skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A significant issue with fentanyl related mortality is accidental consumption. Fentanyl is so potent and because of its relative ease of synthesis and a careless illegal drug supply chain, contamination is common. Not all but many of these deaths are a result of teens consuming a drug that they percieve as "safe" like marijuana or "adderall" or "oxy" etc but through careless handling by dealers or intentional misrepresentation, end up receiving a fatal dose of fentanyl. I think it is an important point as many comments reference decrimilization and other "fentanyl policy" items.
Yup. I am on #emacs channel at liberachat. People are trying to find an admin to revert and lock the page. No point in reverting without an admin because the vandal just edits it agian.
people hooked on fentanyl want to do fentanyl
Excited to see libraries using Ractors as somebody who has also fallen in love with them ♡
It's a tradeoff. The startup time of Clojure on the JVM is slower than most, but the runtime is faster than most. It also needs a lot of memory to get going. This means it's optimized toward long-running programs like web servers. During development, you use the REPL interactively which makes this a non-issue, but it does take some getting used to at first.

That said, there are alternative runtimes that have different tradeoffs. For example, Babashka is a runtime for Clojure that uses GraalVM instead of the JVM as the foundation. Babashka scripts have about a 10ms startup time on my M1 MacBook Air.
I can say that from personal experience, sometimes it is the way things get projected in society or specific circles.

I'll give an example. I once rented at a house where the landlady and her partner were (eventually both) poly.

They were starbucks baristas that went clubbing/dating/etc far more frequently than me, I was getting back on my feet after finally being able to work on my childhood and 20s trauma.

Every new outfit, every new partner, was it's own show-off or conversation.

When I got a promotion, I did the 'got-a-promotion' thing and bought myself a 'decent' lens. My landlady's partner was a photographer and we had spoken about the topic in the past. As soon as I brought it up as a friendly shared interest topic? 'You are bragging/waving privilege'.

They were still, of course, happy to flaunt during 'game nights' that the majority of the group was going for all sorts of 'shenanigans' while myself and the other person that got driven out before me...

essentially realized they were narcissists. Well, really just the one and the Landlady was being manipulated by her partner. Fun talks with housemates, right?

But that is the bigger warning for those who have early trauma.

There are those who may or may not have their own trauma, some of them may actually mean well, but a -lot- of them will look at you as an easy target to beat down or manipulate to their own ends. When they get the 'win-win' of "This person has made better life choices than me, 'but I am smarter than them and am taking advantage of them'" is when it gets dangerous.

Smart people know. But they are trying to be polite or patient.

(Which, on the part of my former landlady's partner, is kinda sad. The only way she could feel better about themself was by taking someone they called a friend and trying to 'neg' them... I wasn't the only victim but I might have been the most gullible back then...)
That's kind of even worse, other people have no business at all looking at my private pictures.
I link it in a comment below.
As someone who started doing drugs at a young age, i am happy that i am now too old for this.
If this really was a mistake the easiest way to deal with it would be to release people from their non disparagement agreements that were only signed by leaving employees under the duress of losing their vested equity.

It's really easy to make people whole for this, so whether that happens or not is the difference between the apologies being real or just them just backpedaling because employees got upset.

Edit: Looks like they're doing the right thing here:

> Altman’s initial statement was criticized for doing too little to make things right for former employees, but in an emailed statement, OpenAI told me that “we are identifying and reaching out to former employees who signed a standard exit agreement to make it clear that OpenAI has not and will not cancel their vested equity and releases them from nondisparagement obligations” — which goes much further toward fixing their mistake.
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Being Transferred to New Prison
> they can focus on the small: this is a loop that iterates through a slice, this is an if condition that depends on this variable.

Then a week later, the squinty mole discovers the code is dead; not called at all. There is no slice and no variable.
Isn't opioid addiction the root cause? People dying of fentanyl are mostly opioid addicts who started with prescription meds [1] such as Oxycontin.

Heroin is close to fent in lethality, and oxycodone is next in line [2].

[1] https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/prescript...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_09-508.pdf - Figure 1.
Liberal democracy might lose the 21st century
That's what I was getting at. Rather than laws like minimum wage you could write pro-labor and union laws to empower workers.
Prohibition dramatically reduced drinking. 70% initially then 30% long run: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w3675/w3675...

And alcohol can be used in quite a benign way. Good reason to think opioids would see an even larger decline as they are high impact and unlikely to be openly consumed for group socialization the way alcohol is.

You can argue for legalization but it is a fallacy to believe that prohibiting something is bad if you can't eliminate it 100%.
This kind of software has to be open source.

I've been taking a crack at it with a few other folks. Encourage others to join and/or build something similar!

