skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey I independently came to this as well!

We were performing some migrations to our servers and we weren't sure we had nailed the process down. Automating the procedure has a problem in that I can't just "reset" the server and start again. I could try to make all my operations idempotent or using a babushka style "Check - Set - Check" methodology, but that would greatly expand the work for a one off procedure that once it's done it's done.

I wasn't even sure of the generality of the steps, and they were complicated enough that copy and pasting them with all their parameters was tedious. So I created a structure just like this!

I called it a living procedure. An excerpt:

#!/bin/bash
source ./procedure-lib.sh

question "Which client is this?" old_client
question "What worker is $old_client on?" old_worker
question "What is the targets name going to be? (it's fine if it's still $old_client)" new_client
question "What worker is $new_client going to be on?" new_worker
question "What branch is $new_client going to be on?" new_branch
question "What should we name the migration? (typically something like migraiton-$(date --iso))" migration_name

#================ Initialize the client on the new worker ================
step "Login to $new_worker and Initialize $new_client in legacy mode using run.sh init_legacy, set their branch to $new_branch"\
'eg.
ssh '"$new_worker"'.lightship.works "sudo -i bash -c \"

These question functions also remembered the answer you put in last time (it was based off what the text of the question was, so questions that depend on the answer of previous questions did not presume anything) so that if you just hit "enter" then it would load the last one. This was vital because when a procedure ended up incorrect or needed to be amended, you could ctrl+c the script, fix it, then spam enter until you reached the point you were last time.

I've been thinking about creating a better structure to these scripts that allow you to gradually transform these living procedures into babushka style "Check Set Check" automations.
Another subreddit that's trending these days: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/
> > soldered-to-the-motherboard, everything-utterly-encrypted approach is that it's almost impossible to do data recovery

> Well, that's kind of the point.

Great; how do we opt out?
OP here. Why are 128-bit addresses necessary? 64-bits would be more than the number of devices every made several orders of magnitude.
Yep. I don't remember the post, but in a (relatively) recent thread on DAWs, some developer was talking about how surprised they'd been by the complexity latent (pun acknowledge but not intended) in management of the timing grid.
The thing I use and like most in nix is nix-shell.

I set up a shell.nix file on my projects, and together with direnv the environment switches with the right dependencies for each project.

Shameless plug, I wrote about this recently on medium: https://link.medium.com/cYkKMtdHRkb
Nothing stopping you from putting NextCloud on a Raspberry Pi
Arguably that's probably why Facebook's efforts are doomed to fail before they've even started. By branding and marketing and tying all of their "metaverse" activities to VR they've already lost in a lot of user mindset. The retrending blog post on the Requiem for the HMD [1][2] is more than enough reason to believe that VR (at it exists today, as it existed in 2019 when that blog post was written) is an albatross that Facebook has now tied around its neck as Meta.

People are already dismissing this "metaverse" furor as just more VR hype with a stupider name and the company "Meta" is risking killing the entire term "metaverse" and any usefulness it might have had altogether.

Ironically, by owning Facebook "Meta" should be in one of the best positions to build/sell a 2D "metaverse plane" as well as just about anyone else possibly could. Tear down some of the garden walls, allow a bit more of the old MySpace and Blog anarchy of clashing styles and user control, be a better web citizen. They aren't likely to do that because they are using "metaverse" as attempt to make more Oculus money and risking the Facebook lock in and walled garden for a vision with actual guts and takes risks doesn't seem to be in their interest.

[1] https://www.highfidelity.com/backlog/requiem-for-the-hmd

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29069381
Yes, I do remember OLE. My colleague and I were looking forward to CORBA which was promising to do similar things in a standardized way cross platform AFAIR. Did not gain traction.
This is a nice project.
Why is no one building open standards or protocols anymore? Way back when, there was VRML, which would be a layer on top of the web, and you could jump from site to site but in 3D space instead of underlined links. Yes, VRML failed, but we've had over 20 years and a massive amount of progress since then. Is there any reason the metaverse couldn't be distributed and sit on top of current web standards?
This is so true it hurts.
Also I don't need a Crypto Wallet plugin built into my browser that I can't remove.
A very very VERY BAD THING.

those of us who programmed to IE5 AND 6 do remember how hard it was to take the power from MS to deliver it to it's right owner: W3C.

