skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you give some examples of what it looks like to destroy a linear value? Elsewhere in the thread you said the compiler doesn't privilege destructor functions over anything else. I'm a bit confused how it works.

The function to close a database connection has to take in a linear value for a database handle, but it returns nil. How do you actually get rid of the handle? And how does the compiler stop you from doing it incorrectly (or does it?)?

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Oh and, if open file handles are a linear resource, how do we do print-debugging? Do we need to thread a stdout/stderr linear value through the whole program?
Yes, many regions would benefit greatly from high speed rail. Texas and Florida would see massive economic gain as well as the obvious east coast corridor.
Annie Duke on EconTalk had the best analysis of why it’s failing. The project is perennially having its funds being directed to solve the easiest problems (how to build high speed rail on flat ground in Central Valley) and ignoring major structural challenges (how to cross the mountain ranges into LA). So we’re don’t actually know how much it’ll cost to complete because the hardest parts of the project haven’t even begun.

Secondarily there’s all sorts of weird decisions being made that cripple HSR like limiting it to using Caltrain track in the Bay Area (limiting it to 110mph or even less in practice due to stops / contention / etc) and having HSR have a bunch of stops instead of keeping it non stop at high speed and using local light rail to connect to it. For example, as I understand it, the line in LA makes a weird circuitous out of the way bend to service a suburb of LA which adds significant transit time for very few people vs keeping a straighter route and connecting that suburb with light rail / subway / buses.

Finally, the project is being built as all or nothing instead of the sane way (at least IMHO) of starting in LA and the Bay Area where it might have the possibility of generating revenue and value earlier. You’d need to actually decouple it from local rail so that you stop in San Jose and SF and use CalTrain if you need to stop elsewhere (and maybe one other stop somewhere in the middle). Going from San Jose to SF at 200 mph would be a game changer. It would also be nice if they designed the track to support 300-400 mph trains in the future without needing to rebuild the rail.
if link changes, search "rioritizing Technical Debt as if Time and Money Matters • Adam Tornhill • GOTO 2019"
Presumbly, its answers form a probability distribution, which you can sample by repeatedly asking the same question.
fwiw where I live in Los Angeles we have actual operational oil derricks right in the middle of residential neighborhoods but it's nearly impossible to build apartment buildings.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/08/the-urban-oil-fiel...

If zoning can't prevent the heaviest of heavy industries from sharing space with schools and playgrounds then I don't see why keeping it around to kill new housing projects is so useful.
React Native is not the future
Just so we are clear here, are you suggesting we reinstate the patriarchy so that more women are forced into marriage with men they hate so that less lonely men will be found badly decomposed?
You'll want Euler's theorem (one of the many) for RSA, it won't be much use to have a prime number as a key since it's not exactly hard to guess its factorisation. That moves your date by a hundred years, into the later half of the 18th century.

So not exactly thousands of years back.
One does not simply become a citizen, most have to convert from a work visa to a permanent visa (requires wait time + process), and then more wait time before being allowed to apply for citizenship. So there’s workers at twitter who can’t merely say “the boss is crazy, I’m out of here”. They have to line up another job and get their visa in order before they can go. No one is asking you to care or treat people differently, though people might judge you based on the thoroughness of your understanding & compassion for the situation.
Microsoft will buy Meta.

Oracle will buy IBM.

Amazon will buy Sony.
More specifically by playing God in my comment meant the future may involve messing with our biology-biochemistry and things how they were intended to be by nature, and by doing so, we may be causing our own doom.

Like for example, the 'gain of function' research, and the controversy surrounding that involved the possibility of creating a deadly virus from the lab. What's to say while trying to develop vaccines to certain diseases, we don't cause harm to other species, even our own.
I don't disagree with your point about nimbyism, but I don't think that proves allowing corporations to buy those same finite assets up would be any better. Then you just have the same asset bubble but instead controlled by a corporation with even less interest in affordability or maintaining a community.
A small "operation" note: immutable is an was an ancient kind-of dream, having something that's always in a known state even if it's run for significant amount of time. Formally it should give easy debug due to a real and substantial reproducibility.

In practice it never works well though: first immutable means far longer to update and these days updates are a continuous stream, secondly even if the system is really immutable the complete infra tend to be not, making the immutable part next to useless in reproducibility terms.

In modern terms a new concept born "idempotent" witch FORMALLY means "you can run it countless of time, it will works the same and do not even re-do already done steps, it ensure consistency of a system final state no matter the initial one". Such concept have more more practical applications, again in theory, but in practice it fail to be really idempotent beside trivial use cases. From mere Ansible Playbooks for an infra to NixOS idempotence is partially there but results tend to be not.

