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> You can load code written in different languages into different address spaces, you know.

That's basically what separate processes are, so what's your point?

> Calling into a native library is tough in JS because there's no standardized FFI

No need for using anything standardized: VS Code brings its own custom browser engine – for better or for worse – so it's not limited to what any Web standards allow or forbid.

> you're going to end up blocking the one JS thread you've got

There are worker threads in JS.
Most replies here are missing the forest for the trees. The oft not acknowledged reason is that the JS ecosystem has a developer experience that scales a lot better than other languages. Your Java/Python/Dart/Ruby (or C++ if you include tooling like dpkg and brew) dependency managers suffer from what's commonly referred to as "dependency hell", or what in certain specific cases is called the diamond dependencies problem. They fundamentally don't scale and you get package conflicts easily. The npm approach (which was later adopted by Rust and Go) allows for installation of dependencies with arbitrarily large dependency trees without having to worry about hacks like Java's dependency shading or namespace conflicts (most of the time at least). People may complain about JS dependency managers' upstream security problems, but from a classic CS point of view, it is inherently superior as it reduces the amortized complexity of a SAT solver to a much simpler backtracking resolver.

See feross's reply for a better explanation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30964442

Things like vendoring, upstream version metadata to reduce redundant network requests, SHA verification, are all easy to add after the fact. Support for arbitrary dependencies on the other hand often require a certain amount of support on the compiler level (to detect conflicting exported data structures) which is why many languages cannot easily switch to newer package management architectures.
you comment "anything. Just need that one connection and it can be turned into a tunnel."

this interests me because a few years ago i was subjected to a government imposed firewall https://thewire.in/government/kashmir-internet-whitelisted-w...

and i tried my best to bypass this but i did not have the energy to fashion a touniquet of sorts. i did end up spinning up a free amazon vps because apparently "amazon website" was unblocked and that forced them to allow aws. i ended up simply using ssh -D to the ip of the vps. that worked for a while but it was not fun... the connection would drop frequently but otherwise it was a POC.

my point is, when we are talking about a hostile adversary like your government that is out to get you, regular "vpn" does not work, in my case, i tried every darn thing but until i came up with my thing, i could not get access to regular internet so for the next time, what can i do?
>I don't think there's much variability to people in this instance

The BAC limit is like the speed limit. Start rigidly enforcing it or preventing people from violating it and you're gonna find out that a whole lot of people have been violating it left and right (probably most of them unknowingly) and were mostly not causing problems because they were tasteful about the details and generally not going overboard. Society at present does not seem well prepared to handle the debate that necessarily would follow in the wake of that.
I think user content moderation should be enforced. If I do not want to see tweets that contain certain words or phrases, block it. Treat abuse like spam. Block, isolate, and it will go away.

If I only want tweets that contain the words “Zaphod Beeblebrox” then that’s all I want to see, and should have that ability.
Interesting problem. Did you try grouping up transactions? Ex instead of a few hundred million txns, do a few hundred thousand 1000op chunk txns. SQLite is much much faster within a txn.

Edit: a several hundred million txns over a few hours math. How many per second? ~500

According to here (question 19), for old HDDs you could expect 3 orders of magnitude improvement by using bigger txns. Not sure SSD wise but worth a shot.

https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html
I feel like I have seen plenty of tourists eating there (and always felt sorry for them).

Rather than money laundering or anything shady like that, I always assumed it was just a fiendishly well-designed tourist trap. The branding is perfectly pitched to make it somehow look both classy and cheap (which are exactly the two things you want and need as a tourist in London).
So, "fired clay" then =)
And that is totally fine.

I really don't care if people think he is an ass.

But what happens is that people think he is an ass and then they adopt this culture of downplaying everything and making shit up.

'Rockets landed in the 70s', 'He is just a marketing guy', 'Tesla is fake company that is doomed' blablabla

I will never disagree with people who don't like Musk, only people who then start to make dumb arguments about him.
I guess it helps to share the moderation team's politics if you're on Twitter to talk about politics or other hot button stuff, but I thought it was pretty clear that the GP is not on Twitter for that.
You're certainly entitled to your own opinion, but other people can absolutely call out what that opinion stems from: Narcissism.

