truly in the spirit of high level languages. For example macros are still extensively used for definition of a lot of things, including IO-pins, and they undergo no type checking. C is not a strong -typed language anyway and this mode of thinking and programming continues to spill-over when C++ was introduced. Type is used merely to limit memory allocation and ensure memory alignment, not truly used in its conceptual sense.

Of course, the resource constraints and efficiency of the compiled code play a significant role here. So unless a new memory efficient strict-typed language/compiler comes along with a modern mindset, the power of type will not come into play.
Making plain text publishing more accessible
Could this work with roulette betting on color?
Seems like you could spend a lot of time not winning or losing
It’s pretty much my backyard. I wonder what will happen to the WSRT when maintenance will inevitably become an issue.
Non-determinism is when for same input you get a different output. According to that definition, the above code is deterministic.

> how would we know if the calculation was completed before the exception was thrown without adding another 8 lines of boilerplate?

You can't, exceptions or not. With exceptions, you need try..catch blocks. With return values, you need ifs.

But with exceptions, you have an option of not handling an error where it originated, without completely ignoring the error.

With error results, you can handle the error (which usually means just returning it to the caller) or ignore it (potential bugs). In languages with not-so-strong typing, it can be very easy to ignore the error. In languages with strong enough typing, you must handle the error. This can be made nicer with syntax sugar, but still leads to boilerplate. This also has an unfortunate consequence of more branching in the generated assembly, which can lead to poorer performance on the "happy path". Exceptions also have cost, of course, but it's geared more towards making the happy path fast and exceptional path slow, which seems like a better tradeoff in most cases.

> If both the display() and log() functions might throw IO exceptions, then how would we know whether or not the error was logged

But without exceptions, your code is simply ignoring any potential errors in display(). And in log() for that matter. If they threw exceptions, it would be impossible to just "swallow" an error silently.

> In conclusion, we don't know with certainty which path was taken through the code's execution, and this is tantamount to non-deterministic behavior.

I would disagree with that. People sometimes see exceptions as somehow "breaking" the program or leading it to an inconsistent state, but that's simply not true.

All you need to realize is that...

1. Every line can throw an exception unless proven otherwise.

2. You don't need to handle an exception close to where it was thrown in most cases. Corollary: you shouldn't use exceptions for control flow. If you notice that your callers use try..catch directly around your function, that might be a sign you should use return values, not exceptions. Return values are not forbidden in languages with exceptions!

3. But you do have to dispose of unmanaged resources. This is probably the main sticking point and does require some discipline.

...and suddenly exceptions stop being awkward and become quite nice to work with.