skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So my issue is that now I have PostgreSQL running... inside a container? So I need to figure out where the data for it is stored and figure out how to ensure it is being backed up.

And like, that's just minimum: I generally care deeply about the filesystem that PostgreSQL is running on and I will want to ensure the transaction log is on a different disk than the data files... and I now have to configure all of this stuff multiple times.

At some point I am going to have to edit the configuration file for PostgreSQL... is it inside of the container? Did I have to manually map it from the outside of the container?

The way you access PostgreSQL locally--maybe if you find yourself ready to add a copy of pgbouncer, but also just to run the admin tools--is via unix domain sockets. Are those correctly mapped outside of the container, and where did I put them?

I honestly don't get it for something like PostgreSQL. I even use containers, but I can only see downsides for this particular use case. You know how easy it is to run PostgreSQL in some reasonable default confirmation? It is effectively 0 commands as you just install it and your distribution generally already has it running.
All the bleached coral reefs around the Keys would like a word.

https://www.wsaz.com/2023/07/25/florida-keys-coral-reefs-are...
I think the more accurate alternative is that reality is messy and you can’t always put things in categories and models.
You answered your own question. When you join a large project and there's a perfect dev environment available in 3 minutes with `make init`, it makes sense. If you're the solo dev, it doesn't make sense to spend 5 hours figuring out the docker build system.
Waymo is scaling back its self-driving truck ambitions
I agree that music quality has gone down a lot, and that people don't pay much for music anymore.

To me, that doesn't look far from the "home taping is killing music" prediction.

It was another technology that did it, but with less money coming in, less great music did get created.
It's not a valid refute, at all. Blackrock and Vanguard aren't calling me or you to ask what companies we want to invest in.

These companies should all be broken up, either via a max allowed amount or making the practice illegal altogether.
I've seen people open up all of their users' "private" content to Googlebot IPs just to get rid of errors in Google's search/Adsense console "in case it helps revenue" (as in they didn't even know for sure if it would help, only that it shows up as an "error" in Google's console and red=bad)

All you need to do is to jingle some real, if small SEO/ad advantage and people will bend over themselves to lick Google's boots.
They were directing their anger at the wrong person.
>She genuinely believes in this nonsense, as do her customers. Is there a practical difference though, whether she believes it or not?

It is legal for scientology to solicit donations from their followers. It's even legal for the Catholic Church to solicit tithes. If the party benefitting believes their own story then quite a lot seems to be legal.
Instead of composing libraries into an executable you can use containers to compose services into an application [0]. As noted in the sibling comment, this still can have a high utility for just a single workstation/service. Also as you noted, scaling to a datacenter is already partly automated. The entire environment is captured in code and reproducible/portable. But you need to be familiar with the tools and ecosystem to make use of them.

[0] We don’t have concise terms for the types of distributed, complex systems which have become standard.
> but I would still very much prefer that those plastic bags be put to use rather than decompose - at broadly the same rate - uselessly in a landfill site.

Well, to be honest, if the landfill is properly managed, protected from leaching into the water table, I would personally prefer those plastic bags to be exactly there -- in the landfill. If they're going to break down, I would rather have everything be concentrated in a single area rather than in thousands of fence posts near farms and ranches. We definitely should find ways to reuse those materials, but not at the cost of diffusely polluting things.
That's the thing I like about self-contained binaries (Of Go or any other sort). Just

FROM scratch
COPY this-or-that
LABEL prometheus.port=9100
LABEL prometheus.path=/metrics
EXPOSE 3001
EXPOSE 9100

and nothing breaks.

Only feeble component is CA bundle for SSL-related stuff as that by nature is changeable.
All of these problems are about dependencies.

And dependencies are about the way that we went from a blank slate to a working system.

If you can't retrace that path, you can't debug. If you don't have tools to track the path, you will make mistakes. At best, you can exactly replicate the system that you need to fix -- and fixing is changing.
You know that rich people don't just own stocks, right?

While the talking heads were clutching their pearls, wringing their wrists, and wagging their fingers over $400B in stimulus checks, ten times that amount was being printed into the real estate market, distributed in rough proportion to real estate holdings. Rich people paying themselves for being rich. "Just" isn't how I'd describe it. Not in magnitude, not in morals.

> Those debt obligations however remain. That future money still has to be paid in to cancel out the debt, whether that comes from home borrowers or from the Treasury

Why? Why do you keep engaging with the hypothetical universe that we do not inhabit where they don't pull the lever again, even though they got away with printing trillions into their pockets the last two times?

