skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding is that it was classism. That is, only the "right" people could dedicate themselves to becoming a world-class athlete without any financial support, and they didn't want to complete with the "wrong" people. I think you can see similar in how "prize fight" boxing was initially looked down upon as a corruption of gentlemanly dueling.

(Can't find sources for this right now, sorry. And I'm not even positive I am remembering it correctly. So perhaps take my response with a grain of salt.)
Isn't understandingwar.org run by the same people who drove the Ukraine into this mess? Who were proponents of multiple wars that the U.S. has lost (Afghanistan being the most recent one)?

How would we know what appeasing Russia will do when it has never been tried? Not all wars are like WWII. What if this is the same as the Finnish winter war, where Stalin was eventually content with Karelia and some other small parts?
> For example, regular expressions. The regex crate uses a method called new that is used to prepare regular expressions. It is practically always called on a constant string, making any failure a logic error, which should result in a panic, as discussed above. However, this same new method returns a Result, necessitating an unwrap or an expect to make the logic error into a panic. Am I seriously suggesting that the poor user write .expect("bad regular expression") instead of .unwrap() every time?

> Well, that puts regex compilation in the same category as array indexing in my mind, and means that the default regex compilation function should panic on the user’s behalf (of course, the Result version should still be possible, just as get is a possible function for slices).
Sure, but "noting facts about sources" is so broad that it can cover everything from adding neutral, interesting information all the way to tribal warfare. It's the latter that I'm objecting to (for HN), for reasons I think I've described already: it makes threads more repetitive, predictable, and nasty.

I don't think the DAG-of-shame game really has to do with curiosity about facts. It has to do with tarring ideological enemies. Maybe they deserve it, maybe they don't, but it's not the quality of discussion we want here.

Rather than an ambiguous phrase like "noting facts about sources", I think we're better off applying the clearer distinction between curious conversation and ideological battle. There's a binary distinction between those two things (as binary as these things can get), and we know which one we want on this site.

Moreover, one destroys the other, so it needs to be actively moderated. I don't just mean what moderators do, but the general sense of dampening excesses and avoiding extremes. We want a culture of moderation on HN—not for its own sake, but because curiosity only flowers in a temperate climate.

(By the way, I'm not disagreeing ideologically with any of the comments that I'm objecting to here. This is about discussion quality and attempting to organize the site around one specific value: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....)
One can and will lose weight (say, a 220 pound man) by eating two medium McDonald's Big Mac Menu a day (no sauce, diet soda option). It amounts to 1800 kcal per day.
Being lean trumps quality of food and "healthy" whatever for health short-term. That's a set result at this point.

That is, and this not medical advice, but something I have a done a few times while on vacation, you can do a 10-15-21 days of the above-mentioned McDonald's diet and easily get leaner without starving, looking for "healthy foods", counting calories or steps.
> losing body fat means that you must continuously make choices that decrease your comfort in some way - eating fewer highly rewarding foods, maintaining a state of hunger, increasing activity level

It is interesting to see "increasing activity level" as being a decrease in comfort. But I suppose that's because "comfort" here isn't defined absolutely. I also am not sure that "comfort" is an attribute that should be optimized for in disregard for all others.

If this statement is read as "anything that does not have 100% positive feedback is undesirable" then I think it would be very challenging to make any improvements in a person's life.

But then I also don't think that "comfort" is necessarily an ideal target to optimize. I think a more holistic measure such as "satisfaction" is a more productive target. We can find "satisfaction" in things that are not 100% pleasant but which in turn result in greater happiness or feelings of contentment than doing only those things that have positive feedback.

This measure of "comfortable" also does not seem to account for the secondary effects of "comfortable" choices. E.g., if we eat only "highly rewarding foods" and become obese we see discomfort in other parts of life (loss of mobility, health issues, difficulty performing mundane physical tasks, etc)
Unless we get a DOM API for WASM it's probably not going to be worth it.

