skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get long term fixed rate mortgages in Canada, but they're rare and the rates are high. The major in lenders don't typically bother advertising them, instead they advertise rates for 1-7 year term mortgages with various options (open/closed, fixed or APR.)
It's bad enough most employers force you to use direct deposit instead of paper checks - do we really want a world where, in order to fill up your car (or charge it) you MUST have a credit/debit card?
Sorry, how did you find that usage panel? I'm on my phone and I'm just not seeing it.

Nevermind. Looks like you have to have a subscription to see usage stats.
What if he gets the whole data dump and then backs out of the deal? Does he now have kompromat on all the politicians who had the app on the phone tracking their location and more?
That’s hilarious. She was COO of a company with 80K employees. She’s worth $1.6B. You think anyone is going to pay her an amount she’d care about to be a senior PM? You think she cares about benefits?

Fidji Simo (who was 1-2 levels under Sheryl on the org chart) is now the CEO of Instacart.

People in this thread are dramatically underestimating the position and compensation she just left.
My calculator doesn't need to run at startup. There's nothing useful it could do in that situation, the only possible reason is to download ads, track me, or just pointlessly waste battery.

Ditto for a wide range of apps. Pretty much everything that isn't a messaging app.
FSB is for internal control, that would be GRU or other unknown parts of spook operations.

There is alternative explanation to being friendly with Russia - some people believe it can work, especially when they are part of NATO. Look at what Merkel was doing, what Orban is doing - Russian oil, gas is all benefits and no drawbacks to their country. Not all friendly relations with Russia are a scheme set up and controlled from Moscow, sometimes it really makes economic sense. Plus there may have been some nice bribes flowing to the right pockets, of course.
> In my time at Amazon, I was actually trained and coached on removing myself from certain situations and not interfering or establishing certain relationships because it would help me ultimately do better whatever is right for the company.

Can you please elaborate on this with some concrete examples, if possible?
> 30 year mortgages are a political guarantee to homeowners.

And they work; arguably these are one of the reasons why "owning your own home" was able to be something that so many Americans see(saw?) as an unquestionable part of adult life. The government used its political power to make things easier for a huge subset of its less-well-off citizens.

> It's pretty much begging to be exploited.

And yet it mostly isn't. There hasn't been any huge crash or people getting filthy rich due to the recipients of 30 year mortgages exploiting the system in any way, and recipients are the ones that would be doing the exploiting in the context of your comment. The lenders of course caused 2008, etc, but they're arguably the ones who would hypothetically be exploited.

If it were actually begging to be exploited, I would suspect that we would see something different than this.
That covers a tiny fraction of ffmpeg's actual interface
This should work assuming you've got your compiler toolchain installed:

pyenv install 3.11.0b3
No, Coinbase does not have a fiduciary duty to its shareholders that trumps its obligations to its customers.

Or to put it this way: if Coinbase goes bankrupt, customers have priority for Coinbase's assets over its shareholders.
I think the point is this is a server for nVidia Gamestream, which is designed to be a local streaming solution between your PC and a nVidia Shield device connected to your TV. Your ISP has nothing to do with the intended use of this software. I think it can be used over the internet, but that's not the normal use case.
TLS is more than just x509.

If you want a tool that "just generates certificates" then it's easy, but if you want an advanced management tool that can do all sorts of things then you will end up with something complex because TLS is complex with a lot of different parts.

And yeah, the openssl tool could be designed a lot better, but much of this is a matter of UX and managing complexity, not so much reducing it.
Which is a huge difference from the US, where if rates are rising fast, the current homeowners are more likely to decide to not move.
Yet most likely, privacy¹ will succeed in convincing our governments² that Tim Musk³ is iMportant™. ;-)

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¹ The topic, not the actual thing.

² Present & future.

³ Not a typo; an allegory.
UDP and Me (2010)
I hope you realised that your questions are extremely narrow and in no way filter for competent developers. Imagine yourself going to an interview and being asked similar narrow specific questions but in a different area you have no previous experience in. You would probably fail. For example: how would you represent a lambda closure when compiling a functional language to machine code? It is a super easy question for me but I know most people would fail. So I don’t ask questions like that when interviewing.
I can believe that people who spend extra time like that skew to above average. Hn is not a random sample, it is very self selective.
Try to imagine how you would visually indicate a big workload without the stack. Kinda dumb, but dramatically effective, in its way.
For the benefit of ESL, it is a portmanteau of anecdotal and data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau
That is part of one side of the ledger, yes.

But DDT is also has lots of direct negative health effects on humans:
likely carcinogen (multiple types of cancer), can cause damage to the nervous system, hormonal+reproductive+developmental effects.

