skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My ex-wife was gullible when it came to "too good to be true" money-making schemes.

In one such occasion, she took me to an "auction" where we were "guaranteed" to win appliances or thousands of dollars. It of course turned out to be a timeshare sales pitch. She was so angry at me for walking out when the "sales manager"[1] began to insinuate that we've been wasting their time and that "authorities could get involved".

My ex-wife hissed at me that I was embarrassing her and why don't I understand what these awesome people were trying to do for us. In her eyes, the sales folks really found her funny, pretty, well dressed, and so so smart, and they're "so sad that she'll miss out on earning 1000s of dollars a month with zero effort!" (I think there may have been an element of multi-level-marketing involved).

One tactic was to state that we could "just take the paperwork home to look it over!" Except of course, we just had to put down a deposit and sign these docs. I'm 100% sure that anything signed would have led to years of financial hassle.

Several days of stony silence later she admitted she had been completely tricked and was ready to sign something stating we'd be paying something like 2k a month (in 2005) forever.

[1] The sales manager was huge and intimidating. He was brought out after I refused to sign any kind of contract and tried to bully me into signing.
There are a lot of issues one can point out about Go, it just so happens that what they picked sure makes the language compelling to me.

Huge, working (unicode, streaming, etc..) stdlib that doesn't require 20 different third party packages to get a server running. Also has built in formatting, testing, and benchmarking(!)

Compiling is so fast I can write tests that run on save in ms showing me outcome before I start typing again and actually enjoy TDD. This isn't possible with TypeScript, C++, or Java.

I'd be happy for every other language except Rust to disappear tomorrow, but aside from that Go is just nice and unfussy to get really good performance with a quick dev story.
One of the several hundred thousand nazis, erm German refugees, the Eisenhower administration brought here in 1953. This was much larger than operation paperclip. The GOP reloaded with that cohort. Their descendants are still wrecking havoc upon our country. I'm sure some come and have done well for us but many are trouble. That huge S&L scandal back in the late 80s was by some of them.
Author, here:

As a severe opioid addict myself for over 10 years, I am absolutely ashamed of having any part in that life. It is a burden that I will have to continue dealing with every day for the rest of my life.

In no way am I trying to say that I did not deserve to go to prison. The focus of this post, was about the facilities made available to those people who do end up in prison, so that they do not return.

As to the references... yes I am a non-violent drug offender. That isn't a label I gave myself, that is a fact: there to let readers know that I am not here for murder or rape or something of that sort.
Involvement in opioids and that lifestyle/culture is something that I did not have any contact with UNTIL I was sent to prison. Perhaps we should consider whether
1. Prison is making people worse (that is just an objective fact)
2. We want to be institutionalizing people that clearly are capable of much more, who turn to things like dealing out of their drug habits, or lack of resources/options.

Before anyone wants to go google'ing and coming up with immediate judgements, why don't you look into that there was absolutely zero prosecution of the case being referred to.. They said they found "residue" in my apartment, put out a nationwide manhunt for me, then immediately dropped the case as soon as I was judged by the media and the judge. They couldn't just destroy my apartment and all my stuff and say "we found nothing". Leaving them to prosecute me for 1oz of a synthetic opioid 8x stronger than morphine, that itself, had a potency of roughly 1%. It was almost completely inert. absolutely useless. and this was a completely unrelated case.

To the person who said I sold drugs to kids.. Where exactly do you get off making such horrible claims about me? Do you live in such a bubble that you think that every drug dealer sits around behind dumpsters at high-schools and asks kids if they want to try some 'pot', thats really laced with angel dust? Oh and they all put rainbow fentanyl in your kids halloween candy too right?
That man is a genius. It’s a win win finns get to drink and the man gets a paycheck
None of the subjective preferences here are “objective”, and the added insulting language for people who disagree makes it worse, not better.
Where do you sell it?
I think the more money you pay for a vehicle, the more privileged and superior it makes you feel. You get a superiority mentality, like all of you plebeians, get out of my way, I'm a rich important person with things to do. Can't you tell by my car?
Java actually does have pattern matching like this:

int eval(Expr e) {
return switch (e) {
case ConstantExpr(var i) -> i;
case PlusExpr(var a, var b) -> eval(a) + eval(b);
case TimesExpr(var a, var b) -> eval(a) \* eval(b);
case NegExpr(var e) -> -eval(e);
// no default needed, Expr is sealed
}
}

