skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thing is, good heroin/morphine is almost free of side effects. Paracetamol, for example, is a lot more dangerous than heroin.

Also, Joplin took heroin AND massive quantities of alcohol on the day of her death. It will be close to saying that when someone dies in a car crash while DUI, driving is the real and unique problem here.

But the drug-war irrationality is better exposed by taking a look at weed and MDMA. Two quite safe substances (certainly more safe than alcohol), with clear medical applications, and forbidden just because some ignorant decided to put them in Schedule I. MDMA at the time of its prohibition was being used in psychotherapy with success in tens of thousands of patients [1]. Today, no medical use is recognized, and being in Schedule I (making it un-researchable), none will be. I wouldn't be too surprised that some country discover that it could be used as a treatment for depression or PTSD.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0791418189
See, there was no cancel culture after all at the NYT.
Wouldn't feel great, but what in the article gave you the idea they're doing that?
I would call C++ a memory safe language that has more than a superficial resemblance to C. Rust makes is more obvious when/where you are intentionally opting out, but most C++ memory bugs are where someone opted out of the modern C++ way to use the C way. (including new/delete as the C way).
mars is freezing cold, it's like dust covered ice ball.
That's sad to hear. I have a 122-key that's about 5yo now and it's, by far, my favorite keyboard.

What happened?
Your name says disgruntledphd. I had two PhD advisors quit on me and go to worse schools after stringing me along about working for them (ie giving me low quality projects they themselves didn’t believe in so they could make it look like they were advising me while they polished their grants and looked for jobs elsewhere).
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Worse: heroin destroys hippocampus function over time. If the hippocampus is damaged by disease or injury, it can influence a person's memories as well as their ability to form new memories. Hippocampus damage can particularly affect spatial memory, or the ability to remember directions, locations, and orientations.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6758897/
Then be satisfied that your project is a good enough idea that someone else is willing to put up money to rewrite it using a safe language.

But if you're not the one doing the rewrite, why would google pay you? And if you would be capable of such a rewrite, may be they would pay you to do so.
I suggest this book

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1038863.Smart_Thinking

I am strong believer is if you can write well then you can think well. Both are interelated. Also you must play interactive role with nephew to make progress on critical thinking. Reading a books or 100 even is not useful if there is no dialogue, questions , challenges , debate or even summary. Critical mind don't accept anything without breaking it apart and tasting through fire. I hope this helps :)
Is there a testimony of someone who went through such surgery? What's the mindset of a person who really needs his/her limbs removed because of such urges?
I agree. I consider the ability caring for children to be integral to life. I consider things that interfere with that (getting drunk, high, unresponsive for periods of time) bad.

If you don't have or want kids, you're missing what made you and was given to you.
Kuato will decide.
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Whilst I'm sure there are many functional `users` of heroin, there are many more who think they are functional and yet they are not and just don't see it themselves. I've lived near many heroin `users` and I will say that the biggest issue is that if they can lie about their habits to themselves, then others are a given. Equally, whilst they may not see their usage of as a problem, they neglect to see the impact upon others - be that antisocial noise, keeping odd hours so again, noise or shady dealer meetings in the streets that scare the parents across the road to not allow their kids to play out in the park near there. That's just the good part of the spectrum. Then you have those who buy on-line and feel like their not supporting criminal activities, well until heroin comes with a fair trade logo, or you know the farmer, producer and workers personally - it's easy to say you don't have a problem and yet create problems for others when you look at the bigger picture.

As for knowing any functional, well I've seen many have functional phases would be the best I could attest to that from experience and out of about 30 heroin addicts I've endured in the past 2 decades, I'd say only 2 would be close to being classed as functional.

Really gets down to if somebody who is using drugs can just stop and take a break every now and then, then in that clean period - still hold the same mentalities towards their usage and if they can come to the same conclusion - bravo as that is what I would call somebody with their head working well for them.

What really is the issue for many drug users is the point in which the drugs use them - that's the turning point of addiction I'd say.

Yet all that said, you can't help but accept that the brain is driven by chemical stimulus and there lays the hard barrier of having the will power to quite.

I've personally never done heroin, no desire too as like a fine wine, I might like it and it is easier to miss what you never had and one step I've become very mindful never to take having learned from others, many who's lifestyle choices I had thrust upon me and I will say, not best neibours to have from my numerous experiences.
Lithuania blocks Chinese tech at airports over security concerns
Nah, sorted can be used on any iterable
>Most paper, at least in Europe, is actually recycled.

Recycling is terrible too, you waste tons of fresh water to wash out the color and contaminate it with soap and all that toxic colors, and the glossy paper is even worse because it's normally not recyclable, so it's made to carton or burned.
Private jets have less impact than rice farming. But if I had to choose, I would prefer we stop using private jets.