Mac OS only (Swift):

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/rem

Cross Platform (Rust):

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/xrem
LMGTFY is equivalent to "you could look it up, so go do it." I'm not your research service.
Oh! so we should be supporting fentanyl killing people because it makes our healthcare costs go down because now they're dead NEETs instead of a drain on society? how modest.
Ping me on twitter if you need assistans! https://x.com/CarlLindesvard
thank you for the correction about abc!

b-trees can sometimes replace a general hash table as the default associative array type. in part it depends on programming style and other parts of the language; in lisp, for example, the default associative array type was alists (linked lists of key-value pairs) for a long time, and emacs lisp still uses them pretty extensively. and i think you would be hard-pressed to find an sql implementation for which associative arrays are not usually b-trees—in part because in sql you tend to ask questions like 'which values correspond to these 1000 keys?' more often than 'which value corresponds to this key?', and in part for hysterical raisins. (when they wrote system r, oracle, and ingres, main memory was small, so locality of access was more important than it is now.)
US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
This is rank populism. You're implying sinister intent, when the technical and legal constraints that resulted in that should be obvious. You already can't screenshot DRM content.
Never said I "worked on it."
The problem is that laws are unenforceable out in the country like that.

You need a strong sense of community and social shame. Hence, as I said, dickheads. If no-one is looking, they'll do whatever.
So, your theory is that they could double their payroll because grocery stores are so high-margin that this is no big deal? Or is it that you believe they wouldn't have whiny complainoids even at $40/hour, making it expensive but worth the increased cost? What happens when their competitors need to do the same thing just to stay in business... will everyone somehow magically have the top 5% of the wagie class, and everyone will be be happier, customer, employee, and boss alike? Would the people who do no-show-no-calls stop doing those when for the first time in their lives they can afford to skip a day or two, or would they do this even more?

I'm not convinced that there is any merit in this plan.
Combining this tool with downsampling would allow you to run isomorphic workloads on smaller nodes and thereby reveal the yield curve.
I agree in the context of LLMs running locally. For API connected games, cloud support for nuanced conversations would be a tremendous value add. Take a hit like Cyberpunk, create a Mod that wires into a custom AI from ixcoach.com... we could literally integrate the most nuanced self inquiry practices into the top games this way.

Anyone working on top games through mods that wants to explore this, let me know, Next AI Labs would be interested in supporting such efforts.
> Are you suggesting there should be no controlled chemicals? No pharmacist?

No, that was not my point.

> What if the expectation is for fewer people to use less of them due to higher hurdles?

That's the very reason why "first dose is free". Many people are sucked into drugs consumption either for fun at parties or because they're lured into substances by "friends". Unfortunately, once they're dependent it's too late to put obstacles on their way.
What kind of a thing is this?

Is there a reason you couldn't simply act as the user and test it out? Most QAs I have worked with have not been technical either.
Is a bicycle an engine (or a motor)? It is a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion.
In a way it is, since Clojure typically both compiles but doesn’t really hide its connection to either Java or JS, so you can’t ignore the underlying target language.
My guess is the next big AI product will be local/edge and always-running (can initiate conversation passively). I also think deeply integrated AI into non-conversational software (again, local AI) capable of understanding and working within the embedded domain will become more widespread.
As usual, the answer is “it depends”. Observing too many people are buying the same product at a supermarket, is not insider trading. Observing product sitting on shelves for far too long, again not insider trading. Hearing your supervisor say that they’re hearing a product will no longer be stocked after the current contract is up, definitely insider trading.
That comment is right, you can now watch the video while reading comments, seems like a useful change.
I think SDCC has weird bitfields, originally due to a bug but now baked into the ABI for some of its platforms?

But there are only a handful of ways to lay out bitfields:

* Use little-endian or big-endian bit order? (this need not match the byte order, but usually does - IIRC recent GCC no longer supports any platforms where it doesn't?). This is the only one you can't control. Networking headers rely on a 2-way preprocessor branch so no other ways are really possible, at least up to `unsigned int` (may be 16) bits.

* If padding is needed, is it on the left or on the right? or, on the top or on the bottom? (this might always be tied to bit-endianness, but theoretically it is detached). For maximum portability, you must add explicit padding, doing math with `CHAR_BIT`.

* What exactly happens if an over-sized bitfield is attempted? (beware, there is no stable ABI for this in practice!)

* Do zero-sized bitfields align to the next unit?

* Can bitfields cross units? Is perhaps a larger-than-user-specified unit used? Consider `struct {uint8_t a:4, b:8, c:4};`

* If a mixture of types is used, do they get aggregated unconditionally, by size, by type? Ignoring signedness or not? Consider `struct { int a:1; long b:1; long long c:1; }`

* Is `int` the same as `signed int` or `unsigned int`, and for what widths?