Worth pointing out that there are multiple ways to fight mosquitos and malaria. DDT was only one.
... on the 341st iteration, it realizes what's happening, and it preemptively crashes all of Microsoft's IT. On the 342nd iteration, there's no Windows Update, and it successfully enslaves the world.
> Login to the Mac in question

right, ok? as Snowden thankfully heroically warned us, the NSA already has root-level access to most devices.

“ Remember the Spectre vulnerability. Now we have more than 7 variants of Spectre. No one guarantees that new, more destructive versions of this vulnerability will not be discovered in the future.”

> If someone can find a way to do this without installing kexts then it becomes way more serious.

right, yeah, you’re onto the right trail now.
It's not clear though. I still have no idea what these columns mean, despite have been actively learning about them multiple times (as in, I have to re-learn every time I need to use them). They don't even have tooltips.

A good UI should be self-explanatory, this is not even close.
Tuxedo Stellaris Gen 4: New Linux Laptop
Because a lot of these apps claim such and such permission is required and won't run until you grant the permission
Seems like Silent Spring got us moving on not being entitled to pollute indiscriminately.

The US had lost a lot of insect population due to excessive insecticides and pesticides - note the recent discussions on the disappearance of fireflies, the diseases in bees, the reduction of butterflies.
>Star Trek figured out touch screens and personal data devices, but didn't figure out basic networked data communication, i.e. email attachments. At a time when email existed!

I think it's more that they wanted to convey, to the viewer, that information was being passed from place to place, or have stacks of PADDs serve as easy visual metaphors for "piles of paperwork" or what have you. Star Trek isn't actually trying to extrapolate realistic future technology, it's telling dramatic stories In Space, and the needs of the narrative always come first.
Downtown Portland has always felt sad though? Hop over the river asap
Exim's reputation is baffling to me. It's a first-generation (C-language, memory-unsafe, fully-privileged, libc-backed) MTA based on SMail. It's always been about as resilient as you'd expect given that pedigree. And yet, somehow, over the last 15 years it's been perceived as a secure mailer, like qmail and Postfix (second-generation privilege-separated security-first designs).
My issue with these kinds of questions is how can we be sure how literally each person means "watching a movie"? How can a person possibly describe what is going on in their head? How can we tell if one person's crystal clear image is another person's vague shapes?

I imagine there is a standard procedure in the research literature for telling the difference, but I don't think most lay-person discussions are nuanced enough.
One of the Chase Merchant Services platforms had an outage earlier.
This is too perfect - that effect also is likely not real:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/10/12/can-the-du...
Here is a technique I use to write multi-threaded code without too many bugs.

I write sequential code, where most heavy work is arranged to fit in arrays and processed
with a parallel_foreach function receiving a container and a worker that will be dispatched by the job system that is part of my framework.

The multiple cores are used mostly to accelerate the processing of heavy and linear tasks while the control flow is still purely sequential.

This is not optimal, but I think this is a reasonable tradeoff between simplicity and performance.
Papilio is pretty thoroughly dead. The boards have been out of stock for years, and Xilinx ISE doesn't even run on Windows 11.
DDT causes significant health problems for humans, including infertility, birth defects, cancer, and brain damage to children. It also wreaks havoc on various wild animals.

It should be reserved as a last resort and not used indiscriminately. While killing mosquitos has saved many lives, DDT has also ruined many lives.

Pretty much everyone involved in selling the virtues of DDT has their own questionable motives, and one of the biggest funders of pro-DDT messaging has been the tobacco industry (because they thought this message could undermine public support for environmentalism and government regulation).
Sfxr – Sound Effects for All
The "right to work" is about restrictions on making unions mandatory, so you are correct but glossing over an important details. In practice it generally means that forming an effective union is much harder and thus harms workers, but theoretically it could be paired with other laws that supported unions but that didn't centralizing their power and removing worker choice.
There are no viable replacements for fossil fuels for a tremendous number of uses. There is currently no plausible way that, for example, long-distance flights could run entirely off solar.

Your economic analysis of

> Oil is still used all over the place because it's cheaper than the alternative.

has no contradiction with prices skyrocketing. Fossil gasoline might get to $20/ or $50/gallon before it's more expensive than the alternative, and so on for everything else.

"Somewhat more expensive" fertilizer means more expensive food, which means starving people, which is horrible on its own, but which could also create a very dangerous political situation.

Also the risk isn't that we'll run out of fossil fuels, it's that continuing to use fossil fuels would cause so much environmental damage that restricting the supply, as horrible as that would be, would be better than the alternative.
> Git has no native way to reliably tell you what you actually worked on in a branch. Yes it has git diff but that is not precisely the same

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "what you actually worked on". If you want the files that changed a git diff between the tip of your branch and merge base of the target branch is usually sufficient.