What matters for me is how I, as an individual, can use information to change my behavior.

From this standpoint, I have a lot more environmental impact by contributing to bitcoin than by watching a YT video.
Since they don't do that (it's right there in the announcement, which no one in this thread seems to have bothered to read) that whole point is moot:

> The ISRG's approach of working directly with maintainers to support rewriting tools and libraries incrementally falls directly in line with our perspective here at Google.

And a link to: https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/memory-safe-curl/
If heroin were cheap and accessible to addicts, there would be no need to escape until the user were ready. It's so bizarre how laws against heroin get to be the Gallant against the Goofus of anti-pot laws when virtually all societal problems springing from heroin spring from the drug war.

There would be few to no deaths, suffering, or crime associated with heroin if it were cheap and accessible, and if addicts were under the care of a doctor or social worker. It would be a mild burden to public health services tasked with helping people quit, but far cheaper than tobacco smoking or alcoholism.
- I often use apps that will produce extra noise on the computer (with headphones, not to annoy my workspace-sharing wife) to enhance the physical sensation of typing. Maybe this is because I'm an "older millenial" who grew up tinkering on my dad's typewriters, but it helps me feeling "settled down" and "embodied".

- Yes, but most (I'm having a bad experience with a malfunctioning 5-year-old Kinesis, but that's way too complicated a keyboard with too much electronics, programmability, etc) are simple and hardy. I've lugged a Happy Hacking inside a backpack for many many years and it's just great. It's lasted me three laptops by now.

- Judgement call, yeah.

- You don't have to press keys to the bottom. Keys that go all the way down take some getting used to, since they have an "implicit" point where they'll register, but overall travel time doesn't have to be much larger than in a thin keyboard. What makes it ergonomic is precisely that there's a lot of yielding to this point where keys will register, so your fingers aren't hitting the metal all the time.

I started using mechanical keyboards because I was trying to get into the classical guitar and had long fingernails on one hand. Except for the Kinesis, which does assume a whole postural ergonomics setting and desk space to place it, smaller keyboards like the Happy Hacking are a great add-on to a travelling laptop setup. Besides, since they're usually also USB hubs, you can switch your wireless mouse between laptops together with your keyboard.

The only thing I wish my Happy Hacking had is a wireless interface like the ubiquitous Microsoft mouses with the little dongle. But I'm not in a phase of my life when I'm spending a lot of money on new stuff.
I have a GV number, but one problem is that it has been broken, for many people, on Android for over a year. It works only for outgoing calls, failing to ring on incoming calls.
> control over whatever open source projects they target.

but if they rewrite the project in rust, why _shouldn't_ they control that project? If other people choose to switch, then it's not wrong for them to move, and not wrong for to google gain control of those users.

The original project maintainers is a third party to this whole process, and i would argue, is uninvolved tbh. It is up to the users of the project to decide to trust google's rewrite (and their tendencies to abandon projects...), vs the original maintainer's version, balanced against the security aspect.
Reminds me of a quote from Love Actually:

> Hiya kids. Here is an important message from your Uncle Bill. Don't buy drugs. Become a pop star, and they give you them for free.

... except in this case the message is don't do drugs kids, but "grown ups" should (as defined as a state of maturity where you know how the drugs behave, know your limits and can balance your experimentation with fulfilling your societal obligations)

I see this as a bit like speeding. The government sets fairly arbitrary speed limits for different types of road. They do it based on what they think the majority of people can cope with, versus the likelihood of risks, vs the need to get from A to B in a reasonable amount of time. The government hasn't been amazingly scientific about the speed limits, and don't take into account time of day, traffic, weather conditions etc. A healthy, fully-alert person can probably go at 150% of the speed limit on an ambient clear day on an empty road - and do so perfectly safely. But that isn't the message they give people, because it would be impossible to assess person-by-person, minute-by-minute.

And yet, some would consider the above information to be recklessly given, because some people will on read "go at 150% of the speed limit... perfectly safely" and take that as my advice.

So the question is, should it be legal to travel at any speed, provided you feel like you're doing a good job of it? In both cases, misjudgement can be disastrous for yourself and the people around you (and innocent bystanders too)

And when you are talking about something that can alter your perceptions, you would surely need a non-drug-taking associate with you at all times who could give you an honest blow-by-blow assessment of where you are dropping the ball as a "normal" human being, and where your drug-fuelled failings are happening?

When the potential downsides so vastly outweigh the benefits, I can understand why laws take the side they do. That said, I absolutely do think that there are massive downsides to making drugs illegal when taken responsibly. Countries should be realistic about what they can and can't do. If they can't eradicate drug use - and most countries can't - they need to put effort into safeguarding above incarceration.

