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Ask HN: Practical examples of runtime modified software
Learning about languages like Smalltalk and Erlang, made me think about software that is modified during runtime. I've seen the Erlang video as a small demo of what's possible.

Still, I wonder how modifying a software system which runs works in practice. Therefore I'm wondering if HN has practical examples of systems that ran for a long time and we're modified during runtime. I'm curious how this works in OO languages (like Smalltalk), in functional languages and in logical languages such as prolog.

Does anyone have experience with this?
Tried from 2 different IPs in Germany, down from both
> They often seem a bit too into being childfree to me, I probably wouldn't like their shitty kids anyway.

You seem a bit too into being childfull, I probably wouldn't like your shitty kids anyway.
Roaming mode.
Or the great free resource https://zenhabits.net/
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I'd thought that too, but the law in question only bars the State department from spending its budget on a pavilion. Nothing blocks congress from appropriating whatever it wants for that purpose.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/2452b

As the documentary I linked in another comment points out, this has been misunderstood for so long, even people in the State department think it's an outright ban on use of any public funds.
Gosh, "watery gel" nails it. I thought there was something wrong with me because I just couldn't see the appeal of garden variety akami sashimi. And I loved most salmon. I did have otoro and chutoro at a high-end place and that was a completely different experience. But other than that, I just don't like plain jane tuna.
It's unclear what kind of relationship you want. You want to work with someone, but only 1-2 years from now?

If you're interested in working with someone, a solid relationship will probably start with telling them that.

If you're looking for friends, a solid relationship might start with not pursuing it with the explicit goal of furthering your start-up. Just find people with agreeable aspirations, values and hobbies and have fun. The sooner you forget the motivations you've spelled out here, the better.
Very interesting theory. But do you have a source?
> To get a decent IDE support, you either used a language supported by JetBrains (IntelliJ or ReSharper) or.

VS, Eclipse, Netbeans, Delphi, C++ Builder, KDevelop, QtCreator,...

> Notably, the two-sided market problem was solved by Microsoft, who were a vendor of both languages (C# and TypeScript) and editors (VS Code and Visual Studio), and who were generally loosing in the IDE space to a competitor (JetBrains)

Nope, the IDE space on Windows has always been owned by Microsoft since Borland dropped the ball with their management crisis where to go next.

VSCode and LSP were created out of Monaco and Erich Gamma's stewardship, yep one of the four on the patterns book, and original Eclipse team.

"VS Code an Overnight Success… 10 years in the making"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hilznKQij7A
Ehhh this is pompeii we’re talking about though

Isn’t this the place with the graffiti that was very similar to what we find in a bathroom stall today? All very horny very relatable stuff

”I screwed the barmaid”

”Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!”

Its a resort town with horny people and brothels, I really don't think its that deep. Someone just wants to study ancient porn and write erotic fanfiction.

https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/reading-the-writing-o...
Mapping Fracking Wells in Colorado with PostgreSQL
No, they can't. Or more precisely, only generic type parameters can be sum types, not actual runtime variables/parameters/return types/struct fields.
The issue is that it sounded like there was some intrigue, a potentially interesting side story that wasn't well known outside some RAF-adjacent people. And when people asked about this you didn't clarify and it seemed you were getting annoyed with them. But really they just wanted to know more about your dad's story :)
That Option type is using pointer, not foremetioned Zero, &nil and nil are different things.

https://go.dev/play/p/88We4TDhGQc
Not sure if joking but I know a number of people who actually did this.
"Lovely. Government gets to decide what is good behaviour (and, hint, protesting government decisions won't win you prizes). Be a good citizen!"

You mean like laws which everyone has to follow?
Older people who have been IT professionals are familiar with tape. LTO2 drives are pretty cheap and you can buy new tapes. I got mine inside a second hand server I bought, its my go to "last resort" back up mechanism.
You lost me with comparing transportation infrastructure to micro processors and apllyin Moore's law to infrastructure work.
I suspect anyone would be hard-pressed to explain what makes this more worth reading than http://web.archive.org/web/20150818094035/http://www.timecub... , except perhaps as part of a sociological study of academia.
Why did these people start businesses in a pandemic? (2020)
Theoretically, how much money and time to break SHA 128? Can ML and pattern recognition expedite the calculations?
If that i9 (or more realistically a more efficient M1) was powering a robot, who went on to learn and create other robots, and they eventually go to another planet, mine it’s resources, make more of themselves and teach other, would they, in their effects upon the universe and their interactions with others, be any distinguishable from any other “life”?
>If that turns out to not be the case, then I might reconsider.