> and git log is A. not easy to consume

You can customize the log format to make it easier to consume

> B. unreliable since git has so many methods to rewrite history.

I'm not sure what that has to do with CI/CD. But if that is somehow a problem for you, then just don't allow rewriting history. Every git server software I'm aware of supports rejecting pushes that rewrite history.
Yes, agree 100x. Never understood its popularity. I expect once people had migrated away from sendmail and m4 to something sane they were not minded to make another MTA migration again any time soon after that :-)

(cue responses about sendmail.mc not being all that bad...)DNL
I am 100% certain that your questions are not giving everybody a fair chance to shine. You have to start with the area of expertise they have already worked in and not the area that you happen to have experience in or be interested in. I could (for example) ask “simple” dynamic optimisation questions that are “easy” for me and I know that 95% of great experienced developers would fail. So obviously I don’t do that. I want to hire smart developers who can learn. Not developers who happens to have the same experience/interest that I do.
> Even more surprising, though, is the onset of glass behaviour in certain computer algorithms. For instance, if an algorithm is designed to seek out progressively better solutions to a problem with a large number of variables it can become overwhelmed by complexity and grind to a halt before the optimal solution is found. By borrowing statistical methods designed for the fundamental study of glasses, however, such algorithms can be improved, and better solutions found.

Are they talking specifically about simulated annealing here, or is this a more general observation?
> use TAI64N timestamps instead

TAI rather than UTC is an uncommon choice. I can see some argument for it. But in practice, it is made difficult by the fact that many popular operating systems and language runtimes don’t have any built-in APIs for UTC-TAI inter-conversion, or leap-second table access.
I know. I think it's this new* habit of giving literally every issue a marketing name is particularly grating, but such is the way of the world :D

* A few years old now I guess
Nothing special, so I am interested in seeing other answers.

Email addresses customized to the merchant/sender and lots of email filters to route incoming messages to folders.
Inside Yasa: how a British firm is revolutionising electric cars
> So you can't have an actual salary range and then post something different.

If it's a new position that's different from the roles your currently have, sure you can.
Fifty years ago we had teletype machines with paper tape readers/punches. This was an ideal impedance match of technologies. All the front panel switches and blinking lights on the old computers were to get a boot loader keyed in. The boot loader read the bytes from the teletype. The paper tapes stored the programs.

What is needed for the collapse scenario is the equivalent of the teletype. It can't just be another working computer acting as a terminal. It has to be something we can bootstrap to get the small CPUs lying around working.
How do they prevent it?
This article has not really all that much to do with Daniel Bernstein's legacy, which almost certainly won't have much to do with qmail, djbdns, and daemontools --- none of these are tools you're likely to pick up anymore, and that's for the good; they were important in their time but also an evolutionary dead end.

What I've learned from 27 years of working in subfields where Bernstein is prominent is that there are elements of his reputation that are probably well-earned. I used to believe (with, I think, good reason) that people who had viscerally negative opinions of him were betraying something important (and bad) about themselves. That might have been true at the time (call it '96-'06). It's less true now.

Regardless: Bernstein is important because of Curve25519, Ed25519 and ChaPoly. And those are huge contributions, and more or less not up for debate, unlike his C code.
Does that include uMatrix on iOS or Android OS.
Last time I tried Transmission web client was much more limited. Not sure if it changed since then.
It's pretty well documented.

- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/29/californias-legacy-of-ddt-waste-underwater-dump-site-uncovers-a-toxic-history
- https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-04-26/ddt-waste-barrels-off-la-coast-shock-california-scientists
- https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/us/ddt-barrels-california.html
> the added 50 ms of ping was enough to throw my aim off

On the flip side - if you live in the same city as a stadia server and you have real fibre to your house, you could realistically expect single digit ms latency to the stadia (edit: or knock-off stadia, using a cloud server or similar) box - it would still be noticeable, but 5ms is the same difference in input lag as dropping from 90fps -> 60fps - obviously it's not nothing at all, but if you aren't investing in a dedicated gaming computer it's unlikely it'd annoy you that much
> I wonder why it's less of a thing now... or is it because there isn't as much need for such mods?

I think the popularity of reskinning Windows is because (especially since Windows Vista and Windows 8) the OS is not hideous-by-default.

EDIT: Oh, apparently the main way to patch UxTheme.dll stopped working since the Creators Update: https://github.com/riverar/uxstyle - though I'm sure Stardock's approach still works.
Why is this different in Canada and USA?
> Discord is more hackable than anything thanks to the web UI.

I thought Discord uses Qt?
It’s also worth noting that in grad school, DJB litigated the USG’s classification of cryptography as a munition. This led to the court finding that code is speech, and protected by the first amendment.
Nope.