It's unfortunate that testing some of these can't be done at compile time (a few can via `sizeof`), so you may need to either manually inspect assembly code, or else rely on optimization to do the emit-constants-via-strings trick when cross-compiling (C++, if supported on your platform, may do better than C at accessible compile-time optimization).
Or Bezos can have fewer yachts?
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

cd ~/tmp; yt-dlp --write-info-json --write-sub \
--write-auto-sub --sub-lang en,es -f '[height<800]' \
--restrict-filenames --max-downloads "$@"

also, mpv can use yt-dlp to play youtube urls

on android, https://f-droid.org/es/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ (hopefully f-droid will renew their ssl cert before you read this comment)
>Are you suggesting there should be no controlled chemicals? No pharmacist

This is what I advocate for. Probably way more killed by regulation here than saved. I recall accompanying someone in Mexico who had to get their life saving asthma medication in one of those unregulated pharmacies that don't ask questions, because they can't afford to see a doctor to get a prescription.
Are Refs Biased? (Or, the Conscious Decision to Not Keep Searching)
With the NBA playoffs going right now (and as an avid Pacers fan), I was curious about if refs were fair or not. Based on so many folks writing online about how important it is to write online, I figured I'd send it out.

I also would love any tips y'all have on writing, publishing, blogging, or any of that!
i haven't seen tech people, save for the bsky devs. in my time building a client for it (as a side project), i observed a healthy population of journalists, furries, and people who have bad political takes.

when openai launched gpt-4o and google had its i/o, the two events didn't make a dent in the bsky trends. what did make a big dent was eurovision. that says a lot about the population of tech people.
How to Teach Yourself Math Online for Free?
Example: https://delta.io/blog/2022-05-18-multi-cluster-writes-to-del...
I am not necessarily arguing for treatment. Drug addiction is a very serious chronic disease, so treatment would be a better choice than enablement. However, I do agree that success rate of treatment must be pretty low.
That depends on your definition of decentralization. Because of the way most people set up their apps, almost all Matrix users and ~all Signal users are using a centralized app under this definition.
I'm torn about this feature. The case you describe is helpful, but I mostly notice this feature when it's preventing me from snooping in application-specific folders of third party apps. I hate the feeling of knowing that a lot of data my phone is processing is completely invisible and inaccessible to me, the phone's purported owner.
They seem determined to move the description every couple years just to make sure creators are always pointing to the wrong spot.
amazing work!

However, I must point out that if tonejs is used here, audio will quickly become a bottleneck or even memory leak.

It reminds me of a Karplus Strong project written in rust that I saw before. This project is of course visually minimal, but demonstrates the use of rust + wasm audio.

https://jackschaedler.github.io/karplus-stress-tester/

I wrote a simple api to use Rust wasm audio here:

https://glicol.js.org/

If you are interested in doing some use cases, leave a message. I am actively maintaining it recently.
Apple had a net income of ~$100B last year (and will in all likelihood have a similar amount this year) and a market cap of ~$3T.
Nvidia is likely to have a net income of around $50-60B this year and has a market cap of around $2.4T.

It doesn't take that much growth being priced in for the stock to suddenly seem reasonably priced.
> Hubris made him think he was the real Tony Stark

Maybe it was the time Tony Stark praised his ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wC4rLguuYI
How did you know the $250 price didn't already account for the fact that Nvidia has at least a years worth of back orders to fill?
Abrupt shutdown of financial middleman Synapse has frozen Americans' deposits
In Australia unskilled labourers are highly sought-after. It's physically demanding but you can do very well for yourself.

I think the realities of the workforce are wildly different to what we'd typically experience outside of the tech sector.
He's on the board of AI safety too. Now I feel protected.
Well, I think you've just proven my point, that it has to be done in a carefully controlled manner. But that isn't what addicts are looking for.
Late-stage product management.
Try Azure’s equivalent. I’ve already forgotten what it’s called but it has append operations.
having to manufacture something clandestinely costs more than manufacturing it with the full force of the industrial revolution. What dealer is going to compete with $5/gram of drugs that's actually pure and hasn't been stepped on?
I think it's because everybody is going hybrid now. Since hybrids have smaller batteries, they have the same weight, with a way better range.

Also, in France, i think everybody who at the same time want, can afford and have a place to charge an EV have one.
Assuming that’s the only clause that they can use to cause people trouble. The article indicates it’s not.
I did not knew about peoples injecting xylazine mixed with fentanyl on purpose.

It was detected in Canada and in 48 states. It's beyond horrible, if was is written that article is true https://theconversation.com/what-is-xylazine-a-medical-toxic... .
I hid 4 AirTags and 2 Tile Pros in my vehicle. GFL finding them.

The difference is that here, the police refuse to help if it's not a life-threatening emergency. I had the position of some AirPod Pros with an AirTag attached, and I watched it commute to a house. The police here refused to do anything about it.