But it only got that recently.
Nah, I can't get worked up about nudging harmful business practices towards unprofitability. I do the same thing every time I try to waste a phone spammer's time.
I'm artist and I use midjourney for faster work. You still need photoshop skills, imagination and aesthetic to get job done.
It definitely has some Always Sunny vibes. At least it makes a funny story.
I don’t like the X (left of the 'new'), but that’s very personal. An about with the X link sure but now it’s a snappy site indeed like Hn with my fat finger clicking to X too many times and that’s not good for retention of this one user anyway.
Stimulant abuse is pretty accepted in the US. Unless it's meth, which has a negative class connotation.
The problem is that, for most people, the answer to how much their time is worth is nothing quantitative. I pay to get my lawn cut and for a once a month housekeeper, but those are basically luxuries to do tasks that I could do myself in 2 or 3 hours that I would rather not do. But I, like most people, am not actually forgoing paid work if I were to do them myself. So it's a luxury. My time is not actually worth hundreds of dollars an hour.
What I find somewhat strange is that you are allowed to risk the $10k... if you play the role of a mostly-client or donor and participate in pre-ordering or crowdfunding. But if you're to get back money or equity only then you get all those rules.
Did you mean 30 kilograms?
This isn’t true at all and I’ve complained about it before but the go maintainers introduced a big breaking change in the x.509 standard library that caused a lot of scrambling.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39568

As far as I know every other language standard library still allows CN to be used to validate the hostname when the SAN field doesn’t exist.
I'm wondering if one of the factors here is that the public is funding this opportunity, and that many, many non-criminal members of that public are doing the $10.50/h thing with no such support and very limited opportunity.
It's like real estate buying at the wrong time.
I use KDE and MacOS on different laptops. Even though I like KDE , I find that compared to MacOS, KDE is the one that comes out a bit amateurish... the attention to detail in the MacOS UI is just amazing. Am I missing something?? How is KDE better (it really feels much more raw to me, but being on Linux I don't really expect much more)?
How timely! Just the other day I was looking for an old conference talk I was involved in, that for some reason had been taken down from YouTube. It was a decent amount of work even finding a link to convince myself it had ever existed.

Fortunately, the Wayback Machine had a copy at decent resolution.

Thanks for sharing. <3
Thought, culture, agency, and dignity.

So, no biggie.
Touche. Got into Wails/Go recently for a desktop app. Everything fell in place in a short time. Even the junior contractor offshore with zero experience is able to contribute! (thanks to Wails also here .. using Svelte for the frontend .. love the lightning fast builds)
This has nothing to do with "fake internet points" and everything to do with firsthand experience that most citizens lack completely.

You chastise those that "appease the masses" but mention Venezuela's prison system. How much firsthand experience do you have with Venezuela's prison system? My wager is that your concept of their prison system is based on articles specifically designed to "appease the masses".
the point is that they could prevent, if they wanted to. they have no obligation to allow that third party app in their store
Good to know you found the duplicate.

It’s the same as this one…one comment…except for this reply…
You and I may know this, yet I have encountered smart people who defend a local maxima.
"This definitely smacks of Elon derangement syndrome."

Exactly. The author is big sads that polices at their beloved Twitter changed and they will do anything in their very limited power to strike back.

Yawn.
it's perfect for sitting in meetings and vscode remote work, and/or very professionally SSHing here and there ...
> This does not solve the problem that many of us do not want to hire convicted criminals.

Thank you for at least acknowledging this.

