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If you have to consume functions called call_some_function(), you've got way bigger problems than untyped parameters.

A well designed function/class will have a descriptive name and descriptive parameters, which should give you good hints about their usage. And if it that isn't enough, a quick scan of the code will show you exactly how the function works - a good idea (even in typed languages) if you have any doubts about what you're calling.

The fact that people can program effectively without types is demonstrated by the enormous volume of code in non-typed languages.
I know this, there is a certain number of applications you need to file to get a job. I can’t tell you what that number is. But I can tell you there is only one way to discover what that number is.
I agree with this pretty much 100%.

Stop adding new features for features sake. I can’t actually think of anything since 3.6 that I yearn to use.

If you can’t add something without breaking backwards comparability, time to release Python 4 and wait another 15 years for adoption.
Seattle has a lot of unnecessary problems and the government is convinced the only solution is more taxes. I’ve seen this city regressive massively in the past 10 years. I honestly have no idea what they do with public money. The council members have openly called for nationalizing big companies and adopting a communist model - something my immigrant parents fled from.
They wouldn't have to. At the national conventions all delegates from states that go before iowa will be unable to vote by the existing rules and that limits what States would even be willing to try.
The docs [1] and this [2] suggest that you'll probably observe inconsistent results.

WAL mode supports it ("reading and writing can proceed concurrently"), but "does not work over a network filesystem" like SSHFS [3] because it either requires shared memory on the same machine, or exclusive locking [4] (which SSHFS does not provide, and which again does not allow readers concurrent with a writer).

Thus overall, you can only rely on your read queries over SSHFS if you know that there is no concurrent writer.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1005206/does-sqlite-lock...
[3]: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
[4]: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html#noshm
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There is zero evidence in the article for their hypothesis of "peer-state" actors putting up "balloons and drones" for intel purposes. It's not that! Keep guessing...
> We've just seen first-hand evidence that millions of people could be dying and some would find it politically expedient to pretend that it wasn't actually occurring.

I'm sorry, I don't follow, who do you mean? Colonialism? The Uighurs in China? People in India/Pakistan? Possible victims of global warming? The Holocaust?

>We just don't have the will or the policy.

Right, that's what I mean. The minute things get anywhere near serious, people are gonna figure something out real quick. Restarting the nuclear power plants and closing the coal plants would take weeks, be profitable in economic terms, and hugely reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The fact that nobody's done this means we aren't serious about it.

I mean, if you were really serious, you would just deregulate nuclear power totally. If the estimates of the harms of global warming are true, you could take 1 Chernobyl-scale incident per year and still come out on top. The fact that nobody's done this means we aren't serious about it.

The combination of facts that (1) we aren't serious about this and (2) there's plenty of low-hanging fruit we could reap if we were, leads me to believe this will not really be a problem, as soon as we do get serious about it.
That's weird, where did you get the sense that op is "hustling" (whatever that means)? They spend half their post listing big companies they are trying to get jobs at.
Try more meetups in person, even if they're awkward! Great way to both network for your next job and sharpen your social skills.
It's one of the best. A funny song with 8 different endings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mkHdnyr2RU
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I'd at least carry a FRS radio.

Is FRS really useful for calling for help in the woods? You'd be lucky to get 1/2 mile of range, and you have to have someone nearby listening on your channel without privacy codes enabled. Do people even use FRS when hiking?

A whistle might have less range, but everyone within earshot will hear it.

A ham radio with a repeater list would likely be more useful than FRS... Or maybe GMRS, but those repeaters are less common.
I am happy to if no one wants it. This is the cyber equivalent to taking it to the charity shop to recycle, and if they don't want it I'll chuck it.
Isn't that completely fake though? Pelosi was pushing stimulus for months. And the negotiations were all very public. Trump and McConnell were holding it up.
They should put people like you at the bottom of the organ receiver lists ;)
Food is fuel, always has been. An internal combustion engine is efficent compared to biological processes of motion.
If this kind of thing is longer term, you can play the "for free" game. If your 1 turns into 2, then sell the 1 (plus tax, etc) and you're left with your initial plus a freebie. Play with the ratio however you want, and repeat as you see fit.
You have them in theory — you can use generic concepts to model operations — but that dynamism also allows you to break any generic model that might exist.

For example I might say that a function takes a parameter of type "Traversable<string>", but there's nothing stopping me manipulating that object and turning it into a "Traversable<int>" because of that same dynamism.

It might be possible in the future to introduce reified generics which could be guaranteed by the engine, though that may end up being too difficult to add and maintain. In the meantime static analysis tools (like Psalm, which I created) are able to model operations using generics described in docblocks, which works pretty well.
> Should DDG become ultra-successful, how long until they start making concessions to privacy to increase revenue and growth?

