skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be interesting is if you could do something similar for IPython/Jupyter Notebooks: while front-ends like JupyterLab and VS Code Notebooks do let you select a .venv if present in the workspace, it's annoying to have to set one up and build one for every project.
Everyone with a fire-hardened house should be feeling good. If all Pacific Palisades houses were fire-hardened, the fire would have burned vegetation but few houses.

Even modest fire hardening would help. If a wood-frame house burns, it is a danger to all nearby houses. Hardening reduces the chain reaction potential.
There was a solid talk on Modern Web Development with Perl in August.

https://youtu.be/ommhbiRx-vI?si=eSZQUKxaSUwAyeXI
Swartz own lawyer, writing after his death, said he didn't believe Swartz would have received a custodial sentence even if he had gone to trial and lost. The prosecutors were offering him months in custody, against a 6-7 year sentence they believed they could get (implausibly, if you run the guidelines calculation). Nobody has to take the "35 years" thing seriously; nobody involved directly in this case did. Swartz was exactly the kind of nerd who would have memorized the sentencing guidelines just to win arguments on a message board (that's a compliment) and he had extremely good lawyers.

(I'm ambivalent about everything in this case and certainly don't support the prosecutors, but much of what gets written about Swartz's case is misinformation.)
> I doubt that "land use" is a big issue in one of the least densely populated countries on earth.

All evidence to the contrary, apparently.

One report I found cited "50 km" as sufficient separation. Applying this as a radius you get 7854 square kilometers of land.

> Using the existing infrastructure probably makes it slightly cheaper though.

"it", here, could mean either the "green energy" operation or the observatory site.
Most people I know spend a lot of time doing unnecessary things for their job. I don't have a magic solution to fix all the bureaucratic bullshit people are subject to but acknowledging it's a problem is a start.
I've been deeply curious about the sort of speedup you get from doing what was in software, on hardware:

I know the chips hasn't been delivered yet, but, the statements at the beginning re: we can expect a new frame every N nanoseconds, give me hope there's a rough heuristic for what speedup we'd expect in this particular case.

Do we have a rough* understanding of what the speedup will be?

* Within 2 OOMs
Psychologization of disease is often an indicator of the fact that we don't fully understand the cause-and-effect yet.

Note how "stress" has taken approximately the same explanatory role that "sin" used to have two or three centuries ago.
What does this have to do with sugary drinks though?

It’s very easy to isolate out people who drink sugary drinks to people who don’t who are in the same general environment with similar life pressures.

Also, you are getting kind of loose with your definition of negative substances. Coffee is on your list despite being generally known to be neutral to good for you: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/top-evidence-based-heal...
> The Getty has […] an entire team devoted to this that is permitted to be on site.
Yes, you can write your own meta-test that runs all of the actual tests in separate threads. But it's a bit inconvenient and you won't necessarily get separate reporting.
Python has been cleaning up a number of really lethal problems like:

(i) wrongly configured character encodings (suppose you incorporated somebody else's library that does a "print" and the input data contains some invalid characters that wind up getting printed; that "print" could crash a model trainer script that runs for three days if error handling is set wrong and you couldn't change it when the script was running, at most you could make the script start another python with different command line arguments)

(ii) site-packages; all your data scientist has to do is

pip install --user

the wrong package and they'd trashed all of their virtualenvs, all of their condas, etc. Over time the defaults have changed so pythons aren't looking into the site-packages directories but I wasted a long time figuring out why a team of data scientists couldn't get anything to work reliably

(iii) "python" built into Linux by default. People expected Python to "just work" but it doesn't "just work" when people start installing stuff with pip because you might be working on one thing that needs one package and another thing that needs another package and you could trash everything you're doing with python in the process of trying to fix it.

Unfortunately python has attracted a lot of sloppy programmers who think virtualenv is too much work and that it's totally normal for everything to be broken all the time. The average data scientist doesn't get excited when it crumbles and breaks, but you can't just call up some flakes to fix it. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQPkfS2Q84
the fact that you think "panels and settings" _is_ Linux tells me you dont know the basics of the OS itself. Linux is the kernel and drivers. Everything else is an application, if you don't like the UI/UX, that's between you and the FOSS maintainers, as well as your choice of interface to use. take some time to read up on the various options before you try to blame (what you think is) and entire OS.
pg&e at least is investing very heavily in undergrounding i believe but it is still slow going and expensive like many megaprojects in cali
> Let’s be clear, I am not saying that obesity is good, or that it should be ignored. I am certainly not saying there are no issues within our food system. I am just pointing out that BMI rose steadily for decades throughout the 20th century, and that rise was almost certainly because the food supply improved dramatically over that time, meaning that fewer people were going hungry. Although there is a strong argument that there has been a disproportionate increase in extremely high BMIs in more recent decades (a different issue entirely in my opinion), nothing special happened in 1978.

