skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoyed 2 decades of flying for work. My preference for airbus was founded on experience in air. a 747 top deck is a counter case, that aside (or the nose) I always found airbus both quieter, and nicer to be in.

But, the duopoly had a benefit, it was what australians call in politics "keep the bastards honest" qualities. The price of the product, it's safety record, had the element of "the competition is there" -albiet with some dirty fighting around state support. It amazed me how clearly the word went out to US carriers not to buy airbus (if this is a myth, I apologise. It feels true)

But noise and comfort aside (looking at you 777. those engines) I would say "if its not Boeing I'm not going" has fully inverted. I don't know another professional fly-for-work person who wants to be booked on a Boeing jet.

Let that sink in. It had a catch phrase as the only rational safe choice. and they completely fucked it up.

I have a bias. I've flown Bombardier, Embraer, Comac, De Havilland as well. I just prefer the airbus product, for probably highly irrational reasons, engine noise aside.

I have no idea if the embedded certification stuff is also in airbus, but after the spate of "we did this to avoid having to entirely re-certify pilots even though the flying experience really is different" incidents, it felt like a system of checks and balances, manufacturers actually getting externally reviewed for compliance and fit-for-purpose has gone out the window. I am not saying HAS. I am saying FEELS LIKE.

The "vent battery to outside" and "reboot plane no later than every 51 days" 787 incidents I can laugh off. Kinda.
You'd think that smart programmers would appreciate being corrected in their understanding of facts of history and society, and not cling to outmoded ritualistic expressions of belief based on misunderstandings and incomplete information.
Microtik is my preferred prosumer networking hardware. Much prefer it to the ubiquity gear I’ve used.
Exactly. This is the dilemma in LA. Build masonry frame and die in an earthquake. Build wood frame and die in a wildfire. Metal framing with concrete or other nonflammable siding?
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Let's talk about bird tongues (2014)
I recently read the story of the Magic Link: https://commoncog.com/c/cases/general-magic/

> When General Magic finally shipped in 1994 — under the threat of Apple’s Newton — they hadn’t made the Pocket Crystal that Porat first dreamed of in 1989. Instead, they released something they called the Sony Magic Link. It weighed 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg) and was priced at US$800 (US$1560 in 2022 dollars). It offered futuristic features like a touchscreen, downloadable apps and animated emojis — the first of its kind. Fadell thought it would be revolutionary — people could now carry a personal computer with them wherever they went. But nobody bought it. In the end only three to four thousand Magic Link devices were sold, and mostly to family and friends.

There's a documentary too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTdyb-RWNKo
I'm shocked I had to scroll this far down before I saw accessibility mentioned.
Another, differently formatted explorer for this data: https://fayde.co.uk/
Because of a feature that solves the problem of one off scripts being difficult the moment you need a 3rd party library?

A more Pythonic way of doing this might be __pyproject__ bit that has the tiiiiny snag of needing to execute the file to figure out its deps. I would have loved if __name__ == "pyproject" but while neat and tidy it is admittedly super confusing for beginners, has a "react hooks" style gotcha where to can't use any deps in that block, and you can't use top level imports. The comment was really the easiest way.
Great argument overall. What strikes me is that I have also thought long and hard about fundamental natural rights, and my proposition is that Free Will is paramount and Privacy is the close second.

I believe such a claim can be robustly supported, and it is my hope to one day do so, ideally supported with a degree of philosophy. Your perspective is, in some ways, quite similar to my own, though it also has notable differences. I do believe it can be rigorously argued, for example, that Life is an outcome of Free Will, not the other way around. I believe it can also be shown that Privacy (not the cybernetic privacy, or cyberprivacy, articulated with privacy policies, GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA) is (a) distinct from Free Will, (b) uniquely allows for the expression and development of Free Will, and (c) that maximal expression of Free Will is the global optimum for Life.
>I don't charge any handling so it's just whatever the raw shipping cost that is calculated by Shopify/USPS/etc.

What amatecha said about brokerage fees is true, but only if you use international ground (UPS Standard, and its FedEx equivalent). Any "UPS Worldwide" service is by air, and avoids brokerage fees.

eBay International Shipping is, as you said, the best option for buyer and seller as long as the buyer is willing to wait and use eBay to buy.

Another option is Pirate Ship's Simple Export Rate. Also slow, but significantly cheaper than UPS and even USPS.
But any tool you use for the task would do that anyway (or set them up temporarily and throw them away). Python on Windows has a standard Windows-friendly installer, and compiling from source on Linux is the standard few calls to `./configure` and `make` that you'd have with anything else; it runs quite smoothly and you only have to do it once.
A bank in the UK did this and the app was nearly unusable. They used Unity.