Long story short: IMVHO the road have a name DAMN SIMPLER DESIGN, simpler infra, as the sole way to keep anything working and easy to restore when it does not.

A bottomline: reproducibility for a server infra have some reasons, for desktops... Well... IMO it's a bit overrated in the era of "endpoint".
Progressives already support child and marriage tax benefits (and not limiting marriage benefits to different-sex couples) as well as long parental leaves, including for adoption.
We had German aupairs when I was younger who introduced us to it. They were surprised we'd never heard of it before, but it's excellent.
Two ideas to consider adding to this cool concept:

1. Could there be an option to place 00:00 at the top instead of the bottom? It looks like both positions have been used for analog 24 hour clocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_analog_dial

2. Could there be an option to set the background to be a polar-projected world map (e.g. United Nations emblem) that rotates to align with the turning of the hour hands?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuthal_equidistant_projecti...
Wow, that is absolutely fucked. The only way that those delivery costs can actually be costs is if Amazon is delivering every book they sell via satellite. AWS egress fees aren't even this fucked!

Text with a handful of images in it is literally the cheapest thing you can distribute over the Internet. It's the reason why self-hosting a blog or Mastodon instance is even financially viable for most tech-savvy people, and why you have a Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WeChat, WhatsApp, LINE, Reddit, and Telegram for every YouTube.
Go direct to Manning or PragProg. Go directly to Apress.

Fallback on ebooks.com.

I am in Europe. Not using Amazon.
Perhaps the first step is admitting two-party systems are already too flawed.
I think he doesn't want the people who eventually find him to have to deal with a decayed corpse, so they'll hop into a top-loaded freezer when they feel death is near to save them the hassle.
Religion has many positive benefits on society. We minister to those within our own congregation and are aware of individuals needs. A sense of community is fostered and people are concerned about more than themselves. Perhaps the pendulum will swing back to people discovering religion?
we learn new lessons.

I'm not sure the term for 'doing things known to be reckless, unethical, illegal or all three with other people's money' is 'learning'.
> what's the motivation to not simply quit and start brewing beer and growing tomatoes while still keeping your own tech rituals?

- money

- job security

- experience
At the moment they are not static, so on Linux you may need to install a couple of packages depending on your system. I am going to try and compile a static version. On MacOS AFAIK it is not possible to compile a static binary.
I'd love to hear more about how Sweden became your adopted country and how the social aspect has been. I've read that it's hard for newcomers to make friends.
I found it on YouTube with German subtitles and a rather annoying laugh track.
Apple Maps at least only changes the route if you interact with it.
You seem to be making a more general point about Noah Smith. I’ve never been a follower per se but generally nodded my head when coming across his takes.

I’m game to update my priors on that, can you share some evidence?
Used to be played regularly on New Year's Eve in South Africa as well, at around 18:30 if I recall. Used to watch it before going out for the evening.
Yeah :( https://github.com/ianthehenry/sd/issues/9

The trouble is `sd` is just so easy to type on a qwerty keyboard, and it's such a nice mnemonic for "script directory." I've thought about renaming it, but I can't think of anything I like nearly as much.
>SouthWest petitioned to be included in the authority and effectively killed it

Is there more on this? I skimmed the link and it looks like southwest sued and was able to get some sort of injunction, but it didn't mention why they were suing. Also, I couldn't find any mentions about them "petitioned to be included in the authority".
not sure that meshes well with the deities of profit and wealth
You need to compile a different binary for each OS as they are not compatible :)
I've always considered the "generations" thing to be more of a state of mind than strictly age-based. Plenty of younger people have a similar fear-based, tradition-bound outlook as actual Boomers.

Also, punching up/down is about status and older people do not automatically receive a higher status, so it's really not an example of "punching up".
There may be something to say for small, "moderate" parties being pivotal, having the deciding vote. But that's why I emphasised, this is completely independent of political opinions. D are powerless whether it's a centrist or an extremist. There's no way to defend that as a feature.

Of course, if A, B, C and D are groups of people with less than perfect party discipline, the people in D may still have some power.
Just deny it, that's what the asking is for
On-chain or off-chain, I prefer a regulated financial system. For all the reason that have been discussed to drath by now.
> Historically rent-seeking has been a negative for the health of society.

Sure. I mean, I'm not an economist nor a sociologist, I bet there's some nuance to that, eh?

> Granting overlords the power of ownership, reducing individuals to renters that must comply with the whims of the property masters

Peasants and serfs. In re: technology I talk about Morlocks and Eloi. Yeah I think that's a lousy way to structure society.

