skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm neither recommending to use it, nor saying it's a good quality result. I'm addressing the "you are limited by the language/compiler on what you can do" part, which for real code is not the case in my experience.
When you are racist against people then they will likely become racist. It isn't a threat, that is just how the world works. You can't just impose policies without evaluating them holistically, if you don't take into account that the people you are racist against might become more racist then you aren't doing your job properly.
> What did ancient Americans eat between 1600 and 2000?

Corn syrup, of course.
Considering that Google tracks you because you are the product they are selling, or rather, one sheep in the flock they are selling, removing the filter bubble from your search results seems like just a small, superficial fraction of the bubble Google has you in.
Nobody assumes all photos should be great looking, but if there were really spacecraft or aircraft of foreign origin, wouldn't you expect the occasional high-quality image or video of it?

Instead we only see blurry UFO images, because all images that aren't blurry turn out to show mundane things.
> It is not fun but frustrating to work in Rust.

Deeply subjective. Rust has been the most loved language on Stack Overflow for 5 years in a row now.

> add a new huge dependency

Sure, but setting up Rust is much much easier than GCC with all the trimmings.

> As an exemple, there is a common package in python that decided to start having their module in Rust instead of C. Now a lot of users of the module are pissed off, with good reason, because you can't build/install the module anymore in a little bit older or non conventional distributions.

Assuming you are referring to pyca, you are mistaken and there has been a lot of misinformation about the change. Rust support is needed to build the module, but not install it. Pyca works just fine for users without rust and works everywhere rust does. Users on niche CPU architectures which haven't been sold commercially for 15+ years were the only ones impacted.
There are infinite things to learn. Why should I prioritize learning all the broken things that will allow we to self-host, and not, say, carpentry. Or knitting. Or the history and evolution of a non-y language. Or...
This comment is reiterated in so many forms on every UAP topic, and what's so damn ignorant about it is that there are clear videos released nearly every day that may or may not be real, but are not obviously fake and not always blurry either.

If you all could get over your pretension, you might start to actually learn about these exotic aircrafts in our skies.
The algorithm of the beast is Sha 256
It's called "VBA Macros"
Nonetheless, it would be a better design. Horribly impractical, but really useful.
A generic service to send, retry, and manage webhooks
At my workplace, I was working on a Django monolith, where managing the nitty-gritty of sending, monitoring, and managing event-triggered POST requests quickly became cumbersome. The requests were failing due to client-side issues and we were plagued by different observability problems as well. So, I was looking for a generic OSS solution for managing and monitoring webhooks and ended up making one.

This leverages Redis, RQ, RQMonitor, Fastapi, Uvicorn & Rich. It just takes a payload, sends that asynchronously to the destination URL, handles exceptions gracefully, and exposes a GUI that lets you monitor the system and retry the failed jobs manually. The entire orchestra can be launched and horizontally scaled up by a single docker-compose command.

This standalone service is built for simplicity and it helped me to decouple the webhook management logic from the primary monolith I was working on. You might find it useful. Suggestions and pull requests are always welcome.

https://github.com/rednafi/hook-slinger
There are several definitions of the word. This company fits one, often used by VCs and the media, which is that a startup is a company still developing a product, either with no revenue of not enough to cover its expenses, and funded by external investments.

My personal definition is a company which is still looking for a product-market fit.
This is why it is important that we all learn to be both learners and teachers. We can learn so much about the world, but what we fill our minds with is lost when the mind is gone. What we teach to others lives on.
Because you enjoy that?
“ While vacancy rebates provided some businesses with a needed reprieve in fiscally difficult times, they were criticized for, in Bradford’s words, “incentivizing owners to keep stores empty while they waited for values to get high enough for redevelopment.” A review ordered by the Ministry of Finance showed that the policy had exacerbated the issue of “chronically vacant” street-level commercial real estate. A well-meaning initiative to help struggling property owners had been thoroughly negated through exploitation and speculation.”

The deleterious second order effects would have been clear to anyone in the real estate industry, and I imagine the senior people in the Ontario Ministry of Finance, at the time. Catchy, feel good, measures almost always do.

So the tone isn’t productive, since to expect commercial landlords from refraining from using a sizeable tax rebate specifically targeted to their needs is a bit absurd if it stays on the books. Same on the flipside with renters and rent control. Weakest link of the chain, etc.

There is a good point buried in the article about the negative externality of empty storefronts collecting dust affecting nearby properties. A negative externality tax of some sort makes a lot of sense.
it won't be a hip neighborhood much longer if only global chain stores can afford the rent
An operating system can never fully escape its heritage.
That's probably the case when local municipalities should take care of the situation by making it illegal to have empty storefronts and apartments for a long periods of time.
No, Torvalds is strongly in favour of the GPLv2. [0][1][2] He's not fond of the GPLv3 though, at least not in the context of kernels. [2][3]

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvaldss-love-hate-rela...