But I think that's the consensus anyway on most social issues. And it seems to be a lesson that governments globally are very slow to learn.
You can get 10-year fixed in the UK {1], and even that limit is surprising to me. I thought 20-year fixed was available (pretty sure it used to be) but apparently no more...

[1] https://moneyfacts.co.uk/mortgages/10-year-fixed-rate/
The same could be said about any experience from reading fiction, watching movies or enjoying art.
Cheers! I'm not sure what made me pick it up, but it's grown on me. FWIW the Prolog version is here: https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Thun/tree/master/source/thun.pl There's a bunch of junk in there, like a start on compilers. (I'm just messing around. Recursion is like an end boss that I know the strategy to defeat but I've been too lazy or busy to put in the work to implement it.) Fun fact: in Prolog the interpreter and the type inferencer are the same code! Also, I recently wrote an interpreter in Nim, more-or-less for kicks: https://git.sr.ht/~sforman/Bliss

I have a hunch that concatinative languages are important somehow. Have you seen "Compiling to categories"?
http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/ He's converting Haskell into a point-free form (that's very similar to Joy) and then compiling that over various Categories to get several kinds of programs from one expression.
I cannot stop thinking that the US have become a real global bully.

They are using their financial power to force other nations their way, or to apply extraterritorial jurisdiction.

For that they are using either the fact that there are foreign companies that do business on the US ground and they will be punished if their country does not follow the US decisions (EU presence in Iran is an example), or they will block their USD transactions.

The EU is to weak to be a counterweight, China is probably the real competitor. All in all, I prefer to be under US rules than China, but this is still infuriating.
But certainly it is much harder for an alcoholic to stop drinking, than for me to stop putting sugar in coffee or tea? I actually did that 15 years ago because I was too lazy to buy sugar. It tasted strange for 4-5 cups, then I was accustomed.
A workaround: Make it impossible for the NYT to collect any further payments. For example, if they have your credit card number, cancel the card account.
I agree. I have been using Zsh since about early 1993. I went through a pretty thorough "first I'll convert to tcsh!" then "to Bash!" then "to Zsh!" evaluation back then and Zsh was absolutely the clear winner.

While Bash has "caught up" some in the ensuing decades by copying features (some poorly as you note), I think it still misses quite a few nice "usability" features. I've listed some here [1] from memory, but I am probably forgetting other pretty nice ones. Like maybe ${(f)"$(mycmd)"} to split the output of `mycmd` strictly by newlines. (or ps:\0: for even stricter splitting).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26176897
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This seems like the worst solution of all. You've just added a bunch of shift keypresses and a ton of difficulty remembering what letters are uppercase for very little extra entropy. Each coin flip is just one bit.

Part of the thesis of the post is you can ignore uppercase characters and symbols altogether. You'd be better off just adding one diceware word from the short list or two random lowercase characters. Easier to remember, less typing, and better security.
You mean standard for systems programming?

I don't doubt that it will be a popular choice in that area, but even there it has competition from new languages.

And above all, I think it might take longer than a century to phase out all the C/C++ legacy code!
I’d guess that high speed data transfer competes with overnight shipping a hard drive in most current cases. In my day to day life, for most cases I’d rather has 10 Mbps with 10 ms latency than 1 Gbps with 250 ms latency. Generally speaking I’m looking for a snappy user experience and fast enough for Netflix streaming to a non-premium television. But high bandwidth and low latency would be super nice!
Could this theoretically put an end to China's firewall?
The Cambridge university link has a huge pop up asking to accept cookies; an auto leave this website for myself. The other link opens without such pop ups.
Amazon turns to crowdfunding for Alexa-powered cuckoo clock
“Trying to share a news article”
And for those interested in an FPGA version with similar features, check out the J1 and J1B (32 bit) CPUs by James Bowman.

Remarkable machines in 200(ish) lines of Verilog.
Even worse, I think it's treated as a modern version of demonic possession, where the cure killing the patient isn't considered enough of a reason not to deliver the cure.
The problem is, if this employee is the perfect person to create this business, why are they working at Google and not on their own starting this venture already?

Why waste time letting one of your clearly risk averse in-house employees (hence why they work at Google in the first place), fumble around for 5-10 years trying to build something? While your competitors might be doing the same thing and will actually succeed? And while the rest of your employees start complaining, "why can't we also play startup for 5-10 years on the Google gravy train like John?"

Google can just sit back and let the real startup ecosystem do its thing. Then buy whatever they see that has shown success in areas of strategic value to Google. No PR or legal risk while the startup does necessary but shady things to force itself into being. This is a much better model, hence why innovation is most often acquired, not incubated.
There just wasn't another way in sight. Everyone knew what didn't work. Nobody knew what did. The tech wasn't yet there for tanks - those that were built for WW1 looked impressive but changed little, like bringing elephants to a battle.
Also it's probably cheaper to fund an OS developer for a year than paying for lunch alone for their own engineers.
Globe and Mail is similar, I spent 10 minutes on the phone answering questions before they let me cancel.
The author is probably dyslexic.
I worked in a startup lab within a huge multinational company. In many ways it felt like a startup because we had very limited runway to incubate and commercialize our ideas, so that definitely put the fire under our feet.