Sure, now it's in Googles hands... People just didn't wake up yet.
they keep on wanting to live the dream...
> Now, can the Staff of Westfall be transferred to another simulation? Yes and no. The signifier, the physical (virtual?) staff can be transferred to another game in some sense. The 3D model can be transferred, the physical appearance of the item can be transferred. But that was always on your computer all along; it's not particularly meaningful. The effects of the item may or may not be transferable; if a game is not the exact simulation that WoW is, what does +5 intellect and +11 spirit mean? The game operator may elect to translate that to some other concept in their game, or they may not. I think this notion of "transfer" is what you're eluding to.

> But there's something else that can be transferred: the thing that ownership of the Staff of Westfall signifies: the concept that the person holding that item has slayed Edwin VanCleef (in WoW). Transferring the Staff of Westfall may not mean transferring the physical model or its attributes, but it may mean something more along the lines of transferring the meaning of what the player has accomplished. Admittedly, I'm not sure why this would be useful or what the applications of such a system would be; what I'm getting at instead is the idea that transferring an asset may mean many things, and that transferring an asset from one simulation to another is not necessarily the opposite.

What the "ownership of the Staff of Westfall signifies" is a relatively easy problem to solve. In a way, it's a list of achievements. So the only thing you need to do is to link that list of achievements (or facts if you want to be more general) to a centralized or federated identity. That's easy to do. The 3D object is already harder: not all engines render 3D objects the same way. Maybe there's a "3D object standard" like SVG and you could use that. That's maybe not easy, but not the hardest.

You're hinting at the hard part when saying "it's a weapon so it uses your weapon slot to equip it, and the stat bonus of +5 intellect that gives you additional mana and +11 spirit that gives you mana regeneration". If we remove that part, the "usefulness" of the item, the only thing that's left is appearance and signaling. There's no substance. What's a pen without the ability to write? What's a computer without the ability to run programs? What's a car without the ability of moving? This is why I say that taking an object from one simulation to another is not compatible (at the same effort level) with having different simulations.
It's stupid. An immense and completely unjustified waste of time. which(1) requires maintenance no more than once per decade. In terms of the amount of maintenance that which(1) requires, the entire debate took centuries' worth of the maintainer's time to settle, and much more of everyone else's time. The entire effort to get others to switch from which(1) will take untold amounts of _their_ time.

In conclusion: Debian couldn't care less about their users' time. No respect for the users.

I'm trying to make my real thoughts on this palpable. Idiotic doesn't even begin to cover it.
Zoom is just dumb. A year and a half of _everyone in the world_ using it and they couldn't even improve UX or introduce "raised hand" gesture or spatial audio so people wouldn't have to talk over one another, or even improve audio/video quality.

OTOH I feel like Slack used the opportunity well. Huddle is a very "astute" product decision.

Google Hangouts (or whatever it's called after their rebranding every 6 months) has improved leaps and bounds.

MS videoconferencing is the same as zoom - barely usable garbage.

Where's all the "innovation" all these companies constantly talk about? I want products that people use because they like them, not because they have to.
> You're forgetting swap.

8 Gb should be enough for everyone :)
If you are a state actor you probably love M1 Macs.
You literally can't restore them without phoning home.

Everone should consider state actors as a threat because they are. They maybe are not specifically after you. But every now and then some big box gets popped leaking all kinds of personal information (including yours) and the actors are probably state sponsored. Also it is not state actors scanning your data, many cloud providers do so.

