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BEAM isn't the only runtime possible with green threads. OTP is just the libraries.

Lots of people have written alternatives to BEAM. The only problem they run into is that BEAM is very good, and would be tough to beat. I was an admirer of Erlang on Xen: https://github.com/cloudozer/ling
I’ve got a new and somewhat-old Mazda. The new one does have an internet connection but it really only seems to be used for remote start and door lock status/control. Its using the Verizon network (in the US) and it also pings a location when you power off the car. (All these things are available through a python api so thats fun)
Sure but carbon capture is useless without the storage component. If you just sell the CO2 for food manufacturing or any industrial use it will just go back into the atmosphere.

Unfortunately fossil fuel companies and politicians are throwing around the term "carbon capture and storage" as if it will solve everything and allow fossil fuel power plants and fossil fuel extraction to keep running. All the evidence is that it can't.
Social Media and Mental Health: we can do better
I'd say for postdocs it's subtly different, if not necessarily better, than you suggest. With the kind of move we're talking about here, people will often (have to) move out of academia altogether. It's just too rare to find a position that you can transition into smoothly at short notice, and the young academic lifestyle doesn't allow for building up a lot of savings. The burnt bridges to your previous lab won't matter much in industry or government and your experience will typically be valued, but the price is that you are walking away from a career path that might have been your first choice.
> Maybe compare things people buy monthly like bread, milk, cheese, etc - not an every three year purchase like an overpriced phone.

I'd suggest that some sort of a smartphone is more or less necessary to function in a modern society, as might some sort of a laptop/netbook and an Internet connection, at least when you intend to live with any semblance of fitting in. Given that complex electronics aren't produced locally, you're dealing with whatever the market prices are.

Essentially, you have to be able to communicate through WhatsApp, or browse the web to use many of the governmental e-services, or do online banking and be able to confirm payments, or digitally sign documents which is getting increasingly more inevitable thanks to the "eParaksts" ("eSignature") system we have. Technically you could go without those, but it'd be a cumbersome life that wouldn't respect your time as much.

And whilst the situation regarding public transportation is better in Latvia and certain other countries when compared to US (or at least so I've been told, possibly owing to the much smaller size of the country), the fact that many might need to own motor vehicles hasn't become untrue either, especially the further into the rural regions you go and the more items you need to transport.

Of course, instead of finding happiness in being able to purchase bread, milk and cheese, some choose to work for foreign companies and make many times more money than they could ever hope to make locally, to lead more comfortable lives, a trend that's also useful to note. Or, curiously, many of them simple emigrate, given that they don't find satisfying local salaries and thus add to the "brain drain" that certain developing nations are facing. This also shouldn't be overlooked.

Another interesting thing I've noticed people utterly miss out on in our own industry is the claim that "developers are expensive, tools/software/servers are cheap", which gets more and more untrue the more in the direction of less well off countries you look. I don't doubt that in some places a beefy EC2 instance would essentially mean the salary of another developer.

Focusing just on PPP and being able to purchase the bare essentials utterly misses out on these finer points of what the differences in the absolute numbers actually mean.
I found you so optimistic in tone about your path, the randomness, the unfairness.. it was very strange to me, I'm so quickly angry.

Good luck for the rest
> This sort of thing would call for a centralized compressed lines

The exchanger doesn't need to be the working fluid. You could have Freezer | Fridge | Ground | 30 degree water | 70 degree water

With each | indicating water or another coolant in an insulated pipe. Insulate each reservoir and place it inside/outside depending on climate.

Insulation on longer runs of piping might need to be exotic and expensive (aerogel or double walled vacuum sections), but there wouldn't be much of it.

We already do something similarish for some AC systems
I grew up in suburban America, and live within a major metropolitan area. I have had lawns. Over the years with what I have learned, I came to the conclusion that lawns as they are generally developed are a big waste, and there are better ways to achieve what I can get out of a lawn.

And yes, avacados use up a lot of water, as do nuts. Our food system is built on top of shipping food far away to where it is consumed rather than growing locally. And yes, growing locally means giving up some things, being more attuned to seasonality, and growing and consuming alternate varieties and foods with equivalent nutrition.

It sounds absurd to say, get rid of all the avacados, but to me, it is absurd we are cloning avacados and wrecking a lot of ecologies in order to ship them far away to people. And I like avacados and giving them up has an effect on me.
200yrs from now well meaning discussion will consider if the long extinct elephant was in fact mythical
Thanks Mike. Big hugs.
This article claims New Orleans might be next - https://www.wsj.com/articles/jackson-water-crisis-aging-infr...
Bank of America to offer zero-down mortgages in Black and Hispanic communities
Just aggregate this dude and you've upped the game!
I'm writing a book about exactly the point you're getting at: that there is no better questions that get at the experience of being human than our ability to ask ourselves the following two questions:

(1) Where am I? / What the heck is going on?

