skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can do better than that. For €500 per month you can get a DX181 [0] from Hetzner with 768GB of RAM, an entire dedicated 32-core CPU (worth 64 VM "cores"?), a 960GB NVMe SSD and unlimited bandwidth.

[0]: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-dell-mob...
Exactly what I use, except Ansible (I heard it had some problems with retro-compatibility).

Have you reach to the point of having to use a load ballancer? If yes, could you tell about how, please?
I have tried ASAN, and I'm fully prepared to love it, but last time I tried to use it with Cython, it was pretty fidgety to configure my build system to get it running -- unlike valgrind, you need to understand how programs are compiled and linked. If you want ASAN to see into the Python that's calling/consuming your Cython, you need to build a custom Python. It's certainly a sharper tool, but valgrind has the learning curve of a hammer.
Nothing about 'zig cc' is related to language semantics, it is entirely a toolchain feature. Language semantics do have some bearing on cross compiler difficulty, but IMHO it's not a major factor, especially within the sorts of languages that Rust and Zig are. The largest factor I can think of (compile-time code execution) exists in both Zig and Rust. It's possible I'm forgetting something, though.

It doesn't exist in Rust because nobody has proposed it or implemented it, simple as that.
I'm German (i.e. not primarily looking at US media) and have seen US media reports about the protests here online. from a quick google for just the pairing CNN/Germany there's at least a dozen articles?
You can do this with bit.io, although it’s not local; import your csv (drag and drop or browse to upload) and get a Postgres database in the cloud. Full disclosure I’m a founder at bit.io.

I love to see anything that makes it easier to use data!
Two athletes in Olympic Village test positive for Covid
Don't know if it is related but, here in the Seattle area, I noticed yesterday that lump Dungeness crab meat at the local market has risen to $55/lb from about $30/lb two-three weeks ago.
I largely agree with your reasoning, but I emphasized the profit incentives as driving the decision to choose two part tariffs, because I think whatever happens next will also be driven be these concerns.

Firms will also have realized that there are indeed two parts to such pricing schemes, and that is not by accident. If the market can collude on disposable products now, it may be able to do it when everything is a fixed-/variable contract. Why? Well, it simply is profit maximizing, especially for those who have troves of customer data. Indeed, we know that it is only under uncertainty that firms may as well post a single price. Now that we can track all or customers, we surely want a combination of outright sales and variable cost subscriptions. That is, as long as people have heterogeneous preferences for things.

Instead of longer lasting cars, I simply expect cleverer and more extractive contracts to become the norm. Perhaps I am too pessimistic, perhaps what you say will come true to some degree. Perhaps we can turn Marx on his had... again. It's not profit that will continue to decline, it's consumer surplus - for many of the same ills.
Even more amazing on the old interface:

https://old.reddit.com/r/VFIO/
Ah. Thanks. Here's the "mean version" of the quote to which I was referring:

Well... it is true that not everyone believes that knowing what
they want, and reaching out to those who need to know it in order
to perform, is a necessity for success in the world of
television... and this is the part where they come out from their
slimy, shit-stained hole and excuse their lack of vision (or
their unwillingness to impart that vision) with a defense I
consider to be the most cowardly and thieving seven words in the
showrunner's lexicon:

"I'll know it when I see it."

If you ever find yourself saying that, kindly consider the
possibility that - and I mean this, from the heart - your
impostor syndrome is most likely real and you are, in fact, a
shrill, shrieking fraud.
Not sure what your point was.

Facts seem valuable when making individual decisions that affect the planet, especially when we wring our hands and wonder when someone else will do something to solve our environmental problems.

Some of the answers are right there in front of you every day.
I used Ubuntu for years, but switched back to Windows for easy gaming.

If I need a Linux for work, I run it in the cloud, which is usually good enough. Cloud gaming on the other hand is too sluggish for my taste.
Be careful with ASAN on cryptographic code, though. It can introduce side channels.
Pegasus and it's capabilities have been publicly known for several years. Pegasus recently appeared in connection with hack that stole Jeff Bezos' nude selfies.

