skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of this can happen until we shake off the current policies rooted in puritanicalism.

Arguably an extreme in either direction would be relatively effective. Where we sit now is not effective because it doesn't embrace actual justice, nor does it embrace actual recovery. In Seattle, for instance, the policy is to distribute drugs and needles to users, but not offer effective recovery options. Nor is there social pressure to not use drugs. Nor is there actual justice for those who prey on people who are too weak to escape.

I think a combination of both approaches could be good; target the dealers, the movers, and the makers; allow users who want rehab to undergo rehab without facing charges (make no charges contingent on the absence of crime other than possession and use).
but there is no guarantee of a stock buyback increasing the stock price by x%, correct?
I can't really comment on the quality of the game or experience or how buggy it feels because I've never played it, but I will say that counting fixed crash situations is a somewhat arbitrary and useless metric. If each of those crashes affected and was reported by a single person or even nobody because no regular person could really encounter it is a vastly different situation than if each of those crashes was experienced by even 1% of the users.

The criteria by which something is decided to mention in the patch notes is not always purely because the users care. Sometimes it's because the developers want to signal effort to user and/or upper management.

Maybe Mount and Blade was super boggy in the past and is still super buggy now so all the crashes fixed are just an indicator of how large the problem is for them and how bad the code still is. I dunno, you didn't really give any information to help on that front.
SQLite VFS for ZSTD seekable format
This VFS will read a sqlite file after it has been compressed using [zstd seekable format](https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/contrib/seekable_f...). Built to support read-only databases for full-text search. Benchmarks are provided in README.
Thanks for making such a great library! It served us well for many years.

Edit: My brain skipped over the "user of and minor" part of the sentence. Still, thanks for contributing to Allegro!
The author is asking for a "give me a break" feature. I would say that in a strongly typed functional language, this is akin to mutating objects. The author seems to wish for an unsafe option to locally turn off the borrower check. Is it something Rust could not offer?
That's already a thing, called XWayland, and it's the only way to make Wayland actually usable on Linux desktop.
I just find it ridiculous that a "Github" git repo would be easier to experiment with than a zip file. They have not imported any history, so git brings zero benefits. And they're not going to accept commits nor issue reports, so github doesnt bring that much more either.

But this is Microsoft, so they'll feed you Github even when it just makes things more difficult.
The wheels of insulin reaction starts when you taste sweets, (both in your mouth and receptors in the intestines), not when the sugar hits your bloodstream.

Your body is affected by the experience of sweet, not just the fact of sugar.
Yes, we vendor and statically link as much as possible to avoid dependency hell across distros and platforms.
in addition to contributing to upstream python, we

* maintained a stable version of python within google, and made sure that everything in the monorepo worked with it. in my time on the team we moved from 2.7 to 3.6, then incrementally to 3.11, each update taking months to over a year because the rule at google is if you check any code in, you are responsible for every single breakage it causes

* maintained tools to keep thousands of third party packages constantly updated from their open source versions, with patch queues for the ones that needed google-specific changes

* had highly customised versions of tools like pylint and black, targeted to google's style guide and overall codebase

* contributed to pybind11, and maintained tools for c++ integration

* developed and maintained build system rules for python, including a large effort to move python rules to pure starlark code rather than having them entangled in the blaze/bazel core engine

* developed and maintained a typechecker (pytype) that would do inference on code without type annotations, and work over very large projects with a one-file-at-a-time architecture (this was my primary job at google, ama)

* performed automated refactorings across hundreds of millions of lines of code

and that was just the dev portion of our jobs. we also acted as a help desk of sorts for python users at google, helping troubleshoot tricky issues, and point newcomers in the right direction. plus we worked with a lot of other teams, including the machine learning and AI teams, the colaboratory and IDE teams, teams like protobuf that integrated with and generated python bindings, teams like google cloud who wanted to offer python runtimes to their customers, teams like youtube who had an unusually large system built in python and needed to do extraordinary things to keep it performant and maintainable.