Should this happen then DDG will know better than anyone that this just puts a target on their back to be replaced by the next privacy respecting search engine, and the cycle continues afresh.
Yeah, military bases is definitely one area... I'm thinking of Cape Canaveral and Kennedy Space Center, which are both launchports AND nature reserves... and another one is nuclear power plants.

I hate mowing the lawn. I actually prefer the typical "weeds" like clover and dandelion over the typical grass. Dumb that we basically mandate weird, chemical and labor-intensive grass monoculture.

I actually think about 90% of the land ought to become basically national parks and/or protected wilderness. Maybe even more. We can live in dense cities in absolute luxury and abundance (with 10,000 square foot condos... why not? multiple stories make it possible) and then those of us who like to can go camping on the weekends. Traveling by electric motorgliders to our weekend campsite. Cars only underground (but everyone has one still).
> I know one individual personally that was paid a six-figure salary by the electric utility to study how the utility grid was systemically racist. Best I can tell he wrote some emails and made a few presentations and that’s about it.

That salary was paid to discover (and make discoverable in the event of a suit, useful for making sure no one sits on the data) the specifics around systemic racism in the utility in order to improve the diversity of both representation and opinions in order to strengthen financial performance (https://www.catalyst.org/research/why-diversity-and-inclusio...). It's an investment with commonly solid returns for businesses struggling with inclusion challenges, but more importantly, dismissing the money spent on raising the bar on equality in the workplace is something I think many minority participants on HN abhor but are afraid of speaking against because majority participants are quick to express opinions like this as if they're factually correct.
I was totally confused by this as well. If you click the close button on the Timelapse panel, how do you get it back?

The trick is to click on the Voyager icon and then choose Timelapse in one of the panels that comes up.
Well, there is an edit link right there in your post.

I would describe op's behavior as "desperate" more than creepy. Desperation is really easy to spot and unappealing, my guess is that is shows through in interviews.
People who are not organ donors should receive organs with lower priority than those who are. That would only be fair - and it would get people to sign up.
Even the cheetos guy was already employed by the company.
While perhaps not literally being a creep, how do you think the various acts rate toward perception of the subject by others. While @klyrs post may have been a rush to judgment, I think it portrays an accurate picture of how someone is likely to react to such actions.
That's a wonderful way of putting it
With Hack's extensive static type checking and even contexts / coeffects, it's much more than just performance. The bigger your system grows, the more pain it removes.

You still can mix it with plain PHP, much like you can mix TypeScript with plain JavaScript.

I wish high-profile PHP projects, like Nextcloud, migrated to Hack eventually; it can be done piecemeal.
FWIW Bref is cool, but it's AWS-only and still has a couple of orders of magnitude fewer daily installations than Laravel: https://packagist.org/packages/bref/bref/stats vs https://packagist.org/packages/laravel/framework/stats.
I write Python for years (including messing code) and never feel the pain I found when I edit an even a slightly complicated YAML file.

The issue is not really the significant indentation of YAML, it is more of the ambiguity of the syntax plus the fact that YAML is a serialization format so it doesn't have many ways to reduce repetition. Now those issues coupled with the significant indentation makes YAML a mess, but those issues doesn't exist in Python.
"No it wont really help. In fact I would say it may even be a bit of a hinderance & quite possibly you wouldn't be used in a tech role and rather a different role like biz-dev in a fintech which is also harder to compete in as there are more candidates."

I disagree. I work in finance and the company does think highly of people who have a CFA in a tech role. Sure, you could be a business side developer (which actually pays more). But they still allow you to work as a regular dev. Some areas of the company very strongly suggest (unofficially require) a CFA Foundations cert.

On a side note, how do you plan to get a CFA charter? I believe they require you to be working in the industry for years before you can apply.
Hey Sam! I've said this over slack and I am saying this again. Oso is truly one of the most beautiful libraries that I have seen. It is well written, has so much more potential than you can gauge at first glance, and is a sheer joy to work with once it clicks. Your docs are also improving constantly. Keep up the good work. I am so tempted to apply for a job!

I still owe you a blog article that has been in my drafts for quite some time (since Jan), but I'll get to it this week.

Thank you for the great product. I wish you all the success you can find.
I feel like there's an untapped reserve of jokes along this line. XKCD, this, and that's it! There could be so much more!
Go find and MSP where they can help you hone your skills.. You may still start out hourly but usually with benefits and you will be able to hone your skills and have people mentor you.

The QA on Apex, that's just churn and burn contract work to play a game and fill in some surveys and do this/do that...

IBM? Sounds like you were a contractor... i would have stuck that out - IBM often graduates contractors to FTE's and IBM will often pay for your school too.