There were many problems:

- a bank app needs a fairly basic CRUD style UI, they had to build all of that from scratch.

- users knew OS patters, like the navigation stack, they didn’t stick with these things and users couldn’t understand the information hierarchy.

- they got too creative with UI elements and it wasn’t clear what was tappable, what wasn’t, what information was, etc

- the app was slow and took ages to update for things like new screen sizes

- their response to criticism reeked of hubris, they couldn’t accept that it was a bad decision, and it took them 5 years to back track and rewrite with standard UI components. This was deeply ingrained in the company culture, not the only bad technical/product/business decision they made.

There’s a reason why most game UIs suck. If you want to incorporate 3D elements into UI, the OSes provide their own frameworks for that sort of thing. We absolutely haven’t exhausted the design space of UI with the regular tools available.
I have a pristine shrink-wrapped copy of Microsoft Bob on my office shelf next to my shrink-wrapped copy of MS 3D Movie Maker.
Pretty cheap considering average house costs $6-7 million.
The most underrated thing I do on nearly every cursor suggestion is to follow up with “are there any better ways to do this?”.
$2M laundered: the YouTube crypto tutorials' scam
It's not, hence the scare quotes.
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I once asked a professor about this and the answer I got was interesting.

Basically Java and OO and Design Patterns are taught upfront because it turned out this was a huge stumbling block for a lot of people. Bigger than for instance C and pointers. Like it just doesn't click for a lot of people and they end up struggling a lot the rest of the major

So it's not that these are the most crucial concepts, but you want people to "fail fast" and have a sense if they'll succeed in the major within the first year
Costs. They don't want to have two courses teaching largely the same concepts when one will do. Short sighted, but that's how they roll.
It looks basically identical to fedora with XFCE, plus the window borders being different colors to indicate different VMs and some toolbar icons for VM management.
I do think this trade off is real. I came off most of social media for a few years and was the happiest I’ve been in a long time. It is however a bit isolating. I stayed in touch with friends, but lots of acquaintances slipped away without an easy way to keep in touch.
As a dictator it's much easier to believe the CIA is trying to overthrow you instead of acknowledging that your economic mismanagement has made you unpopular. Surrounding yourself with yes men keeps you out of touch with popular sentiment.
>Nearly every other language solves this better than this.

"Nearly every other language" determines the exact version of a library to use for you, when multiple versions would work, without you providing any input with which to make the decision?

If you mean "I have had a more pleasant UX with the equivalent tasks in several other programming languages", that's justifiable and common, but not at all the same.

>What your suggesting breaks down on large projects.

Pinned transitive dependencies are the only meaningful data in a lockfile, unless you have to explicitly protect against supply chain attacks (i.e. use a private package source and/or verify hashes).
Yeah that site served as an inspiration!
Federal taxes pay for interstate highways and many large infrastructure projects in states, so indirectly CA pays for MT roads and vice versa.
If you are going to teach OO in Java, I fail to see why teaching design patterns is so awful.
> any reasonable CPU from the past 15 years can handle software decoding of high resolution video just fine.

4k VP9 from youtube takes my 5950x around 20-25% CPU usage to handle with hardware acceleration disabled.

The fastest consumer CPU available 15 years ago could not handle that. Hell, even CPUs from 10 years ago couldn't do that. Add power & thermal limitations of a laptop CPU? Not a chance.

And that's just VP9! HEVC or AV1 would really put the hurt on.
We had that language, it was postscript.

Then pdf came along and said: no this is too dangerous the only thing in a document should be layout information not arbitrary code.

And here we are two decades later.

My hatred of pdf has no end. It killed postscript for dynamic pages and djvu for static pages.
'Kontr' sounds like an untranslated word no doubt taken verbatim from some low budget propaganda.
It's like building an app with Electron, but worse. At least Electron has good font rendering and some accessibility and some OS integration.
In Iceland, 'respect the elves – or else' (2015)
gauntlet looks like GTA V's story mode pattern.

GTA2 with it's competing gangs seem to have a "state" tracker in the form of reputation scores with the game, while having an open world map. As your reputation/state changed opportunities would become available/unavailable.

I still think GTA 2's system is impressive.
I mostly point it out as a reason why teaching OO as a fundamental is a bad idea in the first place.
It's saying that people shouldn't be nostalgic about the early internet because it stops them solving the perceived problems with today's internet. It's also implying that people's nostalgia is for sexism and racism.
https://www.gather.town/ already does this, more or less, but with an old school rpg style.

