skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they were deliberately pointing out the absurdity by comparing it to other far more dangerous things we just waive off if you have a license.
Moving fast or just completely inefficient
The author wrote a book, so I guess this explains why everything are so beautiful and tidy.
Just take N-A-C instead. Actually works and your liver will be happy as well.
Nigerian national arrested on indictment for multi-million-dollar romance fraud
The car stat is a good example of trying new policies to lower car deaths! They are the greatest risk to my children's lives and I find it terrifying that we let them roll around everywhere so close to people, like we do in parking lots.

>Maybe license people to buy meds and take it away if they abuse it?

I'm a bit confused, because you can buy it already with an ID, correct? You don't even need a purchasing license, just a drivers license or other government ID.
We're not talking about whether China is worth visiting. I think so, my tourist visa experience was in fact applying to walk a part of the Chinese Silk Road in 2019 with my (Cantonese-speaking but non-Chinese national) wife and we were politely told to shelve that particular idea permanently. There was no visa-free entry at all back then. We ended up going to Macao instead, and had a good time, though not at all what we originally planned.

In any case, the question was whether learning a Chinese language allows you to go on unique tourist experiences that would otherwise be unavailable. And the answer is that it doesn't, certainly not to the extent that it's worth learning a language, because, as you yourself state, you don't need to know the language to visit the approved destinations, and while there are some experiences that would require you to know the language, they are anyway outside the approved set of destinations and you'll be blocked using all bureaucratic systems from visiting them anyway.
astro is a modern framework "optimised for content heavy websites" i.e. vanilla assets mostly except when asked for something more.

[1] https://astro.build/
I’m having a hard time understanding what your problem with the “sustainability” concept is. Don’t you think that “efficiency” was the tyrant of the 20th century yet no one complains about it in the 21st century? What about “AI”?

Yes, sustainability will mean different things across different domains, because for some reason people are starting to realize the consequences of their actions in the real world. What else would you expect?
I've done Ham Radio operator stuff at a major metropolitan marathon multiple times and the Hams are really just there for data collection. Cell phones have no problems operating in ultra-dense environments any more. You could say "what if the phones go down" but in an emergency situation the professionals have their own trunked radios to use.
Well. The ambulance just unlocked infinite money glitch.
"treflop" says he goes dancing regularly, in addition to various live music events. "freeone3000" says he goes to a dance party every month or so.

It sounds like your town just sucks, and you should move to one of their towns. You can't expect all towns across the country to be equally good for all interests.
A priori, a quantum network could efficiently solve e.g. leadership election or shortest path type problems. I don't think there's any evidence that they can, but any problem you might want to solve for a wide area network is potentially a use case for quantum. By the way, as I said I'm more or less a QC skeptic in the sense that I don't think we will have scalable QC doing really useful work in our lifetimes. Happy to be wrong though.
This mindset can only be born of stability. If your country descends into chaos, having money on hand is better than having money in a bank, and therefore, not on hand.
this is the third day in a row this article is being posted here.

this time it got traction. funny how HN works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055954

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42058920
I've a similar story, but 35 years ago, a situation which was entirely my fault, 100cc and 'shit'.

Ended up with a sore knee, bent forks and a realisation that leaning plus braking in the wet is a great way to make a nice groove into the asphalt!
Historians Predicted the Failure of Democracy (2019)
> Honestly, you're trying to claim that intuition is the foundation, when it's almost as bad as blind luck.

Why do you think this?
This article is attacking a straw man.

The reason why the halting problem is of minor importance for pragmatically minded programmers has nothing to do with machine memory size. It's of minor importance because while it's intractably hard to prove an arbitrary program has some desired properties, it's considerably and practically easier to reliably construct a program with said properties. That problem of program construction is what we as programmers are trained and paid to do, and overall we do an adequate job of it.
I have tens of thousands of miles of experience, and have studied the law and best practices around cycling.

I vividly remember exactly the circumstances of each.

Most involve me riding as far to the right as practicable while someone driving a car hits me from behind, or quickly passes and does a right hook.

My favorite was the national parks employee who was drunk driving in Yosemite and hit me from behind. I'd love for you to explain how that one was my fault.
There is something about bicyclists, and especially skaters, that leads to active hostility from drivers.

On at least two occasions, I've had cars purposely try to hit me when I was skating. I know it was on purpose because in one case the driver said "you're not a vehicle" as he came within inches of hitting me, and in another case the driver, completely unprovoked, began cursing loudly and tried to run me off the road.

You might argue that the first one didn't actively "want" to hit me, but he certainly wouldn't have cared if he did.

> Cars and bikes don't mix except when cars are going bicycle speed.

