skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't want to throw away the extensions and ecosystem. Let's say Jython, or some other modern implementation became the successor. All of the extensions need to be updated (frequently rewritten) to be compatible with and exploit the characteristics of that platform.

It was expected that extension maintainers would respond negatively to this. In many cases it presents a decision: do I port this to the new platform, or move away from Python completely? You have to remember, the impactful decisions leading us down this path were closer to 2008 than today when dropping Python or making it the second option to help people migrate, would have been viable for a lot of these extensions. There was also a lot of potential for people to follow a fork of the traditional CPython interpreter.

There were no great options because there are many variables to consider. Perf is only one of them. Pushing ahead only on perf is hard when it's unclear if it'll actually impact people in the way they think it will when they can't characterize their actual perf problem beyond "GIL bad".
Programmer Employees Don't Have a Career Anymore
Black holes killing cancer cells when?
I wasn't talking about the poster, I was talking about the post. If Musk is writing things that gets basic stuff wrong, then that shouldn't be taken seriously, either.
I was a big coasting driver before having an EV. I will admit I miss it slightly for how it feels. However, I don't find this to be genuine. Regenerative braking wastes more energy? That doesn't really add up if you're doing it correctly.

Also, for every one of us coasting drivers there are many, many, many others that accelerate all the way to the light and slam on the breaks. I see it constantly and remember because it almost always slows down traffic.
I mean, it's usually not that adversarial, but lawyers miss this stuff too sometimes.

Like anything else, it's a question of performance - if the AI misses it at the same or less rate than the lawyers, ...

If not, it's a question of whether the higher rate is acceptable. For these kinds of contracts, that's mostly about cost.
I'm not sure who said it, but the quote went something like this: Programmers are at fault for the current status in Computer Science, rather than working on expanding their knowledge they keep chasing the latest fad.

If someone knows which cankerous Computer Scientist said this, I'd appreciate a reply.
It's completely true.

Looking at Vizio's financial records[0], the numbers make it clear.

They seperate everything into 2 distinct businesses, Device and Platform+.

Device represents their hardware business of selling physical TVs and soundbars. Platform+ covers all of their other "software-related" business, mainly consisting of ad delivery and selling user data to third parties.

2019:

- Device Net Revenue = $1.7 billion

- Device Gross Profit = $125 million

- Platform+ Net Revenue = $63 million

- Platform+ Gross Profit = $40 million

2023:

- Device Net Revenue = $1.0 billion

- Device Gross Profit = -($8.6 million)

- Platform+ Net Revenue = $598 million

- Platform+ Gross Profit = $364 million

So over the course of just 4 years:

- hardware revenue is down 40% and is actually losing money (confirms they are indeed selling the TVs at a loss)

- Ad/user data revenue, however, is up almost ten-fold (+949%)

- total gross profits of the two combined are up over 54%

[0] https://investors.vizio.com/financials/quarterly-results/def...
The AI stuff is already offloaded to Meta servers via your phone.
I don't think there are any models AI that would be able to run natively on phones with acceptable performance.
Even if it did, my experience with video calls and the glasses are that the battery only lasts about 45minutes so I'm guessing slightly better performance for always on AI depending on what features you use.
I had a lightbulb moment recently where I had a recruiter ask me if I had any experience building recommendation systems. While I don't use that word on my resume, my resume is full of technologies and projects that point toward recommendation system experience.

The recruiter was tasked to find candidates with a recommendation system background but the only way they know to do that is look for that exact word.
>Which is why when random people start acting like it’s important, you have to wonder why it’s important to them.

I don't use uv because I don't currently trust that it will be maintained on the timescales I care about. I stick with pip and venv, because I expect they will still be around 10 years from now, because they have much deeper pools of interested people to draw contributors and maintainers from, because - wait for it - they are really popular. Your theory about random people being corporate shills for anything they keep an eye on the popularity of can be explained much more parsimoniously like that.
Curious timing to be on front page
This makes recycling nodes, be it ECS or Kubernetes nodes, that run tons of Spring apps, a huge pain.
Yes! I came here to say this.

It's like saying my skills in "English" are equivalent to Maya Angelou's skills in "English"

Skills are things can do regardless of the technology/language. My skills are in computational math. I could write you a good algorithm in JavaScript with maybe a day or two of ramp-up/review of the nuances of the language. I could not (quickly) write a (good) web application in the same language.

I can deploy complex distributed computational code using EC2, I cannot even begin to understand the IAM. Do I have "Skills" in AWS?

It's such a pain when I'm reviewing resumes. I don't care about the language, I care about what you can do, and that's so hard with the checkbox system we've devolved into.