and we did all this for years with fewer than 10 people, most of whom loved the work and the team so much that we just stayed on it for years. also, despite the understaffing, we had managers who were extremely good about maintaining work/life balance and the "marathon, not sprint" approach to work. as i said in another comment, it's the best job i've ever had, and i'll miss it deeply.
These exist as camping fridges (ex:
https://www.amazon.com/DOMETIC-75-Liter-Portable-Refrigerato... there are also a few different full-size deals floating around. From what I've seen, these are a terrible idea for normal home use: they're eye-wateringly expensive, and for the sake of efficiency you give up a lot of nice features like air circulation and humidity control that are commonplace in far cheaper ordinary 120v AC fridges. Great for short-term use, but if you plan on keeping food fresh for weeks instead of a few days, you're gonna be annoyed.
terminology is one of the many funny things about React, in this release:

> By convention, functions that use async transitions are called “Actions”.

React is the only people who use this "convention". They pick a very meaningless word for their terminology, but then they just can't stick with it and have to name the hook `useTransition` for some reason.

Instead of wasting doc space for sentences like above, why don't they just use the same word for the api and the concept? If you're gonna refer to the concept as "action", then the hook should be useAction. And if you think "action" is a meaningless word and you need to add some explanation about mutation or promises in the docs, then maybe better just call the concept "mutation", "async transition", whatever and same with the hook.
Sorry I got lost in that sentence. What is Rust's model?
Apparently I didn't word that section very well, because many people took away this impression. My apologies.

Factorio will continue to support X11 for as long as SDL does, in other words, essentially forever. The only change here is that X11 is no longer required for the game to launch at all. SDL will load whichever video driver is available at runtime, or if you have both, you can choose which one to use in the graphics settings.
> but the ability of engines like Bevy to analyze system dependencies and automatically scale to multiple CPUs is a big deal

Is it? The article addresses that, and basically calls it a pointless feature that is almost never used and when it is the benefits are mostly lost because of real world needs and constraints, and that the problems it solves are easier solved through other solutions and add-on systems that are well understood.

I think this might be a case where explaining the real-world benefit instead of the theoretical benefit is needed, if only to counter what are very pointed criticisms that are definitely deeper than at the theoretical level.
Now look up dietary guideline adherence rates and disabuse yourself of this meme.
My ex used to buy from best cut gems for her jewelry side hustle. She seemed pretty happy with them, but I dont know how the prices compare. There's also a subreddit about synthetic gems that has a vendor directory in their sidebar. I think the sub is synthetic gemstones.
Like most publications, they have editorial constraints, and usually choose to discuss the breaking news rather than rehash older facts. Reason has been covering this highly complex and lengthy case for nearly a decade, they have published dozens of articles about it, unfortunately for you they did not address your specific question in detail in this particular article. I think if you dig a bit deeper you'll find answers.

edit - 2 minutes of searching past Reason articles:

That Lacey was convicted of "international concealment money laundering" is bizarre, since the money transfer was not concealed: His lawyer informed the IRS about it, as required by law. And it was not made for nefarious purposes, according to Scottsdale lawyer John Becker's trial testimony. Lacey had needed some place to park his savings after U.S. banks, scared by a years-long propaganda crusade against Backpage, had decided doing business with the company or its associates was a reputational risk. So Becker and another lawyer advised Lacey to deposit the money—$17 million, on which taxes had been paid—with a foreign bank.

It's hard to see how Lacey conducted a financial transaction "to conceal or disguise the nature, the location, the source, the ownership, or the control of the proceeds of specified unlawful activity," even if you accept the government's premise that this money was derived from unlawful activity. And, to be clear, I don't accept that premise, since Backpage's business should have been protected by the First Amendment (not to mention Section 230 of federal communications law).
If you blame the wrong reason for downvotes, expect to be corrected. Your complaint here is invalid.

