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For DigitalOcean (and several other providers) you can build your own image with provided configurations, e.g.: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/nixos/modules/v...

(see `virtualisation` folder for other providers)

Then you can do something like:

nix build .#nixosConfigurations.doImage.system.build.digitalOceanImage

And in the `result` directory you will have droplet image which can be uploaded to digital ocean as droplet template.

Its probably best to also create separate configuration only for the image. As a bonus, its already configured, so no need to run `nixos-rebuild switch` after droplet creation. Partitioning configuration is also handled by the builded, however, filesystem choice (and partitioning schema) is limited

(I'm not saying that this is easier than out of the box support for NixOS: IMO if you are even aware how to create custom NixOS image then you are probably somewhat experienced NixOS user)
One less thing to manage and think about, including cleaning up after myself. It may pull dependencies that I don't care about or want exposed e.g that would be picked up by some other thing as with traditional package managers (e.g a configure script would pick installed stuff). apt-get autoremove --purge or pacman -Rsc become a distant memory.

It's fire and forget and I can just focus on what I'm set to do.

Once I'm done with the one shot task, it disappears and could be garbage collected for all I care.

Some tools I did promote to being part of my user env but crossing that bar is a very deliberate thing, some are promoted to systemwide (root) and the bar for that is even higher.

It removes a ton of mental deadweight.
Devcontainers have saved me so much time setting up new dev environments. I highly recommend.
I agree. And it’s faster than Jekyll in terms of building and exporting in Cloudflare, GitHub, vercel, etc.
There were 8 screws to remove the bottom of the laptop. That's about the same maybe even less than most PC laptops I've worked on.

I believe Apple will do simple repairs in the store. Battery replacement, screen replacement, etc.

The logic board failed on my M1 MacBook Air, I brought it to an Apple Store and they did some diagnostics but said they had to mail it to a repair center. It was overnight shipped to some facility in Texas.
162.8 / 331.9 = 49% of the whole US population. That seems extremely different from loads of statistics which weren't tracking access but whether households actually had broadband at home. I'd like to see the actual proof of that and their real testing strategies instead of just taking Microsoft at their word on that one.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/internet-bro...

> Among all households in 2018, 92% had at least one type of computer and 85% had a broadband internet subscription.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/computer...

> And most of America is rural America

What?

> Despite the increase in the urban population, urban areas, defined as densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas, now account for 80.0% of the U.S. population, down from 80.7% in 2010.

> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru...

As for those who just use their phones at home, if their phones do get above broadband speeds, would that not classify them as having home broadband?
Yes. https://missingmiddlehousing.com/
Not to mention, the people who need the advice are not going to be selected from the general population.
Residential and commercial should be closer together. Why not have apartments and office in the same building?
Luxury definitely means 'on the higher side of the price range' and 'not affordable housing'.

Which is what you'd expect to happen in a free market.

Absent a reason, why would developers voluntarily choose to build an option that would make them less money?
Has MRI actually been proven to work with similar carbonized scrolls ?
This seems like another variant on "tech is a bubble/ponzi scheme", but founders and VCs are evil because they know and are taking advantage of poor investors! Honestly I find it hard to care when bozos invest in a meme asset without understanding what they bought.

I feel like Thiel's point about stagnation is fundamental to this problems. A lot of these startups aren't providing real value, they are repackaging existing value with an undeserved markup. They can get away with it because there really isn't a lot of innovation anymore.
I know it was sarcasm, but all Apple Laptops and iPads come with a charger.
> is the S&P500 lower now than it was three months ago? If the answer is "yes" then maybe stay in cash and put that money in when the answer is "no".

Wait, isn't that the wrong way round? You're waiting when it's low and buying when it's high?
There was a lot of investment advice to buy bonds even when interest rates were zero as this "balancing component" as you say. That was pretty much "buy bonds for the sake of it." One reason is because it decreases volatility and most people freak out when their nest egg loses 40% of its value in a market downturn, but I do think a lot of it was just laziness and carrying over advice from before the zero interest rate days.
Is feedback the only reason to subsidize this product?

Making AI tools free, for 12-18 months, would be enough time to get individuals reliant on it for their workflows and enough time to discover the full range of their potential. At which point then the vendor can withdraw the bridge and monetise access.

I would see this as a big VC bet. Will it pay off? Maybe!
Many here are not accounting for other costs such as training, fine-tuning, inflated salaries and most importantly the competition from either other cloud-based AI models and especially $0 or close to free AI models and their services.

Eventually, they will catch up and GPT-5 will take much longer to train and right now, they currently cannot raise prices as their current AI models begin to degrade.