(2) Where am I going to go next? / What am I going to do about it?

Sorry if this seems overly esoteric, but I really appreciate seeing applications of my thesis in the wild. Cheers
And it is also a computer.
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Depends on the people, I'm sure. For a long time 40-hour weeks with two weeks off was pretty standard in the US, which works out to a nice round 2000 hours. A lot of the people prone to going independent are the types to put in more time than that. I sure am. But yes, if you want fewer working hours, that changes the calculations.
Thank you for addressing this. As a long term customer, you have earned my respect and continued business.

Speaking up about events like this is hard to do as an executive and I appreciate the honesty here.
While some may think life is unfair, the fact remains that recidivism rates are high. No one wants to be a cautionary tale for being complicit with a sensitive area of a business. The reason prisons don’t like people freely using computers/phones, is many prisoners feel justified in blackmailing other inmates families and scamming the public.

Some may get away with breaking rules even while serving a sentence, but that same lack of impulse control is what keeps people poor. The world does not change, and people must adapt to the reality of their situation.
The point I'm making (and I'm not certain that it is true) is that ultimately if you want to store raw data, a filesystem seems more likely to be what you want to use. Put differently, BLOBs in the DB end up (necessarily) as blobs on the disk, and managing blobs on a disk is precisely what filesystems are intended for.

But yes, on top of that, there's the question that in the end even the DB will need something very, very much like a filesystem between them and the storage hardware ... which opens up the question whether this should remain hidden to every other application, or whether it makes sense that for certain kinds of applications, they too would use it (i.e. just like today)
Modernizing the Tor ecosystem for the future (MCH2022 talk video)
Local funding mostly goes to schools. I'm not sure about state funding. Most of the "flex" is at the Federal level. Especially given the fact they can spend money that is literally just printed. Local and State have to pass laws and collect revenue.

The fact of the matter is that our current tax structure relies on the federal pool for infrastructure spending. That's just the way it is. Whether you like it or not. Personally I'd love Fed tax dollars shift more directly to state and local. That would be one plausible path to help achieve "better governance".

> Again if you compare other countries a lot of places do a lot more with less.

Everything in the US is radically overpriced for a lot of reasons. We spend more on health care per capita and don't even get universal coverage out of it. It's embarrassing.
It feels like everyone's so desperate to create or predict the next AI unicorn, that no one's paying attention to the fundamentals.

What exactly are the fundamentals?

The transformer revolution is pretty foundational and the inability to see the societal impact of this technology can only be explained by a lack of imagination.

Majority of peoples time is spent in digital worlds, the ability to create synthetic images, text, etc. is going to radically alter the way we spend our time online. Both malicious and marvelous use cases will be discovered, but to hand-wave it all away as a "Dotcom bubble vibe" is tech cynicism at its worst.
That's exactly it, except it's worse in that every time you run an application, you are essentially letting the code author do anything as you on your machine (obvious, but worth stating). The only reason this works is because we trust "people" to discover this and fix it (and it will usually have consequences for the perpetrator). I'm just not sure this model works anymore, just like we don't use telnet, rcp, and all the other things that assumed you could trust the network.
The parent will never "need" something as "complicated" as encryption as you can't write anyway any serous software with the stated mindset.

The whole point of modern tech and science is that everybody is standing on the shoulders of giants. Without that all you probably can get at max is low tech form 200 hundred years ago…
> Providing an agglomeration incentive for those who believe they have non-stationary characteristics is a valid strategy.

Sorry, but I have absolutely no idea what this means.
Dropped. The rate is mostly a "no I'm not signing your stupid contracts that will harm me accepting future work just because you think your facebook killer is a special snowflake that can be stolen" rate.
> Texas homes were not insulated well to handle those conditions which made it worse.

Sure, but they were (and still are?) like so because normal climate conditions do not demand that. Being able to sustain "any climate" is damn expensive, giving a certain margin while designing a home is natural, the home itself have a value, but going much further it's simply too costly at best. Now, insulation is good BOTH for hot and cold, but for instance if with mild insulation and p.v. you can live well because it's hot only during the sunny day you hardly invest in real insulation.

Beside that during a snowstorm a p.v. does not produce so if you have a battery you can recharge it on a generator, but no more than that. It's far cheaper to run than a 24/7 generator online, but it's still roughly expensive and demand a significant quantity of fuel you normally do not have at home.

