skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bet this sounded very good when the author read it with their inner George Carlin voice. The thing is that Carlin was a product of his time and times have changed. His style is now outmoded.

Anyway, this just seems like yet another hysterical article like those from Carlin's heyday and before, warning us of that old slippery slope: how we're a few steps away from normalizing pedophilia. Not a new idea, but do you know what that idea is based on? The advancement of human rights in the west.

Implicit in the 'slippery slope' argument is the view that "first it was marriage for the gays, then legalizing transgenders, then they'll marry their dogs, and then your kids, look out!". You don't even have to state this in this article, as others have already made the case. You can now write junk like this and coast on the residual waves others made. There are willing minds for this nonsense to go to. Meanwhile, pedophilia panic becomes entirely obviously unfounded when you take away the contextual crutch that is the rapid advancement of rights for queer people. It's just more unjustified fearmongering at the expense of that maligned community, that can park right next to the meme of bugchasing being a widespread practice, fears that they're converting our kids to be gay and trans, etc.

As a technologist, in my view, never before have pedophiles been more in the spotlight in this space, so much so that the privacy of all individuals is threatened. New technologies like cloud storage have been co-opted as surveillance mechanisms to catch these people. There are teams of police actively hunting abusers in these spaces, and countries collaborate across borders to get them. If you want to find cultures where child abuse is rampant and unchecked, it isn't our digital one. I would look to poorer countries instead, where women have few rights and the rule of law is weak, where children are trafficked on a regular basis.
Ok, but seems like an odd one to care about. The ELF transition was almost 30 years ago. Most anything earlier than that is in the garbage dump or a museum, and the software runs in a VM.
By whose definition? The term “personal computer” existed for several years before the IBM 5150.
130 g daily carb threshold for the low carb branch seems a bit high. Would have been way more interesting if they compared intermitted fasting with proper nutritional ketosis (carbs under 20g).

Most interesting metabolic changes in low carb only happen if you really cut them to very low amounts.
Those costs are never taken into account. It's always the "low" price of licensing/use/dev that is looked at, and then... you have the regret phase. Which never end because "we already invested so much", and the famous "in the long run it will be cheap... oh wait, we have a newer offer"
but you wouldn’t be the first person to think a new editor is going to replace Vim/Neovim. Vim is literally on every Unix/Linux server; every sysadmin can count on it being there.

Even that is a new(ish) development. For a long time people where saying exactly that about vim. I'm not _that_ old, and I was told early in my career not to get too dependent on either vim or the GNU tools since they probably won't be installed on most systems you connect to.
Common understanding of these matters says no it isn’t. So long as it is black coffe with now sugar. However, when I fast, the coffe I drink can have an adverse effect on my stomach.
If you're in the UK, Beavertown brewery does an amazing 'Lazer Crush' alcohol-free IPA that's the best I've tasted.

I'm often driving when I'm out with friends, so I've sampled a lot of alcohol-free beers over the years.
> Epochs for C++ 20

How did they plan to make Epochs compatible with headers being copy&pasted at the #include site? And what about template instantiation?
Lucretius was a roman philosopher, who, according to the book that this article refers to was inspired by greek philosophers.
The problem is not with stating the facts. Because facts and numbers have no meaning in themselves.

The problem comes from the things that you're supposedly implying. This isn't entirely your fault, because this line of thinking is brought up again and again. People know what someone is trying to say if someone just pulls up this kind of statistic. Your fault (if it's an honest mistake) is not being aware enough of the discussion around this topic and the lack of articulateness in your comment.

>The FBI is racist and fabricates stats

This, but unironically
From what I remember from the kerfuffle around JBIG a few years ago, it was specifically a single manufacturers bad implementation that regularly swapped numbers. I believe that correct implementations weren't found to exhibit this problem except on symbols that were hard to read already?
You might be interested in listening/reading a recent Planet Money episode (https://www.npr.org/2022/09/22/1124477182/federal-judges-eco...), which explains how for ~20 years or so, many US federal court justices went to an exclusive, all expense paid economics bootcamp, taught by some of the most well known economics thinkers of the time. That sure sounds great in theory - why wouldn't you want to have judges to have a deeper understanding of economics when they can have impact on financial matters?

Well, as it turns out, some of the key ideas taught focused on the rational economic theory, and extrapolated from there to crime and punishment - e.g.: a criminal makes a cold economic calculation before commit each crime, taking into account the expected gain from this crime, the likelihood of getting caught, the expected punishment if caught, etc. - and therefor, if we make the "cost" higher, by opting for harsher prison sentences - crime will become less attractive and therefore happen less.

