skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gets more in aid than some get paid in a month WORKING?

From the article:

> [Chavez is] barely getting by with his $1,100 monthly social security payments and subsidized housing in the Tenderloin.

Unless the article is misrepresenting the source of the funds, his income is solely Social Security payouts. That's money that every living American is entitled to after they reach a certain age, or meet a few other eligibility requirements. Chavez already paid in to Social Security earlier in his life. Now he is receiving that money back, as promised by the Federal government.

Unless your suggestion is to claw back that entitlement for folks who are convicted of felony manslaughter or murder charges, then his income is immaterial.

_Is_ that your suggestion?
Energy usage increases in the winter because of heating. That will cause price increases which will put pressure on European politicians to resolve the war.
Do you think the companies that insure these stores will just trust that something has been stolen if the store didn’t report it to the police?
Actually, Masters himself specifically says that the illegal immigrants themselves are seen by Democrats as future voters (whether he means by illegal voting, future normalization, or what is less clear, but he very clearly is not talking about their children—who, if born here, would be natural born citizens, and otherwise would be immigrants, legal or otherwise, themselves.)
So you support the state housing them at taxpayer expense? I do too, I just think they should have their own keys.
Incremental games taught me.
It seems complex but it boils down to the same things; the major discriminating symptom should be Post-exertional malaise (PEM) which is a sign of immune dysfunction. It’s common to ME/CFS and Long Covid. Everything else is just jumping on a bandwagon. The only real difference I’ve seen long covid has to ME/CFS is some additional tissue damage. The problem is that ME/CFS is very difficult to treat and doctors typically have no clue, so what hope do patients have.
Oops, I knew it was 3M/mo, typo! Thanks for the note - fixed.

Edit: Deno looks interesting - the requirement here is basically similar pricing to Cloudflare, but also needs strongly consistent or low latency eventually consistent k-v storage. I originally tried prototyping this with Workers KV (since you can use it without even putting in a credit card) but the latencies were too high and it caused too many problems. Does Deno have storage?

Edit2: Oh, of course, the websockets would invalidate the need for storage. Maybe this would be a better option! The main q is how likely websockets will remain free. Cloudflare's pricing for websockets isn't that encouraging.
We'll see, pundits have been predicting a turning tide since a few weeks into the war. Hasn't happened yet.
There is a bit of a debate about whether or not multiplication should be defined as repeated addition:

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_06_08.htm...
https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/devlin_0708_08.h...
There are certain spiritual traditions where the goal is to achieve a permanent of bliss: samadhi/Nirvana/enlightenment etc. Some of these schools of thought go back 5000+ years and the philosophy and science of happiness has been worked out in great details. I'm a recent convert to Nondualism and right now all I want to do is to meditate. Sometimes it's so peaceful and blissful that everything else pales in comparison.
It's also interesting where we choose to draw the line for what's considered "low-tech." The most common method for producing monocrystalline silicon was invented in 1915, and doesn't produce that much waste or involve exotic materials:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czochralski_method
I remember being in SF in 2016 and there were whole city blocks that were barricaded and the gangs ran checkpoints. There were clearly stolen goods behind the checkpoint and drugs as well.

I recall me and a few co-workers going to eat right next to one of these checkpoints. Open needles, could buy drugs right there at the entrance. The restaurant was nice, a niche pizza place. You could order 20-30 kinds of different meats on a neapolitan style pizza. We walked out of the restaurant to a fully nude woman, giving head to a man. Another nude woman near by and a pimp looking at us. We just turned and walked around them.

This is San Francisco I remember.

Having wandered all over SF Oakland, and the Bay Area generally… It is the most dystopian place I can imagine. It’s a cultural rotten to its core in many ways. Yes, the art, the passion, it’s beautiful. But the people and city have lost the humanity, ironically enough.
Maybe the tweeter misrepresented the situation for ragebait. Maybe this is a software bug. Maybe, maybe, maybe. If we’re going to dismiss every aspect of the situation to the point of meaninglessness or speculation, why bother? I’m not saying that the takebacksies by Tesla is right, but I’ve also never heard of a manufacturer changing the badges on a car, especially a used one, and in a situation where the tweeter clearly says Tesla made a mistake that they corrected years later - nothing "nefarious". Whereas it is not unheard of for owners to change badges on a car.
How did these user scripts work? I don't get how they could be "blocked" now. I've made my own snippets of JS to run on certain sites before.
I think it's more about how can you make the most of your life despite being "pipelined". It's not realistic for everyone to pursue fulfillment by aiming to be world renowned in a specific area, for both the reasons you mentioned and there aren't enough areas where everyone to have their own individual hyperspecialized niche. However, your point does apply at a more modest level as well; if you're fulfillment requires costly institutional education, your socioeconomic background could close doors prematurely
Sure thing, glad you like it!
Also Google, Verizon, and Goldman:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2019/07/23/google-set...
have you checked about firecracker vm?
Masters views have (assuming his various presentations have all been honest, which is perhaps
unwarranted, especially given the strategic convenience of his current Trumpist views) evolved rather radically:

https://jewishinsider.com/2022/06/blake-masters-arizona-sena...
I've heard this from various places, but it doesn't work for me. Maybe I'm "unlearnable" or something. I spend a couple of hours on it, get tired of it because it's not appealing to me, come back a few weeks later, do the same thing, and nothing improves.

