skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is a maintainer of smol, which I think is a far superior runtime to tokio for numerous reasons including structured concurrency, performance, size, and an ownership parameter that reduces the need for Arc<> all over the place by letting you scope on the runtime or task. The whole thing is just tighter and better thought out.

Yet tokio is the de facto standard and everything links against it. It’s really annoying. Rust should have either put a runtime in the standard library or made it a lot easier to be runtime neutral.
> Of course, in the latter case it helps to look the part and not look too clueless.

This is not just applicable to using the restroom as a non-paying customer. You can pretty much go anywhere if you just don't look guilty of doing something your not meant to be doing. They also say carrying a clipboard and looking in a hurry increases your "getting away" with it, whatever "it" may be.
And on another note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enforce_In-order_Execution_of_...
Implied contracts aren't a thing. If someone sends me some trash along with the content I requested, I'm absolutely free to configure my own device to ignore the trash and only display the useful content.

I've never seen paywalls neither on Medium nor on Substack, but I've seen plenty of annoyances like Substack's "hey, did you know this is a mailing list, subscribe to it" in-your-face modal and Medium's "sign up blah blah" thing that takes up half my viewport area.
Zoning laws have become weaponized. I would bet that the more zoning laws passed, the higher prices have increased. In places like San Francisco, neighbors can fight your permits and delay your building by years/decades depending on how much effort is put in. California stopped building enough housing supply to meet demand in the 1970s and since then has slowed new housing construction. We need to reverse this.
This is true of all abstractions; if you don't need them, then they'll make your program more complex and more painful to write and maintain.

Exercising judgement about when to use or shirk an abstraction is a lot of what being a software engineer is about.
Someone who holds this view would probably have to make the definitions more precise, so that if you live in a deterministic reality, you actually cannot conceive of a universe that isn't deterministic. You can throw around words like "indeterministic", but you cannot precisely simulate something indeterministic using only deterministic ingredients, and hence, for some precise definition of "conceive", cannot conceive such a universe.
Immigration is a good thing. California would not be the fifth largest economy by gdp without 40 million people moving there over its short history. Its only a bad thing when your elected officials choose to scapegoat them to mask their own incompetence with policy making. Immigrants are also moving where there are jobs to be had, but you never see a politician who is against immigration be against attracting more business in their district no sir e.
Oh interesting. The poster for one challenge I saw said you had to qualify at DEFCON, then at BlackHat. Made it look like if you didn't attend DEFCON you couldn't participate.

Do you have a link?
Wide statements with just general negative content, totally politically incorrect.

I have travelled there and yes if you spend time in the tourist places you face scammers often. The contrary is true when far away from stops - so I encourage all to discover in my opinion the best north africa country.

And a small hint: staying in a resort is probably the last way to really understand a country and culture.
Awaits don’t create threads, at least not in any runtime I know of. There is usually a fixed number of threads at launch.
I like polyurethane most, since I dislike the repeat maintenance of other options, and like the resilience of polyurethane, but I find it's a pain to get it right - I usually have an algorithm of try, wait, sand it down to bare wood, try again, wait more, sand more, repeat a couple times until I'm satisfied.

If you're okay with periodically re-applying, and don't need the durability of poly, something like tung oil is a great choice - wipes on super easy and looks fabulous. Sibling comment has great recommendations in this domain.

On gumminess - it sounds like it didn't cure correctly? Could be environmental factors, (temp/humidity) could be uneven application, etc. I also find I have to leave polyurethane alone for a looooong time for it to cure properly - I try not to touch the final coat for a week or more. I try to do very thin coats, sanding between each coat, for 2-3 coats, then for the final coat I use a spray polyurethane which seems to lie flat a bit better.
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It may turn out that one of the key factors in human intelligence and success is probabilistic nondeterminism. That is most of the time we'll come up with close to the same answer, but possibly worded different (which can lead to other interpretations of our answer), but occasionally our answers are so widely different they lead to escape of the local maxima.
Heh, I live in Spain, a country that receives a LOT of immigration from there, and I couldn't help but think "what kind of moroccans has this guy seen?"
> Also: not sure what burgers you're eating but apart from the novelty factor it's not even close in favor of real meat

My point is that some people actually prefer veggie or “fake” burgers and if tomorrow beef didn’t exist people would be more than happy with what currently exists today. It’s not like there is a huge gap there. Most people like the burger for the additions anyway.
I'm guessing all the really vulnerable (to cats) bird species in europe went extinct long ago already.
Computer Geezers would make an awesome band name.
I get what you're saying, but I think it's less about assigning blame in a "us vs them" situation and more of a "how can we clean up the whole system lifecycle" question.