You claim to be entitled to free speech and your own opinion, yet claim most people cannot use those entitlements responsibly. Who decides what is and isn't responsible use of free speech? You? People who think like you?
It's kind of interesting that the area is to this day pretty rough, devoid of big settlements and the single reason you can't drive the length of the Americas - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dari%C3%A9n_Gap

Though to be clear I agree that it was incompetence that scuppered the scheme, reading little snippets on the scheme itself the colonists were woefully ill equipped for the task of creating a settlement.
>your comments came off very angry and ranty

They didn't "come off", they absolutely are. Don't really care about being downvoted.
Zuck offered $500m for Twitter 14 years ago and they refused it so I guess it paid off looking at the price but man Twitter sucks. They have incompetent management that destroyed $100bn opportunity called Vine and that can't get their shit together. Elon might help but Twitter is doomed in the long term imo.
The fact many (note: not all) of those crossing via this means are intercepted and processed through an administrative process does not make it controlled migration.
While I don’t advocate for anyone losing their job, my partial view on what Elon will do with Twitter once he takes it private is to shut down their ad business and focus on Twitter Blue (or some variation of subscription based product announcements). This will have several benefits.

1. Simplifies the business operation by reducing fixed headcount significantly

2. This will have a hard hit to Twitter revenue but Musk will have the benefit of downgrading the new ad-free business valuation and using the haircut against his future personal Tesla stock sales. Losing the ad business doesn’t actually cost him anything.

3. Product will now be more user friendly than competition, focusing more on product Vs ad tech. Eventually because it doesn’t have ads it could reignite growth to become a dominant social network.

Whether it grows in value or not is irrelevant to Musk and because of this, he seems like the most aligned to improve the product Vs any other financial suitor.
> It seems a bit like saying, “I don’t understand why people don’t like this neighborhood. Sure the murder rate is 10x the national average and cars are stolen off my block every week. But I built a big wall with razor wire around my house and just use Uber, and I have a great life! Why don’t more people just do that?”

Oh, so you've visited the Bay Area?
Ask HN: Is '-- \n' still relevant as email signature delimeter?
Bugatti Chiron on Autobahn – 417 KPH (GPS) On-Board Cam [video]
Maybe they got pissed because it was still kind of a bad take? The imperfect stimulus you can actually achieve is indeed sometimes better than the UBI that isn't coming anytime soon.
Where shall I go though?
Perhaps it's partially a bid to get a wiretap on all twitter dms.
One important difference is how you will pass the decoded JSON data afterwards within your application, objects are passed as reference and arrays are passed as copy on write, thus if you intent to modify it it can be easer with an object.

Another is if you going to merge JSON data and send it further then an object can be easier because that is how the rest of the world views it.

However there many more array functions in the standard library than object functions.

I think it is generally easier to annotate arrays vs objects with phpdoc.

If this blog post is still true today when it was written (2018 PHP 7.2), then arrays are better for performance vs stdClass, but a real class is better than both, but sadly you can't JSON decode into a class directly.

https://steemit.com/php/@crell/php-use-associative-arrays-ba...
> but every modern filesystem has checksums for every block.

At least 2 people have informed you that you’re wrong. Now it’s up to you if you choose to educate yourself on this topic or remain a fool.

> Checkdisk isn't powered by magic.

What is “checkdisk”?
If you’re talking about chkdsk, or Check Disk, or fsck like tools - none of those require checksums to do what they do. At a basic level they check the integrity of on disk data structures - the actual connectivity, valid counts, etc. How in your mind does a checksum contribute to this task?

Chkdsk exists for FAT32, which you already seem to admit has no checksums. How do you think it works?

> Also, look into TCG Pyrite. Almost all consumer drives with SED features are Pyrite.

What does this have to do with anything - it certainly isn’t filesystem level encryption.
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> All this makes me want to do is delete my entire Github. I do not want a future employer judging me on the basis of the half-finished amateurish experiments I knock off on my free time as I'm learning a new language or messing around with a new framework or just screwing around in general because I'm bored.

I don't understand your complaint. We have free code hosting platforms which support private projects, such as GitLab. You only showcase the projects you want to show, as a public profile is also your portfolio. It makes no sense to showcase half-assed projects you care nothing or feel ashamed to show, as no one forces you to make a git repo public.

It's perfectly fine if you do not curate your portfolio, but you also get the same problem if you don't curate your CV.

Personally, I received job offers based on my GitHub profile alone, as I happened to have a pet project which uses a particular tech stack used by a company. I know people who were automatically excluded from job applications as they claimed expertise on tech stacks they showcased in their GitHub profiles, and their pet projects included blatant eggregious problems which can only result from incompetence.

Companies hire based on the skillset they can evaluate, and if you make it your point to showcase shoddy work then that's a problem you create for yourself.
Exactly! I wonder why he didn't at least act like he ran out of options before bailing out. "OK, there's an airport over there." <banks slightly> "Oh crap, I'm losing too much altitude! I'll never make it! Time to bail out! Buy a Ridge Wallet!"
> If elon removes bots

I haven't received a good answer yet for how Elon would solve the bot problem.