Or it somehow comes to understand that there's certain general topics I'm interested in more than others, but they're all seemingly variations on the same theme, just applied to different topic areas.

I'm either completely missing something or the death of TikTok will become the fact that it is so predictable that it's memeable. Inevitably someone will make a TikTok satirizing TikToks, and then everyone will move [back] to something else.

Social media sometimes feels like an echo chamber to me, never quite right. Blogs, websites, forums, and so forth (yes, YouTube) all make sense to me. Sites focused on bottlenecking communication all lose something key imho. It's like they're taking something meant to be supplementary and trying to force it as the main conduit.
> cringeworthy sentimentalism

This is new to me -- anyone have an example?
Yes and it was the only thing worked after even the safe mode (win10) didn't want to start properly. Dism was kind of "not working", too.
Remember how everyone piled on Boudin for working to get his parents released? Turns out Jenkins is doing the same thing for Mayor Breed's brother. Meanwhile Jenkins withdrew over a dozen drug cases because she felt that Boudin overcharged those people. If you really believe cronyism will turn the tide, I've some oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you.

https://sfist.com/2022/07/28/state-ag-refuses-da-jenkins-req...

https://www.davisvanguard.org/2022/07/regardless-of-what-da-...
Topics yes (or rather, sort of), the content, no. For me at least.
Link is broken, use this one: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/07/22/serious-bugs-remaining-i...
As another dev with decades of experience, I've got to ask, why would you "validate" every commit in a PR lol. The reason every CI pipeline is setup to only validate the tip is because your combined outgoing changes that is about to be merged is all that matters. Nobody cares if you have an experimental branch full of commits failing lint and tests as long as the PR doesn't.

However, in my experience, I've seen plenty of pipelines setup to run lint on every push on a PR branch, which is effectively only checking outgoing changes before merge, it's just in this case it's merging to your feature branch. My point still stands - as long as linting is done on CI, and you've set up your editor to lint as you edit, you don't need pre-commit.

I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make. It sounds like all you've done is moved all of the tools you'd call anyway from a Makefile to a YAML file.
You know what I’m going to tell God when I see him?

I’m going to tell him I was framed.
I thought this would be about the glory days of “Mash-ups” using web APIs. Flickr + Twitter + Delicious tags to create a new experience. 2007 ? What a period to be a hacker!
Consider an object referring to a network connection, say to a database. The object may be eligible for garbage collection but still have to respond to events from the network.

When it finally gets destroyed, its Destructor method would be called. At which point the thing at the other end of the network is told that it was talking to a zombie.

Note that network connections can be expensive for the other end, so this is a horrible design. We put a lot of work in to reliably get rid of connections when not needed. But you still need the fallback of being able to correctly handle programmer oversights.
I think it really depends on your social group. I met a lot of my friends here from doing improv classes and things like that. I'm sure if I worked a 9-5 job and made friends there my social network would be quite different.

After living in SF and Sydney, Melbourne still feels crazy cheap to me. And property prices are set to drop another 15% over the next 18 months[1].

[1] https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/buying/australia...
I'm not disputing your personal recollection, just adding another data point, but I have lived in SF since 2013 and have never experienced anything like that.
If your criteria is "Wikipedia notability", we have been ignoring more like 98 per cent of our potential since antiquity. By far the most people who lived and died were subsistence farmers, most of them not even personally free (either serfs or slaves), and good luck making it to Wikipedia as a serf boy from Upper Nowhere, rural Campania of 635 AD.

Sometimes I wonder whether the entire contemporary American obsession with race and gender has been deliberately and cynically manufactured or at least blown up beyond all proportion to keep everyone's eyes away from class, the most formidable societal barrier almost everywhere, including societies that are ethnically fairly homogenous.
What do you mean, they “know there’s no point in arresting criminals”? The point is that it’s their job. They literally get paid to do it. If my employer pays me for a certain amount of work and decides to only use half of it, I don’t thereafter get to only do half the work because there’s “no point” in doing the rest.
> So you support the state housing them at taxpayer expense

Describing prison as "housing at taxpayer expense" is... one way of putting it.

I think they should be given a choice: go to jail or get a job and 2 months of state funded housing. If you go back on the streets because you didn't want to work, then police will pursue every public nuisance, public urination, shoplifting, etc. charge and send you to jail. If you're mentally ill you're forcibly committed. If you're a drug addict, you're forced to go to rehab or go to jail.