It seems rather narcissistic to think that deleting your account would be of any consequence or inflict punishment on anyone. To put it bluntly, someone farting in their own car on the highway (and potentially soiling themselves, getting distracted, and causing a chain-reaction accident) has a greater potential impact to future events than whatever irrelevant drivel you (or I, or anyone) posts on Twitter.
I think it is a little unfair for you to expect a good discussion when you line up no real reasons as to why you would be deleting your account other than you seemingly dislike Musk a lot.

I’m in the “fortunate” position to not have strong feelings about Musk either way. I may delete my Twitter account if he takes the company private, but that will be more of protest against billionaires owning platforms that I think should be non-profit organisations because of their public impact. That being said, I’m not sure how that is even relevant to most people here on HN as my “protest” is not really matter.

I think Twitter might be opening itself up to a competitor if Musk does something stupid with it. But Twitter is probably already pretty open to disruption as it is exactly for the reason big money sees wasted potential in it. “Owning” the space for public discourse is sort of twitters thing, but it’s much less good at it than LinkedIn is at owning corporate discourse as an example.

But it all sort of depends on what Musk does with it, doesn’t it? Maybe he will make it better.
You seriously haven't heard of a single case where a fake or harmful substance was ingested as if it was a drug?

I heard more than one story, e.g. giving unsuspecting newbies tea
under guise of weed. And that didn't even involve money, imagine how much you could earn by optimizing for finding shroom-curious laypeople. (If this is nothing to you, perhaps you are not poor.)

I'm not OP but I wouldn't want to take a gamble buying illicit substance from someone I don't know and can't vouch for.
Kent Overstreet's .plan file (bcachefs)
Did you even get my point that communism is different from socialism? I very much stated exactly that communism (in my opinion can’t work either). But socialism as a spectrum of ideas has plenty of working aspects included in basically every Western democracy.
And I'm guessing you could say we're too entrenched to change it?
This is amazing, I never knew. Thank you!
> delusional

Not necessarily. You _can_ draw from your experience and bear maybe the instance of the occasional surprise but not a cognitive shock.

> opening it up for others

Reasonably aware (in more senses).

> to hurt you

To get the experience; to do what you deem you should.

> The reward

It's your choice.

> "need the eggs"

"/Must/ get the eggs."
I feel you're misreading what I said, and just seeing your own angle in it.

"They took our jobs" isn't exactly true, but what has happened is that wages stayed low and conditions got worse due to capitalism's demand for lower costs and greater efficiency. So a source of cheap labour from Eastern Europe only served that process and made it such that companies didn't have to invest in people locally, because anyone could come in and do the job, and in the case of people from Eastern Europe, our minimum wages were higher than those provided by skilled professions. (I worked with a guy whose mother was the head nurse of a hospital in Hungary, and on a wage of £400 per month, so he was earning a small fortune in comparison even though that came at the cost of working to hours and conditions that UK workers would reject). So levelling all the blame for this phenomenon at UK politicians is moot because there is really little they could do about it, the EU comes with complete freedom of movement, which many in the UK saw as not really providing them with any benefit while coming with big downsides that affect them on a daily basis.

> That is basically the failure of UK politicians, too. But, as Yes, Minister very rightly put it, perhaps the UK wasn't in there for any kind of unity to begin with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYqB0uTKlE

I'm well aware of Yes, Minister. While it gives a humourous take on the eccentricity and backwardness of our process, my point nevertheless stands. The UK has long-since developed a system where we defer our individual sovereign rights into the figurehead of our monarch, through which we act collectively, controlled by parliament and the house of Lords. While this corrupt pyramid scheme is deeply flawed, it's nevertheless the one we've got and has developed a consensus in law lasting 1000+ years, and adding novel supranational layers above this was fraught with difficulty, even if they were just perceptual and conceptual difficulties.
SIGSTOP and SIGCONT are also really useful with GUI apps. I use them when I want to pause a major app like Firefox but don't want to sleep the entire machine.
>What men do is based on what men want. What men want is sex.

Both men and women want sex. And they want sex because Nature taught them so, as sex is vital for perpetuating the species.

Both men and women want food, shelter, financial stability and to feel good.

Both men and women were taught by their natural instincts and by the thousands of years of evolution of the society that they have to care for their offspring for the human kind to evolve and for their genes to spread.

What has the violent sliding of the society to the left has taught both men and women is to be hedonistic, selfish to not care about the others and to only search for instant gratification.

So both men and women were fooled by this poisonous ideology but while biology has made men more independent, they made the children more dependent of their moms than their dads, so once a woman has a child, it is harder for her to walk off.

