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They aren't making something for the JS ecosystem: they're defining a new data serialization format built on explicitly defined input parsers (Scroll), and for one reason or another, its current implementation is in JS.

It turns out that creating a data serialization format built on explicitly defined parsers has uses beyond the ontological use cases, and there are several expressions of Scroll that are useful for technical use cases, such as Stamp for templating and ScrollSets[1] for structured data. The ScrollSets page is an excellent demonstration of how Scroll can be used to serialize data for human- and machine-consumption.

[1]: https://scroll.pub/blog/scrollsets.html
I did that corporate software thing for about 15 years. In that time from the people I worked with were generally Java developers or JavaScript developers. Here are the patterns I saw repeated across various employers:

* QAs were more likely female and developers were more likely male. The QAs, irrespective of sex identity, almost always demonstrated superior communication skills. The difference wasn't even close. I have worked with some developers who could barely write two sentences but the good QAs could draft a precise set of instructions at a moments notice.

* About 15% of the developers could really develop software with confidence. The rest wrote glue code, put text on screen, filled administrative responsibilities, and so forth. The most important thing for the less confident developers was retaining employment, advancing, or just generally seeking admiration. Delivering products or solving real problems are less interesting because it requires more work with less immediate gratification. These less confident developers are the ones most likely to frequently jump employers because that artificially drives up wages, resets their quest for admiration, and prevents exposure for their inability to write original software.

* 10x developers are a real thing. These are people who are 10x, or more, productive than their peers. I have been a 10x developer. These people are not necessarily smarter or even better at writing software. The thing that stands out about these people is that they ask better questions and do things that aren't asked for, such as writing personal tools to automate away manual effort.

* Not everybody is capable of performing software architecture. Software architecture is a test of organization competence. Higher intelligence is absolutely beneficial for this, but far less so than superior conscientiousness. Conscientiousness has a negative correlation to intelligence at around -0.27. That means the smartest guy in the room is most likely not the right person for this job.

* Almost everybody has opinions about what to do but almost nobody measures anything. The mere idea of measuring things scares the shit out of those 85% of less competent developers. If you want to propose stellar ideas have stellar evidence, but even still be prepared for rejection merely because 85% of your peers are cowards who cannot deviate from their tiny capability set.
In other words --- what you and I think isn't nearly as significant as what others are persuaded to think.

For example, I personally think TSLA is way, way, way over bought. The reasons for this are many and varied but still largely irrelevant. My opinion didn't stop an "analyst" from issuing a buy recommendation yesterday with a target price of $265.

Maybe this "analyst" has clear, logical reasoning with supporting computer analysis --- or maybe his grandma is just heavily bought into TSLA. In any case, the stock jumped 2.5% yesterday.

Bottom line --- everybody and his brother is using software. But opinion and psychology remain significant factors that defy computerization. The market can still stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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Thanks, that seems to have solved it. Pretty bad reporting for the BBC though.
The main security benefit of byzantine paranoid security best practices is that they massively hinder productivity. If you can't make a system, the system will have no vulnerabilities.
Podman Destop is surprisingly bad on MacOS.
It has a kind of proxy-like/userspace network driver.
That means your tcp connection shown in a host system through `netstat`.
ICPM is not implemented and always returns success. Try running `ping 66.0.0.0` or any other non-existing IP from the container and see.
At that moment I'll continue using, well, podman in a Linux VM running UTM.
> I wasn't going to click until fascism was brought up and now he sounds like an interesting guy.

> I'm the most racist person you can imagine and I don't get it.

On a submission titled Data-fueled neurotargeting could kill democracy:

> Cool. How can we help?

Look, this is a place for discussion, not edgy behaviour. It'd be best if you tried to participate in the same way, you are not spitting facts and your opinion is, at best, quarrelsome. It'd be best for all of us if you approached this space with less of this stupid rhetoric.
@IndyMike: Sorry for the quick second post, but I have specific question. I hope you can shed some light with a local view.

The blog post says:

> A city-run water utility with lower rates and no drought restrictions.