Which will basically relegate WASM to games, cryptography and parallel data processing (i.e SIMD).

Right now it's not looking like a DOM API will eventuate.
The author encourages something like:

Regex::new(r"\bstruct\b").some_custom_function_that_calls_expect()

or

Regex::new_or_panic(r"\bstruct\b") // Just calls Regex::new(r"\bstruct\b").expect("bad regex string literal")
For some countries like Germany, yes.

Others are itching for a fight. I wonder if this is true:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/vzp17b/in_poland_a...

Poland is certainly one of the countries that would love to drive Putin to madness.
A million-word novel got censored before it was even shared
I remember implementing a side scrolling platformer on my 386 and being boggled by how slow everything was compared to on consoles. Didn’t know what hardware acceleration was then, and this was before I got Internet access so I worked it out myself, coded it in C, then hand optimized the inner drawing loop in assembly, rewriting the pixel writes to use rep/mov instructions for each tile. This took a while but I managed to squeeze out acceptable performance for my game with Keen-like smooth scrolling.

Reading Masters of Doom some 30 years later was pretty eye opening. This article too - to this day I’ve never heard of latch writes.

So much voodoo in graphics programming!!
Ask HN: Why don't people complain as much about Rust cargos?
I just cloned a project that connects to a DB and exposes an REST endpoint.

I wanted to run it, but I had to install and compile around 270 dependencies (which took quite a bit on a Macbook Air).

I've only read praise of Rust and its cargo packages. Whilst node_modules have the worst reputation.

Am I missing something or is it just that Node is way more used than Rust?
To clarify, EA changed solely because of this post. It was a very dirty open secret that suddenly became incredibly public, and the backlash at that time was vociferous.

Ultimately (unless I’m mistaken) EA was forced to pay back pay plus overtime and stopped all crunch for some time. There was a lot of talk of congressional regulation at that time if I remember correctly, too.

From Wikipedia:

“Hoffman's actions, in part, led to the filing of three class action lawsuits against EA and some changes throughout the industry at large, such as the reclassification of entry-level artists as hourly employees, thus making them eligible for overtime under California law.[8] Her fiancé, EA employee Leander Hasty, was the main plaintiff in the successful class-action suit on behalf of software engineers at EA, which in 2007 awarded the plaintiffs $14.9 million for unpaid overtime.[9]”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erin_Hoffman
The HIREN Windows version has always been my fave. Installing it to an HD for daily use has never worked, though.
This feels like the correct decision, but not one of much value. Jim Thorpe died in 1953, nearly 70 years ago. Their previous ruling was in 1982, nearly 30 years after his death. I'm not sure who gained from the ruling in either case, perhaps his family was made to feel better by it, although I doubt they were satisfied by the "co-winner" title? By now, they're a good chance his children have all passed, or are beyond the point of caring as well.
No. I don't care. I'm happy to hide in the crowd.

IMHO any data I generate is basically useless chaff. I still have yet to be convinced that there's a downside to this parasitic relationship. How exactly is my life, in a practical way, negatively impacted by this data going walkabout? Does it take years or months off my expected lifespan? Does it give me cavities? Does it turn my family and loved ones against me? Does it slow my typing speed?

Point me to a good non-philosophical non-ideological non-emotional argument and I'll spend my time and money on transitioning to non-google sources for my problem-solutions.
So an ad-hoc way to do the exact same thing requiring doubling the size of your api? Is your problem with unwrap that it’s too easy to find?
Direct link to Twitter v. Musk complaint:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22084453-twittermusk...

> a very annoying conversation I have had with people over the last several weeks: what dumbfuck nonsense made Twitter’s board take Musk seriously in the first place?

> Whenever I have asked this question, I have gotten some manner of gibberish about fiduciary duty. Basically the idea is that maximizing shareholder value means that Musk’s obviously unserious offer must be taken seriously because, gee whiz, it would be a lot of money for shareholders if it were real.