I'd say that paragraph agrees with you on all points except that it doesn't specifically nail sugar as a culprit.

No idea where the author stands on that though.
That's still clickbait, although less tropey. The common definition of clickbait is intentionally omitting information that incentives the user to click.
Has bigSugar been tweaking the formula of the additives used to make the product more addicting? Let’s not forget how heinous bigTobacco behaved.

Refining corn into high fructose corn syrup still isn’t the same to me, but their lobbying campaigning is the same. If it comes out that they have knowledge of adverse effects of their product and still pushed that hard, then they should be dealt with in the harshest of punishment.

Otherwise, comparison to bigTobacco isn’t quite right
The time to dry factor is why I purposely seek out the 0.38 pilot g2. I’m not sure how anyone can stand the default 0.7. It just gets all over your hand and smears the pages.
I quite like Drupal too, but I know that clients find it confusing (or at least they used to the last time I spoke to an ex-Drupal client). We find people find WordPress much easier to reason about intitively, although that might well be familiarity.
Non-trivial, IMHO - automating it sounds non trivial, and doing by hand is quite non-trivial, right? We gotta go make hand edits line by line?
Are their not car shows near you? Where im at even the smallest towns (talking like, less than 1000 people) have car show meetups where people gather to display their cars and discuss the work theyve done on them
YouTube was mostly a library of pirated content when Google bought it for $1.6B.

Spotify began by uploading an employee's pirated MP3s, and is now valued at $92B.

There are plenty of other examples. One of the ways to success is to ignore silly legal matters, build a product people want, and worry about the legality later. It's not just AI companies, the pattern is well established.
i have been wondering about this. how well do concrete and other less flammable materials actually help in a fire storm like this? wouldn't much of the house still get damaged enough that you may well have to rebuild anyways? or is the difference enough to keep, say, 50% of the houses in a reusable state as opposed to losing all of them?
It's always so strange to see this kind of "rigorous" posturing as a reply to people pointing out the obvious declination in their own living standards in the current moment. The vague notion of "national wealth" obscures the staggering wealth inequality that also is unique with respect to the current moment in human history, as does many of the theoretical parameters or models invoked by many economists or journalists in arguments like these.

I'm not going to comment on that sweeping over-generalization of the totality of human history because it is vague to the point of meaninglessness.
FYI you can buy raw organic pea protein powder at your local sprouts grocery market. I used to use it religiously because whey would give me stomach problems and all the other pea proteins had stevia in them
That you can use without having 4 PhDs. It's pretty good. You should try it sometime when your done fully ingesting algebraic topology theory or whatever the fuck Nix requires to know just to install figlet.
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/butterfly-keyboard-issues/

Also, I'd like to note that my 6 year old Honda Civic has a recall and they are required by law to repair the issue free of charge to the consumer. I know laptop failure won't result in potential death, but customers should be protected from poorly designed products that fail. No other laptop or desktop I have ever used has had keyboard issues.
Stevey's Blog Rants: Lisp Is Not an Acceptable Lisp (2006)
well, yeah, that's what a csv is but the format is not regular.
I can't see why anyone is using Conda in 2025. In 2018, yeah, pip (now uv) was hard and you could get a "just works" experience installing Tensorflow + NVIDIA on Conda. In 2023 it was the other way around and it still is.
I don't understand the singling out of Altman here. If there's shade to throw at Altman, it's that his company occupies a position similar to that of Tesla: an early mover to a technology that appears to be on a path to universal adoption, including by large incumbents. It's hard to see what would be different about things were Altman not in the position he occupies now.
I feel average person doesn't even use a computer/laptop anymore. Smartphone + TV covers most cases. iPad if you are a bit more advanced.
> I regularly have to work with other people's C++ where they don't have -Wall -Werror.

I think you inadvertently showed why this sort of thing: it's simply bad practice and a notorious source of problems. With -Wall -Werror you can turn any optional nit remark into a blocked pipeline requiring urgent maintenance. I know it because I had to work long hours in a C++ project that suddenly failed to build because a moron upstream passed -Wall -Werror as transitive build flags. We're talking about production pipelines being blocked due to things like function arguments being declared but not used.

Sometimes I wonder if these discussions on the virtues of blindly leaning on the compiler are based on solid ground or are instead opinionated junior devs passing off their skinner box as some kind of operational excellence.
The Great Fire of London put a stop to wooden houses in the UK. Maybe the same will happen in California now.