Otherwise, women have a very low interest to get married, keep their marriage and have children. So they have a very similar attitude to men.
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This sounds just like the cliche that every Hollywood movie tells us (the rest of the world) about college. That is to say, I nearly zoned out at the first sentence. I studied CS at a German non-campus university, in a time (it's not THAT long ago) when we didn't even have BSc+MSc, but something that usually took 8-15 semesters. I didn't even finish at the same time as most of the people I spent time with. We all had different subjects for the latter part (just as you split off after your BSc I assume). Also for the record, if you think your study group (including you) at college are the brightest people you ever met, you should get out more.
It might be an outdated note, but when I tried the same approach in 2015, I was limited not only by the GPU but also by the OpenGL version on the Linux I used. You had to enable some "extensions" in order to read back raw pixel data/buffers back from the GPU. Hope people have it easier these days.
Glad to hear it. Now we just need to get a lot of other lesser-known manufacturers to follow their lead!
On my phone it supports all desktop extensions.
Yeah sadly not always true. Some people go get lasting problems from certain drugs. They can provoke psychiatric deteriorations. Examples: potent cannabinoids, amphetamines, high dose psychedelics. Lots to be said about set, setting and underlying vulnerabilities.

Still probably a healthy mantra to recite to anyone in the midst of overwhelm as most people a fine, and its a caring act.
And because they claim it's both large and very general, they need to present evidence to support both these ideas.

To me the claims in the paper do not really seem that strong, almost to the point that I am not sure if they claim anything at all. If you read through the conclusions, they mostly report the findings of their experiments. The closest thing to any claims about generality I can find is that they discuss in which scenarios their findings will not apply. You could maybe read into this that they claim that in all other scenarios their findings apply, but that is not what they actually do.

But I guess the better way to discuss this is that you just quote the claims from the paper that you consider too strong and unjustified instead of me trying to anticipate what you are referring to or me going over each claim in the paper.
> You're describing pervasive dysfunction, not a "new normal".

New normal can easily be pervasive dysfunction. When dysfunction becomes pervasive, it is also perceived as normal by people inside that society.

> The notion that social anomie, abuse and violence is a simply unescapable "fact" about late modern societies is baseless.

These were not so much anomies as taboo to talk about if it is happening to you. They were seen as private issues that should have stayed private and if you did talked about it, you was the bad one. Nevertheless, some statistics are available - for example domestic murders. Those went down. Some anonymous statistics. People who went through it in the past and did talked about it, their children remembering and talking about it later. The way domestic violence is portrayed in media - whether it is shown as something justifiable and ok or not.

When I was child, there was no domestic violence around me. Then I grew into adult and people started to talk more openly in front of me. Turned out, there was in fact domestic violence among adults I knew as child ... except I was protected from it.
5 years ago? It was all about how Putin was secretly manipulating western elections via social media and leaders via secret blackmail material. All that stuff was nonsense from day one.
Punch holes were used in the Netherlands for a long time on bank transfer cards :) they'd be sent to "Postgiro" subscribers well into the 2000s.

Kinda cool because I never experienced the punch card era. I expect most of us here didn't.

PS who is Uriel? I only joined here a year or so ago and didn't hear of them before.
We’ve been using helpscout for the last 6 years, it’s good but we will be migrating to another service (to be defined) soon.

Reasons:

- they are expensive, and have announced a price increase next august

- they do not offer options to host data in europe

- they have no web ui for customers to track all their requests (helpscout is mail-only)
> The reason VSCode invented LSP is that different programming languages don't have a reliable way to intercommunicate (other than as separate processes communicating over a socket).

The processes-communicating-via-IPC architecture is way underrated for plugins. It's much easier to separate the plugin from the host, and to cleanly stop or restart the plugin. For example, sometimes (rarely) rust-analyzer hits a bug and starts consuming 100% CPU. When that happens, I just kill that process and VS Code transparently restarts rust-analyzer; I don't have to restart the IDE, and all other plugins are unaffected as well. That would be practically impossible if rust-analyzer were a library instead of an independent process.
My 12+-year-old laptop is fully functioning with Debian now. It serves well till today and I don't see any reason to through it away.
> I’m pretty sure that’s an interface union, not a sum type.

It's a kind of sum type, but it can only be used to constrain types for a generic parameter.

That is, you can define `func foo[T StaticOptional[int]](x T)` and then call it as `foo(StaticNone{})` or `foo(StaticSome[int]{123})`, but you can't do `func foo() StaticOptional[int]` or even `func foo[T StaticOptional[int]]() T {return StaticNone{} }`.
I want to further bang about on this: This is a plain false statement. Emacs's completion-at-point was (C-h C-f) introduced at 23.2, in May of 2010. company-mode has commits going back to 2009.
I haven't seen much evidence he's good at delegating. Such as how he remains in control of his own Twitter despite the SEC warnings and penalties.

He doesn't need to spend much time with his companies to damage them.
I had an unstable family and a lot of patchwork in my youth. Won't recommend it. It doesn't have to be negative, but it often comes with compromises. And children aren't stupid, they can leverage the conflict of their parents, but it isn't necessarily for their best in the long run.