I'd wager that if people with convictions on their record, had even a 10-20% chance of being hired at a decent establishment, we'd see recidivism go down by a statistically significant amount.

I know the justice system. The grand majority of folks coming in and out of prison genuinely do not want better for themselves, it's a lifestyle choice that they've accepted (or resigned themselves to, depending on how you look at it).

But for the fractional percentage of incarcerated individuals that DO decide "Okay, I've had enough, I'm done with this and I want better for myself" and mean it, they aren't afforded such a luxurious opportunity for a bland life in suburbia.
Also, Chinese input breaks in Chrome on Wayland and they still haven't fixed this bug after 2+ years.

Also, Nvidia drivers don't work with Wayland.

So I'm still stuck with Xorg.
You need people literally going hungry and starving to death for something like that to happen, which is pretty unlikely.
I know how these communities can be and it honestly sounds much more like a community problem than like a “people who drink some coffee and smoke some cigarettes” problem, because there are many millions of those who don’t have crazy, out-of-control behavioral problems.
I believe it’s more widely used than Go
New timeshare business model there. Find people with six months to live who really hate their cousin.
How to Simplify Investor Accreditation
> “Buying a car today is an investment into the future. I think the most profound thing is that if you buy a Tesla today, I believe you are buying an appreciating asset, not a depreciating asset.”

I think it is a bit of an unusual situation, in the sense that

* Musk claims Teslas will appreciate. This is obviously a lie, but he said it.

* Cars do obviously depreciate

* Although, there was also a sort of used car bubble last year, so the change in cost is quite large
I sort of enjoy things like this a a way to observe sales/manipulation tactics. Usually as long as you're committed to no-buy, you can give them a fun and totally fictional story about why, have fun, and get free stuff out of it.

Last one I went to (in Las Vegas) the guy was actually very chill and we spent the whole time talking about the sales tech/presentation tech he was using, about the LV market generally, etc.
What I was getting at was the idea of time spent on things that aren’t directly and immediately able to be, say, put into a sales demo, but instead impact the customer a but more tangentially, which is also when communicating clearly about business impact is particularly important. I would also argue that companies do tons of genuinely non customer facing stuff with varying levels of justification, for better or worse.

Regardless, who knows whether this was the case in the story being discussed, but it’s not unthinkable that this genre of communication breakdown was involved to some extent.
This article fails to mention that there was a brief period from 2021-2022 where ALL cars were priced way higher because of the supply chain woes. Tesla was very transparent about it and other carmakers were not. Model 3 long range was pushing 70k in California at one point. But at the same time, dealerships were selling Mazdas for 50k. Yes those people who bought at the peak will see extreme depreciation, but that is for all the cars.

Funnily, that was also a time when a buddy of mine ended up selling his 2019 model 3 for a 8k profit because cars were that expensive.
I had an interview with a recruiter recently where I asked them about their data protection practices and they put the phone down on me
Businesses should embrace remote work so:

1) they don't have to pay a six-figure salary

2) employees don't need a six-figure salary as they're living 100 miles away from "most cities"
QEMU's RVV is all ahead-of-time-compiled scalar loops when I looked at it a couple months ago, so the results would be very bad (worse than scalar equivalents). Even x86-64 SSE2 on x86-64 is scalar ahead-of-time-compiled helpers.
WOW that's amazing how different people's experiences can be.

I smoked one pack spread out 2 or 3 days, for about 3 years (in college). Rarely would do a full pack in a day.

Quitting was pure torture. I stayed up 24 hours walking laps around my campus. Took like four full days for cravings to go away.

Haven't had a cigarette in 10 yrs. Occasionally enjoy a cigar without problems
> If you can withstand two hours of a pressure cooker,

Big mistake.

Don't assume it will be only two hours.
Today, Tesla drivers woukd top the list.
Orthogonal to its usefulness for learning C, K&R (especially K&R 1) deserves to be kept around to serve as an aspirational model for clear and concise technical writing.