It sounds like the new info putting them back in the new cycle is related to this sentence:

"The Guardian and its media partners will be revealing the identities of people whose number appeared on the list in the coming days. They include hundreds of business executives, religious figures, academics, NGO employees, union officials and government officials, including cabinet ministers, presidents and prime ministers."

Should be a very interesting release.
1. This isn't a fast moving web framework, the underlying mathematics are forever. But maybe the code implementation gets outdated after a couple of years.

2. You need something to base your opinion on though, preferably peer-reviewed scientific studies.

You read way too much into my comment.
It’s hard to answer without knowing your stack / what your product does. My guess is that most solo founders would be better off just throwing their app on Render or Heroku, and focusing their efforts on building out a good product.

Again, depends entirely on your product.
So nothing is memory safe by your definition then.

Languages like C# are more memory safe than Rust because the uses of unsafe code are fewer and more concentrated in the runtime where bugs are more easily caught. I think that's a fair comparison.
If you're an employer you'd be looking at the skilled worker visa: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

If you're on this forum all your potential employees will probably meet the requirements easily.
A reporter’s fight to expose Epstein’s crimes, and earn a living
What's your answer to making a difference?
Journalism is already a profession running on fumes (literally, in the past. More metaphorically, today). It's just not feasible to do without technology.

People sometimes seem to imagine some world inhibited by security-conscious professions that is more akin to a slick movie than real life. Witness the common believe that, say, blocking websites at DNS levels has zero impact on crime because it's easy to circumvent.

Real-life criminals, journalists, or activists prefer Telegram over code tattooed on a messenger's scalp for the same reason we all do: hair grows too slow and nobody is getting on international flights right now. I know it's fun to imagine all these activities involving "threat actors" and steganographic key exchanges via Pornhub (Alex and Bob getting on?). But that road leads to busywork that doesn't get any corrupt politician's name on that white page.
Lucky People Filmed on Camera in Hindi
Congratulations & Great work on the project!

I just wrote in my problem validation platform about the need for personal recommendation system which can create a model based on the data of our activities stored locally and distribute the model to the services when needed[1].

Then came across your project, Although its meant to be integrated in products and is a replacement for propitiatory recommendation system I wonder whether it can be used to build a local recommendation system?

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/269-keeping-the-things-i-like-w...
He makes a good point about coops being responsive to local needs, and you can see this trend in larger datasets where (e.g.) the JDPower survey of utility customers finds coops beat IOUs on average (780 to 740ish) when it comes to customer satisfaction [0].

There have been some calls to turn PG&E into a coop or a municipally owned utility. I would not want to be part of the management team that tries to pull that off. No governance model in the world can make deferred maintenance magically disappear, or balance the demands between urban and rural customers in PG&Es giant service territory.

[0] https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2020-electri...
This sounds absolutely huge. It feels like a Snowden lite.
Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/revealed-leak-...
You use docker /kubernetes for its eco system and tooling for example knative and other things.
> Laws are always going to vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
GP was talking about rulings from the same jurisdiction.
The crazy amount of mental gymnastics you’re doing to justify denial of a genocide because it’s not your pet genocide wild.
Becoming a Chess Grandmaster
I can't recommend this book enough.

For anyone looking for a more gentle introduction into ray tracing, I'd also suggest The Ray Tracer Challenge (http://www.raytracerchallenge.com/) -- it walks you through building a simple recursive ray tracer in a test driven development manner.

I started with the RTC, and moved on to PBR - and converting my recursive tracer into a unidirectional path tracer was quite an adventure -- one that continues to this day.
Ah, yes. The "good old" days when you had to enter the hard drives cylinder, sectors and what not in BIOS to make it work.
If you don’t know Docker very well already, it’s a waste of time that you could spend building a valuable product to your customers.