Much of my career has been based around low-level C and bit-twiddling optimizations for micro optimizations of math for speed and floating point accuracy. My current job is at a Java shop. When interviewing for that work, I hadn't touched Java since CS101 in college. I was lucky that I was interviewing at a small company that didn't have recruiters, but had me talk directly to the team and they could understand that the skill was "Math" not "Java". I still can't understand how Gradle or the rest of the Java build system we uses works, so it's good we have someone with "Skills" in DevOps to do that.

I hope the industry recognizes this soon - I think you're right, it's probably the biggest impediment to finding good candidates.
Directory Opus has a "flat tree" view (as well as a plain "flat" view): https://imgur.com/3uqW8it

Directory Opus can also calculate & display the sizes of folders including all child content. (The calculation is nearly instant if Everything integration is enabled.)
I had a bad pilon fracture of my ankle a couple of years ago with both a break on Tibia and Fibia.

I fell off a ramp whilst pushing a wheelbarrow full of rubble into a skip (should've stuck to building code instead of building a house!).

Normally that type of injury is associated with car crashes when someone instinctively puts all their force on the brake and the shock of the crash travels up the pedal into the ankle.

It was a really scary time for me as the doctors were trying to manage expectations and plan how to fix my ankle. There was a possibility of my foot being fused to my leg permanently at 90 degrees angle.

Fortunately I had an awesome team of orthopaedic surgeons who managed to do ORIF surgery with about £70,000 worth of titanium inside my leg.

6 weeks later I was out of my plaster cast and into a "moon boot" with my physio starting and doctor telling me to put weight on it already as the titanium was holding it together effectively. Always pushing me to break the mental barrier of protecting my broken leg.

Long story short, physio, putting weight on my toes meant my ankle is about 95% back to how it was, just a small limitation in dorsiflexion and plantarflexion.

Can run, cycle, Jiu-jitsu etc.

NHS emergency care - great!

NHS physio care - poor, had to go private.

Here's a photo of the damage - https://photos.app.goo.gl/z8J8RfhnZ2jnVHFYA
Optimal load is right before it starts hurting. You progressively load, and when it starts hurting you unload. Your body will send pain before there is damage to be done.

Edit: in fact some discomfort or right kind of pain is good. Else you give to atrophy.
"cargo cult" really?
Have you ever built maintained big a Java codebase? Spring is a marvel that sprang out of the experience of very, very talented people.
It can be misused, of course, like any other technology, but it is a huge productivity booster.
Absolutely, privacy preserving analytics is an oxymoron. And besides survers without informed consent the best solution is to simply track less. Think hard about what information you actually need and will even look at for more than once.
How can I prevent my VPS provider from accessing my decrypted VPN data?
Hi everyone,

I'm currently exploring the idea of setting up my own VPN (for example, using WireGuard) on a VPS. However, I have a significant concern: by design, the VPN server must decrypt the traffic in order to forward it, which means that the VPS provider technically has the ability to access this decrypted data.

My main question is: Is there any method or configuration that can ensure that even on my self-hosted VPS, the provider cannot access my data? In other words, I'm looking for a way to maintain end-to-end encryption from my device to the final destination—even if my data is passing through a VPS.

I've read that application-level encryption (like HTTPS) is necessary for true end-to-end security, but I'm wondering if there are any additional techniques or tools that can help secure the data even on the server side, effectively preventing the VPS provider from inspecting the contents.

Any advice, guidance, or alternative solutions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your help.
as a CI/CD provider wouldn't it benefit if Ubicloud had their own servers?
> Give me wifi, e-ink display, and the ability to write a regular program that writes unicode chracters to STDOUT (and have that rendered to the display) and I'll give you my money right now.

I bought an Inkplate 10 from eBay for like £80, which is an absolute bargain. 10" display, ESP-32. You do have to buy a battery but they're cheap and available and it has the charging circuits built in.

The only real downsides I've found are:

1. No case. I don't want an ugly 3D printed one so I ended up buying a custom sized picture frame online (£17 I think), and mounting it in that.

2. The software is Arduino based. Arduino is trash, but I don't want to have to figure out how to set up something sane like PlatformIO or Rust, so I've opted to put as little software on it as possible. All it does is download an image, display it, and then go to sleep for however long the server says. I even made a simple custom image format so I didn't have to deal with PNG or whatever.

Yes it is. Code quality is abysmal. There's no CLI interface to their build system so you have to use their gimped editor. It doesn't even support incremental compilation, which means a one-line change takes like 5 minutes to deploy while it rebuilds SSL libraries etc. every single time.

Having said that I probably would have just bought this if it was available at the time. Only 7 inches, which is tiny, but a lot less effort!
I’ve been exploring the LitRPG genre recently and must say I’m an avid fan. I really like what Soundbooth Theater is doing with their “immersive audio experiences” https://soundbooththeater.com/
I see your point, but I care about exposure to Meta, not to my friends. That's the new element here.

