Rust programs written entirely in Rust
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What are your advices?
What does your setup look like?
I'm really inexperienced with compiling software, but I'm playing with the idea of automating the creation of stand alone python distributions every time one is release to have a repo of it.
It looks full of gotchas though, espacially when you need to deal with ssl and tkinter.
The problem is more, as you said, libc, for compat.
Less jokingly, programming has so many pain points that you learn to avoid. Simple things like reformatting a file, while a simple thing and seemingly necessary, can later end up being transformed into some of the less enjoyable mergings you have done.
Like a binary butterfly effect.
With Go the usual "my compiler compiles your language" is out of the discussion table.
I wish HN would chill out with the auto-editorializing
> What does [flagged] mean?
> It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News.
And, if it's dead and you see it and you don't think it should be dead, you can "vouch" for it. If enough people do that, it can lift the "flagged" status.
Recent example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28365163
As a joke I was thinking about making a web page that automatically updates its <title> tag to match whatever title HN chooses for its corresponding thread on the HN front page. :)
At least I’m self-sustaining when I need some laughs.
> Manual editorialising, too
This is a classic sample-bias situation. The bad changes you notice stand out a lot more than the good changes you notice—or more likely, pass over without noticing. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If any of you know a strategy that's applicable in general, which would result in a better-quality front page over all, I'd love to hear it. This is a global optimization problem, though. You can't judge it by local failures, and (much as I wish otherwise!) batting 100 is not an option.
Thats a loaded question. :)
The title issue is just a small annoyance, not an indicator of overall success, and it seems like there could be an easy fix.
For example, a policy that submissions use the contents of <title> tag verbatim where possible. This should work for the majority of webpages. If not, I'd be interested in understanding why. I would think it would mean less work for a mod since then he does not have to entertain requests to change titles. Its arguable that any problem with a title (or the contents) of submitted webpage is a problem best addressed to the author of the page.
Its not that I find editorialising titles offensive, its that there is an inconsistency of enforcement of the "HN rules" where HN users are scolded (not necessarily by a mod) for editorialising titles and then elsewhere titles are mysteriously changed for no stated reason. That rises to the level of an annoyance. We might think of it as curiousity. Users just want to understand how HN works.
Maybe its impossible to be 100% consistent, and unreasonable to be expected to meet that bar, but when making (inevitable) exceptions perhaps its wise to be aware that sample bias will apply and explain why a title was changed. There might be good reasons for it.
PS - Thanks for all the work you do.
What does "where possible" mean? That would be a very different rule depending on how you define that.
There can be a lot of junk in title tags that we want to strip out, even apart from the (significant) question of linkbait.
How we handle titles on HN is a lot more consistent than people think it is - mostly what people do is notice a few things they do or don't like (probably don't!) and then quickly overgeneralize from that. This is just how humans are with data; it will always be that way and I've stopped trying to fight it.
It's tempting to apply technical solutions to avoid accusations of inconsistency, but that's generally not a good idea - you end up needing to make exceptions some of the time anyway, and then you're back to square zero - and meanwhile, a simple technical solution doesn't handle any nuances, and nuances matter.
Here's a past comment about title moderation if anyone is interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20429573.
Feel free to send an e-mail to 'dang and bring it up. (The e-mail address is linked at the bottom of this page.) He’s very nice and approachable.