Can you provide any details on this? Usually setting up a city-run utility is political hell because the incumbent utilities do not want to let go of good business! There are so many stories on HN of cities trying to setup their own electrical utilities and tele-comm utils, but fail due to lobby and political B/S (not economics).
Glad you've enjoyed using Triplit!

on self-hosting: We're cleaning up the docs on self-hosting to make the configuration clearer, thanks for point that out.

on querying: Yeah we don't have aggregations yet but it's on our roadmap. Don't want to over promise but I think we can make something awesome here by leverage our incremental querying engine. Like consider a data dashboard that needs to be updated every hour; in a traditional system (postgres, mongo, etc) you would need to rerun the query from scratch each time. Our plan is to create something closer to what Materialize does and just process the new data so it's much more efficient and can just update continuously rather than every hour.

re Evolu: I haven't actually gotten a change to try it out but there might be in someone in our Discord[1] that has that could compare/contrast

1. https://triplit.dev/discord
Nevertheless it feels like the point of Banach-Tarski is that it proves math went wrong somewhere. Evidently the sets it's talking about are not objects which are interesting in reality.
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Other countries would import their pork from somewhere else, or produce their own pork, while still selling their computers to Denmark because that’s good business?
Interesting. With a few exceptions (namely, BS/HT/LF/VT), these are identical on what the Amstrad CPC character set (https://archive.org/details/SOFT968TheAmstrad6128FirmwareMan...) looks like. Which was probably a copy from some other character set ROM.
How would you deal with <https://example.com/read_blog_post.php?id=1234>? The query param is absolutely necessary in that case.
I don't remember how I learned it, but back when my family had a IIci I remember there was a startup key command you could press to display an image of the developers in the ROM. I kind of miss the days when that sort of thing was done.
I don't think that'd still classify as burnout, honestly.

That's more like a stress response from getting into the range of an abuser. I'm sure it was extremely traumatic for you, I just don't think anyone could classify such a response as burnout
Its 11,000 responses.

And They didnt ask people if they felt burnt out.
I agree it makes no sense. Nothing about being transgender looks remotely enjoyable or trendy. Hard to imagine someone would just go along with it for fun.

The only thing I am skeptical of is those who are looking to increasingly subdivide gender identities into finer and finer niches, but in a way that nevertheless has no impact on their lives whatsoever. That's a whole lot of distinctions without differences to me, but that does not apply with transgenderism.
Here comes the sun!
Lots of good writers on X.
The reason I put the USA in that bucket is not because I thought the USA is some enemy of Germany or the EU. I put it in that list because the USA *is* a country that the EU needs to worry about withholding vital trade for its own political gain.

Because of that, it is a national security risk for EU countries to rely on the USA for critical energy inputs, in the same way as it is a national security risk for the EU to rely on Russia or the Middle East for energy inputs, in a way that just isn't true of fellow EU or EEA countries.
No. It is a result of a practical, engineering perspective. I love theory. It's necessary for moving the world forward.

I also love getting things to work. Three quarters of NPM packages are CJS. Several of them are ones I wrote.

The reason they are not ESM is that the theoretically pure folks had control and I voted with my fingers because everything I do has to fit in my a substantial amount of existing CJS code.

Arguing for practical solutions that accommodate an imperfect world is absolutely correct.
And the grid is getting greener and greener every year.

An electric car bought today that is powered by a coal plant today will be powered by solar/hydro/wind more and more each year.

A gas car will always run on fossil fuels.
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Then, when you have code in production, https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/ (from the same author)
I've had the Herman Miller Aeron and the Steel Case Leap. Both are considered top tier options. I'm currently using an Autonomous chair and I'm very happy with it.
So what does it mean for physics?

Perhaps zero, one, more or all of the following:

- duplication of volume seems to duplicate mass and energy, which is impossible

- the Axiom of Choice is false in the real world

- the real world is not based on real numbers (ironic)

- mathematical measures are not related to real world measure(ment)s

- there are no realizable infinities or infinitesimals

- the real world is ultimately discrete at the lowest level
Clientside mitigation: install noscript.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/

You can’t expect to remain secure on the modern web while running arbitrary javascript from anyone and everyone.
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VOC sensors are pretty good
I don’t think general observations apply in the usual case of extremely close and geographically nearby alliances like the EU. Importing from other EU members has no national security implication because their national security fate is conjoined anyway. Similarly trade between the US and Canada, there’s no future in which we fight each other or don’t fight together in any serious war (Canada even comes along for our bullshit bad idea wars most of the time).
The sun gives that to us for free.

We need to figure out how to store and transport the electricity.
Funny thing is that so are the cars. Do some wardriving on the highway and you'll quickly see everyone around you has integrated mobile hotspots and you can often guess their names because "JENNIFERS SUBURBAN 5G" has been following you for 10 miles.
It's extremely easy to argue that Slack is much better than MSTeams, but now the market does not exist for anyone who wanted to make something better than Slack.
AssemblyScript can't access the dom without interfacing with Javascript which is a major piece that needs to be solved with wasm generally.