Try criticizing Rust next time, if you want to demonstrate that criticizing Rust gets downvotes. You were throwing out insults in your very first comment.
Now you've picked two jails?

I with you on sqlite but lost me on LaTeX.

Maybe, many open formats, with many open tools?

And I'm over wishing, hoping for better print support on HTML - I think is the holy Grail.
It remains absurd that we have a mechanism that n the road to allow self driving” cars, but only if there’s a person in the drivers seat that has greater focus and skill than an airline pilot.
> For most young people starting to build a web presense, I think it must be much more difficult to get started.

I don't think age has anything to do with it. I'm in my 40s. I haven't used twitter, facebook, instagram, or whatever's cool now in at least a year. At this point, I feel like I wouldn't even know how to get started. Luckily, I'm not trying to build a personal brand.
It does make it easily browsable and linkable on the web. So you can't say it has no benefits.
Allulose! Why isn’t it more popular? Tastes almost exactly like refined white cane sugar, caramelizes like sugar, yet has almost no calories and doesn’t make blood sugar spike. Just had some hot chocolate made with it and I’d give you $5 if you could tell it from regular sugar.
If this is going to occur on a regular basis, we will eventually run into copy protection mechanisms, which are also worth preserving. A bit-for-bit copy, uploaded to something like museum.github.com would be a much better archival record.

https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2015/11/ibm-pc-floppy-d...
UCS-2 is why we have the WTF-8 encoding standard, which allows mismatched UTF-16 surrogate pairs to survive a round-trip through an 8-bit encoding.

https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
> I just find it ridiculous that a "Github" git repo would be easier to experiment with than a zip file.

I don't know if experimentation was the point, per se.

Putting the files in a Github repo, at least puts the files on the web — where they're readable and linkable and syntax-highlit and internally searchable and web-spider indexable and Github-BigQuery-dataset-legible.

I can read source code in a Github repo on my phone on the bus (and I sometimes do! In anger, in upstream repos when trying to debug sudden production issues while on my way home!) I can't really read code in a zip file until I get home to my laptop.
Who would've thought that a lack of available housing implies fewer people in housing?

maybe the people downvoting you have some kind of skin in the game and are benefiting from the housing shortage
I feel validated by your comment. When I first read about the Metaverse, I thought to myself that Zuckerberg saw that movie and wanted to build it in real life.
BT also employ lobbiests, and there's regular controversy in the industry over ofcom not regulating them hard enough, or in why exactly they won the original 2010 era rural fibre contracts but overall I guess they simply don't work as hard as thier ATT counterparts;)
Surely Git supports files with arbitrary bytes in them? Why would it cause issues with those files?
I wonder where can I buy it? I have been doing the rounds experimenting with artificial sweeteners and it's actually very interesting seeing how different they are.
Spaced repetition is a good way to remember anything, including methods. Just review the method (maybe with a small practice problem) on an SRS-based schedule, to hone your skill. When you encounter an issue in the wild, having committed to memory ways to solve it will speed up the actual execution.
>Again, 100% false on ACA. (I would agree that medicaid is a PIA, but it's free!) The ACA plans are run by the same carriers as employer plans in my state. Blue Cross, Harvard Pilgrim, etc. Networks are exactly the same. Price is equivalent. If you are paying less through your employer it is because employer is paying insurance company or self insuring instead of paying you the cash.

Sorry for the late reply. That may be true in your state[0], but in mine all the insurers that have employer plans (although providers made sure to ask whether your plan was ACA or not -- "we don't accept ACA plans!" before then) have left the ACA marketplace. I admit that they did try to raise premiums 20-30% a year before quitting the marketplace -- I declined to pay that much more, although premiums have risen that much and more with the insurers still on the ACA marketplace.

So, while there may be places where the ACA provides decent coverage at a reasonable rate, there are other places (sadly, like where I live) that it does not.