The Twitter was damned if they do, damned if they don't. If they hadn't considered the offer, the shareholders would have sued their pants off. How could the board have proven musk wasn't serious? He even entered into an iron-clad legally binding agreement to make the stupid purchase.

The board is clearly comprised of imbiciles, and both Twitter's board and the company itself are victims of interference from a too-powerful jerk.
comets.json:

JSON: 51949 bytes
JCOF: 37480 bytes (0.721x)
JSON ZIPED: 15178 bytes

Zipped json wins again.
Do you a citation for that? It seems unlikely that 20-25% of EU electrical generation shifted in the last couple of years. Solar has been cutting demand for more-expensive gas but 20% is still far more than “almost no”.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=51258

> Starting in 2016, consumption of natural gas in Europe’s electric power sector increased as a result of the systematic retirement of coal-fired power plants across Europe and the retirement of nuclear power plants in Germany in particular.

https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/european-electri...

> Fossil gas power declined 8% since 2019, generating 18% of EU electricity (524 TWh).

I think the underlying discrepancy might be explained by electricitymaps.com reporting real-time usage. It would be very easy to believe that today's usage is not representative of an entire year when you're looking at a brief interval in summer when solar is running at maximum efficiency, heating needs are non-existent, and everyone on the continent has been reacting to the possibility that there might be a gas shortage at any time.
I see your point. But I think there is also value in choosing your battles.

I would l rather see resources spent towards the defense against Russian aggression, instead of major IT projects with really unclear privacy impact.
irony that the site is not responding?
If we hit a lot of random sub folder URLs (that should all 404), would that trigger the webserver to check the drive to see if the file exists and skip the cache?
I don’t have any answers but remembered a fact that seemed relevant here. Men leave nursing at a much higher rate than women[1]. I’m not sure if it’s just a law of large numbers thing here, discrimination against women in tech/men in nursing, or a natural dissatisfaction at being a minority in your profession but the correlation is interesting in and of itself.

[1]
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19691656/
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/master/src/poet...

The process spawned by `poetry shell` is a terminal emulator driven by the pexpect and cleo packages. It hijacks and proxies the user's keystrokes before sending them to the underlying terminal.
But we dont say juh sahn for JSON? Hence why Jcough seemed intuitive.
This is what you get for using cloud services. It's why people need reliable, accessible, local, offline-first, and truly personal computing.
This almost never happens. The jury basically has to not make up its mind for at least a week. (and the judge can keep it going as long as they want) Its almost never just 1 person either. But if one person is willing to hold their ground for a week it means there is something going on. Either that person is a committed ideological actor, saw something, or had some major bias. It takes an immense will to deal with 11 other people for a week straight who all want to go home and get back to their lives, usually if its just one person they give in after a few days to the social pressure. So if a jury hangs it usually points to more than 1 disagreeing. This is where we get into "compromise" verdicts, where maybe 1 person is being stubborn but will go along with the group if they are allowed to win on one point, which is why prosecution throws the kitchen sink at criminal defendants.
DistroVid – Put Music Videos on Apple Music, Vevo, Amazon Music, and Tidal
And you have a yard? A parking spot? A walkable food thing? A friend networks whereby you loan tools? Rent Tools? A network of people who will help you when down/sick/hurt/displaced?

You're paying for an accentuated CELL in urban hell.

Just because you have a "dope spot to show how urban your display is"

You dont have shit.

Cut off all your power, access to food stuffs, equipment, necessities (pwr, wtr, fd, transport)

Yeah, you have a death-trap.
Television's chased off the discerning / discriminating viewers.

I'm well beyond the "I haven't owned one" territory to "I haven't watched in years".

Because of cross-contamination of practices and techniques between commercial and public broadcasting, that includes public broadcasting.

I'll watch an occasional segment on YouTube (with adblocking), but even then, I prefer simply listening to audio (mpv / command-line).

