skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that at least some of the grief GNOME gets is deserved. Especially given their attitude towards their users.
This is worth a watch if you want some background into why those type of measures have been less successful in the US and Canada, and how grifters have been taking advantage.

https://youtu.be/o6dAkkqE5XE?si=pBHVORAFzIiVOpx4
You’re asking for sources, of course, because your horrible side has also made sure to forbid building them.

So I dare you make the study on how much crimes the occupying forces are doing in France.
Interesting new genetic study on insulin secretion and body mass
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Hm, maybe it's the `<dc:creator>` tag causing the issue. Can you check to see if https://web.archive.org/web/20231225135859/https://lorendb.d... has the same problem? (this is an archive from before I added the `<dc:creator>` tag)

Edit: that doesn't seem to be importable. Give me a minute and I'll check manually.

Edit 2: I am unable to figure out a fix to the problem, sorry! My feed works fine for me in Tiny Tiny RSS, so I am tempted to say that it's caused by a very strict feed parser.
Simple exaggeration.
>Didn't both Seattle and Portland try Portugal-style decriminalization + treatment incentives, only to see a massive spike in drug overdose deaths

They didn't do 'Portugal-style' decriminalization/treatment because in Portugal a drug addict can be forced into drug treatment, fined or mandated community service. Open drug use is also not allowed.
Summary audiobook of the paper : https://player.oration.app/33ede964-b1be-439e-877a-2105254a9...
If you don't see what's objectionable with saying "lets be more like that police state in how they deal with drugs", then the things we're striving for are so fundamentally different that we probably won't have a very productive conversation. I was replying to the other guy. Have a nice day.
Man why must Hacker News be so chock full of the most devoted followers of right-libertarianism
I go back and forth on this. We "need" what Array() currently does. Arguably we need, and typically use it, far more than Integer(). I'd be inclined to argue both represent the most commonly desired (in Ruby anyway) treatment of input. Silently converting an integer is very often very bad, but being able to pass either single values or an array is often very good, and in the same cases guarding against nil is also very often desirable.

At the same time it might be nice if they had names that were differentiated to indicate the behavioural difference, but I don't know what a better, similarly short option would be.

We also do have "Integer.try_convert" and "Array.try_convert" which both consistently will refuse to convert "nil", though returning nil on failure instead of raising an exception, but I very rarely see it used.
This is so rare. I thought that the github repo trend would lead to more of this type of interviews but so far I hit none. Either people say "cool" and never mention your repo ever again or they straight say "we don't care about repos". So strange
Seems like a kind of strong reaction to accuse someone of spreading misinformation without even checking the link...
are we ready to talk about 'culture' yet?
Audiobook summary of the paper : https://player.oration.app/ec4770f4-3c2e-47a5-8257-492c25369...
This was predicted by Star Trek :) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_IyWFwXw0E
Integer(nil) will raise a TypeError, as will Integer("4x"), but not Integer("4"), so when you want that behaviour, just use Integer(), or Integer.try_conver() if you want it to return nil instead of raising an exception.
This fentanyl is produced in china. It comes from factories producing it in large quantities, then smuggled to Mexico and into the us.
Portland closed mental health institutions before (unrelated to) decriminalisation.

The west US just isn’t the same as Portugal in terms of care. It’s not there.
It requires a third party to send some Bitcoin from one wallet to another. Is this correct.

Was this contemplated by the Satoshi paper.
How much are they paying? It is $current_year and at some point we should demand that all job postings (this is a job posting) should come with salary ranges at a minimum.

Are they even compliant with the law with this post?
Allow me to gush about ledger for a moment -- I've been using it exclusively for my small business accounting for the past 3 years and it's absolutely spectacular and has been life-changing.

For many years I suffered through QuickBooks because I just assumed that was the Only Way. The single biggest pain point (and it's hard to pick just one) is that QuickBooks makes it absolutely mind-numbingly difficult to bulk-change any entries in your ledger -- if you categorize 1000 items one way and your accountant later tells you to recategorize them, there is NO WAY (or at least there was no way when I did this in the early 2000s) to bulk recategorize items. So I remember the pain of having to manually change thousands of entries or, worse, doing indecipherable things like making single journal entries like "moving from X category to Y category".

Discovering ledger was a breath of fresh air because the source data is just text! If you need to change data or recategorize or make any tweaks whatsoever you have the entire world of text manipulation tools at hand. You can write shell scripts and use IDEs (and believe it or not Github Copilot works REALLY well).