I'm arguing we should have invented a new native language to replace javascript, which could have provided a stop-gap solution until wasm targeted languages are viable.
Totally agree. One of the best discriminator questions I've found is to have a candidate talk about a technology they've used in the past, and then talk about the pros and cons of that tech, and also to compare that tech with a competing tech they're familiar with.

Poor candidates say something like "it's all great!" or "it's all awful", which is almost never true. They're unable to go beyond a very surface level "I called this library and it worked" kind of analysis. Good candidates are able to compare and contrast the pros and cons of lots of underlying details.
humans are the obstacle in this situation.. see "Who killed the Electric Car"
Funny my son won tickets to a 38 Special + Foghat concert in the Elimra area so we drove Route 13 from Ithaca to Elmira which has 7 or so traffic circles on it. They must have consciously changed every light to a traffic circle on that stretch of road.

Quite utopian and European if you ask me. It definitely puts an end to left turns, at least onto major roads, although that stretch of 13 has some houses and occasional bits of commerce.
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I don't think any user who leaves their unsynced data sitting in a drawer for more than a year can reasonably expect it to sync to a shared database, not just because of schema incompatibility but more so because of conflict resolution (imagine expecting your PR based on a two year old git commit to be accepted to a very active project). Just give them a report of the diff (the unsynced changes) so they can redo them via the latest client manually.
Neither of these is true. WL had a process of verifying leaks and would only publish those that it was assured were provided with full context. Typical news reporting will publish a leaked sentence or paragraph and add its own significant interpretation. WL would publish the entire source material (with appropriate redactions) once it was vetted and deemed complete, so that nobody could accuse WL of holding back part of the context that might change one's interpretation of it.

WL continued to redact information and expended significant resources doing so. If this faltered at all, it was only after the organization came under attack from multiple governments and had to undertake its mission with fewer humans available to perform that level of review. While not ideal, WL does not deserve criticism for it as WL was essentially stabbed in the back by the NY Times and other corporate news outlets.

WL wanted to team up with major corporate news outlets to ensure solid redaction and stewardship. They cooperated once before governments told them to instead publish smear stories against Assange. The timing of the diplomatic cables which embarrassed HRC was not ideal, since it led the US center-left (neocons) to get on board more fully in the character assassination campaign against Assange than would have been possible if GWB and the Iraq/Afghan war corruption was the major scandal impacting the USG revealed by WL.
Where could I read more about the distinction between peak oil extraction and production, and the prediction you mention of peak oil extraction next year?
There will be more electric bikes.
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So where do you exactly store data inside the cluster, and can I send it to a self-hosted datastore like Clickhouse or S3?
Sorry, typo, you’re quite right, I meant to say staging->prod is a merge. So your promotion history (including theoretically which staging releases don’t get promoted) can be observed from the ‘git log’. (I don’t think you want to push main->prod directly, as then your workflow doesn’t guarantee that you ran staging tests.)

When I played with this we had auto-push to dev, then click-button to merge to staging, then trigger some soak tests and optionally promote to prod if it looks good. The dream is you can just click CI actions to promote (asserting tests passed).

> Couldn't you just review the Commit that instigated that change to that file?

In general though a release will have tens or hundreds of commits; you also want a way to say “show me all the commits included in this release” and “show me the full diff of all commits in this release for this file(s)”.

> In either case, I'm not saying it's wrong by any stretch.

Yeah, I like some conceptual aspects of this but ultimately couldn’t get the tooling and workflow to fit together when I last tried this (probably 5 years ago at this point to be fair).
But ownership doesn't really fit data. I know that we want to control it but it isn't exactly property. Find a new metaphor?
My EV is charging at the moment. The current energy mix in my state is 24.3% solar, 15.2% wind, 7.4% nuclear. 46.9% of the energy going into my car right now comes from non-carbon sources.

What percentage of non-carbon/renewable energy sources are going into my ICE next time I go to the pump?

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards/fuelmix

This is all massively up from a decade ago. I wonder what percentage of non-carbon sources I'll have for my EV next decade. Do you think the non-carbon energy sources in my ICE will go down in a decade?
That's fair. I worry a little about revising something this fundamental invisibly but, still, fair point.
How is action not beneficial? It's about what you have your focus on. If you're in 2 week long binge watching session of latest Netflix show, you won't be grinding leetcode.

I agree, and for someone who is on couch watching TV whole day every day, thought of stopping that and finding new soul sucking job is bound to cause more anexity, than for the person replacing one trash job with the other...