The abuse isn't cost-free, and more attractive demographics will leave. This also means, of course, that the poor or mentally susceptible are left with a far-worse product and more predatory advertising as well.
Wonder how long until I can ruin it with Python and Requests.

P.S I am not going to and I am drunk.
Isn't Leetcode process is working as intended?

You won't want to work with someone that does Leetcode (since you described the process as toxic), and I prefer to work with someone that knows their DS&A and space/time complexity.

I'd say it is working as intended.
Genetic diversity influences species responses to environmental change
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This seems like the most simple answer where money, power and privilege continue to take every step necessary to restrict leakage.

Is there research that supports this, though? Or even "amateur" analysis of these times and the players and patterns of behavior that indicate rule-making in the IOC with this aim?
>Why isn’t there more central EU coordination in case there actually will be a gas shortage, and we need to divide the gas?

Look no further than back to early Covid again, remember the disparities and chaos wrt borders? When people finally realized the potential gravity of the situation, politicians went full "each man to himself". Saying "we distribute gas elsewhere while you are freezing" isn't part of any regular elected politicians playbook, don't you think?

To your first question, I haven't met anyone who openly doubts he'll be fine personally. The situation is tense, but not meteor heading towards dortmund tense.
More reasons to leave oil and gas behind.
RGB output is commonly desired in the retro gaming community. And RGB mods on the SNES and other consoles are commonly done. I've personally used HD Retrovisions component SNES (so RGB out) cables on a CRT and IMO the results look fantastic. Hell Nintendo themselves sold RGB cables for the Super Famicom and SNES in Europe. NTSC composite effects were a much bigger part of older 8 bit machines. Much less so on later consoles especially as expectations of the game heading to PAL regions rose.

Just watch My Life in Gaming's YouTube videos about getting the best output from a console.

The Retrotink and the OSSC are very highly praised and designed by retro game enthusiasts. While I have not personally used one I'm sure they're probably pretty good.
and on top of that, it looks like there's other factors of diet than just choosing what to eat - it sounds like some people are just less hungry for indefinite reasons. genetics, gut biome, etc all probably play a part.
The footgun here is that `unwrap` may be used inappropriately, and from what I see using github code search it's used inappropriately quite often.
I know that companies would never do this but I will suggest it anyway. Don't store customer data. Instead, cache a copy of the customers encrypted blob in the customers client side application. Customer sets the TTL for their cache to expire. The customer and only the customer may decrypt the data. If they wish to share their data with a health practitioner then they can screen share. If the government want this data, they will have to subpoena every individual customer.

No lawful intercept. No intentionally weak frameworks. No "Oops we stored this in an unsecured S3". Just put the data and decryption keys under full control of the hands of the customers. Forward NSL's and subpoenas to the customers. Data retention policies are entirely up to the customer at this point. Create a disclaimer that explains it is on the customer to back up their data and/or decryption keys.

If the keys are lost, just start over with a blank slate, or manually put in some stats from a customers copy of a printed report. One could probably even compress/encode the data in a way that a customers printed copy could be ingested into a program to re-encrypt and store it. QRCodes, Dots, etc...

One argument against this would be that a company can't run reports on all their customers, use machine learning, etc... to which I say, "Good, cease and desist treating customers like cattle." If there are specific data points that a company wish to gather from its customer base, send a beacon to customers that would ask them if they wish to volunteer this specific data and make it painfully clear who will have access and for how long and how the data will be anonymized. Before a customer clicks "Send" they get a highly detailed display of what exactly is being shared in easily human readable format.
My favorite storage hack recently has been using a bun rack (https://www.webstaurantstore.com/regency-10-pan-end-load-hal...) to store the Harbor Freight plastic storage bins.

It’s the correct length and height already, you just need to trim the width of the cross supports and tap the ends again.

The HF bins are cheap and have removable inserts that index in the lid, so you can remove one, close the lid, and your parts stay in place.