The CAFE model seems to work for that. It doesn't really matter whether it's the driver or the car manufacturer, taxpayers front the regulatory research and costs, manufacturers moan and whine then eventually comply to some degree, consumers buy cars with slightly better mileage each year, over time things get better. Then Tesla comes around and makes electrification a reality, etc.

Similarly with the solar market, subsidies spurred investment and research and deployment and helped foster growth, until there is so much of it that (say) California's grid can hardly keep up, China saw the market and took it over, etc. These days it's a commodity. Government carrots do work, is all I'm saying.

You can create demands and markets through planned public investments.

Sometimes, though, we do blame fossil fuels companies, whether they're using tankers or oil rigs or pipelines. Sometimes those controversies can help spur better protections and safety regulations and whatnot, but at the end of the day your point stands: from a climatic standpoint the emissions are there whether we attribute it to a single company or a million individuals. Maybe the accounting is different and helps different political players, but the atmosphere doesn't care how we divvy it up.

IMO Taylor Swift flying in a private jet isn't that different than, say, OpenAI making a bunch of CO2 for a product that millions of people end up using, or Larian spending a bazillion CPU and GPU hours to make Baldur's Gate, or some politico flying back and forth to attend climate meetings. At the other extreme, Greta sails low impact and has great marketing, but that only goes so far. We still need everyday solutions that mid size companies and governments can implement on actionable timescales. That typically means low hanging fruits like more solar, more batteries, occasionally nuclear, incremental standards, etc. Is it enough? No, not nearly. But I think it's more than we've gotten from, say, Greenpeace or PETA. People generally respond better and faster to carrots than disciplinary punishments...
I love PHP and MySQL. I'm self taught and I've been writing it since 2007. It has helped me solve real problems at every job I've had since which has helped me advance my career in tremendous ways.

I know PHP is not perfect and I've definitely contributed some hot messes of code in the past as I figured things out. Sorry...

PHP has let me code anything I've wanted so far, so it's a really powerful tool for me.

I'm the guy who built an automated home cinema using PHP and MySQL: I hit a button on a website and it tells a Raspberry Pi to start the desired show.

It selects a Dolby ad, some sort of vintage ad like dancing hot dogs, a couple of trailers, and the feature. It brings the lights up for the credits.

All PHP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7YEVGWJjvI
It could very well be in the data, but not captured via learning/encoding.
Get an older desk - preferably one of the many-drawered variety - at a thrift store, Craigslist, second hand store or similar. Also, get a 25 to 30 cm wide, 4-5 cm thick slab of some fine wood, Oak or Elm or something else relatively heavy. The slab should cover at least the width of the desk plus ~12-14 cm but it can be wider. Cut two 6 to 7 cm heigh 'feet' for the slab off the side and mount these on the bottom of the slab so that each foot sits on the edge of the desk. Put the slab on those feet on the back side of the desk, put your monitor(s) on top of it. The keyboard and laptop - that is assuming you have a stationary system at home, otherwise replace 'keyboard' with 'docking station' - go underneath the slab when not in use of when - like I have several times a day - the cat comes by to help you with your projects [1]. Get some 'home entertainment system speakers' from that same thrift store/Craigslist/Freecycle/dumpster and spread them out on the back of the slab behind the monitor(s), put the subwoofer in the foot well under the desk.

If you are anything like me the slab will eventually be covered in parts and pieces, rolls of solder, breadboard with cables going hither and thither and more but at least the stuff is not directly on the desk, ey?

[1] this is assuming the cat is as bad a hacker as ours is, if yours is actually better by all means allow it to participate.
Would you sign a paper saying I can come into your house unannounced if I suspect you stole something? If you do not steal you have nothing to worry about
I could see pay-as-you-go being an alternative.

Some credits based system where you purchase hours or articles and if your account has a rebuy threshold, it auto charges you. The rebuy would be opt-in.
>I've barred cats from the garden here

curiosity begs to know precisely how you've done this. neither of my cats scale my 8' privacy wooden fence, but that's because they are comfy (fat and lazy/have no interest to leave) house cats that are allowed to play in the back yard. however, the neighborhood roaming cats have no problem scaling the fence, as both of my cats are aware when they chase to defend their turf.
I don’t think ‘Sally has only one sister - herself’ is the right answer.
Danish oil is great for this. It is half polyurethane and half oil. You can get it in clear or tinted. Takes about 72 hours before you can use it. Until it soaks in, the piece is tacky.