If you have a state actor as threat model you probably want to remove iCloud backups (see link):

"Apple’s iCloud, on the other hand, can be searched in secret. In the first half of last year, the period covered by Apple’s most recent semiannual transparency report on requests for data it receives from government agencies, U.S. authorities armed with regular court papers asked for and obtained full device backups or other iCloud content in 1,568 cases, covering about 6,000 accounts."
What a dummy this lady is. btc is nothing and will continue to be nothing. Blockchain is mostly a failure for normal business.
I'm 45 and in the same boat as you ... except I've been waiting for a crash since 2016. I also made the mistake of keeping my cash in very cautious investments (and out of the SP500) ... thus missing the most historic bull run of my lifetime.

Regardless though, as a result of working at a successful unicorn and selling a lot of my equity on the secondary market, I ended up benefitting from the Fed's insane money printing anyway (the prices offered for my equity doubled and doubled again in 24 months).

I'm now sitting on a pile of cash. I invested a small amount (about 25%) into stocks (mostly REITs and dividend yielding stocks), but the rest I left in cash with the hopes of buying a home without debt (I can always take out a mortgage later to invest).

But the homes just keep increasing in value. The homes I looked at in 2016 in the Bay Area that were 600K are now 1.5M and up. I took my family out of the Bay Area into the Sacramento area, and even here houses have gone up 30% in the last year. Houses that were 800K are now going for about 1.2M.

But I'm still being patient. Now we're looking to leave the state entirely. I could buy a home here, but I'm looking at the economics for someone who is entry level or working a blue collar job (or being a teacher or caretaker), and I realize I don't want to live here. Apart from housing, I also have to think about what kind of teachers my kids will have, what kind of chefs will be at resteraunts, etc. A California that is unaffordable for everyone but me is a lame place to live.

After checking out Texas, Colorado, and Florida, we've decided we'll get way better value for our money, in terms of lifestyle for the family if we leave. California is bad and only getting worse.
A cathedral around the bazaar.
Future of Dining in Web3
I really don't get the whining about categorizing Natural Gas and Coal as dirty. Hydrocarbons make CO2 as a byproduct of each molecular reaction. That isn't debatable!

The thing I do want to debate is the classification of Hydro as Clean Energy. The meager power generation that hydroelectric dams produce isn't nearly enough to offset the environmental damage necessary to produce a hydroelectric reservoir.
> With proof of work on the other hand, anyone can start participating and its much more democratic than proof of stake.

Wait, how is that? Anyone can mine Bitcoin by buying 100s of dollars of purpose-built mining hardware. Anyone can stake Algorand by... buying hundreds of dollars of Algorand. Anyone can control a huge portion of either network by spending millions. I'm not sure what the difference is here, except for the e-waste and electricity, of course.
That's something I didn't think about, thanks.
If the web was created today, it would not be a set of open protocols, markup languages, etc. It would be a product. That's the world we live in, so that's why journalists and companies chase that vision.

There's obviously no way to be sure, but the only reason the web was created how it was is because it was a bunch of academics, nerds, and hobbyists who saw a need and filled it. There was no perceived money in it from the private sector's point of view. Now that there's no question that there's money to be made, it's like blood in the water. And the capitalist sharks can smell it.

An open standard that's given away for free isn't attractive to the people who have the means to create it.
Read Dan Luu's article about normalization of deviance, or Dan Na's talk "pushing through friction".

https://blog.danielna.com/talks/pushing-through-friction/
>10:32 AM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues in the US-GOV-WEST-1 Region.

>11:45 AM PDT The issue is affecting network connectivity from the Internet to EC2 instances in a single Availability Zone (USGW1-AZ3) in the US-GOV-WEST-1 Region, between instances within this Availability Zone and between instances within this Availability Zone and other Availability Zones.

>12:54 PM PDT We have resolved the issue affecting Internet connectivity to a single Availability Zone (USGW-AZ3) in the US-GOV-WEST-1 Region. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
Which is... how?
Not for Zillow but for everyone else, yeah it’s value transfer from VCs to the he average person.

Same thing with Uber/Lyft/dash/movie pass. For years the general population received rich VC subsidized services. Pretty sweet
the product looks very polished, congrats on the growth. As a fellow indonesian, It's nice to see more indo startups :)
Also interesting. Of course I'm open to feedback. I feel that's one of the big purposes of a design document is to discuss the design decisions.

