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Wait, you mean that scene in Men In Black 3 wasn't a joke?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MbvNXZL5f0
One of the other comments in this thread links to: https://mikelevins.github.io/posts/2020-12-18-repl-driven/ which makes a distinction between "having a REPL" and "supporting repl-driven programming". Modern languages which have a REPL generally don't support the sort of repl-driven programming they refer to. Julia's Revise.jl [1] supports one way of repl-driven programming, and it is in fact the recommended way of doing Julia, but from my understanding it's still very different from the Lisp ways.

[1] https://timholy.github.io/Revise.jl/stable/
I have always despised them for putting a paywall in front of the SQL standard - it's been there since at least 2010 and probably quite a bit earlier. The good news is that nobody actually needs to read it since you need DB specific information anyways... but it'd be nice to have access to it (especially when I was working on RDBMS neutral dialect to support multiple backends). Still, if you ever have a question about documentation postgres[1] does an absolutely amazing job detailing everything in its dialect and their dialect tends to be the most "neutral" imo.

1. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html
> For me Beat Saber is that game. With mods and community-made songs/beatmaps which can be quite intense

Some people seemed hesitant to trust Meta due to it's Facebook account requirement (now removed), but for me their behaviour with Beat Saber is one reason that I'm kinda hesitant to trust them going forward.

e.g. Beat Saber has an update appear and all your mods stop functioning for a bit until verified to work with the new release. (From what I recall on the Quest version trying to mod results in some warning messages that stuff like this might result in your account getting banned, though I've never heard of them actually doing this to Beat Saber players). i.e. it's annoying and cumbersome to do, needs to be repeated for each update, and you're threatened with having your account banned (though I suspect that they'll continue to not follow through with those threats).

They'd also previously promised they were gonna add custom level support on Quest (e.g. https://twitter.com/BeatSaber/status/1182645623683727360) but despite tweaking stuff like this multiple times in 2019 that support never materialized.

Net result is that I'm mostly a Synth Riders player and tend to advise people purchasing a headset to avoid Beat Saber when looking for rhythm games.

(Synth Riders, Audio Trip, Boombox all allow custom songs out of the box and Pistol Whip finally has that scheduled for release this month - https://twitter.com/PistolWhipVR/status/1664037754550771717)
There is a reason the world moved on from failover architectures.

a) At some point you will have more data or more users than one instance can handle. And instead of simply adding another node you need to throttle usage in order to do a rolling upgrade. Which is far easier said than done and involves impact to the business.

b) With distributed databases you are constantly testing that everything works in Dev, Test etc environments. With failover you really only test it every now and again usually before you deploy to Production. And in most companies which are hopeless the testing will be guaranteed to be inadequate.

c) Vendors lie. They promise that failover will just work but in my experience it very often doesn't. Which is another reason why b) is such important to validate their claims.
Yeah. It's extremely difficult to impossible without existing connections, being an incumbent VR app, popping off independently, or being an established game development studio. Even harder if it's a non-game as Quest 2 is treated like a console.

You can put your marbles in, but your fate will depend on Meta opening the gates for you, and that's a risky proposition.

They have their own sideloading channel, App Lab, but it's where apps go to die. Very few will rise up to the official store.
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Many dictionaries explain the definition of a walk out is a strike.
I used to enjoy that stuff, but these days if it seems like a job requires any significant assembly, I just turn it down. I hate worrying about every single byte of memory, it takes all the fun out for me, but I do know those who love figuring out a tough problem and always having to be efficient with every bit and byte.
i run a job board for EEs (links in bio) lots of positions up your ally.
"Any plan where there's a crucial component that must not stop even for a second isn't a very good plan."

Our bodies, just think of our hearts or lungs, don't stop for even a second for 80 something years, and even that 80 is most probably arbitrary with very few changes in cellular control (instead of cancer, cooperate; instead of scar, regenerate [1]). No current software artifact can boast with such a performance. That's the main issue, our technology does not establish a hierarchy of competence [2], where each layer is independently able to solve problems such as the cell-tissue-organ-organism continuum. We must start digitizing the material, assemble assemblers that can assemble themselves [3].