Those debt obligations are getting paid back like the father of a deadbeat son is getting paid back: he'll roll the loans so that he can tell his golf buddies that he has been paid back, sure, but he isn't going to be paid back and he doesn't really expect to be paid back.
Raise your hand if you contacted Aldritch about the two pre-cursor materials :-)

This is an excellent summary and like Derek I have high hopes (but low expectations) that by the end of this week we'll see some tentative confirmation. This stuff isn't particularly hard (or expensive!) to make so that should really make for interesting news and some very fun products if it is proven out.
the memory in my s/w development history was a long-lived build host which had masses of install-loop dependencies (things which need earlier versions of themselves to exist, to bootstrap installing the one you want) as well as dependencies hidden inside things. Basically, "it built on <x>" became a stock joke because it was demonstrably true: anything would build on a host with almost all dependencies resolved, if badly.

one thing containers do is provide an audit/reproducible basis to say WHY something builds. it may still be an implicit dependency: something in a specific version of an underlying substrate like the OS or a boot time act which works on that container and not on another. You may not "see" it at first but its a lower bar to understanding it, if the revision control behind the build chain is good enough.

a build chain of :latest is probably not good. reproducible builds drive against that.

I don't build things for a living any more. Probably this is all well known and argued better by others.
I'd say something like this: the average person isn't doing anything that complex with money. They can use cash for instant, real-time payments (with good counterfeit prevention), and can generally rely on their banks. But this is less than ideal because their assets can easily be seized, inflated, frozen, and their banks could fail. The blockchain could offer superior piece of mind or something of an insurance policy. Though the problem with that is most of the world runs on regular money so there would still need to be ways to buy/sell those assets.

To talk about the more specialized use-cases: there are some truly novel things that can only be done with the blockchain. To give you a direct example -- 'provably fair' gambling enables someone to place bets and know for certain that the result will be fair. This is accomplished by having outcomes enforced for a network of computers instead of trusting some shady website to stay fair. It's basically fully transparent. I know there will be people saying that this grasping at straws but the list of use-cases is quite long. I don't have time to research and list all the interesting ones here. But if anyone is interested in the subject I promise you that learning more about it won't be a disappointment.

It's just not easy to explain in short-form posts.
Google can just down-rank sites that don't implement this API. Voila, full adoption across the entire web and unapproved browsers are shut out.
Unfortunately that is not how human nature works. Value itself depends on the necessity or desire of people for a product and is distributed via the money printing debt system.

In other words: Necessary value can only exist, if other humans have a problem and depend on somebody/something to solve it (temporarily).

Explaining valuation from individual desire is hard, but group desire depends on techniques to control the masses and in between are many layers of uncertainty.
I can tell you about some failed experiments I did at age 13 with my buddies. We would go out to the concrete ditch behind the neighborhood and fill up various containers with gasoline and firecrackers. Pretty lame, but satisfied the itch!
LiveCoding in CommonLisp (code is changed while program is running) [video]
It does work to an extent. I doubt Saudi Arabia would have let women drive if it hadn't been for the influence of the wider world.

What isn't going to happen is the leadership suddenly deciding they love democracy and giving up power.
>and the entire team gushed with praises for each other

Lol, you should add that this is a sarcasm.
Completely forgot about the grub issue. At some point I gave systemd-boot a try and never went back.
I've been saying for years we are one "future technology" away from savings our asses from our world collapsing.

Here is hoping this is that breakthrough.
ah, yes, T-SNE and then turning off spherize and looking for similar jobs to "security manager"
Probably ATF, not DEA. DEA regulates controlled substances. ATF regulates explosives.
Human evolution taking its course.
Although this was always a problem until the mac M1 chips it didn’t matter much. Now it happens almost every week. I would prefer to have at least the same architecture between my local and prod environments.
I would take issue with your first claim. People, in general, have very mixed spatial sensibilities. Is why it takes herculean efforts to keep dishes organized in a family. Some people have organizations they want. Some have different and incompatible organizations they want. Some people just don't care.

Seriously, look at the insane amount of effort that a grocery store has to go through to keep things organized. Keeping things spatially coherent is just not a thing that people do for things they don't care about.

To get even crazier, look at the vast differences in how different clothing stores spatially organize each other. Each is organized. Each is fairly incompatible with the others. Even department stores have a great deal of variability in the different departments.

So, any attempt at rethinking window management with the idea that you can find a superior form of management is so doomed to failure that it is kind of comical.
https://archive.is/5oOGY
> In this article, we present a new approach to specify the data layout of rich data types based on a dual view:
> a source type, providing a high-level description available in the rest of the code, along with a memory type,
> providing full control over the memory layout.

Oh wow, I've been thinking along these exact lines for a few years; looks like I should have acted sooner! Not that I have any realistic route to be published, arxiv notwithstanding, so it's exciting to see the concept taken up institutionally, and in prestigious ones at that.