There's more real material in that slim book than in many a thousand page doorstop out there, yet at the same time it's easy to follow.
Yeah, at that point I either kindly "add context" with an issue from last year or quietly bask in schadenfreude.
Why is the advantage of early learning and understanding “unfair”?
> Tesla is constantly bumping its prices up and down nearly randomly. Talk about how weird or not weird that is, how it compares to other car companies, how it's good or bad for Tesla.

The dealers do that for other automakers. They heavily marked up cars during the pandemic, with the value not going to the companies, shareholders or employees that make them.
Wait, what? As far as I understand, there's a donor and a receiver - I don't see any reason for this to loop back.
2 milligrams * 15000 = 30 grams
Quantization is done with 4 bits, unless you meant something else?
There is nothing "weird" about the article. Author notes that people who bought Teslas last year have seen a rapid depreciation because of price cuts. No reason for people to get up in arms.

For people who bought a Tesla and saw rapid depreciation it truly does suck. For people who haven't but are thinking of buying a Tesla, well good for them. They get to buy it at a discount. I'm in neither camp so the story gets a yawn from me, but I can see how there are actually people in both of the other camps, with varied responses to the cuts.

The incantation of "[something] derangement syndrome", along with the misplaced attempts at [sic], makes this a pretty tenuous critique and kind of undermine your point. It makes you look oddly defensive of the world's richest man.

This discussion is almost entirely filled with "Leave Elon alone!" type rhetoric, which is actually "extremely weird". I cannot fathom the sort of derangement that motivates one to do that.
How is KDE a clusterfuck? Last time I used it was with Open Suse Tumbleweed and there it was pretty buggy but that was expected from cutting edge versions. I played around with themes and there were bugs. I actually always went back and forth between KDE and Gnome/Unity. I like KDE better actually. But I use Material Shell (Gnome 3 extension) now that beats everything.

KDE always offered more options and configuration and was never as dumbed down as Gnome. But obviously most users do not need that that is why they like Gnome better. KDE has cool things like KDE Connect that was ported to Gnome later. When I used stable versions it was always perfectly fine to use. Not at all a Clusterfuck. 2nd most popular DE for a reason.
1000x this. I only became a successful, productive member of society because a friend personally asked the CTO of a tech company to approve hiring me despite my computer crimes felony -- and the CTO took that chance. The company later went public for $B and now I am an angel investor and open source contributor etc, but I got lucky that I knew the right person at the right time. Our records follow us forever, and corporations/HR departments do not take risks like that.
I wonder if there’s space for a second level financial setup where you buy a piece of an organization that arranges for your attendance at the best timeshare pitch deals.
> Of course they expect inmates to change, but towards even more criminality, not towards rehabilitation.

Who is "they"?
That is different from withdrawal being worse. Opiate withdrawal can be rather severe from a physical standpoint. Nicotine withdrawal simply is not.
Exactly. If you have old ass tanks that are easily refurbished and work perfectly fine for current needs and will likely never have a chance to use again, why not. The US uses old shit all the time. The KC-135 Stratotanker is still being used and is over 70 years old at this point
Some US states do allow private criminal prosecution. New Jersey allows them with approval of a judge and prosecutor. Other states allow private citizens to file charges directly with a magistrate - I think maybe Wyoming or Montana?

It's usually a holdover from English common law.
There is no async coloring in Go. In the example you cited above, service.GetData can be a plain synchronous function in Go. You don't need to distinguish between sync/async as this is defined by the caller and not by the callee. Any function can be made asynchronous without changing its signature. That's one of the critical advantages of having first-class concurrency. There is no "function coloring".

The simplicity of this approach and the advantages this brings to code structuring and easy refactoring simply cannot be understated.
Pizza/French fries
@technics256 But also not as a reply, so it's more visible:

I have had luck with using Amazon ECR Public https://www.docker.com/blog/news-from-aws-reinvent-docker-of...