[1] Dr. Michael Levin: Xenobots, Limb Regeneration, and The Power of Cellular Communication, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_TyON2xWeQ

[2] Michael Levin, What do bodies think about?, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVr1OkDqnmo "Nested Cognition, not Merely Structure" starts at 4:32

[3] Neil Gershenfeld, How to Make Almost Anything, The Digital Fabrication Revolution, http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/12.09.FA.pdf
>Without the above papers you cannot invest while claiming doing anything else than playing at a casino.

I don't think that's a fair statement, although I agree with the overall sentiment. Maybe the right term instead of "invest" would be "actively trade". Putting a chunk of change into long-term positions (especially stock) on large profitable companies as well as indexes and dividend-generating equities with a view towards cashing out in 30-40 years (and semi-actively monitoring said portfolio) isn't really the same as playing at a casino. If I'm looking for a 10-30% return in a day or a week, yeah, that's playing at a casino. If I'm looking for 7-10% a year, that's just me protecting my money against inflation.
The model may be the same, but the chatbot is not. They have made the responses shorter to save inference expenses, which are huge in a model the size of GPT-4.
Zig's C/C++ compiler is just clang, but with header files for most major platforms included, and sane defaults, so there's no hassle getting it it to cross-compile. Some companies have been using Zig solely for an easier to use clang.
I feel about this the way I feel about most so called conspiracy theories. I'm certain intelligence agencies are involved something similar to this. It would be really surprising if they didn't avail themselves of this huge means of influence. They spend all day wondering about how to influence. But I'm more skeptical that the conspiracy theorist actually managed to catch the intelligence agency's activity in this particular case.
You will be better off going independent, than trying to break into the industry (unless your PhD was from a top program, and you're on the younger side).

In that vein, Ernest P. Chan's books will give you the toolkit to begin, and then you can figure out the rest as-needed. Quantitative Trading (2nd), Chan I believe is the first in the series. Algorithmic Trading I believe is the second. And Machine Trading is the last.
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Hey, is there a problem with accepting new registrations (and joining the waitlist)? I get "The change you wanted was rejected." for anything I try to submit.
Why did it take them 20 years to notice the autoimmune disorder?
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You mean a psypo.
Yes, "joystick thing"... https://xkcd.com/243/
1. Find a vulnerability

2. Contact the website maintainer to report it

3. Get swatted, harrassed by cops, sued, and jailed over it.

No thank.
somewhat on topic nd off: gesture interfaces on mobile need to die by fire

* 80% of the time they get triggered by accident, causing some loss of modal state or user data

* other 80% of time they DONT trigger when you DO want, because your gesture wasnt EXACTLY perfect or timed right
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No, it's too slow and I can't trust it to give me true facts instead of hallucinations. When I look at a page of results from a search engine I see the sources and I can assess which one can be trusted. Sometimes none of them but at least I know it.

I use chatgpt to generate code. That's maybe batter than looking at Stackoverflow.
Everyone is copying Arc. Microsoft showed a similar design to what Arc has along with vertical tabs.
This appears to build off of earlier research: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2010-9

"Here we show that thin-film devices made from nanometre-scale protein wires harvested from the microbe Geobacter sulfurreducens can generate continuous electric power in the ambient environment. The devices produce a sustained voltage of around 0.5 volts across a 7-micrometre-thick film, with a current density of around 17 microamperes per square centimetre. We find the driving force behind this energy generation to be a self-maintained moisture gradient that forms within the film when the film is exposed to the humidity that is naturally present in air. Connecting several devices linearly scales up the voltage and current to power electronics."
Are the vertical tabs available on iOS also? I could see it being useful on iPad, but not iPhone.
You're saying every US immigrant population has assimilated except for Indians, and that's why America is not culturally diverse as Europe?

Every ethnic group that has immigrated to America (including Europeans) formed communities with others from their own country of origin.