I wouldn't want to get hit by a car going 15 mph. Or even 1 mph. So I would say cars and bikes don't really mix at all, especially since many drivers are either actively hostile to bikers and skaters, or indifferent about hitting them.
*AT Protocol
Polls seemed pretty accurate.

Look at PA polls:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general...

The last 2 polls had Harris at 49, and 48. She ended up at 48.5%. Last 2 polls for Trump were 50 and 49. He ended up at 50.5%.

https://apps.npr.org/2024-election-results/pennsylvania.html...

Similar story for Wisconsin, (Harris polls 49 and 48; result: 48.9% and Trump polls 50 and 49; result: 49.7%) and Michigan (Harris polls 48 and 48; result: 48.3% and Trump polls 50 and 50; result: 49.8%)

Despite the end result, it was really was a minor polling error away from a Harris victory.

Also, FWIW, the total 3rd party vote in WI and MI was greater than the margin of victory for Trump in those states.
"Improve" you mean.
I am not sure this dice will roll less than six, but I think it will.
> but you lose credibility if you call the guy who is leading multiple companies...

Leads? How many Musk corps have you worked at? I have been at 2 of Elon's and one of Kimbal's, I can tell you from from first hand experience, neither of them 'lead' anything there and their titles are merely on paper.

They were merely figureheads, who came in for photo ops and to be seen on occasion (especially when things went wrong) and made their presence felt but that is the extent of it. Elon didn't sleep on the factory floor during Model 3 hell, he was shit posting photos of himself at Sparks in NV at the time: Panasonic was having major issues and was a major choke point for the battery packs all the while the assembly lines for M3 were being revised without his 'insight' at all.

I'm convinced it was him who did the whole crowdfund Elon a couch non-sense, despite him being a damn billionaire who can buy the entire work force a couch without noticing in his bank account, the whole thing smelled of a typical Elon clout chasing tactic.

(All he does is shit post all day on Twitter, how can he lead anything with his posting history?!)

Rather they both rely on an extensive team to handle day to day operations, and a deep pool of exploitable talent to achieve the goals: who eventually burn out in the process after countless iterations before things work correctly.

Go look at the average lifespan of workers at Tesla/SpaceX. It's incredibly short, in the best case of both it's only long enough to vest (the pay is horrible, but the stock options make up for it if you make it that long) but often layoffs or targeted firings (union threats) are often the cause for premature terminations as well.

It's really not hard to see that SpaceX is run by Shotwell, even as an outsider, and I wish she would stage a coup already as she has the loyalty of the rank and file there, unfortunately Elon's title as 'chief engineer' there remains and the way he has structured these companies post-paypal means he cannot be ousted.

That doesn't mean he shouldn't be, as he does more harm than good at this point.

Again, people want to simp for Elon having no first-hand experience and posting behind throwaways online is the extent of his marketing prowess (the only thing I think he really excels at) which makes him like a modern PT Barnum.
~~Pharmacists have no ability* to not dispense medicines if a doctor prescribes them.~~

_Edit: I am told I'm wrong on this front, and I stand corrected_

The fact that doctors are prescribing them too freely is definitely worth looking into.

But severely restricting medication that is used to effectively treat disease because it has abuse potential only harms legitimate users. But definitely worth auditing prescriptions to ensure that they're being issued for valid diagnoses.

But as for illegitimate users? You ban it, they'll find something else.

And as someone who needs ADHD meds to do things like "remember I have a todo list, remember where I left it, and remember to use it", I very much resent the people who abuse the meds I need to function in our society to pass their law degrees easier.

I resent the meth addicts who try to get an ADHD diagnosis for their kids so they can abuse (or sell...) their children's ADHD meds when they can't afford meth, because it means I have to pee into a jar every three months to prove I'm not a meth addict who is abusing methylphenidate.

(My country uses methylphenidate / Ritalin / Concerta (the slow release form) as the first treatment for ADHD, Adderall is not prescribed here that much, if ever, but it is possible to be prescribed dexamphetamine if you're bad enough).

But I really do object to glibly implying that every child who is prescribed a treatment for ADHD is actually a case of pharmacists gleefully overmedicating, it's naïve, unsympathetic, and, tbh, rather unfair to pharmacists.

As for what schedule a drug is... ...is the harm of Adderall abuse the same as the harm of fentanyl abuse?

Drug schedules aren't a good way to determine harm, IMO. They're a good way to discern moral panics though.

E.g., in my country, Class A, the drugs that attract the highest penalties, include magic mushrooms, mescaline, DMT, and that one you get from licking toads, bufotentine or something, alongside classics like heroin and cocaine.