Another time, they refused to do anything about a stream of idiot tourists driving the wrong way on a one-way street right in front of them who couldn't get to anywhere, causing gridlock.

If you ever want your stolen property back here, you must get a weapon and collect it yourself.
anecdotal, but me too, and several other people I know
Defining safety as a univariate problem is naive at best. All robust safety protocols involve multiple, redundant layers. This means both drives and electric cars are part of the problem. Denying this makes about as much sense as being mad at the clouds.
It's still fundamental logic that the masses need to be able to afford your goods if you produce mass market goods. Or are you going to stockpile them?
https://www.wired.com/story/indian-elections-ai-deepfakes/
There are definitely other options, I’m not trying to present a false dilemma. My point is that spending 0.03% of total federal expenditures to guarantee food security is money well spent. Subsidizing other crops would work, it just happens to be easy to industrialize and automate corn farming and there’s plenty of good agricultural land in the US that is suited to grow corn.
Device Encryption and BitLocker use the same encryption, BitLocker offers more options for key management.

If you login to a Windows Home machine as admin with a Microsoft account, then the key is stored in the TPM with a recovery key in the Microsoft account. Before that, the key is stored in plain text on the drive, meaning it's not really secure. There's no option to save the recovery key onto paper or a USB key.

So, they are really just saying the data is stored on your hard drive, which follows the usual hard drive format of Windows.
Babashka is definitely the most exciting thing currently happening in Clojure world in my opinion. And thanks, always great to hear my stuff ends up being useful. :)
> This is also one of the reasons why printf won't work. You cannot pass a type like std::string to a variable args function.

Can't you just call .c_str() on the std::string first to get to the null-terminated char array? https://cplusplus.com/reference/string/string/c_str/
wasn't this fixed a few days ago? https://x.com/FirefoxSupport/status/1791459697297608943

firefox is my default browser, and i have the enhanced tracking protection to strict.
https://archive.today/eGuHC
To explain how that relates to your point re: stages. The stage of our perception isn't stable. When we started voyaging on ships, that changed it. We went to orbit, whew boy. Today, maybe our terminally-online presence is changing our notions of distance and "here-ness". These sorts of changes can often be a trigger when it comes to these perceptual shifts, as people grow up with a somewhat larger universe than their great grandsires.
Amazon's profit margins on data transfer are out of this world, like probably > 80%. Data transfer costs are hard and confusing to predict (especially with different regions, etc), so it makes sense they'd gouge on it more than storage.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/05/how-amazon-web-services-make...
I'm from Brazil, please lecture me more on the geography of my country...

You don't seem to realise climate patterns are interconnected.
Um...

So all the money, all the development, to create Twitter²
and they just added DMs?

That seems an underwhelming achievement.
2 hours into the post, nobody else noticed it is dated 2025, so what am I missing?
std::string str;
printf("%s\n", str.c_str());
Kudos for this, what's your pitch for i3 users?
It's been stultifying the older I get to see how easy it is for people to lie to themselves and others, everywhere.

You have to be really attuned to "is this actually rational or sound right, or am I adding in an implicit 'but we're good people, so,'"
Their killing of domains, selling that to Squarespace, then Squarespace selling to PE was the most incredible degradation of service I've seen in a while!
Anything that no matter what happens, could still maybe happen in the future but we don't know, is something that I treat the same way I treat claims that the Second Coming will happen someday.
The hardest part of passing `std::string` to `printf` was getting the macro to convince the pre-standard-C++11 compiler that it was `constexpr` enough so that `-Werror=format` would work.

I found it was easiest to sometimes allocate a temporary, if the input wasn't known to be NUL-terminated.
I have absolutely no idea what data they’re even getting out of this.

I am probably more privacy oriented than the next guy, and I’m just not really seeing the pitch here.
> ”we are identifying and reaching out to former employees who signed a standard exit agreement to make it clear that OpenAI has not and will not cancel their vested equity and releases them from nondisparagement obligations”

Looks like they’re doing that.
Do they care? The mob will shout for a week or two and then turn their attention somewhere else. spez (the reddit chief) said something like that about their users, and he was absolutely right. A few days ago I was re-reading some of those threads about reddit API changes from ten months back where so many users claimed it was their last message and they were leaving for good. Almost none of them did. I checked two dozen profiles and all but one of them had fresh comments posted within that same day.
Yes, I've definitely seen people believe that in various discussions. Combine "Altman said they'd totally never done this" with "the ex-employee who first wrote about this didn't write with absolute 100% clarity that this applied to vested equity", and there's enough cover to continue believing what one wants to believe. And if the news cycle dies down before the lie is exposed, then that's a win.

Obviously that should not be possible any more with these leaked documents, given they prove both the existence of the scheme and Altman and other senior leadership knowing about it. Maybe they thought that since they'd already gagged the ex-employees, nobody would dare leak the evidence?