About natural gas, well, I suppose their infra are designed to be "a bit" disaster proof, but how much and how in realty it's hard to tell up front. I remember for instance that a day in my original town a flood happen and for some reasons water penetrated the piping infra. Gas completely stops for two days. They have had some water pumping systems for condensation and other phenomenon but it wasn't ever used and even those who have designed it have designed for clear water without mood and sand. Apparently an event that break a pipe and push water in the net was not much assessed. Most physical infra, even critical ones, never have nor can afford doing Chaos Monkey things on their systems...
The big shift was done when Google said that they would start to demote sites not using https only.
I have memorized the CVV for one card I use, and the rest is saved in the browser. So, having to actually get out the credit card would be adding a minor inconvenience. That doesn't matter too much for me, but it probably does mean many millions in revenue for retailers.
Less is more agile
I mean, that can't possibly be true, right? The bottles don't appear out of nowhere. So "brew install --build-from-source bash" dies for you?
I looked across a pretty good amount, “ Rocking the code, coding the rock” didn’t help.

Sprinkling hot new words like toxic to describe a simple doubt is pretty melodramatic no?
The reality is that carbon capture is no where near sufficient as a wholesale solution.

It can help on the margins -- in terms of perhaps airplanes and other weight bearing users of fossil fuel that are not super well addressed with electrification -- but otherwise is a distraction from real solutions.
It's important not to apply simple tricks and hope for magic results but it's not absurd to consider that some brain subsystems are so vital and foundational that an improvement their cascades on other higher level cognitive centers.
Looks crazy and comfy at the same time. Do you happen to know the price range?
No this is still comp sci. Comp sci doesn’t mean that practical considerations in algorithm design are ignored. Computer engineering has to do with the actual design and construction of computing machinery. It’s an accredited engineering field and the undergraduate coursework includes electronics, semiconductors, computer architecture and generally a lot of overlap with electrical engineering. I had to take one dumb programming course - all the data structures and algorithms stuff I had to learn elsewhere.
This just happened a couple weeks ago. There are still ongoing clinical studies which are testing much higher doses for treatment-resistant depression.
Does anyone remember Redhooks Revenge? It was a maritime-themed trivia board game with risk battle mechanics for DOS. You can see the original here:

https://archive.org/details/RedhooksRevenge

I actually received permission from ImagiSOFT to build the sequel, titled Redhook's Revenge: Call of Booty which adds in 1000s of general trivia questions, which is freely available on itch.io:

https://specularrealms.itch.io/redhooks-revenge-ii-call-of-b...
So an ostrich with its head in the sand is the ideal CEO for any large corporation? Come on.
rotting rubber fuel hoses and rusted couplers are likely a better example.

from an electric standpoint, a truck knocked over a charging station and it hasn't been repaired in 2 months at my neighborhood Park. (Though, I feel positive it has had the breaker turned off)
Reminds me of the author of ReiserFS, where the story went in the opposite direction.
Sounds like made up nonsense.
Yup, that’s a great start. There’s a lot more that can be done. For example, there are better ways to treat blackwater than dumping it into a septic tank and a leach field. Incorporating and cycling blackwater through plants that evolved to drink and process blackwater can help clean it faster. I would not want to cycle it immediately back to onsite drinking water, but in a situation like Jackson, MS, I know I am not contributing sewage to my neighbor’s bathwater.

This video goes through the design principles for onsite greywater and blackwater harvesting: https://youtu.be/f-sRcVkZ9yg
One million to open the email.
What's wrong with Galadriel being a warrior? Seems like a pretty cool character to me. Also, just because she's a warrior that's feminism? I guess she should be in the kitchen instead.
I know an anecdote isn’t data, but I’m a pretty straight laced guy who’s never used an illegal drug other than pot, so no prior experience with any psychedelics (except for taking an Ambien on an empty stomach lol). I started ketamine therapy a few weeks ago, and while I obviously can’t prove that it isn’t the placebo effect at work, my mood was tremendously and noticeably improved immediately after my first course of medication. And it’s had an immediate beneficial effect on my regular/traditional therapy sessions. It just feels like it was a missing piece to a puzzle I’ve been working on for a long time.

I want to see the science continue to study these drugs and psychedelic therapy, but for me there’s no doubt in my mind this has been significantly more beneficial in the short term than any other medication I’ve ever taken (i.e., been prescribed). If the science shows it isn’t right for everyone or most people - so be it. But it has been a game-changer for me.
It won't work because it doesn't scale.

About 19.64 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) are produced from burning a gallon of gasoline that does not contain ethanol. About 22.38 pounds of CO2 are produced by burning a gallon of diesel fuel.

Just think of the numbers involved to scale this to the planetary usage of fossil fuels.
The guideline implicitly asks you to read the submitted story and understand it well enough to make an educated guess as to what the thrust of the story is, or what interesting phenomenon motivated it. Then, when you comment on the story, you're asked both to weigh whether you're adding more heat than light, and, most especially, whether the heat you're adding is connected with the core of the story.

Here, the story is not at all about race; it's about the underreported and under-studied phenomenon of early-career academic researchers who are effectively captive to abusive PIs and professors. Lots of people on HN are, or have in the past been academic researchers; many of them have horror stories. The notion that this abuse might be taken more seriously is a very big deal.