If there are no managed services providers or no rackspace type companies around, find a contracting agency that does IT work - and do the same, show you can read a manual, do a job and start growing, building a rapport and getting some work under your belt.

But whatever you do, don't be a hacker, be an employee. They pay you to do what you were hired to do.
> I'm confused, how can a single state unilaterally require that its primary is the earliest in the nation?

It can’t, it requires cooperation of the other states.
People also use PHP to write backend scripts, without web use at all.

While the original and primary purpose may have been for personal home pages, it has evolved considerably since then. Consider an accounting/aggregate billing script for a PHP application that runs on a scheduler. That isn't dependent on the web necessarily, but it does interface with the moving parts of the overall application. Async would be great here.
Java is fine; just fine. It’s not flashy or fun, comes with 25 years of CRUD, and so many ancient, enterprise codebases you’ll never run out of soul-sucking positions to bring your toolbox. Except they moved to the new hot CRUD framework and you’ll have to learn it all again.
Do you have a twitter or a blog where one could follow your progress - I'm the opposite, used to be super into fitness and stopped dead on tracks due to injury, COVID, depression all of which have caused an Insulin resistance. I've gotten my jabs, but would still prefer to return to fitness via a home gym.

Curious to learn more about maximizing the use of a very expensive hardware (for me).
Or use something not quite as shady as most registrars. I only use the local ccTLD hostmaster and if I somehow cancel my automatically paid yearly bill and don't react to the emails then I'll get a letter by snail mail. Domains only go poof in places with shady registrars and no proper system to handle payments (which sadly is a lot of the world).
There has been financial incentive to preserve topsoil for years. You cannot buy subsidised crop insurance if you don't adopt soil conserving practices. You can't get record yields out of your land if you haven't spent the previous seven years carefully building up your soil .
It depends on how long ago you checked, but it can do it now without dnsmasq.

https://gist.github.com/brasey/fa2277a6d7242cdf4e4b7c720d42b...
FastAPI is just a rip off of Starlette, it's obvious when you look at the code (https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/blob/master/fastapi/temp..., https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/blob/master/fastapi/test..., etc). Hopefully this change will kill FastAPI and force people to use the original project that is Starlette (https://www.starlette.io/)

As to why people used FastAPI instead of Starlette in the first place, it comes down to hype and great marketing.
Also consider, for example, Brave.

https://brave.com/why-brave-disables-floc/
Renters don't pay property taxes or maintenance either which is more money they can invest. I also don't have to worry about doing the lawn or other the plumbing and other hassles. The free cash flow and flexibility of renting seem more advantageous of buying and eventually not having a payment. Renters can always choose to buy something later with their liquid investments too, so it's not like they're locked out forever. I'd much rather invest in the S&P500 than some overpriced McMansion or 50 year old bungalow.
> Twitter's interface was very intentionally designed to maximize the amount of time per day a person spends online. The Fediverse really doesn't need that, but it has it anyway.

This seems like an unbacked assertion.

Cynically, the fediverse lives and dies with its userbase. If nobody's using it, it will die. If everyone is using it, it will grow and prosper.

Thus, the Fediverse too, as a matter of survival, has to incentivize people to use it. Cynically speaking: in the early phases, it's vital to enslave people's brains to produce content.
It's more than that. Look no further than this forum to find people who revel in thwarting any progress on issues that are vital to our very existence.

These people are traitors to humanity and need to be stopped at whatever cost.
When I was into Morrowind I already had about ten years of practice escaping into fantasy worlds via books and games. After listening to The Blindboy Podcast (after art and history, one theme is mental health) since mid-2020 and practicing cognitive behavior therapy to make more time to act between stimulus and (too-often-harmful) response, I no longer feel compelled to escape into games. Perhaps all those hours I spent exploring imaginary spaces helped in some way (I am much more grateful to authors of books, because they helped me develop visualization) and I try not to sink into regret. Having a child was a major contributor to growing up, too, perhaps the top; now I’m more adult and I get to freely enjoy childhood activities again with less risk of dependence.

My point is: it’s okay to grow out of things and move on.
> we simply use the computer to mark up the size of the account that they have with the Fed

That's been going on since 1914 when the US switched to a fiat money banking system.
A teenage boy asked the master "How do I compose a symphony?"

The master said "You're too young, you need to start with more modest projects."

"But master" said the boy "you first composed a symphony when you were half my age!"

"Yes, but I didn't ask anyone how."

---

What I mean by this is that "hustling" is something of a unique, rare, or hacking like thing. You can't ask people how to do it, because if they could tell you then everyone would do it and it wouldn't work. I don't mean that like people are keeping a secret, but more like hustling means going through a dynamic and unexpected route and it's not something people can easily reduce to instructions.
Quack was one of the built-in alert sounds for System 7
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Having a door that I can lock at night has always been my number one priority. I have done almost anything in the past, when necessary, to have that. Without it, that really is a big hole.