When the data is analyzed, justices that went through this program appear to hand out harsher sentences to offenders, and often rule in favor of corporations and against government agencies when compared to the control group. The effect is most evident for judges that used to learn more to the liberal side, which is surprising to me, but it definitely is interesting.
It doesn't have to be Malthusianism at all, that is a reductionist perspective. There is an earth overshoot day and some resources simply cannot be restored or extracted with increased productivity.

You could argue that there would be enough production capital to feed everyone. There certainly is and then some. But that is certainly not the whole story. Imagine our resource consumption if everyone lived to western standards.

I don't know how you can simultaneously argue that anthropological climate change exists but a large human population is irrelevant. Doesn't make sense it seems.
I know what go.mod does. I'd say that was obvious from that remark in the first post.

> Setting go.mod means you get stdlib updates, but the semantics of the for loop does not change.

So you miss out on new features, or have to update your code base. We're back to square 1.
To be fair it is no more difficult to implement it with the variable initialized inside of it. In fact, it's easier to.
> These last paragraphs just made me realise how grateful I am to people who work on these open source projects without expecting any compensation or even praise for their work.

I think it's reasonable to expect both, even if indirectly. Participating in a well-organized open source project confers extremely rich experience, and employers do take notice. In my company, the folks who spent time in the community generally noticeably out-perform the ones who grew up exclusively in industry (which should trouble industry) at similar years of experience. If you want to end up highly-compensated, it's a great way to spend your time.

The real challenge for the open source community is how hard it still is to make a living sticking to the original open source work, instead of taking your talent and leaving one day. Wine is one of a few exceptions with some companies in its ecosystem, but generally speaking there's not enough upstream-work jobs for a lot of important open source software infrastructure.
> that it assumes the public is too dumb to hear nuance

It is! It empirically is! Don't assume it, test it!
Are you of the opinion that the version in go.mod existed many years ago, or that requiring a recent number in it won’t comparatively limit the impact? Both seem obviously false to me.
StabilityAI have hijacked the StableDiffusion Subreddit
You’re confusing stability with ossification. There must be a way to correct mistakes, lest the language and runtime just keep accumulating crap. I wish the Go team would take a MUCH firmer stance on this.
(I'm not pro genocide)

1M / 1.4B is increasing the incaceration rate by 70.
I answered you on GitHub!
I don't see the climate analogy. People live their plight. On a day to day basic they know where they stand. They have been watching costs rise and incomes not keeping pace. This is situation decades old but only breaking the narrative surface lately.

They're reminded of the power of The Fed. True, they might get the exact details wrong, but they have a solid enough grip on who. They also see others (i.e., 1%) doing better and better.

"I'm struggling to pay my bills" is all they need to understand. Because the people don't understand the nitty gritty doesn't make The Fed any less accountable.
Oh, I don't know, perhaps if you look at any if the huge amount of material from journalism schools on what journalism is and how it should be done, or maybe at journalism's many professional bodies and their codes of ethics, that will give you some ideas?

Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_ethics_and_standard...
Nope. Grandparent comment asked why the US is a violent society. Absolute top comment on the chain is just outright incarceration numbers. No one asked anything about race until you came along.
It's addressed towards the end of the article.
Sometimes you just want things to go in a hurry.

The time to make an archive depends primarily on two factors: processing power and IO speed. Depending on scenario one might have a fast CPU with a slow target device, especially if remote, in which case spending extra time compressing might be a win. In other cases the IO is plenty fast but you're limited by CPU, in which case little or no compression is what you want.

Was wondering if any had tried implementing a control loop that would dynamically adjust compression parameters to provide optimal compression speed, utilizing both processing power and IO as best as possible?
Counter point is if you have work (or high grade heat) you can use it to move heat rather than just thermalising it.
Fed Reverse Repos Hit Record $2.4T
I think private prisons and criminalization of homelessness are crimes on their own. How on Earth having such system lets the US call itself civilized country is beyond my understanding. Acts like this belong in my view to some barbaric societies.
The best way to solve the drug problem is legalizing all drugs (or at least decriminalizing them) so let's do that too.

There's high-quality precedent, and Portugal is the classic example. They decriminalized all drugs back in 2001 and went from one of the worst in the EU to one of the best in the EU along basically every major measure of drug harm. [1]

[edit] > The opioid crisis soon stabilised, and the ensuing years saw dramatic drops in problematic drug use, HIV and hepatitis infection rates, overdose deaths, drug-related crime and incarceration rates. HIV infection plummeted from an all-time high in 2000 of 104.2 new cases per million to 4.2 cases per million in 2015.