I don't agree that corporate restrictions on cameras are useless, even if the information itself isn't particularly valuable. I work in semicon, if I put these on at work and information somehow gets sent to a non-US server, I would have broken International Traffic in Arms Regulations. In all likelihood the information won't reach or be useful to China, but the US government doesn't care and will fine us into oblivion regardless. Honestly, it's more a liability thing than actual security.
Most dictorships started by the people in power streamlining decadent processes and burocracy, by putting into place the new regulations that would improve everything.

Until a couple years later on average, a state protection organism gets put in place to check those organisations are working as expected.

Eventually, the state protection organism gets a bit carried away on what they are supposed to be checking on.
It would be surprising if it didn't, but it's a question of diminishing returns.

The complexity and cost likely increase approximately with the third power. Does the result justify this effort?"
Power = volts * amps

Volts is as supplied by the utility company.

Amps are monitored per rack and the usual data centre response to going over an amp limit is that a fuse blows or the data centre asks you for more money!

The only way you can decrease power used by a server is by throttling the CPUs.

The normal way of throttling CPUs is via the OS which requires cooperation.

I speculate this is possible via the lights out base band controller (which doesn't need the os to be involved), but I'm pretty sure you'd see that in /sys if it was.
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Yes all models are steered or filtered. You seem to get that, where many of the commenters here don't, e.g. "dur hur grok will only tell you what musk wants".

For whatever reason, gender seems to be a cultural litmus test right now, so understanding where a model falls on that issue will help give insight to other choices the trainers likely made.
10^17g is about 20,000 times heavier than the great pyramid of giza. Funny to imagine something as massive as a pyramid pass through your body and not noticing it.
Fair point! We debated whether to post this here since it's more about examples rather than the full how-to and technical breakdown. Next post, we’ll aim to go deeper into the process and techniques behind it. Appreciate the feedback!
Not all, but most.

Only on the articles I find interesting and relevant, of course.
Sparta buried her war dead on the field in mass graves. A hoplon shield isn't useful to carry a body in the first place. This is the first I've heard that attributed to Plutarch, however...
You stole that joke; it’s at least 5 years old: <https://www.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/eyhpdj/the_po...>
Why hasn’t the US announced anything like this?
All of this talk of having to stop for gas instead of charging passively at each place you go sounds really strange.

I really like EV’s, but the longer stop times for when you do need to recharge a bit when you’re out are reasonable balanced against faster gas station stops especially outside of higher density infrastructure suburban/urban areas. The above sorts of comments ring in my ears along these lines:

“Oh that 7 minutes of checking my email while I refill my tank was horrible. Leaving the house so much earlier if I hadn’t done it the day before was truly oppressive. And these days I luxuriate in those rare gifted 20 minutes of leisure when I choose to recharge my battery while on the go!”

The range-recharge vs. gas station stops argument really seems pretty evenly balanced unless you don’t live where there is much charging infrastructure.

Personally, my dream balance would be something that could go 50 miles on a charge but had an ICE tank that could take me 150-200 miles. That EV capacity would cover 95% of driving, and for most people I know without long commutes, and the other 5% would just mean I had to fuel up on both ends of a 3-4 hour drive instead of just once. Or every 3-4 hours instead of 6-8 of the extremely rare longer drives. Also for those, I’d have the 50mile EV range as backup for running out of gas, not to mention a massive mobile power bank to keep heat & phone battery going if I had a breakdown somewhere.
The secret maze of Debian images
Yeah uv uses a platform independent resolution for its lockfiles supports features that Poetry does not, like

- Specifying a subset of platforms to resolve for

- Requiring wheel coverage for specific platforms

- Conflicting optional dependencies

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/resolution/#universal-res...

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/config/#conflict...
We just launched a new demo would love to get some feedback.
this is awesome, thanks for sharing
Wait, do we know there to be PMBs passing through us like neutrinos? Is this a new kind of cosmic ray?
In the end you will develop something like TOR.
Disclaimer: this entire subject is so meaningless, I half hate that I'm writing about it because we should really be focusing on the neofeudalists / tech-feudalists who are further corrupting an already dysfunctional government with a sinister agenda, not about if someone did or did not make a gesture with "enough" intent.

Why do you think the ADL didn't call it a nazi salute? What was different about Musk recently then, and what nation is he a vocal supporter of, much like the rest of the political party and president he's attached to?

I believe you'll find it more obvious that it's a case of selective bias to promote political causes they're attached to -- especially given that this is an organization that's called the "ok" hand gesture a nazi one, and generally calls anyone an antisemitic nazi if they so much as doubt if Israel is behaving justly.

Follow the money; follow the power.
when it shows you the "AI intuition", it puts the answers on a plane, apparently where the radial distance indicates "intution". Since there's only one number, why use a plane? That pretends to some kind of 2 value closeness that doesn't actually exist.
There are OTC meds you can buy that are marketed as "migraine relief" that are just acetaminophen + caffeine; my wife takes that and it usually works to relieve the symptoms (if she can catch it early enough).