I heavily dislike the illusionary idealism from some for something that can be quite a lot of work. The state of marriage is pretty much not relevant though. At least in my opinion.
In Germany you can currently study how Newspeak is introduced. It started with Corona with "Corona Leugner" (denying the existance of Corona) and now with "Putinversteher" (that Putin strategy is actually reasonable and not based on insanity).

The solely purpose of both words is to state that there is only one valid position and people having different opinions either shouldn't be taken serious or being treated as enemies to democracy as they are basically extremist or spreading misinformation.

Especially "Corona Leugner" is in line with "Holocaust Leugner" and intends to label every person criticizing Corona to be put in the Nazi camp. And Nazis of course you do not discuss but fight them.

And this is actually taking place. People protesting against government laws are now being labeled as right wing or Nazis. Even "Corona Leugner" is already recognized by judges being a defamation but it is still used in discussions on public broadcaster.

For me this is actually Newspeak and a step further towards Facisms. To promote that there is only one valid political position and different views should not be seriously discussed.
Make your program so good or impactful that it is in high demand and/or goes viral (or make it part of something that does), let the Internet handle redundancy and preservation for you.
So then they'll buy more parts from their friends in Germany? After all, they have to sell the Russians something in return for all that gas.

I think you are seriously over-estimating what sanctions can do. Even if some Russian machines do explode, much harsher sanctions have routinely failed elsewhere. It'd be nice if this is all it took to end the war but it seems unrealistic to assume so.
It is astounding to see that people don't revolt. Just get to the streets and kill everyone in uniform from whatever service they are, burn police stations and resume normal life. What will authorities do? Send the army into a 20M city?
He did, and has a strong opinion now.
Summary:

- People had different motivations, it wasn't all about necessity.

- Running a business from home made sense during the pandemic.

- Food and craft products were popular.

- People found their skills were more transferable than they thought.

- Customers wanted to support local enterprises.

- Companies did well that focused on online.

- Social media is your marketplace.

- Not all of these businesses will be permanent.
Yeah it's ridiculous that people keep using this no true scotsman fallacy argument about communism, even after 100 years of large scale experiments that all lead to the same outcome, with enormous loss and suffering.
> China's young men population is proportionally small

But their population of young women is even smaller.
Or microfiche, tiny paper.
From a strictly financial shareholder perspective, it doesn’t matter if he shuts it down tomorrow.
There may be many people holding Twitter that care more about the product then the financials though.
Sounds like you're agreeing disagreeably. He's inept as a businessman.
You should speak with some researchers. Entire categories are off limits because DEI politics. I could cite many examples, but one which comes to mind now is that of Noah Carl, formerly of Edmund's College, Cambridge University in England: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-noah-carl-is-fightin...

He deigned to research politically contentious topics like migration and IQ. He wasn't just defunded. He was fired.
Guessing: abundance allows them to be more selective, so the one bite is really just tasting them looking for the one that satisfies their palate. Sample enough plums and after a while you get full, or you give up.

From: https://minnetonkaorchards.com/hog-plum/ :

> Because of the large pit and hard-to-separate spines, hog plums are not commonly eaten straight-from-the-branch. Some do enjoy them, however, and report a taste much like a Granny Smith apple- sweet, sour, and a little bit tangy.

> Depending on ripeness, the fruit’s flavor can vary. Its tartness and sweetness are taken advantage of in Guatemala, where the fruit is used to produce a wine known as Vinho de Taperiba.

> Eating these plums can be a challenging experience, but the reward is well worth the effort. The pulp is exceptionally juicy and gives off a somewhat distinct musk. Some report hints of turpentine and an acidic bite.
And realise with growing horror how common texting and driving really is.
> leadership assumes that they have perfect control over perfect people

Only androids that are physically unable to empathise would make such an assumption. That's literally the definition of android from Philip K. Dick, and the basis of cyberpunk stories like Blade Runner. In this case the androids are the Communist Party of China and are trying to contain a virus with no knowledge or understanding how tens of millions of citizens would react to being locked in their tiny homes risking starvation.
That's a good scenario. I burned a lot of CDs back in the day too, and in 5-10 years the degradation became apparent. I could recover 90% of the data approximately, but not without tools like cdparanoia.
Beijing shoppers clear store shelves as district starts mass testing
Guys, it's a treasure chest! The replies are varied, rich and from different positions. They really inspire my worn father's brain :) Thank you.
I was similarly confused. The patterns look very similar to those used in some other languages (at least superficially), so would have been useful to know why those were considered bad.

As a casual Go user, it wasn't obvious whether those particular implementations were bad, whether the patterns themselves are a bad fit for the Go language, or whether there was just a better (more Go-like) way of doing things.
Elon claims that in that case the funding was indeed secured.
It's not, that's why the UK felt their sovereignty was compromised and they took it back. The EU allows for that to happen without violence.