It's just amazing to realize that the perfect accounting solution has been there the whole time and is vastly vastly SIMPLER than I ever imagined. I went through all the SaaS tools (Xero, etc.) and nothing felt right. Ledger just works and feels right.
I do agree that the cooking app makers should have this control instead of the base model having this baked in, but that wouldn't help if someone directly used chatgpt's website for cooking recipes. Ironically a "dumb" solution of having specific guardrails depending on the application (eg cooking advisorGPT doesn't make inedible food, arts&craftsGPT doesn't suggest a thermite bomb) could help, with the guardrails being on top of an open base LLM but everyone loves their non-deterministic chatbots to do tasks that hard-coded algorithms could do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Ideally I would love the base llm to also be truly open as well, but that's another issue.)
This seems like a great argument that bureaucracy is a just another kind of biological organization. It follows from Maturana's theory of autopoeisis, any version of homeostasis, or more recent ideas from Friston on self-evidencing.
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Israel is an occupying force, and under international law, Hamas can fight back against it. Maybe if the Jews returned home, there would be peace in the region.

But maybe you thought the French resistance shouldn't have fought against the occupying nazi forces during WWII.

I mean, I do get where you are coming from since the Iraqis of Afghanis who didn't want the USA occupying their land were also called terrorists by the occupiers.
I was in a serious road accident decades ago. I have been in pain ever since. This pain is not lessened by over the counter painkillers. Plus over the counter painkillers are harmful to take in large doses over a long term.

My nerves are damaged by something in my back. (it hasn't been determined what, just that the damage occurs) I am in a debilitating amount of pain.

So I take an opioid several times a day. Before the opioid crisis I was taking 10mg morphine twice a day. Now I take Suboxone, I'm in more pain but not a paralyzing amount.

To your question about what it's like: strong opioids bring a euphoric numb lightness. If you're in a vulnerable place in your life where you are not well supported and don't experience much joy, then that euphoria can be overwhelming. You might want to feel that again ASAP because compared to being in pain, depressed, anxious, you felt pretty good for a while.
That's a charitable take on the "professionals" (and arguably also on the "vocationals"). Both your model and the more pessimistic one can happen, but I think the pessimistic model is what happens more often as an organisation fails.

I'd say that often the "professionals" are "vocationals" who failed upwards. They're the teacher who can't teach, but got transferred to the department. It's the engineer who "failed upward". It's the people who liked the idea of being a teacher or nurse or doctor or rocket scientist, but couldn't hack it in the front lines. Sometimes it's cheaper or easier to transfer a hack into management (or some non-core admin role) rather than firing them. Sometimes it's the least essential person who ends up nominally in charge (the "Dilbert Principle"). Sometimes people go hard for promotions because they are sick of their job (because it's hard for them, because they're incompetent or lazy). An org might want a super-hero for a leadership role, but there's no super heros so they only get bullshitters ticking all the boxes.

There's a few "professionals" who genuinely think that being in charge is more important than working at the front. Maybe they see a good boss resign, and want to fill their shoes. Or they have a bad boss resign, and think they'll try to make a difference. Or they've seen stupid but well-meaning "vocationalists" tear things apart because they have a dumb idea that they're pushing, and think "a good boss wouldn't let these well-meaning idiots do harm rather than good".

But true professionals (either professionals at heart, or vocationalists who see the need to be professionals) are often not going to be as numerous as burnt-out, lazy, failed vocationalists falling upwards. And once there's too many burnt-out, lazy, failed vocationalists in management, the organisation is going to suffer.
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The US and Europe opiate situations can never be compared because in Europe opiates have always been drugs of last resort, used in palliative care or inpatient scenarios only.

Self-administered opiates just aren't part of the treatment regime, much as they weren't part of the US treatment regime in the 70s and 80s.

It's an entirely US problem created by the doctors-are-salesmen paradigm that is US healthcare, and it's only a problem because of the way the 'product' was 'marketed.'
Your analogy leaves out the fact that RSS doesn't work for serving ads, which is why all of this was in Google's interest.
Autonomous lander design should consider self-righting capabilities, otherwise "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"
Optimizing for "green" is not what we're trying to achieve here. Mountains get greener when the tree line climbs as a sign of it's ecological decline. Stable forest and weather systems, biodiversity, bioavailability of nutrients in the ground are things closer to the interest of ecological causes.
I was a NASA federal employee in 2017 at Johnson Space Center and I saw this exactly. There were people like me who joined to be a part of a particular project and who maybe would follow that project when it got separated and sold off to some contractor, and there were the die-hard NASA fanboys (and girls) who just wanted to "be a part of NASA" and who maybe spent years singularly focused on getting hired and displayed little concern about which role they inhabited. Project-level managers up through department heads appeared to be people who started in the first group and slowly transitioned to the second group.
I don’t know what you see around you, but I see a lot of complaints about the big capitalists, companies, and the poor labourers who are enslaved by wages; also in Europe (I live in Europe). That’s why I mentioned an earlier ideology which also hammered on the wage slavery and similar points.
So is it using swing under the hood? Is that the reason it is JRuby?
There is a summary at the top of this post from 2019:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...
They literally already sell this for penis "function" (health? performance?) in a service called Gainswave. Most people call it a gimmick. But if science has determined you can create brain plasticity with it then surely there's some merit downstairs.
> a drug addict can be forced into drug treatment, fined or mandated community service. Open drug use is also not allowed.