Otherwise these people will never learn to be decent members of society (you know, people that don't steal and shit on the streets - the bar is on the floor).

A lot of these people don't want to go into shelters because those shelters have no drug use/no alcohol policies. But I say the state should not be supporting their drug habits with taxpayer dollars.
> We'll see, pundits have been predicting a turning tide since a few weeks into the war. Hasn't happened yet.

Yeah, it did, which is why Russia radically changed focus and apparent strategy from decapitating and pacifying the regime to trying to seize a continuous arc through Eastern and Southern Ukraine to connect to the enclave they also clearly want to seize in Moldova.
> But there is a potential for confusion with the minor but common usage “actually a collection of if statements but last I checked AI wasn’t a protected term” which you have to be aware of.

Did someone call my name?
> through io_uring instead of having to use different async options or threadpools for everything

io_uring is a threadpool, and to get performance above epoll, it probably needs to expose the pools and the scheduling choices. eBPF for sceduling? All the simplicity of io_uring basically goes out the window wit that. I added ZEROCOPY to an io_uring instance and it wasn't a fun experience.

It is a very strange interface for networking code. Sending is already mostly async for TCP, and for UDP almost useless (esp without send/recv mmsg calls - you have to make all the packet ordering explicit when create the requests - complete pain in the ass. On the receiving end you have to have an outstanding read request even though you have no idea how much you are going to read (reminds me of the HTTP async hack). The Mmap Packet interface on that is better, just dropping packets off in your address space - for the most part read is a useless call for high perforamnce stuff - you're always reading and buffering. Reading UDP sucks also since no mmsg call and you feel like you're pickign up thousands of pennies off the ground because the asshole wouldn't give you a $10 bill.

It doesn't compose well, hard to debug, etc. There are other interfaces (besides the old, decrepit 200+ verb RDMA/RoCe/iWarp crapfest coming out of the latest standards running jokes). Do something besides BSD sockets on the high end. Anybody rememebr SysV IPC - that might be intereting to try again. BSD netowrking is not the end all of networking APIs.
I'm not taking a stance, just pointing out that there does not need to be any single metric you need to optimise for.
Your first paragraph is only true if malloc/free counts as GC. I have seen people try to claim that free() is just manual GC. You can say that if you want, but it renders the terminology meaningless.

Any true GC strategy (== one that collects cycles) will fundamentally touch and allocate more memory than malloc/free, where reference counting is pretty close to malloc/free performance; it doesn’t need to touch any memory not involved. At OS scale, that’s a huge performance advantage. You can scope down the memory involved in GC using advanced, modern GC techniques, but you’re still going to be behind malloc/free in overall efficiency — cache efficiency, memory maintenance overhead, and additional memory required for bookkeeping. And reference counting will be pretty darn close to malloc/free.
I don't happily take ten hour plus flights, I take them because if I need to go somewhere that takes that long by plane there's no viable alternative.
What's stopping them from making a cert and encoding it in a QR code? It was perfectly possible with covid vaccination certificates.
And that's one of the problems. If I say I'm not interested, I'm not interested.
I would disagree.

JIT and data analytics make it a lot easier for the maximalist market exploiting capitalists to get to the monopolistic pricing and anti competitiveness, and they can get there a lot faster.
The owners of the space can make those decisions, and the users can provide feedback, just like it happens now. There's no static status quo where everybody's happy, just like there's no static society.
I don't know what you're trying to get at, you seem to be agreeing with me. Function calls (present in C and other structured, procedural, and OO paradigm languages which are also imperative) do not make a language declarative.

That they're also present in the functional and logic paradigms doesn't change that. It's a feature common to both, so not a feature that can be used to distinguish the categories from each other.

And regarding expressions, Rust is more expression oriented than most mainstream procedural languages today, and it's not declarative, though it may have more declarative-style (particularly its heavy use of the iterator style) compared to many other imperative languages.
Is there a reason or point for calling out Russia?
Funnily enough, this hypergraph view is used to describe symptomatic query complexity for cyclical joins, the simplest if which is "count triangles in adjacency list" (naive RDBMS yields O(n²) on pathological data, despite the wrist case optimal tactic being something like O(n + #Triangles), with #Triangles limited inherently to O(n^(1.5))).

See https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0703 for some reading material and one particular way at beyond worst case (i.e., sharing worst case asympotics with the best constant time algorithm, but better performance on non-pathological data (a more precise notion is complicated; there are at least 3 different useful definitions)) runtime performance.