It's as if misinformation/disinformation/harassment are propagated only by bots and not real people, So would these people be blocked along with the bots? Would censorship be fine here then?

Social media firms have turned a blind eye towards bots/click farms because it has helped them to exaggerate their engagement figures to the advertisers, Just like any other online-advertising firm.

Then again, Elon seems to have expressed some views against advertisements on Twitter.
Rocket enthusiasts rarely look up content on Twitter. It is the worst platform for that. The character limits enforces some kind of hot take, so I don't really understand the complaint.

Elementary grade humor is still more funny than advertiser friendly, because the latter means safe. And safe hot takes don't really work.

I use Twitter to be redirected to other sites or topics, but not recently anymore because they banned anonymous users.

And it is still far better than some corporate consultants shilling for new rules for speech.
I use it for production backups. There's a sqlite db in each compressed archive to store metadata about the backup.

It's probably elsewhere but I don't realize it.
Maybe `BEGIN CONCURRENT` [1] could help in your case? :thinking:

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begi...
Are you in a tech job? As long as you stay the course and pay attention to basic financial best practices you will get to a point where owning a house is a reality. Tech pays well and we’re not even close to the thresholds of struggle and poverty with even an average or below average tech salary.

You’re basically looking at peak market frenzy right now combined with a rush to buy before rates go up (even more) and an almost empty housing inventory because nobody wants to sell right now. Just wait and it will revert toward (although maybe not all the way to) the mean.

> I have the nauseating notion that I will forever be a working class serf without property, bound to a long life of labor within my country's borders.

I don’t know what material you’re reading, but I’d suggest re-evaluating some of the hyperbolic content that leads to make such claims.
I've been conceptualizing an open and decentralized identity system that would be based on the person's enrolment within organizations. Each organization participating in the identity system would provision something like an OAuth token to its' users for the duration of their memberships. These organizations could be employers, volunteer groups, schools, etc. Third-parties could then leverage a user's collection of tokens as a "strength" of identity and build that into their platform.

I would use Twitter daily if I had an option to control an "identity strength threshold" where I would then only see comments from people who have implemented their organization memberships into an online identity.

Of course this is wildly conceptual and would be an impossible feat to implement, but it's a fun thought exercise.
Bingo. Google and everyone else makes money on volume, not quality of content. They don’t care if the majority of the volume of content is garbage as long as they get their clicks/impressions on ads.
More details please if you have them. What was the throughput? number of transactions? Data size?

If you have that thread would be great to see it as well.
People already abuse flagging systems to try to push people off Twitter and Youtube so Twitter will need something to deal with people false flagging posts or the "no XXXX" filter will be useless.
Japan is writing the economic textbooks. Tremendous government debt, nearly 100% total tax burden. Quantitative easing will tend to target entities in say Tokyo. It creates an imbalance that will only get worse as people move to Tokyo to get some of that QE. Negative interest rates, they basically are giving away free money so that the economy doesn't blow up in a deflationary death spiral. This imbalance to then be fixed comes in form of another tax? The hometown tax?

Worse yet, the government debt to gdp is still increasing. Debt still going up and up because they havent balanced the budget since the early 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades

Japan has lost 3 decades so far because of high taxes and high debt. You can't default on the debt, it's your own people who own the debt. Defaulting would mean your elderly have to go back to work. Yet it's worse... Japan has a major silver crime issue and well unspoken probable slave labour problem.

The fix for Japan is so simple yet for 30 years nobody has been willing to do it.
I think those can both be true. For instance, Google Trends[0] shows interest in it falling significantly with time. However, Wordpress is written in it, so a lot of people are still running PHP on their servers.

I wonder if PHP:Wordpress is becoming like Ruby:Rails, where there’s no reason you can’t use the language for other things, but in practice it’s mostly used for one specific purpose?

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
Are you sure? My wife is allergic to corn syrup, and we find it in EVERYTHING. 95%+ of spaghetti sauce, even in canned vegetables. It's surprising how sweet things are these days. Our standard for starting a new recipe is to cut the sugar by 1/2 to 1/3rd, that way you can taste the other ingredients.

Even buying tea is tough, many are very sweet. Sadly the sugar lobby has been successful in blocking imports, setting price floors, and generally keeping sugar higher priced than corn syrup, which from what I can tell is worse for people's health.
This is true, but I think half-baked safety is way better than no safety, and in practice I've found that it's actually pretty difficult for a null to slip in, because that only realistically happens when you're directly assigning values. Library code that returns optionals has never caused any issues IME, and custom code that returns optionals is super easy to review because there's only one good way to make an optional - ofNullable.
Its legendary because everybody who hates Musk has spend the last 5 years attributing all success of SpaceX to Shotwell in order to keep claiming that Musk is useless.