Fentanyl is Class B, alongside opium, morphine, amphetamine, methylphenidate, MDMA, and one that always amuses me, hashish.

* There's probably some dumb-ass rules around declining to dispense abortifacients because of religious beliefs, I'm sure.
Building my first API with Laravel
Previously (with direct link to the FDA ruling): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42082998
What state do you live in?
> I've been urban biking for years. It's no doubt dangerous

Yes

I gave up using my bicycle in the city. It was very good for me, but one mistake and it would be very bad, easily terminal

It is easy to make bicycling safe(r): get rid of the cars
> Really there’s no one solution that works at every scale

Get private cars out of cities. That works
Anyone who is perceived as close to your director will be pushed out.
Can you explain the purpose of tiers? Is it to reduce fragmentation?
Spring 2025
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CEO of a (different) Canadian crypto company here.

Two things are simultaneously true in Canada right now: 1) the government has become unwilling/unable to actually keep repeat violent offenders in jail (and has totally failed to prevent them from acquiring illegal firearms), and 2) the law essentially outlaws the use of any tools (firearms, pepper spray, knives) for the express purpose of self-defense.

It's functionally impossible to get a concealed carry permit in Canada. They just don't issue them, even if you have a restricted firearms license, even if you're a high-profile individual, and even if there's an immediate threat to your life. You have to rely on police and, if you can afford them, expensive private security who probably can't carry a firearm either. I should note that the kidnappers in this case (plural) were all armed.

The politicians, of course, are protected by the armed Parliamentary Protective Service. They just don't believe you deserve similar protection.
You can patent them though!
You're almost certainly experiencing the placebo effect. There's mountains of evidence phenylephrine does exactly nothing.
Most are. A few are not averse.
That's what I thought.

How do you verify the age? Verifying ID? That seems like another route that could go wrong. Just having a checkbox to confirm the age? Do a poll on this website to see how many people have visited an adult website when they were not...

As long as you have internet access, there will be a way.

I don't have a good proposal, but I feel this is more like a cultural issue than something we can simply fix by implementing law.
Real or imagined *quotes in one side

Apologies!
The problem is with defining what a “memory safety violation” is. By the time you’ve annotated all the code with the information necessary to tell what you find undesirable up to rust’s capacity (e.g. overstepping buffers, violations of move semantics…), say through a type system that allows you to express these requirements, and have spent the time to change the parts of the program that did not fit with your new more restrictive types…

… well congratulations, you’ve just written your program in a language that effectively is rust.
Lack of drivers, slow, not full of bugs, but some annoying, which they wont fix (there was a month ago a thread here about it).
It is even easier to get in Singapore.
what are the extras? RT can also linux.
> construed as admitting fault

They gonna argue he wasn't hit. Come on
And yet I can't get more than a full days use out of it if I use the phone to read news during my commute etc.
There's Almost No Gitlab
LLVM exists because its original developers wanted to do research, not because of GPL and at the time there wasn't even a C compiler for it, not to mention that GCC wasn't designed at all to do what LLVM did.

The license angle with Apple did happen because of GCC's switch to GPLv3 but that came years later - and GCC still wasn't (and AFAIK still isn't) designed to be used like LLVM or (later) Clang, like using it as a backend for IDEs, analyzers, language servers, etc. The two projects aren't interchangeable with only the license being the thing that differentiates them.
> Pharmacists have no ability* to not dispense medicines if a doctor prescribes them.

This is not true. Pharmacists have the right to not fill a prescription for a number of reasons, and in fact can be held liable for not doing so.

If they feel the use of the drug is medically inappropriate they can decide not to fill it. If they feel the patient is taking it for a non-medical reason (abuse) they can choose not to fill it.

Pharmacists are medical professionals who are expected to use their judgement to make sure medicines are not used inappropriately.
https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?si=9WLkm-9ERWPyF51z
It was probably a $1,000,000 insurance policy that the ambulance/provider had

You just start there no matter what
Next up, eliminating the work of the Fiendish Fluoridators
> I swear I read a report somewhere that said something like PE is effective iff you take twice the dose on the box or you take it with other drugs (I think ibuprofen was tested?)

Oh yeah combine with Tylenol and increase the dose if you want to experience adverse cardiac events. The oral form of PE is really only good for jacking up blood pressure, it doesn't help with congestion more than placebo: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4500855/
The out of date source is mainly for the Android Telegram client, but not that much, it's usually 1-2 minor versions away at max.
https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram

tdesktop one https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop gets updated directly, not sure about the iOS and macOS ones.
How can you believe you've been taking a placebo for years? Phenylephrine is used for the illicit synthesis of methamphetamine, so there's an inherent bias towards anything that gets it off the shelves. Cherry picking studies that say it's ineffective is more velvet glove than using only the iron fist to ban the stuff. But make no mistake that the iron fist is taking your meds away either way.
Point taken with regards to the language.