The original point that you replied to was, "ownership is a concept in dire need of revision" and it sounds to me like that's where you're coming from too?
They plan on taking their “long nap” in a chest freezer, with electrical bills prepaid so the freezer (hopefully) doesn’t lose power before someone finds their frozen body.
A humble attempt at defining a coherent scientific and metaphysical narrative, combined with a rendered sketch, in response to one of the prime movers of philosophy; „Where do we come from and why are we here?“
Zame procedure as last year, H?

Zame procedure as every year, Feldmarsckalk.

kloph

I'll kill that Bear.

-- The Bunker Version.
Maybe it's fine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNthD-LRTQ
So if we just force enough people to do your bidding without question, then your life will be easier and happier.

The reason there are lots of lonely men out there is because they self-radicalize themselves on garbage ideology like this, and it becomes impossible for them to form relationships or integrate into society.
Read about virtualenv, or some of it's analogs.

Yes, answer, You run Your scientific projects in chroot environment, with it's own Python and libraries, and connect to outer world via http-json or in some cases with csv files (pipes).

To run with pipes, could run third party user space program, which will call different Python envs (fortunately it's easy, just find interpreter inside venv directory tree, and use it directly, instead of just python), and will feed them with data.

And yes, sometimes this becomes real pain, because we humans, not machines, and it's easy to make mistake, when working with two so similar envs as typical Python.
> I'm surprised immutable systems aren't more popular.

Sadly, because they inherently make it so hard to keep up to date with the latest version of proprietary software like nVidia. Or they don't provide support over a wide range of (desktop and embedded) architectures.

Often the best choice you can make is the distro that has most users, so you are sure that it will get the attention and support from third parties.
@survirtual, would love to see what you used your own implementation for. Is it open source? Or a product we might be interested in?
> “Decentralized finance is implemented via smart contracts and cannot steal your money.”

This sounds very good until you realize that “DeFi” also can’t receive or send you actual dollars or euros — the thing that people actually hope to get out of these trades. It can’t steal your money because the money to steal isn’t there.

So the toy financial system remains just a toy, and you’re at the mercy of such high-quality operators as FTX, Binance and Tether to get any of your profits out one day. Good luck.

IMO Levine’s article is too forgiving on this point when he writes that DeFi looks pretty good after the crash. Well, duh, it’s just a sideshow in the great crypto retail circus; a hall of mirrors to keep you busy while the exchanges pick your pockets.
Sure, but that's not really relevant to the point I'm trying to make. People moved away from animal-based travel to cars because cars had distinct improvements in usability and upkeep cost. It was ok to have the infrastructure come later because they were still an obvious improvement even without the infrastructure being in place yet.

Right now, if I want an EV, I'm paying 20% more money to buy it, it's got a shorter range than my ICE for the same size car, and the infrastructure to do things like long trips with multiple recharges isn't there yet.
> Being a landlord has become a more attractive investment

This is changing as we speak due to the interest rate. These investments are less attractive if you can get a safe 4% or higher return without having to deal with tenants and maintenance.
Is a thread per request scalable? Aren’t most of those threads just waiting for I/O? I guess thousands of concurrent requests via thousands of threads isn’t a big deal.
The mortgage interest deduction serves to put prospective owner-occupants on an equal footing with prospective landlords (for which business loan interest is deductible against profits).

The capital gains exclusion I have less strong feelings about, but it amounts in large part to excluding being taxed on the effect of inflation.
Respect for supporting HTTP/1.0
An encrypted overlayfs with fine grained remote sync would be quite neat.
Like I said in a sister comment, you have 108 male to 100 female at birth (correction: 105 to 100[0] in the US), so what do you do with the 'leftovers'?

And if some females don't want to play house now that they can survive on their own, do you force them to play?

[0] https://www.who.int/data/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-a...
Funny. In all the companies I worked at so far I added very long random tokens into the databases, which only get returned when dumping the entire database. They specifically are added in a way, and the queries made in a way, that those entries are never returned.

A separate container monitors all traffic returned by the databases and if those tokens are detected, the databases are essentially shut down by disabling the port of the database until it is manually unlocked again.

Funnily enough, I was working at an auction platform and a few times the databases stopped responding. Everyone way furious until I shared why the databases stopped responding.. :-)
The worry is that during a recession, when real estate assets are cheap, corporations might buy up the assets in order to rent them back or sell them for profit. It is just a worry at this point, but this rumbling from JPM is not confidence inspiring.
To generate at least one AI tentacle porn. (I’m quite serious; it’s why I got into AI, and the tech is finally here. It’s a difficult challenge for many reasons.)