This was achieved in conjunction with some rehab social programs. The article is worth a read.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
If consider multiple billions as 'don't have much in the way of funds'...
Mesh central. Free, self hosted. Or Google Remote Desktop, which they've sworn for years they're shutting down.
Company to pay $73000 for firing an employee who refused to keep webcam on
Yes, to some degree. But what people do when their dogs get too fat? They reduce the amount of food they give them, and after a while their weight goes down. There are many factors like stress, microbiome and sleep, but in the end it still boils down to calories in calories out.
What would they do with a steam engine, even if a practical one was built? Mines could usually be kept clear using hand pumps, and there was no coal mining then to make early engines useful. The many wars between Greek kingdoms resulted in thousands of skilled and unskilled laborers being pressed into slavery; a steam engine would also have to compete against that.

This article covers in detail how different the ancient economies were from 1700s Britain: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
No. He will do what China tells him to do. Musk likes authoritarian regimes:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/31/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-china-ro...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...
It's the reaction in reactionary. That increasing tolerance is why they're getting louder, angrier, and more violent.
Ah yes, MMT, classic discredited concept, unlike classic synthesis theory that has been completely unable to predict modern economic responses and can't explain the 3rd largest economy in the world.

You do know mainstream economics isn't science right? Because it's completely unable to prove anything it predicts
People blast America all the time for its handling of natives in the past, but China typically gets a free pass in the present even though it's policy is no where near that of America's while being much worse.
I think this anomaly might be indication that LGBT rights issue actually have great support from the people in power because they don't really care but it's convenient topic to draw away minds from income equality.

It's not like the society made a great strides in how we imagine Santa Clause when Coca Cola pushed the current vision of him. Or it was not a great stride when people started talking about personal carbon footprint promoted by BP to draw away the blame from corporations.

It might be just a coincidence that LGBT rights issue rose to prominence right after Occupy Wallstreet was squashed with nearly military force. Or it might not be.
The blocker is Windows backward-compatibility. Macs are only sold with ARMs these days. Many (most?) Chromebooks are also using ARM. But one of the main reasons for Windows is backward-compatibility, and you won't get it with ARM.
"It's not a colony if you build infrastructure in it" seems like the sort of oversimplification you're complaining about.

The USSR certainly didn't plan to lose Ukraine.
I found some numbers: according to Statistica, Europe has 275 mental health 'hospital admissions' per 100,000, whereas the Americas have 41.8. That could be entirely enough to explain the difference in prison populations, but of course one would need data on the length of the average mental health hospitalization. It also doesn't explain the comparison to other regions with lower incarceration and lower mental health treatment rates, which is pretty much the entire rest of the world.

Statistica: https://www.statista.com/statistics/452902/admission-rate-in...
This article is about storing energy generated using renewables in reservoirs; not about tapping into geothermal energy.

The issue with geothermal is not that the energy isn't there but that getting to it involves a lot of expensive infrastructure. It's cost effective in some parts of the world and not really cost effective (relative to cheaper solutions) in other parts of the world.

Using this instead would mean having to drill much less deep (so it's cheaper). You are sill throwing away more than half of the energy you put in though. Geothermal has similar inefficiencies except you get the energy that needs to put in for free. Not so with this solution: you have to generate the energy yourself.
There is the Pythium from China (it can even run games with an AMD GPU: https://boilingsteam.com/you-can-now-run-steam-games-with-pr...)
Voting is conditioned on not being a convicted felon in some states.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-...
Yeah, diet is at least 70% and exercise at most 30%. Unfortunately.
Competition is just a euphemism for fighting. You're saying that more fighting is better.

Isn't that crazy? You'd think that fighting would be wasteful and upsetting. That peace would be better.

It's a crazy world.
Beating a dead horse, but here's Bowen Yang's character should have been named "The Algorithm" on a Saturday Night Live sketch that makes my point

https://youtu.be/_U7UCyAcSzY
That web page is insane - normally I sympathise with the 'scrolljacking' bemoaners, but that's just so funny (maybe it would annoy me if I was actually shopping), not at all what I expected from the page, or Apple at all.
It would seem hunger is associated with vital metabolic processes which are prevented by never being hungry.
If you treat the homeless as lepers and stick them at the edge of town - you will get exactly what you said. If however, you create one home for the homeless on every street/block/floor - you'll find out that they are people, just like you and me, and with a little bit of support many of them will even thrive. The US is just so big on NIMBY that there is zero chance of that happening :-(
I think they misinterpreted the word “existed” in this case. They took it as go mod would have never been made instead of go mod didn’t exist at that time.
I learned to treat 'feeling like a drink' as a sign that I shouldn't be drinking at that point. Because I wanted to, and as a process over a relatively long period of time. A process something like mindfulness/CBT, I guess. Thinking critically about feelings/urges.

> how to get out of just hating yourself when you fail?