I have elsewhere called the concept "programmable pattern matching": when you declare an ADT constructor/variant, you are essentially simultaneously defining a function and a pattern. We already understand how to make functions with custom logic (duh) so the novel contribution is to give the pattern custom logic. And indeed, one possible implementation, which seems very different from the ideas pursued by the article, is to define a function whose signature matches that of the ADT's destructor a la dependently-typed languages (e.g. Lean), except the input is an integer/bitvector of some size instead of an element of the ADT.

To get a better sense of why this is a very exciting idea, check out the development of niche support in Rust enums over the years (e.g. sizeof::<Option<NonNullU8>>() == sizeof::<u8>(), sizeof::<Option<&T>>() == sizeof::<&T>()). The basic concept is there: we want to simultaneously enjoy ADTs which are the best type-safety/memory-safety invention since the invention of types themselves, while enabling every possible trick to save memory as cache lines (or, indeed, elements in the vector/SIMD register file) become a more and more valuable commodity for performance.
I use both pycharm and Webstorm, so an extension would be great! On the plus side, since they are all basically reskins of IntelliJ, one plug-in should work for all of the jetbrains suite.
I am entirely on Meta's side here. They have done a huge amount for open source ML, and with the llama2 license they are enabling millions of small-to-very-large companies with incredibly valuable technology, while asking the hyperscale cloud providers to pay. This is more than reasonable, in my view.

I would like to see more open source technologies taking this kind of licensing view - free for almost everyone, except the frankly parasitic hyperscalers who profit from others' largesse.
That's why I said evidence. I'm not expecting them to tell tales of UFO sightings. Having a video of something does not reflect on your mental state (unless you faked it). This issue also doesn't apply to passengers and there's lots of people in the sky who don't have a pilot's licence to protect.
Yes, we tried Fedora Silverblue, but it's a little too immutable as the Nvidia driver broke after a motherboard swap and we were completely unable to diagnose or debug anything because of the immutability.

GNOME Wayland seems to be best in class though. It's incredibly sad that it broke because we did enjoy it a lot. Better trackpad support than Windows for sure.
More than just needing an oracle - the keys and the house are both physical items. There's not really any practical way for a contract on the blockchain to validate that a particular physical item is in fact the item that it purports to be.

Are these ACTUALLY the keys to this house? Are they the only set? The original set? Were the locks changed, and this set in the contract is no longer valid?

Then putting aside all of that... How do you ENFORCE a "smart contract"? Probably through... Existing contract law. Because that's what it's there for. Smart contracts are just more convoluted paper, and we can do that already with DocuSign or any number of other digital contract options - all of which provide, so far as I can tell, precisely the same level of verification that a smart contract does. The only "advantage" of a smart contract over those platforms is that the history of the "document" is more or less baked into the chain, instead of trusting that the third party platform hasn't modified it... Which they will never have any motivation to do...

People have been initialing pages to mark them as read/accepted for more years than I've been alive. In the event of a contract dispute, smart contract or not, it's going to be up to a third party (mediator, judge, etc.) to decide on resolution anyway... At which point even the exact wording of the contract may well be discarded as being unenforceable because _contracts are not above the law_.
Why is that the case? SQLite isn't inherently slower than MySQL for these kinds of read-heavy uses (it's often faster!).
Question. Do people get shot trying to break out of your country, or into it?

That's really the only question that matters, when comparing economic/political systems.
> possibly because the drop in demand for other applications made it so cheap

Maybe a little bit. But I think it is more that it is a material with heavy atomic nuclei and high density, and thus effective at blocking radiation. And it is also relatively cheap.
> so you have to decide whether you trust communications from that device

"You" in this scenario being, most likely, an engineer at a large, regulated, risk-averse corporation that might have to justify this choice during an audit.

What would your decision be?
This argument is vital even when using openAI’s api. The LLMs want to continue writing… even when they shouldn’t.
https://github.com/Jeeaaasus/youtube-dl
No, it's absolutely not, it solves a completely different problem (declarative system configuration), where Alpine is not declarative.
My point is duration transformation doesn't create new money, it moves future money into the present. This may increase the money supply immediately, but it drops over time back to where it would have been.

Money isn't "printed" in the real estate market, valuations are notional.

> Those debt obligations are getting paid back like the father of a deadbeat son is getting paid back: he'll roll the loans so that he can tell his golf buddies that he has been paid back, sure, but he isn't going to be paid back and he doesn't really expect to be paid back.

So what?
When I thought Musk couldn't get any lower, reinstating an account that posted CSAM and just deleting the posts certainly is a new level he's managed to reach.
Basically “what English majors’ idea if math is”.
How is 25 years a single point of data?
> Paywalled or otherwise not loading.

https://archive.is/5oOGY

> Yes, it's clearly licensed this way.