My idea was if the tuning called for it, it would just ignore the "octave" part and use the u16 to have 64K available pitches that can be used. The actual tuning map is sent to the plugins in a separate message.
I will say this, which seems related -

I got much better performance reviews and much better promotions when I spent nearly all my time watching and responding to emails, compared to when I kept my head down and got things done.

People really, really like people who reply right away to emails.
As a French native speaker, listening to "coup de grâce" as pronounced in English seems a bit weird ahah
"And if you undock the devtools and you press CMD+Shift+I (or CTRL+I) on either Chrome or Edge you get a second DevTools instance to debug the first one. "

Not for me on a vanilla edge instance. Pressing Ctrl + Shift + I closes the dev tools completly, no matter where the focus is. (on Win 10, german localisation, Edge 95.0.1020.40)

But it works like you describe (and how I know it) on a vanilla chrome dev instance.

So is there maybe some hidden setting, one needs to activate first?
I'd prefer a collegue who says "I can do A and B, but I don't know how to do C", and I can be sure, that (s)he'll actually do A and B, while trying to solve C, than have someone who's capable of A, B and C, promises (s)he'll do it, but then doesn't.
It's not "doubt" that is harmful, but "doubt" that ties into people's feelings of anxiety. Long after a person is exposed to this kind of propaganda, the false "facts" will be forgotten but the emotional effect of the anxiety will remain.

That's the goal of the merchants of chaos.
No attack here.
This is why I can’t have nice things.
How much money do these developing countries have to pump the price of Bitcoin from 0 to 65k??

This is New York and San Francisco buying , don’t kid yourself.

For sure it ain’t Lagos and and Caracas pumping the price to 65k
I put my heavy blog content on BunnyCDN. It’s impossibly cheap. I’m happy to pay a few quarters if a blog post happens to blow up.
> Sun, wind [have] random output

While true, they do correlate to demand. The sun is going to be the strongest when A/C demand is greatest, shaving peak demand.

Same with wind: a hot wind in summer will drive A/C demand. Same in winter with winds driving resistive heating or the 1hp load from furnace circulating fans.

This falls apart when your system becomes significantly double digit solar/wind, but smaller contributions should pair well with demand.

Hydro can be the worst because you get the most supply at spring thaw, but this the 3rd or 4th lowest demand season.
Apple Silicon macs lack T2 chips, and you cannot "resolder the SSD" on modern Macs, really, you'd need to resolder 8-16 chips on the actual main board, make sure they are the right kind of chips (not something Apple will tell you), and then pray it works --- did it fail because there's a proprietary process of pairing SSD chips to the motherboard, or because one BGA ball on one of the chips didn't sit correctly? Or because it was the controller that died? It's a nightmare to test and pinpoint, you're better off replacing the thing.

There was a video of Louis Rossmann where he explained why he didn't want to do component level repairs on new macs if it was RAM or SSD. I trust his expertise on the matter.
I had a similar conversation with a heavily-intoxicated MongoDB sales guy in a diner at 1AM after the second day of KubeCon 2019. My concerns were primarily around data consistency issues during denormalization and lack of schema. H pitch was essentially "Who cares?! I'm getting [three-letter agency] to move _everything_ to Mongo because it's so cheap and easy! It's all just JSON! Why does it need a schema?!"

He probably made more than I did that year so maybe he has a point ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Haha I’ve been there too but it’s scary
Trainees in the IT industry in Europe just say no
Fission site isolation is not enabled by default in Firefox 94. Since this is a huge change, it's being slowly rolled out to all Firefox 94 users over the next four weeks to watch for bugs. It's already been enabled for 60% of Firefox Nightly users and 40% of Firefox Beta users for a few release cycles.
You're preaching to the choir. This is why I'd always rather read an article or a book than watch a video if I'm trying to learn something. I'll watch TV or a movie if I'm only aiming to be entertained. But for something I want to try to retain or if I'm trying to get business done, text wins for me.
> most end users

These will complain loudly when the icon changes, but, really, don’t see the OS beyond the apps IT makes available.

