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This too is not spec compliant. 204 means the request was successful but no body is being returned in the response.

Which is the equivalent of nothing found matching the request in a collection.

The alternate is basically 200 OK

followed by a JSON body of:

[]


Of course it is technically possible, but doing so would violate the spec.

> The 404 (Not Found) status code indicates that the origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.

In the above case, the server _is_ returning a representation.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110#name-404-not-f...


I wonder if a successful, albeit slower, approach would be to walk the git commit history in lockstep, applying the behavioral intent behind each commit. If they did this, I would be interested in knowing if they were able to skip certain bug fix commits because the Rust implementation sidestepped the problem.

this is an interesting idea and i might try it with something smaller. there are more than 15,000 commits to bun, so you’d have to have some sort of way to operate on groups of commits in one prompt to get that done without thousands and thousands of api requests

Many segfaults in Bun issue tracker. I bet it would sidestep many.

Well…there would still be panics.

most unsafe language to rust transpilations produce not just pretty terrible rust code but also use unsafe everywhere

which is needed, as making things safe often requires refactoring not localized to a single function/code block and doing that while transpiling isn't the best idea. In general I would recommencement a non LLM based transpilation (if possible) and then use an LLM to do bit by bit as localized as possible bottom up refactoring to get ride of unsafe code potentially at some runtime performance cost, followed by another top down refactoring to make thing nice and fast. And human supervision to spot parts where paradigms clash so hard that you have to do some larger changes already during the bottom up step.

anyways that means segfaults likely would stay segfaults in the initial transpilled version


Interesting idea

These are also two of my primary gripes.

There has been substantial improvement, but the search and symbol follow UX is really bad. Hoping the fix that.


Not trying to promote too much I don't even get anything out of it, but I've been using a slopfork for a while now and it's great. A few flaws obviously since slopped over the weekend, but it's good enough.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/26560#issuecomm...


For a relatively small set of dimensions this is true. But the more abstractions the code needs to accommodate, the trickier and more prone to leaky abstractions it becomes. Removing one axis of complexity can be incredibly helpful.


For the Ardour codebase (922k LoC at present, ignoring the vendored GTK/Gtkmm trees), we've found that every new architecture and new OS/platform that we've ported to has thrown up challenges and notably improved the code. That has included FPU/SIMD specializations too.


I don’t believe Hacker News is social media, it’s news aggregator/message board.

Social media requires social network effects, where a large part of the draw is the network effect, and that just isn’t a part of HN.


The Snopes article is useful. For those who don’t want to read it, here is what Grossman says about that quotation:

> That clip took my entire, full day presentation, and took it completely out of context.

-They left out the part where I say that this is a normal biological, hormonal backlash from fight-or-flight (sympathetic nervous system arousal) to feed-and-breed (parasympathetic nervous system arousal) that can happen to anyone in a traumatic event.

-They left out the part where I say that there is nothing wrong if it doesn’t happen, and absolutely nothing wrong if it does happen.

-They left out the part where I say it happens to fire, EMS and even victims of violent crime.

-They left out where I say that it scares the hell out of people.

-They left out where I talk about it (and remember it is common in survivors of violent crime), as kind of a beautiful affirmation of life in the face of death; a grasping for closeness and intimate reassurance in the face of tragedy.


I'm not sure that's at all a defense. That context in no way absolves him of bragging about how he's gets the best sex in his life EVERY TIME HE KILLS SOMEONE.


The quoted text describes separate comments from different police officers. It's also reported by a third party, is a paraphrase rather than a quote, and isn't bragging.


The bit where he calls it a perk of the job is Grossman himself.

There's plenty of video of the guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETf7NJOMS6Y


Yes, he seems like a psycho.


How is it not bragging?


There are a million ways to express the fact of the hormonal backlash without including a quote that makes it sound like killing will improve your sex life.

In context, its correct, that's not up for dispute. The question is "does it add anything to the context?" and more importantly "could a student misconstrue its inclusion as something else?"

You'd think that, being so educated on the hormonal backlash from experiencing trauma, that cops and the greater judicial system would be more forgiving of e.g. emergent hypersexuality in rape victims after experiencing a rape that Grossman calls out there. But you would be wrong, because even if Grossman wants his students to understand that concept for their own health, he wildly misunderstands the culture he helped create where the police view themselves as a thin blue line holding back the manifold forces of Chaos Undivided.


I don’t see why any of those should be exonerating?

Also, I feel like “nothing wrong if it does happen” regarding shooting someone, is the wrong perspective. If shooting someone is necessary, then it is necessary, but that doesn’t mean nothing went wrong. Anytime someone gets shot is a time something has gone wrong.


So if someone threatens to kill you and your family, and you shoot them, something has gone wrong? I'd say something has gone right.


Yes, something has gone wrong: someone threatened to kill me and my family, and apparently the only way to stop them from doing so was to kill them. That may be the best option available, but it is still a tragedy.


There are many situations where that isn’t the right response to that.


I really have to wonder what part of that he thinks makes it OK to call it a perk of the job that you get to have awesome sex after murdering somebody for work.


Yeah, shitty people often claim the context is exonerating.

> They left out where I say that it scares the hell out of people.

People literally pay money to do things that feel that way. Haunted houses, bungee jumping, skydiving.

Context: Grossman's employed to train cops to overcome relutance to shoot.


Damn, hoss, didn't think I'd wake up and have to read someone normalizing police violence.

Like, they could just not, you know, go around creating the conditions for their own trauma.... that's a much more legit strategy. That's why folks aren't having this discussion about, say, "fire, EMS and even victims of violent crime".

I know that violence creates traumatic responses, I've been getting a lot out of therapy after being illegally pepper sprayed by DHS last year. Real fuckin' hard for me to feel super sad that those officers probably had big feelings about that violence themselves when they could just, like, not go around assaulting folks.


What can you do? I mentioned the use of AI on another thread, asking essentially the same question. The comment was flagged, presumably as off topic. Fair enough, I guess. But about 80% (maybe more) of posted blogs etc that I see on HN now have very obvious signs of AI. Comments do too. I hate it. If I want to see what Claude thinks I can ask it.

HN is becoming close to unusable, and this isn’t like the previous times where people say it’s like reddit or something. It is inundated with bot spam, it just happens the bot spam is sufficiently engaging and well-written that it is really hard to address.


Could you just be paranoid about it and seeing things where they aren’t? I can’t imagine someone using AI to comment on HN!


I hear you and I agree. I don't know. Gated communities?


No they don’t. Do you really believe that? Maybe on certain niche issues the opinions of a HS student are useful, but mostly they are still growing into some understanding that can contribute in a meaningful way. Which means mostly their opinions are dumb and useless.


I mean, take your position to its natural conclusion: there are people who understand more than you about basically any given topic, which means your opinions are dumb and useless.


This is absolutely true for many topics. There is a threshold of expertise where opinion that does not meet that threshold has no value. There is also a large gray area where there is sufficient expertise such that the opinion might have value. And then there is some point quite bit after that where someone has sufficient expertise such that it is very important to take what they say on the subject seriously. I occupy the first two regions in almost all areas, possibly all. High school students occupy the first area almost exclusively.


One proposed strategy to try and deal with this.

https://freeasinweekend.org/


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