That isn't an American thing. That exists in every country. As does the disdain for immigrants who forcibly avoid assimilating into local culture. In fact, every major European country I know has seen rise in nationalism fueled entirely by anti-immigrant sentiment.
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It's interesting, but 10^9 devices of about 1m^2 each would require an energy input to manufacture that likely far outstrips the device's generation capability over it's projected lifespan. So unless they can make these extremely durable, resistant to oxidization and all manner of pollution I think that this will never make it to market in any usable form. But it is very interesting from an applied physics perspective and at the smallest scales there may well be some use for this (energy scavenging like applications for sensors that report infrequently).
As part of their proprietary SaaS though.
Sad to hear, last time they took down that book website
To save the news, ban surveillance ads
They're being pretty clear about the limits on the data they had, the decision they made because of it, and why they made that decision.

What exactly are you alleging here? Malpractice is a pretty strong word but also... vague. PNAS is fairly prestigious and there would be substantial reputational risk of malfeasance with this data. To me that carries a lot more weight than someone on the internet throwing unclear accusations around idk.
I wouldn't even say it's surprisingly good research at this point. A lot of the basics being taught in universities still cite Phrack for example.
I believe it's Julia's current default parser that's written in a Scheme, the REPL is a normal Julia standard library written in Julia itself: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/REPL/s...
That's awesome, I appreciate it. Do I need a ton of money to start off? Is it better _not_ to have a lot of money to start off to create less trouble for myself?
> Is it the standards fault, or the implementations?

My mental model is that it's a mixture, but my life experience has been that a "standard" without a test harness or (at bare minimum) a reference implementation is just a bunch of navel gazing. For SQL specifically, that problem is even worse given the number of existing engines that move faster than the specification, so in the absence of leadership they just make stuff up

Natural language is also a catastrophically horrible specification mechanism, since your black/blue is my white/gold
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One piece of good news is that you just need to drop #page-wrapper's width (or adjust to preference) the rest of the CSS all appears to be sensibly responsive.
Not sure the scale or reach of your personal projects, but, ever try sqlite?

That's my pick!
Evidence to support my claim that Zuckerberg has destroyed trust include Cambridge Analytica and the pixel trackers that scraped health data without consent.

See how easy that is. Now your turn. Oh that's right. No data, still...

Your claim that the users don't care is baseless.

> Let us test this right now: Go to Zuckerberg’s Facebook or Instagram page and tell him to shut Facebook and all of Meta’s services down like you said in your comment.

Your suggestion for a "test" is to log into facebook and/or instagram and communicate with an account that Zuckerberg does not use to express your sentiment. This is the most ignorant approach I've read on communication.

> I guarantee you, not only you will not do it, but even if you did, it will only prove that the users will NOT care regardless and all this shows is that you are all talk on this website whilst you complaining about shutting down Meta.

I guarantee that you are not intelligent. You are a puppet. Suggestion is to pull out the hand lodged inside you, in hopes you can reclaim your mental capacity.
The windbelt was a non-starter, and the idea had already been proposed in various forms decades ago. The same with all of the variations on the VAT, energy from soundwaves and many other curiosities. They are fun on the toy scale but you can't turn them into usable and net-energy positive devices (energy produced over the lifetime of the device / energy consumed by the construction and installation of the device).
I also enjoy playing with tech, which automated watering among other cool tech solutions to keeping up with indoor plants is fun for me. Always fun to hear about differing opinions and wonder about how we arrived at our opinions. I can't imagine ever caring what anyone saw in a dali. Having taken an elective art class in college I recall feeling quite uncomfortable having to listen to people who relished the opportunity to hear themselves speak on a subject that has no wrong answers.

Personally I have a hard time valuing questions that have no wrong answer. Seems like a polite ritual at best and a waste of time at worst.
I know they are trying to create a catchy headline but just to be 100% clear, Modernism as a movement predates the existence of the CIA by > 50 years. Modernism in music, literature, art and architecture appears around the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. It went through many iterations by the mid 20th century and the birth of the CIA out of the wartime OSS in 1947.
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> I am not going to be goaded into supporting my claims!
Spam killed Usenet so probably not.

Unless someone moderates.

Then you have Reddit, ie the need to fund moderation.

Or a corner case where there are volunteers.

And besides users will want tags and private messages and the ability to follow personalities and avatars and such.