I thought so. The July 18 announcement was "Meta and Microsoft Introduce the Next Generation of Llama". To interpret that as "Meta Reneged on Their Promise to Let Amazone Monetize Llama 2 for Free" seems a bit silly. https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/
Nah. We have a reasonable understanding of fluids. It's just that the two things we say as simple explanations (the plane pushes air downwards causing an equal and opposite reaction to push the plane up; faster flow on top of the wing "sucks the plane upwards") are both only partial truths.

Sometimes you get arguments between partisans for each of these two simplified explanations, but really both are bogus.
> So my issue is that now I have PostgreSQL running... inside a container? So I need to figure out where the data for it is stored and figure out how to ensure it is being backed up.

And how is that different from running directly on the OS?
I know we're not supposed to comment on the mechanics of the website or whatever, but did anyone else reach to click the X to make the login banner go away?
> It feels like right now would be one of the least certain times in history to be a talented, dedicated musician who wants to make a living, let alone get rich and famous.

In recent history perhaps.

For most of history making a living via music was very difficult and the current state is sort of a reversion to the historical norm after the recorded music boom distorted things for a century or so.
yes and no. you needed regular testing and in most cases you only needed to show that you had a clean test. you could get that on paper, it just wasn't practical. i had the issue that sometimes the test station was not able to enter my data because i don't have a chinese ID. in that case they had to print out the test results and i would use those. when i travelled that sometimes meant that they sent me a photo of the results because i did a test in the morning in one city, but the results were not available until i arrived in the other city.

to get your digital travel status there was an app you could download (actually each province hat their own app) and you registered on that with your phone number and passport details (or chinese ID). no wechat or alipay required.

if you didn't have a working phone then you could log in to that app on any other phone at see your status there. in theory it was possible to travel without a phone and not have the fact that you travelled reflect in the app, but in practice it was not worth the trouble.
> sudden resistivity changes at a critical temperature (bizarrely high though that is in this case)

How high? Just wondering if it might eventually be possible to use it in some power/clocking distribution layers of a semiconductor chip without bulky cooling.
And say what you want about her, but nobody ever said she was one for wavering. In everything she did she committed to and knew all about owning consequences.

If she was suicidal, and she had the track record, she was well able to have follow through on this also.

Whatever you believe, just for her sake, I genuinely hope she's now reunited with her son to get some peace.
>can’t get a replacement station

Ok, let’s break this down from the start. Russia has launched 10 space stations. The ISS was built using modules that were built for the Mir-2 station. The ISS was built on top of Russian modules.

Meanwhile, NASA wasn’t even able to fly their own astronauts to the ISS for a decade until Musk stepped in.

Russia has also demonstrated that they continue to have this capability as they added the first expansion to the ISS in over two decades recently.

I would hazard a guess that Russia’s capability in this area is much more… capable than the US at this time. They are also far more likely to be able to come to a collaboration agreement with china than the US is at this time. They also helped india kickstart their space program recently.

In conclusion: Russia bad? Maybe. But they weren’t stupid enough to outsource their manufacturing and allow the loss of institutional knowledge that the US has.
I agree, I think a third party attribution service makes a lot of sense, similar to how https has trusted CAs there could be different trusted attributors that can verify that a user has some account with some kind of verification, and these pluggable attributors could then be trusted by sites. You'd still need to integrate with a trusted authenticator, which some people might find objectionable, but it's probably better than the current proposal in that regard.

This of course only covers half of the use cases discussed (the half about preventing bots, not to say anything about the more DRM-ey aspects).
TLAs aren't interested in making some money on the side?
I was talking about the case where linker is the software and user is the developer performing linking. And MOLD was previously AGPL licensed, meaning that having access to binary isn't required, it's sufficient to interact with the software over network for copyleft to activate.

Let's imagine Google wanted to include Mold in Android sdk, and CI service company (like Travis or Github with their Actions) want to include Android SDK in their VM images. I would consider using of such CI service for building android app interacting with the linker software over network. Meaning everyone in the middle (Google and CI service) has to deal with license requirements.
docker build --platform linux/amd64

alternatively:

docker buildx build --platform linux/arm64,linux/amd64 # or whatever you need to target...
> pretending to be simple while shuffling complexity elsewhere

We don't particularly care if, say, `lbu` is a 10,000 line bash script, if it works. Actually, we've tinkered around with KISS Linux before, where a single bash script is responsible for being the entire package manager and rebuilding the entire operating system live. We were unable to get Nvidia working on it even before the motherboard swap though :)
All psychics are pretending to be psychics.
(Windows only.)