She is certainty great, but Musk still has to (and wants to) spend a huge amount of time working on SpaceX.
What does "the other side" look like in this case?
> To distinguish between an instance and a namespace?

I’m with OP here. C# proves that . reduces the noise substantially.
> I don't think that would have happened without Tesla.

why? what would the other car manufacturers do when there is no more oil to put into the combustion engines? just lie down and die? everybody can see the writing on the wall. sure, tesla might have sped it up a bit. but to be solely responsible for that? tesla is not even the first EV company or the first prototype.
If you're using `==` in 2022 without testing or linting, this would be the least of your problems. Also, with the strict_types declaration, it wouldn't be coerced.
Maybe that's the case for you, but I keep up with family, friends, and multiple groups on Facebook and I rarely encounter insane garbage. It's mostly cute animal pics, really. I've dropped (or never connected at all) with family I don't like, so that helps.
Best of luck on the surgery, and the recovery. Audiobooks and podcasts might help to pass the time. Take care.
Mastodon has no stocks. Mastodon is an open source project funded by donations.

You can run a Mastodon server of your very own, with your own rules. You can’t do that with Twitter. You can even do things like block posts from free speech absolutist servers if you don’t want to have an environment free of any decorum like noted pedo guy Musk will probably be pushing for.
Meta plans to open its first retail store
I thought that the commenters who were sheepish about including their GH repo were being unreasonable until I read this comment. I could not disagree more about the purposes of side projects. In fact, if "reinventing the wheel where a well known library could have been used" is a deal breaker for people _in a side project_, I must be one of the least hire-able people on earth.

I love breaking things down to understand them. Rewriting them (sometimes better!) to get a feel for what is involved. I think it makes me a better programmer. It saddens me to hear that this is an undesirable quality in seeking engineering candidates, for some.
There's the same trade off for C++: if you are very patient you can use CLion and enjoy great completion or if like me you're not a zen monk you use VSCode as a text editor with its 'not so great' IDE features (usually grep works better than VSCode for finding things).

Of course it depends on the size of the project, the plugin used for VSCode (I'm using Microsoft Intellisense).
It worked fine for me.
About 0.004% of twitter’s monthly active users switched to mastadoon.social. Enough to write a news article I guess, but it doesn’t represent any sort of big society wide shift
I don't speak legalese but your link does not seem to be about any legally binding ruling but simply an interpretation by the data protection agency. It also mentions that users have alternate ways to read the newspaper (offline) so it is not just a choice between paying and tracking.
GitHub is not a portfolio website. It's a code sharing platform.
Let me start by saying that laion is a non profit, open to anyone that want to contribute.

Agreed about the website css. Do you want to contribute?

What's the problem with the dataset name exactly? Seems to work pretty well.

Yes the dataset is an extract of common crawl, this is an accessible to all method to produce valuable dataset. This is unlike supervised dataset which are reserved to organization with millions of dollars to spend on annotation and do not scale.

Non annotated datasets are the base of self supervised learning, which is the future of machine learning. Image/text with no human label is a feature, not a bug. We provide safety tags for safety concerns and watermark tags to improve generations.

It also so happens that this dataset collection method has been proven by using laion400m to reproduce clip model. (And by a bunch of other models trained on it)
... and could likely afford a good deal more with zero impact on their own standard of living
I don’t have any hard data to point you towards but quite a few people self report that they cannot visualize images at all. Most people do but like all things related to the mind there is a spectrum where in the extreme you can find people who can fly by a city in a helicopter once who can reproduce the cityscape, remember the correct silhouettes of hundreds of buildings, with pencils or ink with extreme accuracy.

It’s not a stretch to suppose a similar spectrum exists with audiation (didn’t know this word before BTW!) in the general public with most people can more or less hear some sound in their mind but having multiple channels of music playing in time.. probably not most. I suppose people who get songs stuck in their heads are more able than most in that regard for sure.
What experience does he have with it? He's a capitalist, not a sociologist, programmer or even economist.
The bullring was a disgrace in the early 80s.
Well, Mastodon isn't "one" site. It's federated, so you can pick whichever mastodon server you want to be on.
"can cause degradation of the cholinergic system in the brain, which is involved in learning and memory – but it has proven hard to study this in humans."

Why is it so hard? I would think a citicholine supplement could be administered to examine this hypothesis, unless the hypothesis is that utilization of choline is somehow blocked.
I'm still mad about Vine, it had such a cool community of creators. I was shocked when they shut it down.
Guess is not the language for me. I am not going to switch to a Linux Desktop to be able to use a general purpose programming language.
Insular? Now San Francisco isn’t that bad.