> and a lot of IT folks don't. that and corporate VPN security stuff.

Here lies the problem. A lot of corporate IT departments have no idea of how to configure a fleet of Linux machines.
Blackstone, Blackrock - just buy their stock then, they are publicly traded
You can also use gnome-flashback which looks like Gnome 2.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeFlashback
And yet it's been a decade since this video and practically everything it mentions is a non-problem now.

No one is spinning up new borgmon instances. Spanner is replicated by default. Only very low level services need to care about PCRs. If you use one of the approved frameworks it will set up practically all the production configuration for you. Basic alerting for your service is automated, just turn it on, picking cells to run in is automated, scaling your service is automated, etc.

Actually getting quota remains a problem... :-p

Anyway I would argue we can and do have nice things, and that has happened precisely through the efforts of a huge number of people at all levels.

Edit to add: of course, there are always new problems to complain about! It's the march of progress after all.
It’s a bit less bad. At least it’s not a locally installed executable.
Poly Bridge (1 and 2). It’s really great.
It's a critical deviation, which shouldn't have been done on a whim.

Seldon's psycohistory predicted the path of the whole empire with great accuracy, but knowing their destiny would make people act differently, so Terminus didn't have psycohistorians, just a vault that would open at crucial events and give information. It would have worked well until the Mule threw a wrench with its mental ability to tune other minds. He wasn't a clairvoyant, he just altered people's feelings. The Second Foundation put the plan back on track thanks to their own mental abilities, but they also weren't clairvoyants. So far only psychohistory could predict the future. Later we have Golan Trevize, who also couldn't see the future, but had a gift for choosing right with incomplete information. Even Gaia had to rely on Trevize for its final decision.

Foundation's Gaal can see the future, and this is a world breaking ability. Hari Seldon and his psycohistory become obsolete since she can do that on her own, any action against the Foundation is moot, any deviation from the plan can be predicted, etc.

The only way to write Gaal out of that corner is making her clairvoyance work as reliable or unreliable as the plot needs (lazy writing), and judging from how she can predict and block micrometeorites now (which can puncture a ship's shield and hull, but not a tablet), it seems that's the route they will take. There was no need to introduce clairvoyance in the Foundation's universe.
"Sprawl allows the middle class to continue to exist? There are plenty of places that don't have nearly the level of sprawl that we have in the US; does the middle class not exist there? (Japan, for example.)"

I can't really speak to the existence of the middle class but I'll just leave this here: "An astonishing fact: 92 percent of Japanese [like many countries including the US] consider themselves middle-class, according to a labor ministry report published in 2019. That seems to clash with another fact: that nearly 40 percent of Japan’s work force is employed on a part-time or temporary basis, earning less and more vulnerable to layoffs than regular company employees."

Anyway, this is interesting: https://resources.realestate.co.jp/rent/what-is-the-average-... A 1K/1DK (1 bedroom) apartment in the Central Six wards of Tokyo averages 106,000Y per month. The other 17 wards average 72,000Y. A 1K/1DK apartment in Saitama (https://resources.realestate.co.jp/rent/what-is-the-average-...) is 49,000Y. That's ~30-45 min by car or 40 min to 1hr by train (according to Google); i.e. kinda sprawly.

I can't find a median wage for Japan, but the average seems to be about 300,000Y per month, meaning that apartment in the Central Six is out of reach, the other wards would be doable, and outside Tokyo proper would be very doable.
That’s progress.
How the Stable Salt Reactor Turns Nuclear Waste to Clean Power
M1 is just a continuation of the same, it’s just fanless, cooler, less energy usage and optimized for a few types of uses (very useful for web). CPUs really haven’t had a jump since sandy/ivy bridge, and GPUs got much better with the nvidia models in 2016, but it didn’t show up in the real world as much as it did in running machine learning algorithms. Gaming laptops existed with good if overly hot and expensive GPUs.