It's actually got quite a few nifty features, but my team ended up not really using it. I particularly liked the "walking into a room automatically joins you to the audio channel" bit for meetings, but it's ultimately a bit of a gimmick.
Drone licence.
Drone pilots licence.
Right, so... just don't teach Java and OO at all? They're not fundamental. Some of the ideas in that course are something closer to discredited.

Later

I edited "a lot of" to "some of"; I was coming on too strong.
It was apparently industry who told Australian Universities that relational algebra was not needed in databases.
The only serious alternative to Qubes from a security perspective is to use multiple computers.

That alternative presumably has better security, but also generally worse usability (particularly if you're going to be mobile! -- two laptops in your bag might be acceptable but comparable isolation would require more than two).
> Coca-Cola also makes a lot of plastic packaging: about 3.5 million metric tons of it per year, almost entirely out of fossil fuels.

> Coca-Cola now plans to make 30 to 35 percent of its plastic packaging out of recycled materials by 2035, instead of 50 percent by 2030. And instead of making 100 percent of its packaging recyclable by 2025 and collecting one bottle or can for each one sold, Coca-Cola now says it will “help ensure the collection” of just 70 to 75 percent of the number of bottles and cans it produces, also by 2035.
I think that would miss the point
> assuming you have full control over which compiler youre using for each step ;)

With existing tools, we know if we need to do something, we can. The issue with LLMs, is they are very much black boxes.

> What's to say LLMs will not have a "compiler" interface in the future that will reign in their variance

Honestly, having a compiler interface for LLMs isn't a bad idea...for some use cases. What I don't see us being able to do is use natural language to build complex apps in a deterministic manner. Solving this problem would require turning LLMs into deterministic machines, which I don't believe will be an easy task, given how LLMs work today.

I'm a strong believer in that LLMs will change how we develop and create software development tools. In the past, you would need Google and Microsoft level of funding to integrate natural language into a tool, but with LLMs, we can easily have LLMs parse input and have it map to deterministic functions in days.
for me is not the daily use that is useful, but from time to time, I need to buy or sell something and Facebook marketplace is good for that. Or I need to find the contact information of someone and it is also useful for that (Facebook). And for twitter, before I didn't even need to create an account I just use it for seeing updates of government officials or app/services updates
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I'm a long-life Linux user (since mandrake!)

Also, I don't have a c compiler installed.
I'm a firm believer being loosely connected to so many people isn't the fix many seem to think it is. I find shallow connections, which is about all social media can support IMO, are worthless at best and detrimental at worst.

YMMV, but my quality of life increased in ways I can't even begin to describe by severing all the dozens or perhaps hundreds of shallow connections social media was encouraging me to cling to.

With the saved time and energy, I've been able to cultivate far fewer-- but much deeper and more (mutually) fulfilling-- connections with those who are _actually_ important.
Just for context, the author of the second link in your comment verifiably lied about blocking crawlers via robots.txt

CommonCrawl archives robots.txt

For convenience, you can view the extracted data here:

https://pastebin.com/VSHMTThJ

You are welcome to verify for yourself by searching for “wiki.diasporafoundation.org/robots.txt” in the CommonCrawl index here:

https://index.commoncrawl.org/

The index contains a file name that you can append to the CommonCrawl url to download the archive and view.
More detailed information on downloading archives here:

https://commoncrawl.org/get-started

From September to December, the robots.txt at wiki.diasporafoundation.org contained this, and only this:

>User-agent: *
>Disallow: /w/
The curious thing about the two recent attack events in New Orleans is that most reported the trump tower one as an “exploding cybertruck” but very few even mentioned that the other incident involved an electric ford truck. It should have been absolutely newsworthy and raise questions: evs are actually more dangerous to a crowd. They don’t require space to accelerate. And they don’t make a lot of noise (and one could probably even disable the artificial movement sound). This is kind of a new danger.
I can't tell if you're seriously accusing me of "full-on virtue-signaling" or being sarcastic. In any case, if I wanted to virtue signal there are much more effective topics that would take 1/100 of the work.
Is something more supposed to show up? Am I supposed to figure out what to do? https://i.postimg.cc/3NWtz6HF/image.png
They stopped emailing me eventually when I started responding with silly replies, these are some of the emails I got about Control Panel for Twitter (~220,000 users on Chrome):

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter/issues/38...

Some of them work in the open, I've had emails from the people behind this scam:

https://palant.info/2024/10/01/lies-damned-lies-and-impact-h...
For what it's worth, I just checked on my windows 11 install and it was (somewhat) enabled.

Settings -> Bluetooth & Devices -> AutoPlay -> Use AutoPlay for all media and devices

Was set to on, and "Removable drive" was set to "Choose a default", which appears to be equivalent to "Ask me every time".