Was this always the case ( I would assume so), or did it come with the decriminalization changes?

These policies seem not only reasonable but obvious. But I don’t think the motivations in the US for decriminalizing are consistent with committing addicts and stopping open drug use. And unfortunately they arent standards in Portland, Seattle, or anywhere else with this problem in the US really.

So basically, i dont see that happening in the US. Its the same story for mental and behavioral health. People that were dangers to themselves and society used to be committed to institutions but we decided it was more humane to empty these institutions out on the streets.
Portugal refers criminal cases to drug treatment.

Seattle took a hands off approach. The prosecutor can't be bothered with drug related arrests, so the police don't bother responding. There is no diversion opportunity.
Could you share some more info on that prediction? I'd love to read up
Because it's being disingenuous. The insurance isn't getting removed, just like "the HVAC tech is removing heating" is not a coherent statement if the tech is just replacing your furnace. You might have opinions about the performance of the new furnace, but saying that the heating is going to be removed is simply untrue beyond discussing the logistics of that change.
I take snapshots on film for fun and sometimes don't develop the film for a few months. When I finally see the photos I've taken, I might have forgotten most of the detail from that time. I see the photo and it jogs my memory. But I'm never sure if my memory is a hallucination extrapolated from the photo or if I'm using the photo to recall something that I just needed help to remember. It's like that experiment that showed people a faked picture of themselves in a hot air balloon. Many of the people shown this false photo would respond by creating false memories. My photos are really me but I wonder how accurate is any recollection beyond the photo.
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Are less overdose deaths better than more?
This is what Haskell did last summer: https://summer.haskell.org/news/2024-01-20-summer-of-haskell.... Fortunately they got accepted this summer.
Thanks for sharing, i just read it after seeing your comment. What a dark and dreary ending. The book reminded me a lot of the Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer
Huh?

The northern economy was MORE CLOSED than the South. For one, they banned slavery first. They had more import/export controls.

The south was as free and open* as you could imagine - anyone with the Capital could buy a slave, or sell goods, etc.

Trade was minimally restricted.

(* Notably, if you were a "free man". Slaves, Women, Children, and sometimes Indentured Servants all had significant restrictions on rights across the board in both locations that were very similar - both de jure and de facto).

The North were the ones blockading the South, not the other way around.

[https://history.state.gov/milestones/1861-1865/blockade]

The current Caribbean countries are also currently free markets? At least from what I can see.

Plenty of 'international banking' in many of them too.

Haiti finally paid off the restitution the French have been making them pay since the slave revolt back in 1947 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_Independence_Debt], and seem to be slowly gaining ground again.

The Dominican Republic (on the same island, other side of the fence, different government due to a revolt in the ~1850's) has been doing quite well for a long time, I think partially because they don't have to pay that debt back, being a "different country" and all. And they generally don't have the various travel blacklists that Haiti has had.

I suspect the argument you're trying to make is that mechanization/automation (and it's helpful companion, Capitalism) beats slavery.

Which I definitely agree with. One beneficial advantage being that it frees up people to do more thinking (and less, well, slaving away) and benefits significantly from economies of scale - both for the Capitalists, and everyone else. Which is why inventing is so useful (when it won't get stomped on by monopolies, anyway).

So it's mostly a beneficial cycle, as long as monopolist tendencies get reined in and someone is watching things to ensure it doesn't get too abusive. Unlike Slavery.

Slavery is also despicable in general, so I personally am glad to see it gone.

Free/Open/Closed/Restricted markets are not necessarily good or bad, independent of the circumstances - same as guns, IMO. They do have predictable outcomes, if used in predictable ways though.

The more closed, the more problematic IMO, but I have yet to see a truly open market (aka a black market, perhaps?) without some really nasty abuses of it's own. So YMMV.
What killed RSS for me was when providers switched from putting the whole article into the feed to just putting one sentence or paragraph.

Often the first paragraph of an article is the intro so I had no idea if the article would be interesting. It killed my ability to quickly skim a bunch of articles.

I understand why the providers did it — they need the clicks to survive.

So I’d say Google did kill RSS but it had nothing to do with Reader and everything to do with the click based ad model they made the de facto standard.
Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok scams too.

People copy someone's profile, pretend to be them, say they're them to their friends and ask them for money. With AI voice changers, it even sounds like them.
> If the whole stack is not kept ethical, it is not ethical at all.