I agree it would be better doing nothing than doing wrong things, but you can't have progress without actually doing something. And if you're doing something you will also do mistakes. I absolutely do not approve greedy employees and people leaving their best life years for someone's latest BMW, but I also understand that it is inevitable there will be players like that in the market. What we need to do is keep going - acquire wealth we need for our day to day life and family, secure our future, both financially, but also through activism in form of rights and benefits for working class.

You seem to deduce quite a lot about me from a comment that you read and understood in light of your own frustration.
Like wayland, podman was one of those things that took a lot of "I'll give it another shot? Nope, not ready" before I could switch.

Lately the only real incompatibility I run in to with podman is that the handling of `RUN --mount=type=secret` in a Containerfile/Dockerfile is a bit broken (https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/5282).
I'm a fan of Rancher Desktop -- it has everything integrated and working out of the box, it can even provide the CLI tools like docker, kubectl or helm for you.

On the other hand, in Podman Desktop, you can't even use an image from Podman Desktop docker in Podman Desktop kubernetes without extra steps. I'd recommend it only if you want Podman specifically. If you just want to run docker and/or kubernetes, I'd go with Rancher Desktop.
Funny enough, I experienced this in Android in the 2010s. Several times I would text one of my buddies using vulgar language and the texts would go to random people. My grandparents, my pastor, etc. It was horrible. lol
I mean to be fair the support for semi structured formats is unprecedented with rq so I could see why!

Thanks for sharing about rq here, I really should give OPA a try sometime, it seems really powerful setting policies in kubernetes or terraform for instance. When I first heard of Rego, I was very interested but it didn’t quite click, I can see that would not have been the case had rq been available at the time.
One thing I've seen delay migrations is that people keep adding features to v1 during the migration because customers need improvements now. Then you have to add those changes to v2, which delays the migration, then more stuff gets added to v1 because the migration was delayed, etc. Ensuring that doesn't happen by setting the right expectations for stakeholders is important.
Nice! Is there a fixed list of topics?
>some major problems we’ve had with it. First is that it runs primarily on your own hardware

That's not a "major problem", that is the one most important core feature that anyone who is looking for full creative freedom and who doesn't want to enter "safety" censorship and surveillance hell should be looking for.

You can run ComfyUI with as little as 4 GB VRAM, which is not that much anymore.
I feel like the checkbox grid should have been locked to a certain width. I can see people attempting to draw things, but they're skewed on my screen.
This makes me wonder why this shouldn't become the default mode of public transport — i.e., subsidized by the local govt in the same way as busses/trolleys. It seems they could actually replace the busses and provide better service with a sufficient inventory of cars. Could even provide Waymo-style vans on regular++ routes, with the "++" being ability to divert to nearby residences, especially for the mobility-impaired.

Why? Why Not?
Look, literally nobody in the medical community considers it experimental.

If you want to believe that you were being experimented on by getting vaccinated, you are free to believe whatever you want, but you are 100% factually wrong and most everyone around you knows it.
That's probably my favorite sketch of his as well. I think about that sketch often.
Tradition is more serious than you think.

Being around for a long time is a quality of its own. It strongly implies familiarity and good enough fit for everybody. (Traditions compete in a sense, some do not survive)
Computers were still something special back then. I miss that too.
looking into this! thanks
Batteries might work for storage, they have their own version of moore's law and will continue to get better and cheaper for a while.

Now if only there were a way to bundle that energy storage with a means of transportation...
Stress causes burnout.

What they described would still be burnout. You’d need other features to get to abusive and a trauma response.
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All common issues! Particularly the cost spikes without a reasonable explanation. Also, the lack of NT support the issue you point to shows could be a problem. Ball runs fine on "M" Apple chips, however :)
The amount of harvestable energy from sustainable resources is a few orders of magnitude more than what is/was available from all the oil and gas that ever existed on Earth. The amount of energy that hits the Earth from the sun in one week alone is more than all oil and gas reserves on Earth combined. Twice over.

We'll be fine.
A physical sphere has a finite number of constituents, therefore the theorem does not apply
A good first step would be writing some real documentation for this. The example is not sufficient.
Yeah, that's why I said, with hesitation, that it's worse to be couch potato, than doing a perhaps pointless job. At least something is taking up part of your day and you're putting in the effort. I experienced it myself, I saw it in people around me, of you're out of the workforce for a long time you will have very thought time going back. And if you're in bad place financially, mentally, or both, you will absolutely sink sitting at home...
Noted, I never delved deeper into the definitions - it was hard enough as it happened.

If that's not burnout, then I don't know what is a burnout, apparently. I never even considered that.