On the whole, I'm glad the ACA exists, as it provides insurance to many who could never have afforded it in the past.

That said, it's far from what we really need -- a single payer system like Medicare, but for everyone.

[0] I live in New York.
while i'm sympathetic, it still means you had a great deal going. if/when it ends you shouldn't get pissed off you got the opportunity in the first place - a visa isn't permanent.

to be clear - what i was reacting to was the author's idea that he should reject capitalism and/or start a trade union, after having been a very, very, lucky player of the capitalism game indeed. it pisses me off when people making N multiples of 6 figure incomes start forgetting how lucky they are and how much they personally benefited from that exact system. a laid off googler's worst day is many, many times better than the average guys daily life. in this country, let alone somewhere else.
Because Git sometimes tries to be too smart with line endings.
Some inconsistencies here, metadata is added via jsx but preloading resources is done by some magic functions. Are they not hooks? what are they? Why there need to be this other way to make side effects?
I searched for "dietary guideline adherence rates" and it turned up multiple studies. I looked at a few and it's not clear how they support your argument. Stop being lazy and expect the reader to do research and argumentation for your own comment. Link to the studies and explain why they support your argument.
Most drugs are shown to be worthless way before any clinical trial, and while yes they are expensive, so is fundamental research. By only looking at what pharma companies do, you skip just as many very expensive necessary steps that often show the drug is worthless.
Besides [the reasons to get a scooter], why get a scooter?
Truffles.
Living currently in ATX in an (overpriced) apartment because the housing market went insane about 2018 but still isn't investible.

Pros:

- You can say you live in ATX

- A few interesting local characters still exist

- Wide open parks

- Many record stores

- Infinite choices of tacos

- People seem taller and moderately more attractive than elsewhere

Neutral:

- Everyone has a dog

Cons:

- Fugly high-rises being slapped together and replacing local anchor establishments

- Lots of traffic and perpetual construction

- The roads are really bad

- Grocery prices went insane

- Don't even bother going to a bar. The prices are crazy. Back in my day (grandpa voice), I remember when a bottle of beer on 6th St. was $1.50 in 2003 ($2.55 in 2024 money). SXSW raises that to $10.

- Doesn't get visited by every music act

- Summers are hot AF. Another El Nino this year means 110 F / 43 C for 4-5 months. It was cloud today and 80 F / 27 C with 66% humidity.

- Don't be a woman or have a medical need for an abortion

- Don't drink the water. Get an RO system and a water software because the water is bad

- Don't live in a flood zone

- Don't live on a ground floor or in a home near downtown unless you want unhoused people or addicts stealing your stuff

- The average IQ seems below 100: office workers, Airbnb visitors, and conspicuous dumb money moved in from elsewhere

- The population has increased greatly but the number of doctors, bookstores, and similar service businesses haven't kept up

- Some of the most gerrymandered voting districts in the entire US

- Whole Foods HQ store is run by accountants not by foodies: they sell 4 variations of essentially identical conventional pesto but no walnut or kale pesto, and don't sell any form of pita bread. Customer service is really bad. It's a simulacra of its former self pre-Amazon. Thankfully, there is Trader Joe's

- Amazon package delivery, DoorDash, Favor, and UberEats fail to deliver reliably. You'll find better service in Ecuador or Czechia

If you want reasonable housing, head down to Seguin. Zillions of new homes there for $300k. Amazon delivery and Uber work there too.
Zachtronics is a contender for the greatest game studio you've never heard of.

If you're a fan of Factorio, you owe it to yourself to play SpaceChem, TIS-100, Shenzhen I/O, Opus Magnum, Exapunks, and Last Call BBS.

(In fact, since Factorio was inspired by a Minecraft mod, and since Zachtronics' Infiniminer was the direct inspiration for Minecraft, there's no Factorio without Zachtronics!)
> First of all, git does not preserve timestamps, which causes irreversible damage

> the misguided use of git not only made some comment lines too long for MASM, but it also actively destroyed the original source code.