For pliers and similar tools, I’m a big fan of Adam Savage’s pliers cart: https://youtu.be/TWQAYfGxsPE
I've been working on trying to migrate sites I ran in 2008 or so into my new preferred hosting strategy lately: I know zero people look at them, since many were functionally broken at present, but I don't like the idea of actually removing them from the web. So I'm patching them up, migrating them to a more maintainable setting, and keeping them going. Maybe someday some historian will get something out of it.
Surprised to see Travis CI on that list. Intercom also gets fairly expensive.
I disagree with "bloat" comments. First, the binary will only have stuff you use. Secondly, the fact that you are not writing from scratch code that someone else had more time to write and test - this is a huge plus. I'd use your implementation any day vs. something that someone could put together in C with no dependencies and remarkable pointer math equilibristics.

As long as the use of dependencies remains reasonable, the number of dependencies does not immediately mean that the code is "bloated".
You have to run your own resolver. Crawling 101.
It is used by other tools like Tilt https://tilt.dev/ (a Kubernetes dev tool)
FYI - This type of workflow automation and connecting to Saas product APIs and moving data around can also be easily built using a no-code RPA tool like PixieBrix[0].

[0] https://www.pixiebrix.com/
You're playing with fire using RAID0. If I had data on 30 floppy drives, I'd want at least 20 of them to be parity drives.
The tweet comes first.

> BBC Micro bot runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator.

https://www.bbcmicrobot.com/owlet-test2.html
Something that has always puzzled me, if someone has a higher metabolic rate, where does the heat go? Their body temperature is the same.
I've got a Power Mac G5 sitting right beside me if someone else wants to buy it and get into this G5 floppy website business.
I think this is more of a way to automate pulling large amounts of data from Jira rather than doing it directly from a dashboard. Also could be utilized as a backup repository.
It was the best option a long while ago, and basically resulted in a kind of vendor lock in of sorts.

Musl is far superior as a libc, but most Linux software is written for glibc and has quirks that make porting hard.
I think people would reject your samples because the data size is too small. Production JSON comes in all shapes and sizes and situations where you care about performance usually indicates much larger payloads.
I've used the GitHub Terraform provider for similar purposes. Building out something more comprehensive on top of it seems like a cool idea.

Will companies really pay a subscription for this though?
It's interesting to me that playing any sport for tiny amounts of money would disqualify you (well after any petition was required to be filed) from competing in any Olympic sport. The way the rule was enforced by Sullivan does seem to raise issues of fairness, but even the rule it self seemed to be designed to reject honest people of lower classes. By those strict rules playing a game of darts or pool for a quarter even after you finished competing should result in the removal of medals.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/07/20/...
Yeah, I get that. But that's exactly what I mean. If you're going to focus on Y instead of X, make it obvious why this is relevant. If not, one of two things happens: 1) it sounds irrelevant and gives the impression it's just fanboyism, or worse, 2) it effectively says "if you're not in the inner circle enough to know and be excited for the Y more than the X already, then I don't have to tell you and this isnt for you."

Which means you as the interested reader now have to go spend your precious time learning all about Y independently, from scratch, to figure out whether it is in fact important in this very specific case, or if it is just fanboyism.

Very annoying and disrespectful to an otherwise interested reader. Either state your call to action up front and why Lisp is a feature, or leave it out entirely and focus on the product.

(not having a go at nyxt specifically btw, just frustrated at the trend with this kind of titles.)
yeah...

safegraph.com touting how good their paid data is.

doesn't contribute to open source...

doesn't want to you to use open source...

wants to be paid for something we should have for free from the government (open data sets should be maintained institutionally - as per our taxes: let our developers have a good data set for roads)...

solving a problem it helps create by being capitalistic: the cause of - and solution to... yeah... no:

we just need better open source data collection as a people...

best to make a game of it: like pokemon go - only for street data capture, people get entertained and people get to build reliable apps... win:win.