I was also there in 2019 by the way. Out of curiosity, which part of the Silk Road did you want to walk? I can see why you would get denied permission to hang out near the Taklamakan desert.
Here is a video[0] with links to the paper from UC Denver about how protected bike lanes make it safer for everyone. Maybe this might help the cause

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YwYeNz1jCkM
You drink the coffee by holding the cup to the bottom of the screen. When cup is empty, you can clip the github logo and go to the repo.

https://github.com/mafik/automat

I thought Automat was the framework for displaying the website, but I guess it isn't.
You know, for as many toxic people as I've met from both sides, I've met just as many, if not many more, authentic and genuinely wonderful people. Like me, they are just as hurt by the brokenness we all feel around us. Like me, they often are just looking for confirmation that it's not just them, that they are not the odd one out. Who like me, are seeking genuine human connection and not more division and conflict.

Most of my disgust is reserved for the spirit that produces this vitriol we see all over the political landscape. Or, using Dawkins' language (yes, a genuine Christian independent quoting Richard Dawkins), this meme that is infecting the culture at large. It's a plague and I'm always saddened when I see it rear its head, especially here on HN.

I'm not smart enough to have it all figured out, but I've found the most meaningful work I've been able to do is in small communities where face-to-face is the priority. It's why I really prize community work. We're all here, from different backgrounds, working entirely for free, but for a cause we all deeply care about. I've had some amazing conversations during these times.

Anyways, I appreciate your genuine response. I can tell you care deeply, and I encourage you not to lose hope.
Our descendants are gonna look at horror at how we have been capturing, breeding, torturing and then killing sentient animals, for the most part completely unnecessarily.

80bn land animals are bred and killed annually for food alone. Completely unnecessarily.
Yeah, I stumbled over that too. I think they meant to say any “interesting” program would halt. Programs that don’t halt will repeat state (in your example there isn’t even any state, so it’s trivially always the same), and the article wants to look at programs where we run out of state (and also describes why it isn’t interesting to halt when hitting the state size limit).
I’ve hearing great things about this new drug called placebo. You can apparently prescribe it for anything and in many cases it’s just as good as existing medications.
An egg's way of making another egg.
Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities
Good point! I was look at it from a users pov. Let's say I have a BPF script for monitoring a set of processes - their disk, network and CPU with some filters on specific messages. Now can I use it in qnx or what's the equivalent? It can run in userspace for all I care.
Yeah you definitely need something like Feldera: https://github.com/feldera/feldera
> Methamphetamine is a whole other level of stimulant.

The extra methyl group that differentiates it from regular amphetamine salts mainly serves the purpose of crossing the blood-brain barrier quicker. However, during this process it loses that extra methyl group. So whether you're taking meth or adderal, the chemical that actually reaches your brain is ultimately the same

In fact, methamphetamine is available as a prescription ADHD medicine under the brand name "Desoxyn"
Interesting, do you have any material I can read up on about this?

P.S., have edited that statement after your correction, much obliged :)
Yes, on the margins cycling is more dangerous in the USA. OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if the physical exercise would reduce mortality enough to still be a net positive on the margins - biking to the bakery vs driving - but haven't verified that.

Interesting tidbit from the report is that almost 50% of fatalities are in towns <100k population, 16% outside towns and 34% in pop centers > 100k. I would have guessed metro areas are more dangerous.
The new story he discusses is quite dark: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/inside-unregistered.... Worth a read.

Some of his points sound reasonable to me.

> 2. [Non-violent entrepreneurs] are an abnormality. They create prosperity, yes, but they may flourish only in the artificial environment where the high-end violent entrepreneurs are being (constantly!) wiped out. They're the hothouse flowers, to put it simply

> 3. Much of the outer world is destitute because of violent entrepreneurs. Violent entrepreneurs are not wiped out -> they wipe out the non-violent ones -> the country cannot create stuff -> It is destitute

> 7. Non-violent entrepreneurs have prospered under artificially secure conditions and having (unknowingly) outsourced their security. If they don't understand it, you'd be much better off ignoring their advice when it comes to security and foreign policy.
that will make sense when wages go down when the stock market goes down. the price of equities going up is the reward for putting your money at risk.
[dupe]

Official release:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42082998
Yeah, precisely, that methyl group is why methamphetamine is super popular, it makes a whole lot of difference in the felt effect.
Free coffee should lead to a dramatic morale boost. I heard they will bring back toilet tissue in the restrooms next quarter.