Nothing was mutilated or destroyed. These are not paper records. Nothing was lost. Someone just have to also release as a zip.
That's a wonderful observation, never thought about it that way. Thank you.
> dmesg(1) informs you you’re running OpenRC! ...

> At the risk of embellishing my feelings about this, it is such a relief that there are Linux distros like Devuan, Gentoo, and Alpine using this. It’s a breath of alpine air, and has legitimately made Linux fun again.

What kind of fun I'm missing by using systemd as init system? Couple examples of those who used it, would be interesting to see
Corewar is fun. Someone should include it as an optional feature in a cyberpunk game. So to crack open electronic locks you need to fight computer warriors.
But those are decimal values, not integers. I didn't mean that using cents as a unit was insufficient, I meant that using integers was.
When the author describes digital life as it is today in the opening paragraphs, it’s so in contrast to how life was in the 90s or early 00s. My first thought reading that was not about scams, but about how poked and prodded we are from every direction by every digital thing relentlessly every hour of every day.
The shelling, in Verdun for example, was so absurd that it's not really relatable to pollution. It was days upon days of non stop shells, including chemical shells, going over the same ground back and forth, for weeks if not months.

It really was something completely off the charts.

Edit0: from the wiki on the battle of verdun:

It lasted from february to december - in the very first 10h bombardment, on the first day, over 1 000 000 shells were shot over a 30km x 5 km strip.

It's hard to even imagine what that looks like!
Turing complete is also fun and challenging.
> If the government owns the lines, what are private telcos... actually doing?

Providing Layer 3.

Just like the government owns the roads and highways, and lets UPS and FedEx use them for delivery.

The theory is that roads/fibre are natural monopolies, but the services that use them can be competitive. There just needs to be a fee for the upkeep of the infrastructure (but it doesn't necessarily need to make a (hufe) profit).
Yes, that's my point. JSDoc isn't an alternative to TypeScript if you want your types to actually be checked.
I take a lot of long voice notes thinking out loud during my walks. I use this prompt when I give the Whisper output to GPT-4. I've found it to be pretty reliable:

> Punctuate the following transcript of a voice note I took. Insert periods, commas, and paragraph breaks where appropriate. Remove filler words such as 'right?' 'you know', and 'uh'. But do retain my original wording! Do not paraphrase my sentences beyond recognition: this is not a rewriting task! The transcript now follows:
Wow I actually subscribed to this newsletter as the first newsletter I ever subscribed to because I thought he made a compelling point.

…five minutes later I get an email saying I’m also subscribed to another newsletter as well?

> You subscribed to Untangled with Charley Johnson by Charley Johnson because it was recommended by 12 Challenges

No thank you!
Original time stamps were intentionally destroyed. From a comment by starfrost on the article:

"The reason I cannot do timestamps is because data protection law mandates anonymisation of source files, at least that is the policy."
> Your post is "flagged" to oblivion

Personally, I think downvoting insults is more inclusive than not downvoting insults.

> just like my earlier post

You made an entire submission asking users of a specific programming language to defend themselves.

It's a bad HN submission.

Flagging it is neither inclusive nor uninclusive. It's just marking it as a bad submission.

How do those actions fail to match words? What words do you have in mind?

Also the HN users that flagged it probably don't even use Rust.
To J&J it doesn't matter, but it's a useful number to understand the industry as a whole.

When a pharmaceutical leader says that developing new drugs "isn't profitable," it would be nice to know if that meant "clinical trials don't make as much money as cosmetic drugs" or "clinical trials actively lose us money."
So is iOS/MacOS
I still don't know if any of those things actually happened or if you were being sarcastic.
They could soften it up by adding some plants. Eco-brutalist!
Sadly it looks like it. Wasn't always that way, having started in 2006!