Despite an effort to firewall us from the larger organization the culture and processes of the mothership always seemed to leak in and contaminate the organic startup flows. Additionally a large organization is extremely risk averse unlike a real startup and this manifests itself in a multitude of ways.
It is up to you. People have different levels of willpower regarding different things.

Don't dismiss power of addiction just because you "don't have a problem now". Our willpower levels change so what isn't a problem now may become another day.

You may loose your job and have hard time finding new one and try to use something that has been giving you comfort to lighten your day. And because your "bigger" worries you may not be paying attention to it or you may need that extra comfort so much you will just say "yeah, it will not hurt if I do this for a while". This is frequently how these things start. It doesn't happen that you are completely normal one day and die hard alcoholic or drug user the next.

Now, I wouldn't call what you described even remotely close to a problem. I also consume alcohol socially and even privately. I pay attention to whether I "crave" alcohol and when this happened I cut it instantly.

I have a test for this. Even if you don't drink alcohol, are you constantly thinking about it?

If you are not using but constantly thinking about it it means there exists a force (addiction) that you are currently able to overcome.
They're literally funding an organization that will take software to the next level and share it with the world, what more do you want?
The official mission length is just how long they have to wait before calling it a success. They expect it to last much longer. Since this is primarily a technology demonstrator once it's a "success" more options open up for actually experimenting with tactics and the limits of the device. It's like how you wait until you've left the parking lot to do a big smokey burnout and see how fast a rental goes in 1st gear.
Indeed. If one reads the adverse effects of heroin (e.g. in Wikipedia) and ignores the ones caused by dirty injection, lacing and overdose, you are left with no long term effects other than a blurry "brain impairment to make decissions". On the short term, respiratory depression. That's it.

Not many legal drugs has such short list of side effects.
Yes, because private companies don't "loot" whatsoever. They definitely don't respond to accusations of obviously unethical and damaging but legal behaviour with "but it's legal!(continues looting)".

Doesn't government suck because our best and brightest often do not choose to work in government? Isn't that what we should really change?
Go, Pony and Haskell all have complex runtimes and a GC, which makes them unsuitable for embedding into other applications or exposing them as widely usable libraries.

Rust, Zig, and to a certain extent D or Nim without GC, can easily expose a C API and have a minimal runtime.

But the others do not provide the same guarantees as (safe) Rust with the borrow checker. All very cool languages in their own right, but memory safety in a no-GC environment is not one of their defining attributes.

Note: a dependency on any of those compilers is still far from trivial for many projects.
This is sleazy from the NYT, but the person trying to cancel allowed the NYT employee to change the conversation to a negotiation.

They were talking to this NYT employee after 3 minutes (not too long IMO). The employee wrote in the very first message:

> [...] May I ask why you are canceling?

At that point you should say:

> No. Cancel my subscription.

Then, they'll always give you a counter offer nonetheless:

> Are you sure? We can offer you xyz.

Then you explicitly say that you won't negotiate:

> I won't negotiate. Cancel my subscription.

Maybe they'll give it one more try, but if you don't budge they'll back off. And then, at the end, you write:

> Thank you for helping me, have a nice day!

Because these people don't want to be sleazy. They would get a better job if they could.
Video calls in 3D
Ansible 3.0.0
These are all symptoms of the drug war, not heroin addiction.
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The mindset would be very different. There’s always a sense of urgency to get things done with the realisation that there’s no safety net. You ask yourself different questions going to work and that drives different level of passion.
I don't drink alcohol. The best advocates of drug use are drug users. They're quite passionate about it. Where I come from, they make fun of you if you don't drink and sing a song about how you're "too weak to drink." Every occasion calls for a drink: childbirth, Friday, getting married, getting divorced. It is so common that you're the weird one for not drinking.
> Would not be cheaper to fix those unsafe languages, such as C

I don't think C can be "fixed" without turning it into a radically different language. At that point, why not simply start from scratch?

This is about language design that makes some languages fundamentally unsafe, not about fixing some bugs or hardening the toolset.
Ask HN: What are some interesting discord groups and twitch channels?
Looking for some interesting discord group and twitch channels to subscribe. (interesting - is not defined, anything you find interesting please share)
Exactly! Don't say anything about "ads". Just say you're not interested in subscribing anymore. It's not hard!
NYT accepts PayPal which you can then revoke the authorization to cancel.
Don't even engage them. Other than personal info, just answer everything with, "please cancel my subscription."

Answering their questions just makes it take longer. You don't owe them anything.