None of which addresses zero latency for the first child porn. Remember how common it was for ISP’s to block everything starting with “alt” ?

Yes it was fun while it lasted but it wasn’t AOL that killed it. It was ubiquitous bandwidth improvements worldwide.
when I was growing up "knocking boots" meant have sex? (there was a whole rap song with that title). Which is what I assumed "squamming loins" was some british english version of.
So let me make an guess, you like remote work?
Without following the link I would say because YAML.
Do you have a salary range for the backend position?
Enlighten me about AI please.
- ~no syntax

- induction

- induction

- some taste for minimalism (although CL/CLOS might feel different
back in the days)

- human exploration oriented (repl, mop/updates)

- open homoiconicity, as a programmer lisp is an open box, makes you
grow more in depth

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This is why even though I'm using a Quest 2, I don't bother with the Quest-native Beat Saber and instead play the Windows/Steam version through PC link. Well that, and the Quest version will chug on some maps that are a bit too much for the Quest 2's midrange smartphone SoC to handle, while my PC tower doesn't even break a sweat.

On Windows there's several utilities to keep your Beat Saber version and mods frozen. The utility I use, BSManager[0], also symlinks your beatmaps folder so it's shared between versions, making it easy to switch between arbitrary versions at will.

With that setup I play one version for extended periods and only upgrade when custom maps start using frills from newer versions. I'm currently playing on 1.27.0 even though the current version of Beat Saber is up to 1.30.0.

[0]: https://github.com/Zagrios/bs-manager
> Tell that to the folks actually building these transmission networks.

I suspect they'll agree that overland transmission lines are far easier to build than undersea lines. (As long as you're not trying to do it in, say, Afghanistan.)

> While it found that spreading renewables across Europe produced a smoothing effect, large scale weather patterns would impact many European countries at similar times.

Yes, that's why building and interconnecting with solar farms in Northern Africa is being discussed.

> In case you didn't notice, that's less than a nuclear power plants worth of interconnection capacity in a decade.

One would presume they build according to actual need. It's pretty clear future capacity expansion of proven technology will be needed as use of renewables expands.
Free startup idea:

1. Create something that monitors an app's network connections

2. Use the data to auto-generate integration tests for every endpoint including edge cases, error states, etc

3. Have user validate and accept the integration tests

(end there for self-serve tier, and for the enterprise tier...)

4. Rewrite app into another language, framework, or simply refactor code to be cleaner, more consistent, convert callbacks to promises or async/await, etc.

... key step being #3, need a really good test suite to validate the new code works the same as the old.
It's the difference between being a script kiddie and an actual hacker/cracker. Any web search will turn up thousands of links on hardware hacking at all levels.
Infinite tiling pattern could end a 60-year mathematical quest
Oh, Bobby. I actually worked for this guy once, long ago. (The company was International Consumer Technologies and the product was DeluxeWrite. Not mentioned in the Wikipedia page, but AFAICT it would have been between Arktronics and Leisure Concepts.) Even then, by the standards of that time, he - and even more so his partner-in-crime Howard - had notably little regard for work/life balance or other aspects of employee well-being.

I happened to be near that building in Ann Arbor recently. Even though it was an important stepping stone in my career, without which I wouldn't be where I am now, I was still tempted to raise one finger in salute. BK seems to have a knack for impressing money types and mistreating just about everyone else, which IMO says a lot about both him and the money types.
> and they won't like being told to be different, regardless of the long-term benefits.

wild assumption that just because something is different that it will be better. Especially when it usually comes from sheer utter ignorance and not being there long enough to understand, yet alone change for better
Ask HN: Recommendations for telemetry with low memory footprint
I am writing a free web service for a hobby community of mine. Since I expect to make negative revenue from it, I am hosting it on low tiers of providers that usually limit to 512 MB RAM.

I have tried Datadog, but their agent seems to consume up to 150 MB of memory, which is far too high to be comfortable for my use case (my application uses around 300 MB memory right now, which could go up as more traffic comes in).

I am considering just writing my own custom metric collector and dashboard, but I thought should ask for recommendations first.
This is the failure of threads: we section ourselves off into pairs, but each of us is still listening to the room.