[1] https://www.cio.com/article/3112582/linus-torvalds-says-gpl-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

[3] https://www.zdnet.com/article/torvalds-battle-with-gplv3/
Until we have self hosting as simple as app installation and without having to fiddle with security, it will be a niche thing.
It would have been better if we could've started experimenting with this stuff more than two years ago, but Facebook kept access locked up for their use only. I'm glad they're slowly doling out more access, but the industry is now set back by over two years, and any experimentation will now happen on Facebook's terms. Of course that's all for your protection. Of course it is.
Microsoft went from door to door to take malware-infected routers offline
Society is on track for collapse, new study of infamous 1970s report finds
Rents in Montreal are historically cheaper than other major metros (in Canada). I am currently looking for commercial space in Toronto and despite lots of empty spaces, rates remain high.
I assume it would part of layered defense, and specifically targeting someone replicating credentials.
IIRC, North America has ~3x the amount of retail per capita compared to the EU. Prior to e-commerce, prior to the pandemic.

This reckoning was a long time coming, accelerated by recent changes.

The intent of mixed use was noble. But like all land use, left hand meet right hand.

Today, we should be repurposing retail. Get creative.

Every zip code needs more child care. Any city wanting to be more "family friendly" should do whatever it takes to seed day cares.

I'm sure there's dozens of similar ideas.

I know the prevailing context led to "efficiency" and big box retail. But ffs why do I have to drive to the pharmacy? To get some bananas? Etc.
Deeply evolved back from when splitting into group A and group B could be followed by war breaking out and one lot killing the other. Thankfully these days it's more flamewars than sticks and stones.
That's what law enforcement does all the time: when there are illegal goods for sale, and a chance to catch the seller, they will go in, make the purchase and arrest the seller.
Empty buildings should incur a tax that increases every month they remain unoccupied.
Yes, however they're much more tied together as an ecosystem than, say, python and pip.
For me, I may be the product Google is selling, but they convince me to use Search anyway because it’s much better than the competition (yes I’ve tried DDG). And I can’t see any way that being tracked negatively affects my life, so it’s a trade I’m happy to make
Every computer spends pretty much every hour of every day running untrusted software.

There is nothing more common than running untrusted software.

This kind of attitude is completely useless.
I wrote more here about why personalized results and recommendations really bother me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27668373

But if Google has the information and doesn't do anything with it... I guess I just don't care? Why should I care? I'm open to being convinced on this.
Why does the author equate expensive with fragile? My rule is “buy nice or buy twice”. My 20 year old All-Clad saucepan is still going strong. It costed 3X compare to others. I see no reason why it won’t last another 10 year. My Weber charcoal grill is 15 years old. Store outside all season around, it still works while my neighbor’s 4 year old home cheapo grill is a rust bucket. His grill is 50% cheaper but I wouldn’t eat cooked on that grill.
I was surprised to find that a modern windows 10 machine (with all default security options) could have the user password bypassed easily with a Windows setup USB.

I could then read all the user's documents.

I thought the point of disk encryption and secure boot was to prevent that. Yet somehow the hole of allowing Windows setup to give you a privileged command prompt with a decrypted disk was never closed...
Maybe it is the goal : what you think you own, ends up owning you. No matter the cost.
Nonsense! I bought kitchen scissors from a hardware store in the UK a couple of weeks ago (but I'm 65, with a white beard; perhaps they'd have tried to card me if I might conceivably have been under 18).
I am a practical man and language for me is just a tool. I do not dwell on C++ being too complex (which it is when you take it as a whole). All I care is - does it have enough features that I can be effective in creating application. C++ definitely fits the criteria for me. I've heard horror stories where each member of a team uses it's own subset but practically for many years of dealing with C++ I do not feel I ever had problems when I had to work with other programmers.

Programming general use libraries - sure. It is often enough hard to read black magic but I'll let people that are actually doing it worry about the problem. It does not have to propagate to application level programming.
Isn’t it great that a lot of high-tech crime is prevented by the people capable of it being too lazy to bother?
I guess the only thing we can do is to pray. In those enterprises probably no one knows everything and if one of them breaks who knows what happens...
Another article blaming speculators instead of central banking policy. The author never bothers to ask, why has every asset class, from residential real estate and RVs to penny stocks and junk bonds, dramatically increased in value since March of 2020?
In 2009 I bought an old 1960s muscle car. The interior and underbody were all nice but the paint was really needing an update (scratched, chipped, etc).

Fast forward a few years, extensive bodywork, and a whole lot of cash and the car had show car quality paint.

But there were certainly days that I missed driving around my old, beaten up paint job car. I would leave my coffee mug on the roof as I got in, would park wherever I wanted, and I generally didn’t worry about the car much. Now I fret over parking it and have to walk from the back of any lot.