2024 is extremely unlikely, but the AI bros reacting here that it is fine to burn $2B+ a year over a $10B investment with rapidly increasing costs for one AI model with no sight of profitability is beyond amusing. (and of course the AI bros flagged the post)

The only result I can predict is that OpenAI will have to IPO with in the next 4 - 6 years or Microsoft just 100% acquires them.
Alternatively, check out tilt. (Especially if you are doing k8s).

It'll start up everything for regular dev, supports live reload, and will put in proper waits while your environment gets into a ready state.
They replied the same day saying that they unblocked my account and I should be able to login. No explanation why it was blocked or anything.
The prior system was also totally unopinionated, while Flakes prescribe a default path and some people are upset by this, too
Depends on the area, but there are definitely areas that the lack of zoning (or at least enforced) makes for some slummy areas. Even in areas where high prices, like The Heights (I know a guy who used to live in one of the slumlord homes over in the area, an old large house split into 4 or 5 "apartments", so I've seen how bad it is first hand.)
I was referring to the iPhone but you're right.
Detection of Various Microplastics in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Surgery
Using your example of the stock market, thinking critically about money also entails understanding how the stock market works. Most people don't understand how it's built in the first place. When buying a "stock", one is actually buying a derivative of a derivative.

Extending the idea of thinking critically about money, it's a safe bet that a majority of the population have no idea how money itself is issued or who issues it.

"Most investors when they buy a publicly traded stock believe that they own a part of some company. They think that somewhere there is a stock certificate or some indication of ownership that has their name on it, but this is not the case. When you buy a “stock” you are actually purchasing a security that affords certain entitlement rights related to registered stock which actual owners hold. The registered shares of a private company are directly owned by shareholders. In contrast, the registered shares of nearly all publicly traded equities are owned by Cede & Co., which is the nominee of the Depository Trust Company (DTC). (A nominee is a company whose name is given as having title to a stock, but does not receive the financial benefits of ownership.) Cede is a subsidiary of the Depository Trust Company (DTC) which is a subsidiary of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and the DTCC is a private company owned by elite Wall Street firms and money center banks. If you need background or a refresher on DTC and DTCC, click on this link. Effectively, elite Wall Street firms and money center banks, not institutions and individual investors, own almost all of the registered shares of publicly traded companies in the US... Effectively, you are buying a financial derivative from brokers of a financial derivative they hold from Cede that is just a digital entry in your DTC account." [0]

[0] https://smithonstocks.com/part-8-illegal-naked-shorting-seri...
Undoubtedly Andrew Carnegie distributed his fortune to the benefit of the populace and created a lasting legacy while doing it. However, he believed wealth was supposed to be in the hands of a select few and not in the broader population: leveraging the working man to attain his position of privelege.
Depends on your circle. So probably not a representative sample. If you live in SoCal there's probably some clustering of survivorship bias.

Of all the people rich today -- or ever -- how many started middle or lower class?

How many came to America with nothing and died, barely survived, went to jail, got deported, peaked at lower middle class, etc.?

If I know a lot of plane crash survivors I still would not recommend getting on an unsafe plane. (I actually only know one crash survivor and would not get on a small plane unless it's a life or death emergency.)
I thought the same thing so when we needed to rent a house we picked one with a hot tub, used it at least once or twice a week the whole year, and for years after. It became a great place to have family conversations and just relax at night. Also fixes some back issues almost instantly.
Our old Salesforce rep is now a LinkedIn influencer. We all shake our heads as we know how useless they really were.
Could you please link to the Typescript study?

> anyone who has used Rust extensively knows it to be true.

I have used Rust extensively and have no idea whatsoever is that's true, and if you think you do, be prepared to be wrong about that, as humans are incredibly "good" at being sure that something is true until formal studies show you were wrong.

Haskellers have said "if it compiles it works" for a long time, but have never been able to prove that. Again: just saying/feeling something is true doesn't make it true.

> Right, but they are much less likely to occur.

No, there's just no evidence! Just go to any Rust project, they have as many bugs as anything else... I wish that were false, because then I would definitely just use Rust for everything myself... but that's not at all what I've seen so far.
You experience seems to be in a broken housing market which the article is trying to fix.

All new apartments are described as luxury. It's makes them easier to sell.

If land prices are high and it takes years to get approval to build then only expensive apartments will be built because cheap apartments won't make a profit.

If only expensive housing is allowed to be built then most people will only be able to afford to rent.
The reason there isn't more building is because of zoning. In my neighborhood alone multiple requests for re-zoning for higher density was rejected and building didn't happen because of that.
Personally, I feel like that 'gap' comes from most SF writers having a physics/maths backgrounds while the really 'cool' stuff is happening in biology. Hard SF generally focuses on physics, not biology.