AFAIK the worst cyclical query on a 2-column table is "k-clique counting", from a POV of performance between WCOJ and what Postgres can do (asympotics).
SF native, worked and socialized in the Tenderloin, live in East Oakland currently, and I agree. This sounds a lot like the guy who complained on r/oakland that government is a wild racket and that they're enforcing street sweeping restrictions without actually sweeping the streets. Lots of people pointed out their blocks are getting swept. Turns mechanized street sweepers aren't effective against the type of debris that the guy was complaining about.

People love to vent their hot air and thump their chest at their excited discovery that San Francisco is a grimy city. Guess what. Noted junkie and author Jack Kerouac was complaining about the winos on third street back in the 50s. Claims about the death of San Francisco are generally overrated.

Anecdotally I watched the street sweeper go by my kitchen this morning.
Lot of people seem to judge based on screen size rather than dimensions for size experience.

Here are relative dimensions:

Pixel 3 phone dimensions: 145.6 x 68.2 x 7.9 mm

Zenfone 9 phone dimensions: 146.5x68.1x9.1mm

Pixel 6a phone dimensions: 152.2 x 71.8 x 8.9 mm

Pixel 6 dimensions: 158.60 x 74.80 x 8.90mm

With current slim bezels and modified aspect ratios, dimensions have gone down for relatively larger screen sizes.
Why is that messed up? Do you feel the same about army vets? How about ones who have been dishonorably discharged? I would also be curious what you feel about Rambo, the movie? Do you identify with the sheriff or the vet?
There is no point in insuring against a predictable cost of doing business. An insurer would simply charge a premium equal to the expected amount of theft, plus a margin for their profit and the (small) risk they are taking. For the many retail stores where insurance doesn't make sense, filing a police report is just extra wasted time and effort if it won't result in any tangible results.
I have so many stories like this. It was so pervasive.

I used to take the ferry from Alameda (great place to live btw) to SF every day. Every other day there was a (I presume homeless) woman who would stand at the entrance screaming at people getting off the ferry. On more than one occasion a person would run, and this screaming woman would chase them down the street.

Later I’d often see this homeless woman sleeping in yerba buena gardens. Once caught her doing yoga (I think).

Same ferry terminal, a homeless man was smearing his own poop all over the door to get in. Me and the other passengers just looked at him and then each other. A cop came up and we all looked at her, she said “not my job”. So we all waited watching this guy rolling in his own excrement. Eventually the ferry doors unlocked, but no one went to the ferry until some of the crew opened the door from the inside. We all them walked over / around this homeless man. His excrement on many of our shoes.

So many times…
My most used bookmark is this, for speeding up the first audio or video element on the page. I suppose that's if you don't count me typing 'n' and auto-completing my way to hacker news.

javascript:(function() { (document.querySelector('video') || document.querySelector('audio')).playbackRate = (+prompt('How many times normal speed?') || 1); })();
One far-fetched yet simple example would be an observer/observable pair, where the observable mutates observed properties inside its finalizer. The observable will usually contain a reference to the observer, but not the other way round. So when the observable is dead but the observer (optionally) still alive, when the observables finalizer runs it will send a message to the observer.

When our observer is also dead (so the pair is out of scope) it will be a dead object receiving events.
> then you can pretty much get rid of them storing anything at all about you.

But why would they want to?

If i understand, the premise of this idea is basically that we don't trust service providers with our data/to have our best interests at heart.

So we make a complex system where service providers (for the sake of argument, i dont know if i buy this) must respect our wishes.

Which raises the question, why would they?

Either a) service providers are good, and this system is pointless.

Or b) service providers are evil and they wouldn't use it and/or would subvert the intention.

> If you don't want them to know you anymore, just remove the version of your data encrypted for them.

Assuming they dont store it. Can't unring a bell.

> The overall idea is that by switching to this model, websites / apps will become 99% front-end only, APIs will switch to smart contracts, and you will have total control of your data.

Idk what y'all are smoking over there, but its clearly the good stuff.
I don't know much about Maslow but I tend to resonate with the archetype of that hierarchy.

I think people climb the pyramid and eventually find a state of seeking increasingly profound self realizations.

They then optimize for things like fulfillment and a well protected lower pyramid.

Happiness is an emotion, and not one that seems viable to try and maximize for continuously. There are other emotions that are not compatible with happiness, and they are neccesary to achieve a sense of self actualization.
recently diagnosed with aspbergers, which i'm sure a lot of computer/tech folk share. Per wikipedia:

The syndrome was named after the Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger, who, in 1944, described children in his care who struggled to form friendships, did not understand others' gestures or feelings, engaged in one-sided conversations about their favorite interests, and were clumsy.

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

highlighting this because: I have struggled with relationships of all shapes and sizes, and i used to think it was a result of my own individual failings - but have come to understand that is simply part of my nature. That doesn't stop the struggling, but it does make it more to-be-expected.
I would bet it’s pretty common for people to know how to feed themselves in their indigenous land, and struggle in a foreign land.