I’m not complaining… I certainly love driving around shiny car. But it’s an interesting observation that the cheap/beaten up version had virtues that I miss - to the article’s point.
It's not just a piss take of catholism , it's a piss take of Irish country life and a very affectionate one. I grew up in Belfast, spent a lot of time visiting relatives on farms in Donegal. That recurring cup of tea joke pretty much happened nearly every weekend to me as a child "do you want another cup a tea"..."no thanks"..."awk sure go on!" This was long before the show aired.
I do not think you are allowed on the Apple App Store if you do that.
I think everybody evaluates the quality they need and want. I want the nicest sound system for my computer and top notch headphones but for a vehicle I just need something that gets from A to B. I'm not really sure what his point is.

There is obvious value in choosing less expensive products from an environmental standpoint, I suppose. Where it gets tricky is obsolescence, safety, durability, supporting local manufacturing, sustainable sourcing, etc.
In six months to a year, I would expect the world to be pretty much the same as it is now. This sentiment derives, as a sort of parallel, from the oft-quoted:

“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

- From The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

So, I am not encouraged by trends - populism, protectionism, increasing divide between haves and have-nots, climate problems, resource competition (such as for water), and suchlike - but I would not expect a tipping point for a while.

I am not in a position to predict anything, I lack the expertise/data, and my record for, say, trying to predict markets (this property boom can't last, this stock-price boom can't last, etc ad nauseam) is abysmal.

That being said, I can't imagine that 50 to 100 years out that push will not have come to shove and societal collapse will, at the very least, have pretty much ended aspirational notions of or for a global society progressing towards better and better outcomes for all.

The good news: I've always been wrong before :-)
It should have been both, perhaps.
> LISP is super easy for humans and machines to parse

You have to choose 1, it’s either easy to parse for machines or for humans, not both. Any kind of lisp is harder to parse for humans.
> Honestly I think you could be a little more respectful of the project that inspired yours.

Forking a poorly maintained project is the foremost kind of respect in the FLOSS community. Way too much useful code ends up bitrotting beyond recovery simply because of not enough people being willing to put in the challenging work involved in rescuing it.

Note that there's absolutely no blame involved in describing a project as "poorly maintained" by commonly accepted standards. (In this case, the original author themselves describes suffering from severe burnout and other challenging circumstances which took a serious toll on their willingness to work on that codebase. So their situation is understandable indeed! Good FLOSS stewardship relies on other people being willing to step up promptly when these situations arise, regardless of the underlying causes.)
How/why do you think working from home would affect the results of the infected and not infected group? We can throw lots of possible ways to divide the samples of course, but I'd like to understand why you chose that example. (and what's the threshold for "they should've mentioned criteria X")
Lol what would you do if just nobody happens to want to rent your unit? You have to pay an increasing tax for the rest of time? You couldn't sell it because who would want to buy it.

Not a sensible idea.
are you unique?

https://www.amiunique.org/fp

I am.I wonder if there's a plugin to change values to the most common ones, or change them randomly everyday.
In a similar vein Louis Rossmann has been walking through NYC showing current commercial storefront vacancies. While each video focuses on one street the rates of empty spaces seem to be higher than in the posted article. The rents do seem to be very steep as well, which you might expect out of NYC ($40,000/month is one price which stuck with me). One root cause cited in NYC, which isn't mentioned in the above article, is that commercial loans may prohibit leasing a space at a lower rate without lender approval (as it impacts the value of the building), though I do not know if the same issue applies in Canada.

Most of the videos are long-form content which fits well into the background if anyone is interested: e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjd1WNhGliY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q53Wxx7aLrs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuALRyGI3Ho
There are cross-paradigm languages out there, e.g. Scala.
How is this novel compared to e.g. the Microsoft Equation Editor, which uses a hierarchical, cell-based approach for describing mathematical formulas? I guess this is a bit different since you can enter everything via the keyboard, while the MS editor requires you to select primitives from a menu.

The UI looks very nice and minimalistic though, I really like it.
There’s a great podcast called Web Masters that actually interviews a lot of the people mentioned in this.