Assuming you’re just starting out, you want to invest your energy in understanding your customers’ problems and how to solve them. They don’t care how your code runs, what language you use, etc. so stick to the things you know.
Honestly, just the idea that there are tradeoffs is a lesson worth teaching. That's a lesson plenty of people haven't learned.
Shameless plug:

https://github.com/jolmg/cq
Why the Singularity Is Nowhere Near(2015)
No I think it’s a great blueprint for other places, that’s one of the most exciting parts of it. Listen it might eventually evolve into a more standard operation but why does everything have to be profitable and have employees and be set up as a business? This is working until it doesn’t and their track record shows no sign of slowing. All the issues for this ISP still apply to other ISPs. This one just happened to grow out of the interests of the community.

> “NYT and leftists”

No reason to politicize this and pigeon hole advocates.
Just about everyone in the UK defines a billion to be 10^9. I've heard about the 10^12 definition but never encountered anyone who uses it - I think it must have been an older usage that fell out of favour.
Consistency and Consensus – How Do Paxos and Raft Work?
John McAfee Died Broke, Spent Millions on Wacky Mansions
Elon Musk Writes Off Summon Feature as Just a “Fun Trick”
It'll be interesting to see. RDNA2 is definitely a significant upgrade over Vega. Also I would assume most of that desktop TDP goes towards the CPU. The LPDDR5 RAM will also help the GPU in the Steam Deck.
I am a single parent and I too have ADHD & found myself struggling with the same things, so I created a series of "morning routine" Alexa reminders for myself AND my son.

- wake up (dad + kid)
- make breakfast (dad)
- eat breakfast (kid)
- get dressed (kid)
- make lunch (dad)
- get in car (both) <––plays "Here We Go Again" by OK Go

The results have been AMAZING!!! Voice reminders FTW.

Before this, I was constantly running late. Constantly yelling at him to hurry. Constantly forgetting to make him lunch. It affected his school day negatively. The principal would call me in to tell us about behavior issues.

After implementing this Alexa-based voice reminder system, I started getting my son to school on time everyday with everything he needed. Actually, we had time to spare, so I would park and walk him to class. His school behavior improved dramatically, as did our relationship. Mornings were SO MUCH EASIER because instead of me having to remember and remind him, Alexa was reminding BOTH of us!

I also created an evening routine that caused major improvements in the regularity of his bedtime & bath. Highly recommend both!

You should look into doing something similar.
People will say that. But I'd point out that if you're working for a typical tech company--or, indeed, most companies employing professionals--you're probably covered by health insurance through your employer. You're often paying for some of it and you'll have some out of pocket up to a max, but the amounts involved are likely modest compared to salaries.
This comment is the reality. Everything else is marketing.
'Nuance' is not usable as data for making decisions. 'Nuance' tends to be used in lieu of empirical data.
Anybody else who grew up playing Carmen San Diego now into GeoGuessr? It'd be extra cool if there were an annotated (perhaps AI-driven?) version of GeoGuessr that provided clues along the way, like "the Cyrillic alphabet is used in these countries", "the giant baobab tree is only found in Madagascar", "tiny kei cars are usually in Japan", etc.
This article painted a picture in my mind of someone who complains often/too much

> My standard response to the concept has often been "Yes but nice problems to have are still problems"

"A nice problem to have" is something we should be telling ourselves, not having to hear from others. To me, anyway.
From our perspective, absolutely.

I'm trying to understand, acknowledge, make room for the losing side.

Learning about utopia/dystopia is on my to do list. I have no idea what the criteria are. Exploitation? Disempowerment? Are those feelings sufficient, regardless of the material factors?

I wonder because this is very relevant today. Fear and anxiety fueling resentment and backlash.

--

Older me thinks progress only happens thru struggle.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand." -- Frederick Douglas.

I think about this all the time. The efforts to build a sustainable future, the solarpunk protagonists, must overcome almost insurmountable opposition.