Of course, then you take away the espresso - there's always a trade-off :)
> with a cutoff mass for serious injury or death of approximately MPBH > 1.4×10^17g

Am I misreading or does that say that a PBH with the mass of a million aircraft carriers[1] could pass through a human without killing them?

1: the largest aircraft carriers displace about 100,000 metric tons or 10^11 grams
Gift article :- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-19/-pokemon-...
Related, bone tissue regeneration using coral and marine sponges:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240705042256/https://web.stanf...
By the time I was actually aware of what computers were and how they more or less worked, five megs wasn’t a ton of storage to me, but even then the increasing quantity of data being stored and the decreasing size of the storage media has never ceased to amaze me.

When I was 12, I bought my first hard drive for my computer. It was a fair amount of money, relatively slow (IDE) and was only 60 gigs IIRC. I don’t remember the price but everything is expensive when you’re 12; it was probably on the order of about $100.

When I was 15, I got my first MicroSD card, it was four gigabytes, and I was completely astounded by it. Something the size of my fingernail could store a thousand PERFECTLY LEGALLY OBTAINED MP3s, and it wasn’t even that expensive, even at the time.

Fast forward to 2023, and I buy a 512gb MicroSD card for about the same price (not adjusted for inflation).

It’s insane. It doesn’t feel like it should be possible. Humans can be cool sometimes.
Is being a good developer a curse?
I'm always passionate about tech and enjoy programming. Unsurprisingly I'm also pretty good at my software engineering job. It doesn't take long until I'm realized I'm "better" than many of my peers that I'm working with.

With my talent I'm able to complete task a lot faster than my teammates. My managers recognized my talent and appreciated my works. I'm getting decent pay. I have pretty good job security because I know I'm won't be the first one getting fired even during layoff.

I always consider my talent is a blessing. Until it isn't.

I used to wonder why my peers take so long to complete a task. Even if they completed, it is full of issues, bugs and doesn't follow best practices. The code barely works. Workaround directly copied from StackOverflow without understanding what the code actually do. Inconsistent coding style. The list goes on.

They are bad. They are incompetence. I don't like working with them. After a few job switching between startup and MNC, I started to realized that they are the "average" developers. They are in the middle of the bell curve and they represent the majority of the people that I will work with.

So I tried to be empathetic. I try my best to guide them, mentoring them and hope one day they can write code with decent quality. But they continue to write code that is bad. I'm not looking for a "perfect" code, but just of decent quality - which is surprisingly hard. And this stresses me out.

Recently I took over a legacy project. The code was full of cryptic business logic and branch of duplicate codes. When troubleshooting an issue, it took me hours looking through 10-20 different files just to trace the source of a single value showing in the UI. It was really stressing me out and I keep thinking why the previous dev write in this way.

When I check my "average" peers who is doing the similar thing - sure they took longer to troubleshoot, but they never stress out. At least not as much as I am. They feel like this is just part of the job. They do not think the code can be write in a better way. If they failed to found the root cause of the issue, they just keep trying random instructions from the internet and hope it resolve the issue. This further stress me out when looking at how they try to resolve the issue in the most inefficient way possible. But they never as stress as I am, because they don't aware there are better way to do it.

Then I started to wonder: what if I'm an "average" developer? What if I don't have the talent? Is all the extra stress I'm facing worth the (slightly) higher pay than my peers and a few extra back pats from my manager? Is ignorance a bliss? Is it a curse to be a good developer?
You're misunderstanding the order. It's not saying these interpretations overrule any judicial interpretations. The context you're missing here is that before this order various departments under the executive branch of government interpreted the law in their own, sometimes 'creative' ways. These interpretations are now not only subject to judicial and legislative oversight, but also to executive oversight as well. In reality this was already the case, but this is making it where interpretations will need to be defacto approved beforehand, rather than 'adjusted' after the fact.

If the attorney general says this law says [x] and the judiciary disagrees with an action based on that interpretation, they still have the exact same powers to halt/block said action.
Who or what is Elon Musk?
Logically, if Russians would want to infiltrate your organization, they won't do it from Russian IPs directly, but instead do it from cheap proxies, and those proxies are abundant in Netherlands or Germany.
r/writerdeck
Sadly? I'm thankful.
It is a great product, for sure, but why are you specifically calling out email servers? I can't think of any reason it would work better on an email server over anything else.
Your tone is more likely to get them to never release anything again. Wtf.
How to Tell a Smart Home from a Not-So-Smart Home That Only Thinks It's Smart
My understanding regarding ATC issues today is that they are terribly understaffed, and several news outlets have reported on this. If that is the case I don't know how much fancy modelling can help.
Death is a transition, I guess.
The power of the purse, like always.