This is such a naive, borderline illiterate take. How much of modern human biological knowledge is built upon a foundation of unethical practices?
Unlike Redis, which is incredibly easy to run locally.
It's cool, nice work! And thank you for sharing it.

This is just spitballing, you've already solved problem you set out to and get full marks.

There are always many different ways to do things with bash/shell. Here, you could probably do the entire thing in AWK, which you seem to already be aware of. This might be more readable or it might not.

If this were a script someone wrote for more general usage, I'd recommend to use the unofficial "bash strict mode"[0], and make sure to check that the awk/sed calls succeed. Shell has a nasty habit of limping along as far as it can if something goes wrong along the way and it's very easy to just end up with bad output and not notice until it's too late.

Another thing I only recently discovered is envsubst, a tool that's commonly available and tailor-made for substituting variables. You could pipe a template string or pile into that instead of the repetitive calls to echo. What you have here is fine and instantly readable, but if it were three times as long it might not be so nice. Here you could use awk to extract the variables and envsubst to put them into your template.

Honestly I don't think shell is a good language for writing perfect, robust things anyway. But it's good for exactly what you're doing, though, writing something for yourself that solves a problem without spending too much time on it (although it's fine to spend a lot of time on it if you're learning and/or just enjoying yourself).

[0] http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
> The whole environmental movement made a mistake framing things as a moralistic struggle to “save the Earth, pandas and pinguins.” Like George Carlin famously said on this subject: “the Earth will be fine. We’re fucked.

I think the whole environmental movement have/had no power against the whole industry movement, and the "save the earth" call was the only accepted by the dominant class (aka industry and its leaders). Also Mr. Nobody don't wanted to give up his car, his investments, and his overall lifestyle for some pessimist hippies that love trees or scientist that don't know the real world.

Things are changing because of a single reason: industry and economy is affected a little bit by the climate change.
Or (3) hashtags have become some intrinsic quality of writing by people whose minds have been entirely corrupted by social media junk
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You just manually go through a long list of sites daily/monthly/yearly?
Same reason they have random emoji at the ends of each bullet point: it's an intentional forced-quirky vibe.

It has been a part of most major AI open source projects lately, for some reason: https://sigmoid.social/@minimaxir/110951886465291229
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Does this problem have only one dimension?
This forum seems to be filled with (comments by) people who love the "there's no perfect solution so we shouldn't try because trying might infringe on my libertarian liberties". I need to stop reading the comments.
Best line of the post:

"We also know empirically that at some schools, efforts to address perceived inequalities of access for Black and Hispanic students have become de facto impediments to Asian students of equal or better credentials, and yet many of the same people who lament the former justify the latter."

To paraphrase Orwell, some people are more "equitable" than others.
Am I the only one who uses Outlook to read RSS feeds?

It's a bit awkward to set up, but it works fine.
Interestingly, modern ML does not require Turing completeness. And yet, people are considering the possibility of AGI - I would find it pretty amusing if Turing completeness isn't necessary.
It was developed in Russia.
Why smuggle into Mexico first? Why not directly import where it could be hidden in plain sight?
Somehow I think if the standard salary for this kind of work is 50k/year (~4k/mo), it shouldn’t be too hard to find people willing to do it for double that (8k/mo) especially if it means living rent free.
You can't compare Portugal to Seattle or Portland. First of all it's a country, but more importantly they have free public health care and safety nets for homeless and jobless people.

Imho the number one driving factor of the US opioid epidemic is the stress of living in a country where you can literally end up on the streets if you don't have a job. A country where you can go bankrupt if you get sick.

You can't put band aids over the opioid epidemic, it's a systemic issue.
Appears the blogpost text is from a LinkedIn post (where the hashtags are clickable): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zayarni_qdrant-summer-of-code...

Nothing more interesting than copy-paste I'm afraid
I'm not saying that to say that the us is any better, but simply for context for what happens when you don't need all the parties to approve:

France effectively has that by way of the infamous 49.3. the majority party coalition can effectively force all others to accept a law, without ever presenting it for a vote.

The caveat is that the other parties can start a vote of no confidence and dissolve the government with a simple majority, but in reality this never happens because dissolving the government over [pension reform, the budget, insert issue here] is disproportionate.

The current government's lack of caring about their voter base because of the Overton windows shifting to the right has obviously aggravated this.
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I have no idea :-/
Naming schemes don't have to be intuitive if they are persistent.
Indeed. Just look at phrases like "violent contrasts" [1]. That phrase has lasted throughout the entirety of its history back to 2004, too! [2]

Tenebrism, from Italian tenebroso ("dark, gloomy, mysterious"), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are *violent contrasts of light and dark*, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenebrism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tenebrism&oldid=8...
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