It's more than just raw power, winners and losers.

Live and let live is simply not an option.

The very notion of happy hippies being happy without them is absolutely intolerable to the US.
In general, it isn't so clear when these kinds of examples are posted.

And to go back to my examples, headers and libraries alone won't make it, without the remaining toolchain to create the appropriate package.
Why not both? Western governments should (theoretically) be promoting democratic causes not allowing companies to sell to governments that target those that protect democratic values such as activists and journalists.
That's true: the one place where it's a good idea to mock the database is when you want to simulate what would happen if a specific database error occurred that can't be triggered another way.
Compiled executables are pretty simple to deploy without containers. The benefit of containers is that it can help standardize that type of benefit to other runtimes like Python/Ruby where it's much more challenging to just ship an artifact.

In addition to that, with cgroups and namespaces you get a lot of other benefits, which can be used with eg: systemd/etc but it's nice when one tool handles all of it.
>Baking images and deploying new ASG makes production deployments take around ~ 15 min.

>Docker based solution could probably cut it down to 5 mins.

this reminds me of when I was working on the Danish government electronic invoicing project.

The political driver of the project had made some statement along the line that a minute was going to be saved on every invoice sent (which I mean there would be millions and millions of minutes saved every month), and someone else made the observation in my hearing that he doubted that time saved would be monetizable. Which I took to mean that when small amounts of time are saved those are likely just swallowed by meaningless other tasks and not used effectively.

I doubt the 10 minutes saved per deploy by using Docker would be monetizable.
Thanks for the explanation. I think it only needs a minor tweak. Maybe prefix with “trying to” or something like that. I am empathetic to the challenge of naming things concisely and accurately.
I don't get why black soldier fly larvae isn't more common and popular as animal feed. BSF larvae have numerous advantages, including eating their weight in organic matter very quickly, and being a good mix of fat and protein for growing out farmed animals.

The adult flies also have no mouth parts, and do not hang around people or spread diseases as a result.
I disagree with your points #4-5. I don't think it's wrong for google to collect and use this data without your consent, and I would not vote for a cookie banner law if I were given the opportunity.

I also think your points about creator revenue with Google are valid and (some) are good criticisms of their business model. Where I disagree is believing any of these are "ethical" issues or that I
should feel any worse working at Google vs working at a gas station that raises the price on potato chips.

We could dig down and try to find the more fundamental thing we disagree about. Currently from these comments, it seems like the crux of it is that many people believe that it's wrong for Google to use information Google collects about them to show personalized ads, while I disagree and do not think there's anything wrong with that.

The next step for my understanding would be to figure out why it is wrong for Google to collect and use this information. It doesn't bother me at all and I don't have any moral principles that this violates. What do you think?
It doesn't matter if you trust their app or not anymore. You don't have that choice because Apple took it away from you.
D is taking a different approach. D is getting a builtin C compiler (called ImportC) that is a from scratch C compiler, now in prototype form.

https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html

It works by having an extra module called cparse.d

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/cparse.d

which parses Standard C. The lexer and semantic routines of the D compiler are then tweaked to support C semantics. The same optimizer and code generator is used.

As a side effect of using the D compiler's innards, ImportC can do things like handle forward references, and even execute C code at compile time!
Presumably copilot will easily do (bad!) code reviews as well, trained on all the world’s PR comments…
Only for freestanding webassembly. In order to target WASI, you have to install the builtins (https://github.com/jedisct1/libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32.a), as well as the WASI libc, and fiddle with `—-sysroot`.

Zig can target both without having to install anything else.
There's a reason they don't work: Both use incredibly invasive always online DRM. (Despite being single player games!) Even on Windows people have trouble getting both working.
Florida's fired Covid-19 data manager is now running for Congress
I think the problem is that Hitman 3 is only on the epic store, while Hitman 1 and 2 are on steam.
I've had to compile only a few times C/++ programs, and the experience can't be really compared to Rust (probably, to any other language :)).