But having seen the pictures from social media of the torrent of embers, maybe a few more homes might have survived but probably not many (unless they concreted their gardens too).
Heck, you can get even cleaner than that by using uv’s support for PEP 723’s inline script dependencies:

# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.12"
# dependencies = [
# "pandas",
# ]
# ///

h/t https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/
Thank you for corroborating my claim with evidence. I said:

> They were not often near oil refineries, or other sources of industrial polution. At best, you could argue that they were more often closer to it than the districts marked as "best" or "still desirable", but in all, very few of redline neighborhoods were close to industrial pollution.

The study found:

> Across all included cities, redlined D-graded neighborhoods had 12.2 ± 27.2 wells km−2, nearly twice the density in neighborhoods graded A (6.8 ± 8.9 wells km−2).

So, just like I said, "more often", but that's still only less than twice as often as the most desirable neighborhoods. This is hardly a noticeable difference to residents.
Looks interesting! Wish you the best of luck with it. I think we're in need of a fresh take on dev platforms. Profiles are a good place to start.
Gemini agent for data analysis
The Flags in Charts
Ugh too late to catch myself, non_exhaustive is an attribute, not a trait.
> Yes, but you don't know that they did that. They could've just bought [a license to reproduce the] material in many cases.

We do know they didn't, because many entities they could have bought a license from started suing them for not getting one!

> If I pay for an NYT subscription that gives me the entire back catalogue of the NYT, then I'm legally allowed to own it.

Almost every single service of that type is merely giving you permission to access their copy for the duration of your subscription. They are never giving you a license to duplicate the whole catalog into a perpetual personal copy.
Why not use those as a web app tho. It does exactly the same thing.
During the first bubble (1998-2000) there were Java stock ticker applets that were better than what we have today. You could already get actually cheap flights via travel sites. There was a short window where you had access to the Sabre booking system directly. Travel sites are expensive and garbage nowadays.

There were flash games that are better than what we have now. In Usenet there was real free speech.

There also was the uninteresting AOL walled garden that was quickly replaced ... by other uninteresting walled gardens. Except that everyone is now a sharecropper in some walled garden, depending on the moderator's grace and feeding AI scrapers.

The only thing that is better now is Rumble/YouTube, which depend on the vastly improved bandwidth. Ironically, YouTube also still allows far greater free speech in the comments that other platforms except for some newspaper comments sections, which also allow a lot.
It is kind of solved, but not default.

This makes a big difference. There is also the social problem of Python community with too loud opinions for making a good robust default solution.

But same has now happened for Node with npm, yarn and pnpm.
Sweden neither at war nor at peace, says PM, as warships sent to Baltic Sea
Super interesting! I can assume that it is quite complex to scrape all of the RSS feeds and build the PDF. I will make sure to play with it.
Unlike an LLM, you can feel bad and go to jail
only about 71% of all land is habitable, and there would be a lot of other restrictions in terms of access to resources, and we need land dedicated to stuff like manufacturing and shared common spaces, so that per-person number quickly gets much smaller
...Was it Honey?
Why would it be a deal breaker? uv would replace conda. And I hope it does. Conda has been such a headache for me when I've used it in the past. If the Python (particularly ML/academic community) could move on from conda it would be a great thing.
>Haidt may have been guilty of some motivated reasoning, but it didn't lead him to a bad place.

Putting the question of whether this analogy is applicable to this case, the underlying attitude is totally toxic. It's not only important to be right, it's important to be right for the right reasons. Otherwise we lose track of what's actually true or not, and discourse succumbs a information cascade, where something is true not because of empirical evidence or anything, but because "it's obviously right, and even if it's wrong, we should pretend it's right because it's for a good cause"
I honestly really hate the venv ergonomics but uv does still depend on it as the golden path if you don’t use the —with flags (in my understanding). Is there a way to do a clean break with just the new —script inline dependencies, or is that wrong/suboptimal?
> A common trope that is probably ignored or even unknown to uninformed C/C++ programmers, is that -Werr (...)

Not even that. -Wall -Werror should be limited to local builds, and should never touch any build config that is invoked by any pipeline.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. "
They don’t seem to intervene, I agree. But still, this is the sort of thing that should be running on a server in somebody’s basement, or at least some random data center they had an “in” with.
That really isn’t true. The rich buy insurance like anyone else, they are even more aggressive about insurance with things like umbrella policies to protect their wealth. They also hedge a lot, which is just insuring through investing.
For left handed writing switching to the uni-ball jetstream (RT SXN-210 or Sport SXN-150S) was a noticeable improvement for me. I do not know how they compare to the ones recommended for left-handed writers on the site.
Well, when you're building python packages that have non python dependencies and a big chunk of your users are on Windows, conda is the only option, even in 2025 :)

Examples include, quant libraries, in-house APIs/tools, etc.
>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

And you missed my main point. There will always be trolls. Now think about how many people just stumble on SO, find a good answer, and up vote it without realizing that person is a murderer. They may not even recall a name of whom they upvoted.