Doing a job that doesn't satisfy your pride or goals or expectations is much, much better than homelessness.
That’s why it feels so unequal. The arbitrage doesn’t come from market inefficiency, it comes from regulation/government, ingrained asymmetries, and consumer ‘dumb’ money
This is a US centric answer. We were taught that retirement funds and portfolios needed to outpace inflation to increase spending power. But inflation is not the right metric to measure against. Maybe the right metric is the percentage growth of the federal reserve balance sheet. Since it has recently inflated at a rapid pace, people are left with relatively much less purchasing power and facing economic uncertainty. We can not rely on conventional investments like real estate or the stock market to keep pace so you need to allocate a larger portion of portfolio towards more alternative (read: risky) investments.

Not too long ago the conventional wisdom was to stick your money in S&P 500, or a mix of stocks and bonds and forget about it. Bond real yields went negative. Bank savings rates are a pittance. While all that happened, indexers lost out on all the gains from TSLA until the end of 2020. More people are catching onto this regime change. Growing piles of money are chasing smaller pockets of growth in the same way the pool of well paying careers is drying up.

You can't get by with an average portfolio unless you have an above salary with above average savings. Stay tuned for more creative destruction ahead.
didnt someone here explain recently that intel has a huge warchest, such that their current sales have little to do with their future?
Wait, the free return period is 90 days even thought it's "limited"? It looks still insane from outside US.
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I agree, I understood his point and the emotions he's probably feeling as it's an HN post, but so many red flags brings up some significant disconnect in the expectations he had of the audience. I hope he's able to get some good advice from this thread, he seems bright.
> if it's reasonable for EAs to insist that charities distributing food or drugs already widely proven to work conduct RCTs

"Already widely proven to work" seems the stretch here. Lots of things were believed to obviously work that turned out not to.

> See, I can buy the argument that certain types of non-commercial AI research are going to be significant boons for humanity, but I can buy the argument that applies to lots of unproven development interventions too, and that directly undercuts the cost-effectiveness ethos

Sure, but I think the argument isn't "we should only fund things that are proven cost-effective" so much as "we should find out if the things we are funding are cost-effective if possible". I don't think the position here is that only things that are cost-effective should be funded; I think it's more that it's silly that cost-effectiveness seems to be irrelevant to what gets funded. It's not that we need to always gather data and perform trials, it's that we don't do it even if we could.

I think part of what is happening is that effective charity is based primarily on arguments. For instance, a bunch of people got convinced by the argument that a certain charity (bed nets) was the most cost effective; this argument was based on cost-benefit analysis. Then a bunch of people got convinced by the argument that a certain charity (AI safety) was the most cost effective; this argument was based on what seemed to them a plausible forecast of absurd benefits. It's likely to me these people already believed that an AI singularity was coming, they just had a bunch of diffuse thoughts on whether it would be beneficial, and the arguments involved (such as Bostrom's Superintelligence) convinced them that the effort being put into making it beneficial was currently enormously underscaled. So I think the EA field is more "people convinced by logical arguments" than "people convinced by RCTs"; in that the people convinced by RCTs are convinced because RCTs meet their standard for an argument, but are not necessarily the only thing that does.
> House members are outperforming market averages

Some of the specific cases are compelling but it doesn't seem particularly surprising that one year's worth of relatively spectacular returns in many top sectors results in outperforming the market averages.

There are many many people who far outperformed the market averages by the end of 2020.
Manipulation is simply put, getting someone to do what they don't want to do.

Actual persuasion is when you get them to want to do it. But a lot of forms of manipulation are disguised as persuasion - guilt, gaslighting, partial truth. A lot of "hustling" is manipulation too, they want to convince the higher up that they are willing to do anything for the job, despite not being the most qualified for it.
The true greatness of the game is how text based it is. Because it didn't have VO, the text could be far more abundant. It meant there could be truly interesting dynamics around information.

You needed to find the right questions to ask or the right level of friendliness or intimidation to for example unlock the secret of a murder. The characters would also give you long explanations of how to find places. Finding places became something you could become good at. Sometimes the directions were wrong which might leave you stuck on a mission for some time.

The later game in the series have traded in some of this but the limited options necessitated by VO just mean they cannot be as robust. The newer games have a very paint by numbers sameness to every mission. Obviously this is to streamline the games for a wider audience.

Though they are still incredible achievements.
I think all smartphones have a real GPS receiver, which means cell signal is not necessary at all to get location information; just a view of the sky, which is likely to be the case if you're lost outside.