If you aren’t looking for something do heavy duty, plain mineral oil from the laxative aisle at Walmart is $2 a bottle. If you want to make that more heavy duty, mix it 50/50 with beeswax and heat until wax dissolves. Then let cool and you’ll have what looks like candle paraffin. Work that into the wood and you’ll have it sealed. You will need to reapply it every so often (probably once a year but depends on use). Not a permanent seal but no harsh chemicals used and you get to keep caring for your special piece of furniture which some people find satisfying.
It's not just the valuation of the house it's debit to equity.

In a $100k home where you owe $80k the HELOC would be like only $10k - and the rate would be less good.

In the same home where you owe $20k (have $80k equity) you could borrow $50k at a better rate.
this discussion does not belong on HN, but the Fifth Circuit is the purest concentration of activist Trump-nominated whackjob judges in the entire federal judiciary. Google “fifth circuit overreach”
Italy would like a word.
I get it. It really sucks. Banks doing it too is also really shitty. I didn’t take it personally, I hope you didn’t either.

At some point I’m hoping a sane plateau becomes apparent. Or at least a realistic ‘plan B’ for how to recover from this.

Generative AI though is really poisoning the online well, and I don’t know what we’re going to do about it.

Captchas were never great, but near as I can tell they’re literally only stopping real humans now, for instance.

When someone can easily gin up thousands of impossible-to-tell-they’re fake IDs for people that never existed?

That breaks almost every verification process anyone has right now. Except in person ‘show up and provide the actual physical ID’.

and that’s the reality we live in.
The answer is pretty simple: because when you let non-customers use the toilets, you're letting homeless, mentally ill, drug addicts, or just shitty people use the toilets at a far higher rate. They do insane things like smear shit and blood on the walls and leave used needles lying around, or they OD in the toilet, so it ends up becoming a real pain for the businesses to keep them open and clean for their actual customers. I don't know if Europe has the same issue with toilets, but I do remember having to pay to use public toilets there (in Paris, for example).
The theater has always become the work indeed
they have no problem making shit up to fit ring wing desires. Liberals could only dream of having such activist judges on their side.
Ok so “explosive” here is just clickbait right, not a type of wildfire ? The article does not mention it anywhere but first line
Like the lawmakers in the US or really any other country fair any better at nonsensical things that make their way to law.
I think they meant it was likely to spin off additional tasks/green threads.
Interesting that the concept of Cloud Computing dates back to at least 1994:

> "The beauty of Telescript," says Andy, "is that now, instead of just having a device to program, we now have the entire Cloud out there, where a single program can go and travel to many different sources of information and create sort of a virtual service. No one had conceived that before.

(from https://www.wired.com/1994/04/general-magic/)
What does "full value" means in ia64? The register is filled with zeros?
There is no way to get half of America to wear a 1-ply cotton cloth for their countrymen during a pandemic, and much of the other half is too fucking stupid to pull that cloth up over their noses even after two years of practice. I think the idea of pleasant bathrooms is a lost cause.
Almost as good as Severe Tire Damage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_Tire_Damage_(band)
This is probably a victim of DHH posting about their Once business model. Literally everything is a subscription now. Video, music, games. Enterprise software. It's just like your pg&e.

Consumers like it enough. This is just as fruitful as fighting a commodity.
There was a _slight_ increase in population (and thereby cats) since Roman times...
Similarly the Big Ten football conference is now 14 teams.
True, but it feels less like a subscription because it's not a flat amount per month or year.
isn't that pretty much any shelter that isn't a no kill shelter?
Great write up and what I especially enjoyed was how you kept the bits where you ran into the classic sort of issues, diagnosed them and fixed them. The flow felt very familiar to whenever I do anything dev-opsy.

I’d be interested to read about how you might configure cluster auto scaling with bare metal machines. I noticed that the IP address of each node are kinda hard-coded into firewall and network policy rules, so that would have to be automated somehow. Similarly with automatically spawning a load-balancer from declaring a k8s Service. I realise these things are very cloud provider specific but would be interested to see if any folks are doing this with bare metal. For me, the ease of autoscaling is one of the primary benefits of k8s for my specific workload.

I also just read about Sidero Omni [1] from the makers of Talos which looks like a Saas to install Talos/Kubernetes across any kind of hardware sourced from pretty much any provider — cloud VM, bare metal etc. Perhaps it could make the initial bootstrap phase and future upgrades to these parts a little easier?

[1]: https://www.siderolabs.com/platform/saas-for-kubernetes/
Cloudflare falsely thinks I'm a bot so I can't actually read it, but I believe the full text of the bill is here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-03/0362...
How is this not a thing yet? If I could pay a tiny amount per article on Medium that I currently can’t read, I totally would. Surely there’s a system for these micropayments? Why hasn’t it taken off?
The data source was probably included in all of the training sets.
The reason we use averages of performance over multiple tests and papers as a way to grade human students is precisely because we know that human performance is nondeterministic.
A lot of software business models may have been overly influenced by interest rates the last few years.