Greg Bear had some interesting novels around retroviruses in the 90s, Darwin's Radio, and I've read some solarpunk stories that went into the right direction. Peter Watts has a PhD in Zoology which is maybe why Blindsight is so good.
solution to what exactly?
to help hackers hack companies more efficiently?
The great teddy bear shipwreck mystery
What’s the alternative then? How have you invested for the last twenty years taking this into account?
> I wouldn't count a game console such as Xbox, PS or Switch as a PC because it is vendor controlled and locked down

The Xbox was built primarily from standard components used in personal computers.

The PlayStation 2 and 3 ran Linux as alternative operating systems, officially supported by Sony.

The Nintendo Wii series is heralded as some of the most hackable and therefore versatile consoles in history, not for Nintendo's lack of trying.

> Similarly phones are bought with the knowledge that they are more similar to game consoles than general purpose computers

My phone in my pocket has more capability than my old laptops. Touchscreen interaction and the ability to make calls over a cell network do not suddenly make this thing not a personal computer. The hardware is completely capable of supporting this.

> They are bought with the knowledge that they are locked down by the vendor and that your use of the device is going to be limited.

This is just circular reasoning. The entire point is that this "knowledge" is simply consumer conditioning, and people are being taken advantage of by being fed this bullshit narrative.

> The right to install custom software that does whatever you want has never been part of the contract.

My friend, there is no contract. That is the point. I buy the hardware, and then I have the right to do whatever the fuck I want with it. Full stop. Anything less restricts my right to modify my personal items as I see fit.

> I do think expecting vendor support for their wacky antics is a step too far.

What? My phone runs a heavily-modified Linux and can do literally anything I need regarding personal computing, including hook up to external monitors and make use of peripheral devices like a mouse and keyboard. It is objectively a full-blown computer, regardless of if you can't understand that.

The premise of this thread is simply that, despite all of this, ports are arbitrarily locked down. This requires extra vendor intervention to implement, so your argument makes no sense. There is nothing wacky about using my personal computing device for.... personal computing. It's either disingenuous or ignorant to suggest this is not something which should be considered.
We should do that. But it's not principally the thing we're talking about when we discuss restrictive zoning. We're talking about a housing crisis, which is caused by restrictions on where and what housing can be built, not a commercial crisis.
Your first suggestion is basically momentum investing [1]. But as the wikipedia article alludes to, there are some issues with this, such as a potentially high risk, that one would need to carefully consider.

I think there is a big difference between merely applying critical thinking, versus investing the necessary time into essentially becoming a semi-professional day trader.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_investing
If Americans think zoning is bad and crippling house building, wait until they hear about the British planning system.

Where every single building needs state permission and full review to be built. Which takes months to years per building, instead of days or weeks.

In completely unrelated news the UK has some of the most expensive smallest housing in Europe.
Is there a single personal fortune that did not leverage the working man? That’s kind of how labor + capital work
OpenTau – Using Large Language Models for Gradual Type Inference
> if you need your liquidity during a crash, welp you're fucked.

But this simply means you didn't predict that you'd need the liquidity, which is easier than predicting the crash.

You have to know that as you get older, you will likely need that liquidity more. Thus, you should be swapping illiquid assets over time, as you get older, bit by bit.

Not doing it is equivalent to taking a bigger risk than you could afford to be taking.
Now, consider all of those companies that are building their solutions on top of salesforce's products.

We had a customer go with a competitor who is partnered with Salesforce and the only thought I could summon was "I can't wait to read the postmortem".

Even if you can make it work, the user experience is a big factor and will ultimately become a system requirement at some level. Latency is hell and requires mastery to overcome in any system of meaningful complexity. Focused, targeted engineering vs broad-spectrum tool spam is the difference between 10 and 1000 milliseconds.
> The reason people like Musk get to make the decisions is because they are a lot better than average at doing the rational thing rather than falling into the emotional trap of burning the seed corn.

I believe that there are genuine skills separating billionaires from normal people, but I'm not sure that the primary one is reliably "[being] better than average at doing the rational thing". Being OK at logic, starting with some money, and having an enormous tolerance for risk seems to be a common formula for becoming billion-scale rich (and also, in most cases, much poorer than that). I'd argue that this kind of appetite for risk, and volatility in general, makes such people questionable managers of society's resources, though I guess there are more "steward-style" billionaires like Buffett that might be more palatable.
Czech Republic enters the party…
Easier alternative is manipulate the nervous system, i.e. extremely low power shocks, like how real life works. Or pneumatics.
> We only knew if our candidates got hired, not how well they did after they were in the door, as employees.