Realise that failure is part of a process, completely normal, to be expected, and is not a character trait or a state of being (let alone an unrecoverable state).
Data from Twitter's Birdwatch program shows Covid misinfo is the biggest topic
Same, using jetbrains products in sway is currently a big mess.
But i didn't hear much from Wakefield anymore, is it being actively developed?
Modules I suppose.
You’ve made up three things, each without convincing rhetoric let alone evidence, and then put QED at the end.
It is a non op; it's a matter of scope and is resolved entirely statically.

One shadows the variable by a variable of the same name. The key is that the new variable is scoped only to the inside of the loop, whereas the original variable is scoped to the outside of it, thus assigning to the original variable in a next iteration of the loop updates that variable again.

The major case where this is an issue is if one somehow took a reference to the variable, that reference thus now points to the new value rather than the old.

Taking a reference to the new, more closely scoped variable that is local to the iteration of the loop does not have this problem.
Have you read the paper at all? The actual title contains this: "Time-restricted eating with or without low carbohydrate diet". Look at the "with or without" part.
If your body fat percentage is high enough (25% or more for example) it is even possible to gain muscle on a calorie deficit. Many studies have shown it's possible to lose fat while gaining muscle for such individuals.

I'm not sure about the "one meal per day" part though - not sure if there are studies for that combined with a calorie deficit.

The lower your body fat percentage is, the harder it is to diet without losing muscle.
your anecdote is not valid counter to my point in comparing a Person who has kids making 100K+ with a Person working a Job at Walmart making say 40K

So if you would like to address my claims then I am all ears, but so far you have not done that
> The issue is not restricted to variables declared in loop headers, so the proposed loop change for Go might only be the start.

Technically it’s not but practically it’s by far the most common way for this to unexpectedly arise.

The other cases like closing over a variable and then modifying it before the closure is invoked are a lot less common to hit unexpectedly, and a lot harder to fix nicely (short of Java’s big hammer).
This has probably occurred but I suspect this is very rare even in Japan.
Evidence suggests pandemic came from nature, not a lab, panel says
It introduces a new variable called "item" initialized with the value of another variable called "item" from the parent scope
> But we are long overdue for versioning

The trend seemed to be in the opposite direction. In the early days, you could use the language attribute of the script tag to specify a version, e.g. language="JavaScript1.2". But that failed to become a standard.

HTML used to be versioned by the DOCTYPE, but that fell out of favor with HTML5.
How Wine Works
I drink but when I don't want to drink I just dont... I guess this is useless advice if you have an even moderately addictive personality though.

One drink; one water is also a great way to drink. It'll slow your consumption and keep you hydrated.

All else fails, my grandfather's advice: pick two liquors you dislike the taste of and drink those, you'll never get drunk (because you dislike them).
It's because it doesn't make any sense. Japan has a national debt of over 200% of GDP, economists have been predicting a recession for decades, and yet nothing has happened.
If you take a Rust for loop, de-sugar it to produce the actual loop { } which would run, and then modify that loop to have the Go semantics - with a single long-lived variable which is re-assigned each iteration, Rust detects the faulty Go cases of course.

[Edited: I tried to explain what's going on here, but I don't think my explanation was helpful so I've just left the surface]
It also creates a perverse incentive for the justice system to incarcerate people so there is more forced labor.
Very true. Apple could envision a path of "start with mobile CPUs and see if we can make them better and better, and then eventually laptops, and then maybe desktops". And they have their own OSes on those devices.

Everybody else has only parts of the whole picture. Samsung is probably the only one that has all the hardware, and CPU expertise, but they control none of the OSes.
Ask HN: What happens to things thrown into Schwarzschild radius of Earth?
Suppose we have some kind of large and heavy object like the Earth, but without heat inside. The gravitational radius of the Earth is ~8.8 mm. We drilled a hole in the very center of this object, so we are absolutely sure that any ball thrown into the hole at some point is completely within this radius. What happens to the ball at this moment? Will it continue to fall by inertia? Will it be swallowed up by a black hole? Maybe there will be something else?
That website is full of deranged ramblings which are largely disconnected from reality. Case in point:

> MY NOTE: well whoop-dee-doo. China generates 16.2 trillion terawatt-hours (TWh) a day. That’s 64 billion times more than all of the open-cast mines can provide. Better start digging more holes!

16.2 trillion terawatt hours a day is ~4 million times the total global insolation or 35 billion times total global energy usage. This is more wrong than asserting that a single man on a bicycle generator could produce our entire primary energy worldwide.
I'm trying to think of a case where you production code is legitimately dependent upon the following code snippet working with the current semantics so that all contains nothing but hundreds of the last item ...

var all []*Item
for _, item := range items {
all = append(all, &item)
}

I can't think of anything that isn't terribly contrived for the sake of argument.