To quote the example in the article:

You can pull the images by simply switching from using docker pull ubuntu:16.04 to docker pull public.ecr.aws/docker/library/ubuntu:16.04. We automatically push images to ECR Public when they are updated on Docker Hub so you will get all the latest releases wherever you pull from.
A dash of yt-dlp and a cron job. If you've got a media server, it's the way to go for subscribing to content you're interested in.
It also only sort of works because as soon as you leave your WiFi it’s no use, unless I fundamentally misunderstand it.

I’m sure it’s a great product, but it doesn’t seem to solve the ad problem.
I can't speak to chiral gold, but as for exploring the connection between microbiota and neurodegenerative diseases, this is a hot area of study. Take a sentence from the abstract:

>The gut–brain axis has emerged as a therapeutic target in neurodegenerative diseases by modulating metabolic activity, neuroimmune functions and sensory neuronal signaling.

You can pretty much formulate a few dozen google searches from various keywords in that sentence + "microbiome," "microbiota," and/or "GI immune signaling," etc and come up with hundreds of papers. The GI tract is host to the majority of our immune system. Many of the molecules used for signaling (and all kinds of other tasks) come directly from the bacteria there, or else are dependent on bacterial metabolites as inputs.

On a related note, I expect we will hear more about the metabolome in health and medicine research. As microbiome is the set of all microbes in the body, metabolome is the set of all metabolites (bacterial and endogenous) in the body. In this study, serum levels of an indole were found to be altered in Alzheimer's patients:

>indole-3-acetic acid, which was lower in serum and cerebrospinal fluid of patients with AD compared with age-matched controls.

In another study of MS patients, two other indoles, as well as butyrate, were found to be lower in serum concentration compared to healthy controls [1]:

>Highlights - Gut microbiota and metabolites profiles of individuals with
MS differ from healthy controls. Individuals with MS have reduced serum levels of
indolepropionate. Individuals with MS have reduced serum levels of indolelactate and its producing bacteria. Individuals with MS have lower levels of species and genes
involved in butyrate production.

Indoles in particular may be an interesting avenue of research [2]:

>What is the function of the indole in bacteria?
Indole has recently been implicated as an important small molecule signal utilized by many bacteria to coordinate various forms of behavior. Indole plays a role in numerous bacterial processes, including: biofilm formation and maintenance, virulence factor production, antibiotic resistance and persister cell formation.

[1] - https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/pdf/S2666-3791(21...

[2] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4175420/
AI startups in France
"The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'."

"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.

"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed.

"That's what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man'."

"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called'?" Alice corrected herself.

"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways And Means': but that's only what it's called, you know!"

"Well, what is the song, then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting On A Gate': and the tune's my own invention."

Get a clear understanding of what's going on in that passage, and pointers will never cause you any difficulties.
It's so kind of the elites to go out of their way to protect us from ourselves. If the elties were truly benevolent and generous, they would instruct us on how we protect us from them. Funny how they're never *that* insightful.
> Prisons in the USA are for-profit enterprises

About 7-8% of US jail and prisoners inmates are in for-profit correctional institutions, most are in public institutions which are not operated for profit.

Private, for profit prisons are an issue, but they are very much not the norm in the US.
Maybe move all data centers into geostationary orbit. They would be solar powered with direct communication between each orbiting center and transmitters/receiver stations on the planet surface. With that sort of lifting capacity, it wouldn't take too long to move most data center servers into orbit. Would it be cost effective? Maybe not. But I reckon there would be some climate change benefit by moving all that heat out into space.
What is worth investing in are not the models, but the people behind them who can continue to drive improvement.

A model gets surpassed by another pretty quickly now.

Similar to a car engine, which is a consumable item, it's not worth investing in.
Recidiviz is hiring: https://angel.co/company/recidiviz/jobs
Is Something Going on with Archive.ph?
Archive.is is showing a default page, archive.ph is showing an insecure connection and then doesn’t resolve. Legal troubles?