Don't miss the forest of the trees if you don't wanna normalize social media taking action the law should (and is) doing.
Technically websites are markup. Web apps are software and their frameworks are getting faster.

Adding features makes it slower and is inevitable pain of progress. Suggestion we should stop improving things is ridiculous.
> Likely stuck trying to quit vim.

That's what a second terminal and "sudo killall -9 vi" is for.
Can you offer your own login? I’d rather not share access to GitHub.
On the basis that this isn't an entirely rhetorical question, two I know of are Kinsta and Pressable. We use Pagely, but I have some hand-rolled Bash scripts which perform the same function.
The odds of the UK experiencing 40°c heat in the next 50 years were put at 0.02% a few years ago. It happened the following year.

Those stats are meaningless. 1/10 just means unlikely but the dice could still land that way.
I thought it was a friendly tribe of nerdy helpers who had the tastiest deals in town!
Can you afford to replace the other guy's car?
More like the decades old argument that if you keep getting caught fucking men in toilet stalls being gay can't be all that bad.
Every time this website gets posted I order like $30 worth of office supplies. Dunno why but it’s so tempting.
I see a lot of love for the Bic Cristal, Personally, I love the Muji Gel Ink 0.38, I'm an infrequent writer, so take it with a huge grain of salt, but I find it a really pleasant pen, and cheap enough that I can have them wherever I need them.
> If you havent noticed, the major issues of today is not the scaling of message passing per-se but the moderation of content and violations of the boundary between public and private.

Are those the major issues of today? Those are the major issues for censors, not for communicators.
I think the point is that those promoting ecological balance are concerned that humanity itself may be an extreme event of high relevance.
what companies are currently on there?
Because node.js isn't a dependency of the Operating system.

Also we don't have a left pad scale dependency ecosystem that makes version conflicts such a pressing issue.
> By far the thing with the most sugar added that I was late to give up, is a standard yogurt.

The yogurt Nazi in me feels compelled to point out that standard yogurt has no added sugars, and is offended that someone conflates that with vanilla yogurt. :-)

Reminds me of twenty years ago where stores routinely sold yogurt makers. Except they didn't make yogurt. They made frozen yogurt. You needed yogurt as an ingredient. Face palm.

Plain yogurt - without gelarin, pectin and sugars - is really awesome food. People should try it! Really easy to make at home as well with an instant pot.

And yes. Plain yogurt is sour. It hasn't gone bad.
>The dream can be either vivid or fuzzy, but it plays out in just the same manner as when I'm asleep, just kind of superimposed upon my normal waking senses. I guess this is a combination of "I just thought this is how it was for everybody," as well as "I never stopped and paid attention to what was actually happening, and once I did I noticed how weird it was."

This was the primary effect I got from theta wave binaural beats. Superimposed but at same time not easily accessible as a memory even though it was happening at the moment. Like with a regular dream once a bit of the dream was recalled the rest of it would come back to memory.
You’re probably not on windows 10, because that makes sure you need a new computer. Personally I wouldn’t say I’d never need a new computer, but my i5 bought 11 years ago does everything I need (as a software developer) other than playing back 4K video recorded on an iPhone.

Which means the MS is forcing people like me to either buy a few new computers or to finally commit to Linux.
It was better simply because normies weren't on the internet yet.

Like so many things, the more popular it becomes, the worse it gets.
one useful UV alias I use is
uvsys='uv pip install --system'

So I can just do uv {package} for a quick and dirty global install. I'm so used to pip install being global by default just making this shorthand makes things a bit easier.
Except that sometimes chasing these unicorn entitles leads to... finding the unicorn entities.

That's basically what happened with the neutrino. Neutrinos were originally proposed in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli to solve apparent violations of energy and momentum conservation in beta decay. He suggested that the missing energy and momentum were being carried off by some additional -- undetected and mostly undetectable -- particle. For a while, it looked like these proposed ghost particles might never be detectable, but Fred Reines finally managed it... in 1956, 26 years later.

So don't write off unicorn particles. Sometimes they're real, even if you have trouble detecting them.
We’ve already seen EU courts saying Subway bread couldn’t be called bread and listed it as cake because of the sugar. At some point one has to hope moments of clarity will break out on this side of the pond too