At a low interest rate, the time value of capital is low - a company can defer revenue almost indefinitely with minimal cost. Hence, a subscription business like SalesForce can spend handsomely on onboarding, and expect to make money back over the course of 5-10 years. To a certain extent, the same applies to ad supported business models.

If interest rates are higher, then a lump sum upfront payment may be a better bet. This may effect how software is written as well as how it is purchased.

Or we'll just see a steady increase in subscription costs.
… probably because they rescinded a bunch of signed offers.

I hope those folks that were duped landed on their feet and found work.
This argument seems to mix up "existence" and "construction".

The number states do not magically appear in the physical universe merely by thinking up the construction. The numbers could be configured as (temporary) patterns in physical objects, such as brains, books, or in ink molecules on paper. But the states are not physical objects themselves.

Also, if our universe happens to be universal, in the sense that it encompasses all of existence, then how could a calculation device exist outside of it? I'm not saying this is necessarily the case, but it's an option that many simulation-believers overlook. The calculation device might be part of the existence, but it seems rather unlikely that it can then predict reality faster than it unfolds.
I think a shorter summary of TV is "The difference between truth and fiction is fiction has to make sense".

When it comes to nature, time has encoded an awful truth into the knowledge of our DNA... Monocultures are eventual death. What may seem inefficient in the short run is the ultimate survival of the species in the long run.
The Russian military buildup on Ukraine's borders was obvious and believable, no one had a hard time seeing the Russians were going to invade. What really had the Ukrainian regime on the precipice, and was a harder sell in the lead-up to Z-day, was the internal coup attempt that would be coupled with it.
Which does not do functionally more than the C version that was shared by inferiorhuman.
Even better in Canada since capital gains on your primary residence is not taxed at all.
I think this is an extremely important problem for progressive governments to solve because at the moment they’re doing an extremely bad job of it and opening up opportunities for someone to say: “I am willing to do what is necessary to solve the problem - restrict immigration, ban foreign ownership, eliminate environmental and bureaucratic review”
Oh, I've used them. It's uncomfortable, plus there's usually a long line both before and after you... Not the best if you're in a hurry.
Take a smaller example: weather on Earth. There are a LOT of particles, but still classically simulatable. Chaos ensures that we still cannot know all future states of the weather. This is a remarkable truth, and one should give it time to sink in.

Note that quantum modelling those effects go as O(a^N). If you want to hand-wave away exponential computational cost, then I cry foul: the details matter, and I posit that you cannot build a computer that is more powerful than the universe itself.
You have two choices.

Either you write code with good performance, which means that functions do take references and pointers sometimes, in which case you do have all of the usual lifetime issues. This is the proper way to use C++, and it's perfectly workable, but it's by no means automatic. That's the reality that my comment was referencing.

Or you live in a fantasy land where RAII solves everything, which leads to code where everything is copied all the time. I've lived in a codebase like this. It's the mindset that famously caused Chrome to allocate 25K individual strings for every key press: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/EU...
I see what you mean now. That differentiation escaped me at first. Thank you for the explanation!
You aren't entitled to ownership of a single house, either.
I love how the pop up I get from Medium for this piece is telling me to subscribe for $5/mo.
> Maybe instead of spending huge amounts of taxpayer funds treating the symptom, San Francisco should ask itself why local businesses find it impossible to keep their restrooms open?

SF businesses already have to deal with a near daily hosing down of human feces from the street in front of their stores. If they opened up their bathrooms to vagrants it would just double the number of places they’re literally cleaning shit up.
> It is unfortunate that you lost money chasing after a short squeeze

I don't participate in the stock market but this isn't about me anyway. It's about Wall St itself being a massive scam.
In London in the evenings we see more foxes than cats, and they do kill birds. Maybe we should dress in pink jackets and persecute them?
Right, but this is a very San Francisco problem. To the extent it is a problem in the rest of US, it's not a big enough problem to outweigh the benefits to the business of offering a public restroom. Even most major cities I've been in don't have trouble providing public restrooms, there's a very specific set of cities that do.

San Francisco and Portland and Seattle could spend tons of money trying to fill a need that most businesses in the US fill for free, or they could spend that money solving the root problem.
Good point! It's the same bottleneck that many EV or induction stove homeowners face, right?
Thats only new listings.
And while old ones dont get listed for new installs.

They dont stop working if you installed them before the minimum requirements for new apps came into force, and you can still install them on new phones from the list of applications attached to your account.