Off the top of my head, I’ve heard episodes with the creators of GeoCities, Links From the Underground, and Usenet just to name a few.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/web-masters/id15300777...
Alcohol is pretty much poison I agree with you there, I mean being hung over badly really feels to me like being poisoned. It's an unhealthy, shitty, possibly addictive substance but it just feels good and socially accepted. However, perhaps there is one small difference; if you drink moderately you will almost surely be fine. 1-2 beers will not induce panic attacks, paranoia etc. With cannabis there is a small but significant segment of people (especially new users) that will experience bad panic attacks, paranoia and in rare cases erruption of mental illnesses. It gets worse when consuming large ammounts of cannabis but I think even moderate use can cause this.
Other than that there is the fact that cannabis stays for a long time in your system; up to 2 weeks. Thats 2 weeks of possibly diminished cognitive performance (I am not sure how diminished), thats a pretty bad side effect especially for students! Smoking even as much as once a week can have a bad effect. Having a beer once a week doesn't do that.
That conclusion raises skepticism based on the appearance of motivated reasoning and confirmation bias, but there's insufficient data for a firm conclusion.
Arm’s cheap and flexible plastic microchip could create ‘internet of everything’
You can own a good-quality, expensive product and at the same time acknowledge that its lifetime is limited.
I do it all the time without worrying too much.
We have a very similar problem in Texas. A vast, vast majority of water use (something like 85-90%) in Central Texas is diverted to grow rice, an obviously completely unsustainable crop in Texas given the climate. The farmers, as in California, believe that since they were there first they are entitled to the water and fight tooth and nail any time that someone threatens their usage.

Perhaps some agreement that made the water rights expire on death of the farmer would be a compromise that no one would be happy with but possibly stomachable for everyone. Farmers would not get to ensure the livelihood of their children and the rest of Texas would have to wait 40 years, but it could be done without disrupting the current status quo too much.
This is the beauty of products you could easily afford.

If you earn x and could not worry about $20 item, then $200 item for the people who earn 10x.

Also, thinking like “it’s cheap, I’ll buy another” generates overconsumption.
Just like for ripping DVDs, yes it is legal to do it personally. That's not what I was talking about, I'm talking about commercial jailbreak operations which are still illegal.
> Self-hosting is time-consuming and potentially dangerous with respect to security.

When you see that large companies get hacked all the time with you sensitive info and password released in the wild, it makes you think twice about "security" when your data is not in your hands. I'd say both are dangerous anyway, and certainly trusting a third party with any kind of data is a big gamble (plus, they may be spying on you as well).
I think I'm not understanding something. I believe https://archive.org/details/googlevideo2011 is supposed to be the videos they downloaded but I'm not getting any results no matter what search term I put in. Is there a searchable archive of Google Video content?
Huh, I read the article differently. I read it as more of the difference between cheap sunglasses and a nice brand-name pair. With the cheap ones if they get lost/scratched/smashed you don’t end up caring as much and have less worry about it.

But… I could easily have read into the article wrong.

(PS I agree with your “buy nice” sentiment. And Webers are fantastic grills.)
They could start by banning the scammy apps that claim in ads that you can win “real money”, and in the fine print “no rewards are provided for ad play or game completion”
This looks great, will buy once I'm back at my PC :-)
It isn't true that Debian does not include telemetry; there is the package popularity contest, and also the cross-distro hardware database (but both are opt-in):

https://popcon.debian.org/
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database
https://linux-hardware.org/

Unfortunately there are also many other privacy issues with many packages in Debian, but we welcome help finding more and fixing all the issues:

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues
No, for two reasons. One, while some retailers might decide that "scissors" are really knives and so they'd best act as though you're buying a knife that is not the law. So, this is not something you "have to" do, it's a store policy, like if they won't sell you more than six rolls of toilet paper at a time.

Two, if you're old (which unfortunately I am) then your apparent age is enough anyway. I do not ordinarily carry ID. Nobody stops me buying alcohol, entering nightclubs, watching movies, or doing other age-restricted activities, because "This person is obviously like, fifty?" is enough.
I wasn’t being literal. To clarify, I meant some random person installing some random software without your knowledge type of untrusted software.
The problem is real. Entire blocks of retail spaces in my Vancouver neighborhood stayed empty for 5 years. Now I'm leaving, it's sad to think about what could have been.

Not a single mention of zoning or construction in this article.
Could also do the opposite as anti-medicine people are killed off. We'll see.
Ironically, the problem may be that you're logged out of your Google account. The privacy settings are saved to your account.

I, like you, have turned everything off. I use Startpage for search, but on Youtube, I find I still get personalized recommendations if and only if I accidentally log out. If I'm logged in, I get a depersonalized Youtube page.

(Yes this is problematic and I'm not suggesting anything, just explaining.)
I guess Windows administrators rely on this. If they close this issue, there will be a huge list of complains that they don't want to deal with.
> “Cheap”, only if you don’t value your own time.

That's a ridiculous take, because the skills you get through self-hosting are actually marketable afterwards.
This is true of just about any OS though. Linux and OSX has/had single user mode, for example.
Ah, yeah I see your point. I suppose that's a useful shim to having full Rust interop with a pre-existing C codebase as you convert, or if you have a mature lib you just want to include wholesale in Rust.

But yeah bottom line, nowhere does Rustc "stop" you from doing things. Just strongly discourage :)