I don't have anything (that I'm aware of) that auto-runs something, but I presume it will prompt me asking if I want to run setup.exe, which seems somewhat reasonable for new hardware.

And from the malware analysis, https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/e3f57d5ebc882a0a0ca96... , it's signed by "Owner: CN=Microsoft Windows Hardware Compatibility Publisher, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, ST=Washington, C=US; Issuer: CN=Microsoft Windows Third Party Component CA 2012, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, ST=Washington, C=US" which also looks pretty legit.

I can totally see a lot of folks allowing it to run.
As it happens, the Python REPL was just replaced a few months ago!

…Not with IPython. But with an implementation written in Python instead of C, originating from the PyPy project, that supports fancier features like multi-line editing and syntax highlighting. See PEP 762.

I was apprehensive when I heard about it, but then I had the chance to use it and it was a very nice experience.
The top of my “I’m surprised it’s allowed” list is large lithium batteries in airplanes. If phones weren’t already so ubiquitous, they would have been mostly banned.
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It’s an awful position. People who say things like that are assholes that I never want to associate with. And giant social media companies should not censor speech like this.
Hey thanks, you make a good point - I was too hasty in proclaiming the connection between christian designs and the practices of the tribespeople (especially because if this article makes one thing clear, it's that the events and practices of these islanders shouldn't be haphazardly generalized, given how varied they were.)

I wasn't only referring to the WWII period, though. My comment was also inspired by an excerpt about the 1871-1933 period, that I read in one of the sources the article's author used, Road Belong Cargo by Peter Lawrence, page 78:

> So far only the Europeans had possessed this secret and thus only their ancestral spirits had been sent with cargo. But now the position was going to change. Provided that the missionaries' instructions were carried out in full, the natives ancestors would be employed in the same way. Obedience to the missionaries would place the people in the correct relationship with God and give them what the Garia called Anut po nanunanu: the power to make God 'think on' them and send them cargo, just as the traditional leaders had had oite u po nanunanu or the power to make the indigenous deities help them in important undertakings.

But still, you're right that I don't know prevalent this dynamic was (many islands turned again the europeans) nor the exact extent to which this compliance was the explicit intention of european missionary activity, versus something independently arrived at by the islanders.
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We’ve really blurred the meaning of: facts, consensus, winning, truth
Good thing none of your houses burnt down.
I've used Unity for this purpose on a project 9 years ago. It had nothing to do with games, but it had a huge 3d visualization component, and the rest of the UI was pretty simple — so building the whole thing in a game engine just made sense.
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Good on them. I truly don’t understand how people can be against furthering diversity in a mostly homogeneous sector of society (corporate tech).
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> Keep in mind that this is the stupidest the LLM will ever be and we can expect major improvements every few months.

We have seen no noticable improvements (at usable prices) for 7 months, when the original Sonnet 3.5 came out.

Maybe specialized hardware for LLM inference will improve so rapidly that o1 (full) will be quick and cheap enough a year from now, but it seems extremely unlikely. For the end user, the top models hadn't gotten cheaper for kore than a year until the release of Deepseek v3 a few weeks ago. Even that is currently very slow at non-Deepseek providers, and who knows just how subsidized the pricing and speed at Deepseek itself is, given political interests.
Why not upload to archive.org?
I'm not quite connecting the dots. If it's not a virtue then I'm not sure how it would qualify as virtue signaling. What am I missing?
Fair response. But in this case the guy is just rambling on his personal blog. It's not like he's going on Twitter/X and hectoring people.

And "wokeism" aside, he gives a good obscure-history lesson as to why the phrase "cargo cult" doesn't actually mean what most of us think it does. That itself made it worth a read for me.
Thanks, but no. I'm never buying a device with easy root access for a non technical family member ever again. Freedom is great, and I'm using this freedom to buy something with exactly the capabilities I need.
uv is great, but downloading and installing base python interpreter is not a good feature as it doesn’t fetch that from PSF but from a project on GitHub, that very same project says this is compiled for portability over performance, see https://gregoryszorc.com/docs/python-build-standalone/main/
Not RAM to disk swap. We’re talking about VRAM/RAM here.
> Sure, they've gotten much cheaper on a per-token basis, but that cost reduction has come with a non-trivial accuracy/reliability cost.

This only holds for OpenAI.
I addressed that in the comment you are responding to...
If you're subject to peak load billing it's also a good idea to bring your loads online in sections, too. My family owns a small grocery store. I was taught the process for "booting-up" the store after a power outage. It basically amounted to a one-by-one startup of the refrigeration compressors, waiting between each for them to come up to operating pressure and stabilize their current demand.