Just lol
It’s not about prompt-fu (granted there are some very powerful prompt-fu things you can do if you’re feeling creative :)). I think it’s more about the way you’re framing it’s use case. It will not do the work for you reliably, but it absolutely will allow you to learn what you need to do the work at a rate 100x faster than you could otherwise.

I find it’s very good at correcting your own mental models. For example, if you’re unsure about you’re mental model of how a piece of technology works, explain your mental model to the system and ask it to check your understanding. It’s amazing for using it as a real-time sounding board for checking your understanding of how you think things work.
Not a single author, but the Erlang parts of the Erlang source code are quite readable. (I haven't looked at the C parts)
The bigger question is among cities with Houston's population, what is Houston doing wrong that other such cities are doing right? Almost always the comparisons are to much smaller cities, which is intellectually dishonest.
Sure, but crashes don't make up even 10% of the total amount of time. If you needed liquidity at any other time, having been invested would have been the right thing to do. In addition, there are many options available to make more liquidity available at all times, from literal (put) options to just simple diversification and holding a part of your wealth in cash as an emergency fund.

It's good to focus on the bad outcomes as well as the good outcomes, and most people do indeed make the mistake of only considering the good outcomes. But looking at only the comparatively rare bad outcomes and then concluding that investing in the stock market is a bad idea is just availability bias.
Code Generation on HumanEval Leaderboard
The article is talking about VC in tech specifically, but I wonder how much applies to the stock market as a whole. The US was in a bull market from 2009 to (start of) 2020, so many "young" investors never experienced a recession until 2020.
> nor can you place blame or reduce your trust across all scientists and scientific institutions.

And yet I did, and so did millions more. Now what? You think we're irrational? Ok, that doesn't fix it.

That is what "destroying trust" means.

Besides, that's not even accurate. Of course every time I get lied to by a scientist I should update a bit more towards believing scientists less. That's not only common sense, it's Bayesian rationality by the book.
You need to think of it as a random text generator with 50 percent success.

The more you use it the higher the chances you have in getting good output in the totality of responses.

Also the complexity of the question and the length of answer you want influences that 50 percent probability.

I feel people who think it's useless just aren't creative enough with it. They try it once see the output is invalid and move on.

Try it on smaller sections of the code. Try it more often. Also don't have a black and white opinion on the output... Sometimes the output isn't perfect but it may just need modifications? That's still good output.

Also try asking the LLM to modify the output. Identify changes you want or mistakes it made. The LLM is an editor you can use to refine both your work and its own work.
If people can't afford $1m apartments then developers will build cheaper ones if they can make the numbers work.
I filed that one under "text to speech or spellcheck mishap" after pondering a bit, myself.
This is is closely related to the Right To Repair movement, which is one of the most important human rights campaigns of our lifetimes.
Build relationships with paying customers ASAP in the journey. They will give you all the guidance you need.
There are interests that different generations tend to vote for, that have led to noticeable quality of life changes for future demographics. Politicians have an outsized share of the blame, but they do respond to the people who actually show up and call them on issues. You have more power than you might otherwise realize (at least in the US I know this is true).

Not saying it's a ton of the generational blame, but if you have wealth, you have power and you can sway things. And if you would advocate for the right stuff, then I don't consider you part of the generational problem. It's just a pretty accurate numbers game that most of the boomers I see aren't helping out with a lot of the decisions that were made 30 years ago that proved to be bad...

Edit: Even the boomers I know who are trying their best acknowledge that their generation made some mistakes (my generation will make mistakes too). Getting defensive about it misses the point.
It looks like this article is an excerpt from 'More Voices from the Radium Age', which focuses on 1900 to 1935, so in that context it makes sense to not include Verne. They would've needed to include Mary Shelley, too.
They really aren’t though. Even New York is filled with tons of somewhat wasted space and excessive car infrastructure. Especially in the outer burrows.
It’s not. There are quite a few people who wish they could use it at work (me included) but very few actually do.
The CRT Terminator is a VGA card add-on that supplies native digital video
Sure, the major metro areas eat up whatever supply of cheaper immigrant (read: LatAm) labor is available. They're not making their way into the rest of the region... ironically, because there's nowhere to live!
I am surprised that un-chased debt can be bought at 5 cents on the dollar, yet then turned into court default judgements and wage garnishments or liens worth 80 cents on the dollar.

The dollar amount of the debts increases too, since debt collection firms can attach their costs at highly inflated rates.

I would assume that ~75% of debtors will earn some on-the-books wages at some point in the future or own a house. Therefore, this stage of the process seems insanely profitable.
In that case, the greater fools are LPs?
The Final Hop Weekly Cybersecurity Roundup: Week 32, 2023