Lately I've cross-compiled a few times Linux/Windows programs, and the only thing I had to do (assuming that the underlying crates are compatible, and that the development libraries are in place, which is required for any language) was:

rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
rustup toolchain install stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

That's all. Then one can compile with:

cargo build --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

I've also compiled for RISC-V, and it was the same procedure.

There are surely issues with individual crates, and possibly with lower-tier targets, but to characterize this procedure as "user-hostile" doesn't make sense.
The ability to leave doesn’t imply sovereignty.

There are non sovereign territories that have the right to become independent- but which are nonetheless non-sovereign.
I would avoid Telegram even not having read this. Their homegrown encryption and secretive nature of the back-end creep me out. The irrational part of me is also wary of the developers' background.
At the same time I also can not bring myself to trust the other popular options either. Whatsapp should be a pretty obvious case of facebookiness, and signal suffers from the same lack of back-end transparency and decentralization as Telegram. And, believe me I don't want to bring this up, but Moxie is just such an incredibly untrustworthy figure I wouldn't be able to sleep at night trusting his thing.

The only option with any real adoption (still not at the scale of the previously mentioned though) is Matrix. Having familiarized myself with Olm and their implementation of it for the purpose of building clone for educational purposes, I feel safe trusting it. You can't go much more open and transparent than Matrix does.
each VM can take 1-2 min to deploy

launch vm: 1-2 min

config/deploy: 3-5 min (ansible)

create image: 2/3 min

launch new asg: 2-5 min

Containers greatly reduce most of these steps
> If things fail, go bankrupt and repeat was a main point.

This is not treating it as a last resort, this is "you rely on repeated bankruptcy" as a part of strategy. So they go into high risk business with expectation that someone else will pay if that fails. (Which is ok in only speculators loose money, but not ok if they end up not paying suppliers, sub-contractors etc for services.)

> Judges and lawyers here push you to keep going and avoid bankruptcy at all cost, but that seriously makes no sense in many cases which can be outside your control.

This is judges and lawyers treating bankruptcy as a last resort.
Interesting!

I was actually just working on SQLite speed for Objective-S (http://objective.st), partly as a driver for getting some of the more glaring inefficiencies out.

Using a "to do list" schema, I currently get the 100M rows out in 56 seconds, which is around half the speed of the Rust example given here, but 3 times the speed of PyPy and almost 10x faster than Python.

This is from an interpreted script that not only does the inserts and creates the objects to insert in the first place, but also defines the actual class.

The lower-level code is written in Objective-C, like the rest of Objective-S.

Class definition:

class Task {
var <int> id.
var <bool> done.
var <NSString> title.
-description { "<Task: title: {this:title} done: {this:done}>". }
+sqlForCreate {
'( [id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, [title] NVARCHAR(220) NOT NULL, [done] INTEGER );'.
}
}.

Code to insert a computed array of tasks 10 times:

1 to:10 do: {
this:tasksTable insert:taskList.
}.
Yes. And this is the problem we have.

Of course lots of boilerplate should indicate we need new libraries or better frameworks. But we don’t.

We’re stuck writing things that often needs 50 lines of boilerplate.

This is the wrong solution but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. Someone (too many..) is surely writing new frameworks and better libraries. But meanwhile thousands if people really do have to add boilerplate to million line codebases.
Everyone from any reasonably sized city in any reasonably developed country seems to be saying the same thing at the moment!
The exchange rate.

London was relatively competitive when the exchange rate was above $1.5 for a pound. Note that it was approaching $2 for most of the 2000s until the financial crisis.

You could make bank easily in London as a contractor (very low taxes), maybe more than in the Silicon Valley.

Then over the last decade the exchange rate plumetted and the cost of rent/home doubled, while salaries and daily rates didn't move. Why they didn't move? There's too much talent and not a lot of companies with big pockets.

Most of the FAANG and assimilated that drove up salaries in the valley have no presence in London.