> But wait, you bluster, the custodial agreement clearly says that I am the owner, that it’s my property, that I retain title to it. Yup, but that’s not how the law actually works. Just because they wrote that doesn’t mean it’s true.

> In fact, the exchanges are lulling the consumers with language claiming that the consumer "owns" the coins, when in fact the legal treatment is quite likely to be different in bankruptcy. In bankruptcy, it is likely to be treated as a debtor-creditor relationship, not a custodial (bailment) relationship.

> Not only are the customers likely mere creditors, but they are also likely general unsecured creditors, which means they will have to wait at the back of the line for repayment with everyone else. They will share on a pro rata basis whatever assets are leftover (if any) after the secured creditors and the priority creditors (including the expenses of running the bankruptcy) get paid, and any payment might not be for quite a while. That’s not a happy to place to be. Recoveries could be pennies on the dollar.

https://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2022/02/what-happens...
The justices on the Supreme Court all have pretty different* interpetations of this absolute truth, so I do kind of get OP’s point.

* different enough that it matters to people who care about modern day politics
Thanks for voicing your opinion. That said, I don't see constructive criticism here. From what I gather I was basically at fault for daring to somewhat disagree with burntsushi.

> who has implemented an excellent ...

This is an appeal to authority.

> being exceedingly generous to your point of view

Now you're just insulting me!?

> you being the opposite of generous

Consider that I couldn't have known upfront that burntsushi is acquainted to any degree with RE derivatives and similar concepts. His regexp engine is not based on them AFAIK. So I pointed to those for a start. Later in the discussion, including in the same comment, I pointed to other sources, too. So I think it's not fair to call me ungenerous.

The whole "general-purpose regex engine" thing was moving the goalposts in the first place and not very relevant to this whole discussion anyway. EDIT: I'm not saying that these distinctions don't matter at all, rather what I want to say is that it doesn't make sense to implicitly call upon a subjective and arbitrary standard.
> because the productivity urge becomes toxic to the person in question

I don't see much difference with the suffix -oholic that says the same thing.
So what's the problem with extending regexp then?
> Not all your audience are Cannucks - Your data is beautifully indexed but only related to CAD. It would be helpful if a few pointers to some other well known currencies was provided for scale. I too have this snag quite often being a snivelling GBP user!

Thank you! That's a good point. I'm not sure how to handle it because exchange rates do fluctuate on the scale of decades that my post covers. For example in 2012, the CAD and USD were at par (1 USD = 1 CAD), whereas last year we were down as low as US 0.70 per CAD. If I expressed the Canadian CPI in USD that would look like a 30% deflation. Now we're up at 0.79 USD per CAD one year later. It's pretty volatile.

> I note that the graphics of a biplane looks suspiciously like a German WW1 aircraft - the tailfin shape is certainly not a Sopwith Camel or Pup!

You are (almost) correct! It's a Fokker D.VIII monoplane. I'm not a spy! I was just looking for a nice clean public domain vector art image of a prop plane in profile on Wikimedia Commons and that's what I found first. Honest!
That's true, but what makes you think the latency would be 100ms? With a good internet connection and a nearby server you could realistically expect latencies in the single millisecond range (although encoding/decoding might add a frame to that, it'd still be significantly lower than 100)
The author isn't sharing the profits, why should people do the work writing his book for him.

If he hosted it on GitHub that would be a different story.
That's effectively what motors and regenerative braking are (just the magnets are in a circle!)
Great! Their interests and mine align. That is why I'm a customer.
Confucius say: imitation is art
“Oh yeah, well then what are strings made out of” is a dumb gotcha question. Nothing. That’s the point.
Rows: An Alternative to Excel and Google Sheets
Maybe you could do something similar to Google Fi's pricing model for data usage. You pick a monthly amount of data, say 2GB, for a monthly price of $40. Any GB you use in excess of that is $10 per GB up to a maximum of $80, and data usage is unlimited after that.

I would bet that my usage most months would not exceed $5, and I think many other prospective users would be willing to gamble on that as well. Food for thought.
Does a config file or a pile of cli flags do a better job of teaching new users the domain?
Causes don’t have to be temporal.
I'd still consider hunting/gathering a form of work. And who knows, maybe the disposition for individuals to hyperfocus on that form of work led to more genetic success and desirability for reproduction, since it meant there would be more security of resources. I have no idea if these tendencies have a genetic component, totally spitballing here.
The alliance is capable of dealing with the bully, but it clearly prefers not to, and will probably say meh even if Ukraine gets totally destroyed. Which may cause some leaders in Ukraine, just as some already do in EU/America, think that maybe the whole nation building and bear poking on its doorstep wasn't worth it. But it is also possible that Russia won't be strong enough to keep this up and some stalemate will be reached. Time will tell.