Instead, for a good long time on this story, we had a thread that was commanded by a the most boring possible political argument one can have on HN: the debate over woke-ism. We have the "most provocative thing" rule precisely so we don't lose the ability to talk about important things just because an article happens to veer into some third rail or other of whatever cultural drama is happening right now on HN.

It's not just woke-ism; when this guideline was first being discussed, the signal example of it was a thread where Amazon had just introduced Route53, and the thread was commandeered by HN's 482459th debate about Snowden. We have the guideline because this pattern recurs regularly.

It's also an especially nasty abuse of HN to make an inflammatory political argument in an off-topic thread on a story, because people who take HN seriously will want to avoid taking the bait and giving oxygen to the political tangent. That is: it's a way of not only introducing a provocative tangent to a story, but of ensuring that only the least reasonable conversations about that tangent can occur.

It's essentially message board arson.

(This thread is dead and collapsed now, so I guess we're freer to talk about it).
> We are the government. We are the politicians.

Huh? No we’re not. What are you talking about?
Burning 2kg of coal and injecting 100g of oil worth of carbon to extract and burn 1kg of oil is barely even greenwashing.
The policies were already like that. The people that left just wanted big houses with a yard and that became untenable in California. The policy exists because those people want that and were attracted to a place that allowed it affordably.
Accusations of the USA and NATO destabilizing Russia are not grounded in facts. Quite the opposite: even before the USSR collapsed, its territorial integrity was among main concerns in the West, driven by the fear of nukes going into wrong hands.

Here's a pretty good article on the topic: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/stop-tiptoeing-...

After 1991, the western aid to that you mention has been built free and stable societies in Eastern Europe, which has given Russia exceptional security at its borders. What "protection of sovereignty" are you talking about, from whom?
At compressed levels, this is often solved with a burst disc directing pressure gases in a direction. At liquified levels it's harder to control (and cryo).
High density housing is a solution to places where population is high and land is scarce. It is totally unnecessary in America with its ample space and resources and relatively low population.

This artificial housing crisis beggars incredulity, but should really invite scorn and rage as it is a corrupt failure of government and blatant exploitation as well as wastage of tax dollars. Not to mention the mental and actual energy lost in these fruitless hand waving when the solutions are rather straight forward.

We are not Hong Kong or Mumbai or Paris. We are rich and pay a fuck tonne of taxes. We have lots of land. We don’t have built infrastructure and and we have a non voting high tax bracket immigrant population that is being squeezed..in other words: taxation without representation.

Those who vote are not asking why the piles of tax cash are not being used to create better infrastructure and networked public transport in our large ass country. We should have more Silicon Valleys and replicate Bay Area’s success..we should not kill the golden goose.

I automatically vote down IQ points of anyone who flutter their feathers enthusiastically over high density housing. It’s a symptom of not traveling or even just reading to understand how efficient cities work. It’s very clear why California will fail..1. politicians are pirates. 2. The money that props up this state is coming from a few rich sugar daddies and a fat layer of middle class non voting high tax paying bracket of powerless immigrants. 3. This field has a lot of sparrows and a lean harvest. Nothing left behind to save seeds for next harvest.
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Raab, Selwyn. The Five Families: The Rise, Decline & Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empire. New York: St. Martins Press, 2005.
I s/harassment/bullying/'d the title above, in the hope of making the article's scope clearer.

The word 'harassment' tends to snap to the grid of culture war categories, which led to some offtopic flamewars. Hopefully we can avoid those in Take 2 of this thread.
I didn't bring up the class action to support my argument, so much as it was how I remembered the time-frame, and that they were known for shady practices(at least at the time). However, my money is on my old boss being responsible. When you don't pay your suppliers and gas cards until cut off, you are bad at business and money, and he did both frequently.

It's quite possible it was negligence, but that still doesn't explain why I could (and did!) cash the same check and get my money instantly, which could then be instantly deposited and be available in my account, but if I deposited the same check it would be held.

This wasn't a normal practice, I for years had my bank account matching my. employer's to get paid ASAP. Even DD will go faster if both accounts are at the same bank.

With that employer (Don Coss PH&C), and only one prior (STCS Beverage), had issues getting checks cashed. Of all the jobs and locations I've worked in since I was 15,only those two had any issues this bad with payroll. Both bosses/companies cut every corner possible and based on past info neither deserved the benefit of the doubt, but anything is possible.
Not to mention that CFs policy is to forward takedown requests, unredacted, to the site you're trying to takedown. CF users like KiwiFarms have been weaponizing this policy for years by publishing their takedown requests, knowing their userbase will seek retribution against whoever sent them.
It's very explainable: they want their cases to look cool and there's a market for that.