Also, I’M GONNA BE A DAD! We’ve been trying since 2017, and I got a job two years ago specifically to help us do IVF. It’s incredibly expensive — artificial womb tech can’t come too soon. My dad’s over 70, and I was worried he might not get to see his grandkid, so my new year’s resolution is to proudly show him his grandchild for his birthday.

We’re very worried about the possibility of a miscarriage. Apparently something like >20% of pregnancies miscarry; had no idea the stats were so grim. But fingers crossed!

IVF is hella cool. A very “living in the future” moment. It has a surprising number of advantages from a parenting perspective: no need to worry about Down’s syndrome (a condition you might suppose I have, though you’d be wrong) — genetic screening eliminates that possibility, and with it, the trauma of an abortion. We had six healthy embryos: four female, two male, so it feels like having a bunch of babies in your garage’s deep freezer. Literally cold storage. We wanted a daughter first, so it’s nice to have a guarantee of it.

And the process itself was fascinating. They pull up the embryo on a big TV during implantation, so we got to see Kess go from dish baby to real baby right before our eyes.

Can’t believe we finally did it. 2023 feels like my lucky year. (NARRATOR: “It was not.”)
You can see this by the position of the hour hands. The minute hand is “just” a convenience.
Hah, based on what is being said there, it's not so much plumbers, as the building code agencies and union head. (think Doctors vs American Medical Assoc.). Which hey, that I could believe they'd push back a bit. But the code issues got fixed, and they got installed in a lot of places.

But they stink, and do have issues with crystallization of urine, and that's why I saw them ripped out after a year or two everywhere they got installed.

Like Buckminster, conspiracy theories are a lot more palatable reason for why your idea got shot down than it just didn't work well in real life.
Interestingly, having only ever introduced to those characters through comics, I never pictured any particular accent and instead imagined them speaking normally.
Yes I do, and I also know that it's been banging on the door for a long time. My point was that it's slow moving, not that it hasn't affected us yet.
But like how would one know they are going to die and crawl in? That sounds impossible and/or extremely painful. You could die 20 years ahead of time this way. A better solution seems to be something like a Fitbit or Apple Watch with a dead man’s switch feature that calls in every day. But honestly this all seems like an absurd thing to worry about.
Justinguitar.com for guitar.
I commented because the article is good enough that there might be discussion nearby that covers the benefits of the coast controlling for socioeconomic class. It’s not in the article, and it’s relevant to whether or not I justify a trip/s to the coast. The implied benefits sound wonderful obviously.

If you’re in the tourism industry, maybe you can help? I find your comment antagonistic and my feelings are hurt, but I also understand that internet culture sucks and/or you may not have meant it as such.
And in NL. I’m not sure if he still does, but I remember uncle would ritually piss his pants watching this show, while ingurgitating copious amounts of oily pistachios. Fond memories (although I was as puzzled as I am today about the funniness of it.)
It’s about outcomes. If that’s an outcome you care greatly about then that’s your decision to make. For me it ranks low on the set of outcomes I desire, especially when compared to the outcomes the opposition desires.

The book “Rules for Radicals” talks about this and it has been a tool of left wing activists for 60+ years. You see it today for instance with various activists groups that plea for “our democracy” on one hand while destroying things and disrupting society until they get their way outside the democratic process.
k3s because it has been around for a while, and it's something I have used almost since it was first made available.

Yes cluster upgrades are covered with the "upgrade" command, as described in the REAME. I use the Rancher's System Upgrade Controller for this, which makes rolling upgrades very easy and super quick.

Github Actions is perfectly fine, it's what I use both for personal stuff and at
work.

For the database, are you planning to host it in Kubernetes? Depending on the database type there may be an operator that can handle backups easily for you. For example for Postgres I have used the Zalando operator which does this and there is a newer one called CloudNativePG which might be even better. What kind of databases are they?
In terms of knowledge:
"A brief history of nearly everithing"

In terms of soft skills:
"Outliers"
Satisficing: Save Time Making Decisions
Yes, for a small set of strings, which is the problem he is solving, you are almost certainly right.
Because a tech worker is highly skilled labor that would leave the country and therefore henceforth would not be available to the labor pool of said country, which arguably will have negative long term economic effects.

This problem occurs precisely because foreign tech workers are being treated differently. You are also glossing over the fact that those tech workers are on their path to become citizens.
Is this just an advertisement?

Your account name is the same as the name of your business.

You have 3 posts in 8 months, all of which reference your company.